What do you do when you drop 30 K on an incredible looking trike but it handles like an over caffeinated college student maxed out on Adderall? Anyway, it was a question that I posed to Mike Alex from Suspension Technologies (SuspensionTechnologies.com). Suspension Technologies is one of the top, if not the #1, industry go-tos for difficult suspension questions. CLICK HERE TO READ THE TECH REVIEW ON BIKERNET.COM

A Chance To Remember, Honor and Teach

As of today, there are only 3,598 sponsored wreaths, with 30,402 graves that will not receive a wreath.

For me and a few friends/veterans, it’s become an annual tradition…and is involving more and more people every year.

The communities all come together – Veterans, Bikers, Civil Air Patrol, Boy Scouts, Young, Old, Widows/widowers, children, grandchildren and even some canines – to participate and honor.

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by Sabrina Giacomini from https://www.rideapart.com/

A software issue poses a safety hazard.

The NHTSA has issued a recall by Harley-Davidson on three models of trikes that could potentially present a software issue that could cause the rear brakes to activate on their own. Here are the details.

Harley-Davidson Motor Company has issued a recall on over 12,500 trikes in the United States for a potential brake problem due to a faulty software. The company estimates that roughly one percent of the 12,624 recalled units are actually affected by the problem. The models targeted by this recall are:

• 2019-2020 Harley-Davidson FLHTCUTG (Classic Ultra Tri Glide)
• 2020 Harley-Davidson FLHTCUTGSE (CVO Tri Glide)
• 2019-2020 Harley-Davidson FLRT (Freewheeler)

The three models of Harley trike are equipped with an electro-hydraulic control unit (EHCU) that manages the Trike Traction Control System. The company found that the EHCU could present an error and cause the traction control to respond incorrectly to a faulty rear-wheel speed signal. This could lead to one of the rear brakes to engage on its own and cause the trike to suddenly change direction. The loss of control that could result from it could ultimately cause a crash.

The Harley-Davidson dealers should already be aware of the issue and letters to the owners affected have been sent at the beginning of December. Owners are invited to make an appointment with their Harley-Davidson dealer to have their trike checked. Should the vehicle present the software issue, the system will be updated which should eliminate the error. The service will be provided free of charge.

Should they have any questions or concerns, owners of one of the models involved in the recall are invited to call the Harley-Davidson customer service line at 1-800-258-2464 to have their VIN verified. The company’s internal number for this recall is 0175. Customers are also welcome to address their inquiries to the NHTSA’s hotline service at 1-888-327-4236.

U.K. rider founded Women Riders World Relay, helped unite motorcyclists worldwide

PICKERINGTON, Ohio — For calling attention to the needs of women riders and for creating a worldwide connection among them, Hayley Bell of the United Kingdom has been named the American Motorcyclist Association 2019 Motorcyclist of the Year.

Bell is the founder and president of global business development for the Women Riders World Relay, a movement joined by thousands of motorcyclists from 84 countries to create a “global sisterhood of inspirational women” and to demonstrate to motorcycle manufacturers and makers of riding gear that female riders are a formidable and growing market that deserves their attention.

The AMA Motorcyclist of the Year designation, awarded annually by the AMA Board of Directors, recognizes the individual or group that had the most profound impact on the world of motorcycling in the previous 12 months.

“For her efforts to promote the motorcycle lifestyle around the world and bring together riders from all nations and backgrounds, conveying the positive aspects of motorcycling and drawing attention to the market potential of female riders, Hayley Bell is the 2019 AMA Motorcyclist of the Year,” said Maggie McNally-Bradshaw, chair of the AMA Board of Directors. “Women riders are an important segment of the motorcycling community and they are a critical building block for the future. Hayley’s efforts not only reaffirm that sentiment, but they help carry it forward at a time when motorcycling needs new riders in the fold.”

Women Riders World Relay participants carried the relay baton for a leg of the journey through their countries, then passed it along to the next group of riders. The relay brought together women from diverse cultures and bridged political differences, even across national borders.

Bell was determined that the Women Riders World Relay demonstrate that female riders “are exactly equal to other riders.” Along the way, the relay drew support and participation from male riders, as well.

The full story about Bell and her accomplishments can be found in the January issue of American Motorcyclist magazine.

 

Bay Pines National Cemetery – St Petersburg, Florida

 Or at a National Cemetery near you….

 

 

What really bothers me is that it’s December 11, 2019 – and Saturday, December 14^th we convene at Bay Pines National Cemetery to participate in Wreaths Across America to “remember the Fallen…Honor those who Serve…Teach our children the value of Freedom.”

As of today, there are only 3,598 sponsored wreaths, with 30,402 graves that will not receive a wreath.  

 

 

 I’ve been participating there since 2012 – when I was invited by the attendant at my Big John’s funeral. Honestly – never heard of this before that time, not even through my American Legion, or from my Dad, a WWII Navy Vet. Now , for me and a few friends/veterans, it’s become an annual tradition…and is involving more and more people every year.

 

  I guess you could say this is the one memorial event that all departed veterans are remembered – and it’s really a beautiful site to be seen, but even better to be a part of.   It really warms the heart and soul.

 

 

The whole ceremony actually got started when the original picture (above) went viral on the internet in 2005, after the Worcester Wreath Company owner, Morrill, started donating leftover wreaths to Arlington National Cemetery . He began doing this in in 1992 with the help of local truckers who transported his wreaths to Virginia. Local American Legion and VFW Post volunteers helped hand tie the bows, and they Maine State Society of Washington, D.C. arranged a special ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 

 Why Arlington? The owner was forever changed when he won a trip to Washington DC as a paperboy for the Bangor Daily News – Arlington National Cemetery was unforgettable. He truly recognized the ultimate sacrifice made by the US Veterans resting there.

 Fast forward to today this event now spreading over 1000 locations in the United States that include the 9/11 sites, and battle memorials Pearl Harbor, Valley Forge, and Bunker Hill. In 2014, the organization finally met their goal of covering all graves in Arlington with wreaths – 226,525 of them trucked, shipped ,and placed. 

 In 2018, we are back to our local Bay Pines National Cemetery after escorting the wreaths in from Interstate 4 Veterans and bikers solemnly escorted the 2 rigs to our local grounds. 

 

 From there, the distribution begins with a greeting by the local First Responders.

 

 The wreaths are then distributed throughout the grounds for volunteers to distribute.

 

 The most wreaths ever distributed in Bay Pines were over slightly over 6000 in 2017 when Sarasota National Cemetery had a surplus and shipped them over to Bay Pines.

 

 The communities all come together – Veterans, Bikers, Civil Air Patrol, Boy Scouts, Young, Old,

Widows/widowers, children, grandchildren and even some canines – to participate and honor

Those interred in the hallowed grounds. 

 

 

 After the wreath laying, the memorial ceremony beginning with the presentation of Colors is held in the intersection leading to the main grounds. 

 

 Wreaths are positioned around the memorial for each branch of service and local

Veteran speakers rekindle their histories for all to hear. 

 

 The days event concludes with TAPS being played.

 

 For the 2018 event – the last wreath of the day was laid by Kenneth Fooshee who was the Owner Operator of one of the rigs that brought the wreaths to Florida. 

 

 In Ken’s words:

“ I am an Owner Operator Leased to Brown Trucking aka James Brown Trucking out of Lithonia Georgia, my wife Yvette and I reside in Summerfield FL. I have been leased to them for going on 7 years now. We primarily haul cardboard boxes for International Paper. My home terminal is Savannah Georgia and my Terminal Manager that helped me propose this idea to haul Wreaths is Donna Fisher.

 

 I had heard about Wreaths Across America project while listening to XM radio. I first thought that it was only hauling wreaths to Arlington National Cemetery. 

Then one of my Aunts in Chicago had a wreath sent to her by another family member to honor her husband. Later that year, I heard an interview of a driver that hauls to Sarasota National Cemetery what an honor it was to do and I thought that this would be something I would like to do so I proposed it to my terminal manager in 2014 to get a feeling if Brown would allow me to participate. Donna Fisher got approval from our CEO Kevin Slaughter. In 2015, my wife Yvette and I made our first trip to Columbia Falls and though it was a trying trip. We were very impressed with the operation and the story of Morrill Worcester and his dream.

 

 Our first load was met with such gratitude and admiration by all of our deliveries that we were hooked. 

Yvette and I have done the same stops:  Bronson, FL, New Port Richey FL, Tampa FL, Fort Meyers FL, Naples FL, and St. Petersburg FL (Bay Pines) with the change of Naples this year to Riverview FL.

Naples was covered by another carrier this year.

 

 All of the deliveries have always been fantastic and do all they can do to be accommodating to our needs and schedules.

 

 This year we had 685 boxes of wreaths to deliver on our run. That is 6,165 wreaths.

 

 We were light on our delivery to Bay Pines this year with 128 boxes 1152 wreaths.

 

 We were also asked if we would like to participate in the parade and wreath laying ceremony by the folks from Pinellas Technical College ( Laura Kingsland) and were very honored to oblige.

 

 After the ceremony I removed the wreath from the front of my rig to place on the headstone of Faustino Aspra ( a random choice of markers not covered) SGT  3508 Base Unit AAF World War II June 6,1904 June 3 1963 to honor and respect his service and thank him.”

 

 This year, Bay Pines National Cemetery is in need of 30, 402 wreaths to reach their goal. Here’s hoping that we can blanket the grounds and continue the tradition – Remember, Honor, Teach. IF not, there’s always next year. 

 For more information on locations for the event , to volunteer, or to donate wreaths, check out the organization’s website:

 https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org

 Respect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Trump administration formally notified the United Nations it will withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.

The Trump administration formally notified the United Nations it will withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement (PCA).

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced in a November 4 tweet the United States had filed formal paperwork to withdraw, citing an “unfair economic burden” on U.S. workers, businesses, and taxpayers.

The exit, announced the first day the government could start the process under the terms of the agreement, will become official on November 4, 2020, the day after the next presidential election.

The administration filed the paperwork a little over two years after President Donald Trump held a June 2, 2017 Rose Garden event at which Trump, keeping a campaign commitment, announced he would take the United States out of the agreement at the earliest possible date.

Putting America Before Paris

When Trump was running for president, he repeatedly called the PCA a bad deal for the United States, saying it would cost jobs and put the nation at a competitive disadvantage with other countries not required to restrict their energy use or make emission reductions.

“It is time to put Youngstown, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, along with many, many other locations within our great country, before Paris, France,” Trump said at the 2017 event announcing his intention to withdraw from the agreement.

Reversing Obama’s Climate Policies

Former president Barack Obama signed the PCA in 2015, committing the United States to reducing emissions by 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Lacking enough support in the Senate to ratify the PCA, the Obama administration argued it was not a treaty needing Senate approval to be binding, but rather an executive agreement.

Obama then undertook a series of executive actions intended to cut U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to meet the PCA commitments. These regulations included the Clean Power Plan (CPP) forcing states to restrict carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fueled electric power plants—essentially forcing states to close such plants and replace them primarily with wind and solar electric power facilities—and dramatically increasing the fuel economy mandate automakers must meet for their vehicles, which, if it had come into full effect, would have forced the public into smaller vehicles with less horsepower or electric cars.

In keeping with his 2017 withdrawal announcement and in the run-up to the administration filing the formal notice to withdraw, Trump has rolled back each of the Obama administration’s signature climate regulations, replacing the CPP with the Affordable Clean Energy rule and delaying and reducing the mandatory increase in fuel economy.

Emissions Declining Without Mandates

The Trump administration points out U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have declined without taxing carbon dioxide emissions and while loosening regulatory restrictions on fossil fuel development.

In his tweet announcing the United States had started the formal process of withdrawing from the PCA, Pompeo made it clear the action was in the United States’ best interests and would not stop America from helping other countries adapt to climate conditions.

“The U.S. approach incorporates the reality of the global energy mix and uses all energy sources and technologies cleanly and efficiently, including fossils fuels, nuclear energy, and renewable energy,” Pompeo said. “We will continue to work with our global partners to enhance resilience to the impacts of climate change and prepare for and respond to natural disasters.”

The Paris Climate Agreement has loopholes that ensure it would not reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and results in the United States show no treaty is needed to cut emissions, says climate scientist Patrick Michaels, Ph.D., a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).

“The president was right to withdraw from the Paris Accord which is climatically meaningless, guaranteeing China will produce the lion’s share of carbon dioxide emissions for the foreseeable future,” Michaels said in a statement. “It should also be noted U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have dropped more than those from any other large industrialized nation since 2005.

“We didn’t have Paris in 2005, and we don’t need it now,” Michaels said.

Sovereignty, Economic Success

Withdrawing from the PCA is critical for U.S. sovereignty and continued economic success, says Myron Ebell, director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment.

“Secretary of State Pompeo has … started the formal process to withdraw the United States from the disastrous U.N. Paris climate treaty and reclaim its sovereign right to set its own energy policy,” said Ebell in a statement. “This is a great day for America, particularly for the future economic success and security of countless Americans.”

The PCA was unwise and would have been extremely costly, says E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D., founder of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.

“President Trump’s formal announcement November 4 that the United States will exit the Paris Climate Agreement was a great victory for common sense, good science, good economics, and good statesmanship,” said Beisner. “It’s what the Cornwall Alliance has advocated ever since President Obama unwisely signed onto it.

“Full implementation of the agreement through the end of this century, costing at least $70 trillion and more likely over $140 trillion, would, theoretically, lower global average temperature by at most 0.3˚F—too little to affect any ecosystem or human wellbeing,” Beisner said. “It’s no surprise the author of The Art of the Deal [Donald Trump] thinks paying $23.3 [trillion] to $46.6 trillion per tenth of a degree of temperature reduction is a bad deal.”

Deal Not Yet Sealed

Ultimately, U.S. participation in the PCA will be determined by the outcome of the 2020 election. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. withdrawal will not be final until the day after the election.

Should Trump be reelected president, the withdrawal will almost certainly stick.

With each of the candidates for the Democrat nomination for president having castigated Trump for withdrawing from the Paris agreement and having vowed to make the United States rejoin it should they become president, by contrast, a Democrat presidential victory almost certainly means the United States will rejoin the PCA.

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. (hsburnett@heartland.org) is a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute.

RIDING FREE FROM DC: Your Weekly Biker Bulletin from Inside the Beltway Your Motorcycle Riders Foundation team in Washington, D.C. is pleased to provide our members with the latest information and updates on issues that impact the freedom and safety of American street motorcyclists. Count on your MRF to keep you informed about a range of matters that are critical to the advancement of motorcycling and its associated lifestyle. Published weekly when the U.S. Congress is in session. Rules on Rules At the end of last week, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao announced she had signed a “rule on rules” that will ensure the department’s regulations aren’t too complicated, out of date, or contradictory. The new Transportation Department action formalized a Trump administration requirement that for each regulatory step a department takes, it has to undertake two deregulatory moves. When it comes to investigating suspected wrongdoing and enforcing its regulations, the new rules also require the department “where feasible, foster greater private-sector cooperation in enforcement.” “This effort enhances the Department’s regulatory process by providing greater transparency and strengthening due process in enforcement actions,” Chao said in a statement. While in general, we applaud the move to streamline the rulemaking process and update outdated regulations, we are also wary of the impact this policy change may have on regulations related to autonomous vehicles. Currently, the government has been slow to roll out rules surrounding the deployment of autonomous vehicles, and this step by the Secretary may further curtail regulations surrounding so-called “self-driving cars.” We at the MRF will continue to monitor the rulemaking process at the Department of Transportation and demand that Congress have a say in the deployment of these new vehicles to ensure that all road users are protected. Final In-person MAC Meeting Held On Tuesday, your MRF attended the final Motorcyclist Advisory Council (MAC) meeting at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The members of the council have been tasked with creating recommendations to advise the FHWA on areas concerning infrastructure and issues related to motorcyclist safety such as barrier design, road design, construction, maintenance practices and the implementation of the intelligent transportation system (ITS). Mike Griffith, Director of Safety technologies with FHWA, advised the group that they should finalize all recommendations to be sent to the agency by the end of January at the request of the Secretary of Transportation. The Secretary of the DOT has been reviewing all of the agency’s advisory councils and their functions to ensure that any or all recommendations are properly reviewed and fit in with the new rules adopted by the DOT. While the final draft is not complete at this time, we are pleased that the council carefully and thoughtfully addressed the issue that most of us motorcyclists would like to see addressed. You will be pleased to know that they addressed everything from utilizing high friction pavement in some curves, uneven pavement and drop-offs, road construction grooving, steel plates, tar snakes (tar seals), chips and seal paving to road barriers. Notably, the council is recommending that road designers consider adding motorcycle-specific road barriers like the ones that have been studied and implemented in Europe that prevent and reduced motorcyclists’ fatalities and serious injuries. The last category of the council’s scope of work is addressing the inclusion of motorcycles in the architecture and implementation of any intelligent transportation system. Specifically, the recommendations address the vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) issues to ensure that motorcycles are appropriately accounted for and can be detected by any ITS technology that will be utilized. We are hoping by ensuring that we are accounted for in the planning stages that we can avoid infrastructure issues that we have experienced in the past that were deployed without the consideration of motorcycles on the road (Example: 30 plus states have dead red bills). As always, we will share the final letter that will be sent to the DOT when it is made available to the public. I also want to acknowledge and commend Pennsylvania MRF State Rep, Andy Kelly, for traveling to DC over the past two years to attend all of the in-person MAC meetings. Motorcyclists in the seats signals that we will continue to be watchdogs for motorcyclists and advocate our interests. FCC Votes to Split Auto Safety Spectrum Speaking of ITS… The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved toward letting mobile devices take over airwaves long assigned to carmakers for vehicle safety, advancing a plan opposed by highway officials focused on cutting crash deaths. On a 5-0 vote on Thursday proposed devoting most of the auto-safety airwaves to broadband uses including Wi-Fi for routers, with most of the remainder of the swath going to a new cellular connected-vehicle technology. The measure needs a second vote to become effective, following a comment period. A little background on the 5.9 dedicated spectrum frequencies was reserved two decades ago by the FCC to link cars, roadside beacons, and traffic lights into a seamless wireless communication web to help avoid collisions and alert drivers to road hazards, among other uses. The FCC is taking that stance that since little has been done to start utilizing that spectrum for its intended purpose that they want to open in up to cellular and wifi technology while transportation safety advocated and the Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao, oppose the proposal. We at the MRF will continue to monitor the FCC’s actions of eliminating the vehicle safety spectrum as the proposal moves forward. The move by the FCC will hurt the future of connected infrastructure and the safety of motorcyclists as we continue to move to higher levels of automation on our nation’s roadways. For example, this frequency would signal to traffic lights that a motorcyclist is approaching an intersection and then tell any vehicles approaching the same intersection that a motorcycle is approaching from the other direction. The theory of this example is a fully connected transportation system may help eliminate those left-hand crashes in intersections that motorcyclists are all too familiar with. Standing Update We are currently at 121 cosponsors from 42 states and one territory for H. Res 255, the motorcyclist profiling resolution. As 2019 is winding down on Capitol Hill, your MRF is still on the hill, taking meetings and seeking new cosponsors. If you want to see if your Representative is a cosponsor, you can review the list here. About Motorcycle Riders Foundation The Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) provides leadership at the federal level for states’ motorcyclists’ rights organizations as well as motorcycle clubs and individual riders. The MRF is chiefly concerned with issues at the national and international levels that impact the freedom and safety of American street motorcyclists. The MRF is committed to being a national advocate for the advancement of motorcycling and its associated lifestyle and works in conjunction with its partners to help educate elected officials and policymakers in Washington and beyond. All Information contained in this release is copyrighted. Reproduction permitted with attribution. Motorcycle Riders Foundation. All rights reserved. Ride With The Leaders™ by joining the MRF at http://mrf.org or call (202) 546-0983

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Saskatoon’s Rik Albert speaks about his unique art and his 10-year quest to bring an ergonomic bike handle bar to market.

“You build that?” asks a man walking along the residential street where Rik Albert rides his bike, equipped with a Toon bar, a raised handle bar of his invention.

Albert explains that the handle bar is for people with carpal tunnel syndrome — since it’s intended to relieve some of the pressure put on the rider’s wrists — and people with spinal injuries, since the rider remains in an upright position.

“Holy smokes,” the man replies. Both continue on their way.

The Toon bar has been a 10-year passion for Albert. It’s still at the prototype stage, but he’s been an unfailing advocate for his invention. He created a video, wrote a letter to talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, and has appeared on local television to spread the word about his creation. He reached out to DeGeneres, who is originally from Louisiana, because they share Acadian roots, he says. He’s originally from New Brunswick.

Albert’s father was from New Brunswick and his mom was from Western Canada; they met in Ontario and moved to New Brunswick, then to Montreal, where he became bilingual by learning English. When his parents divorced, he moved to Esterhazy, Sask. when he was about 10 years old.

“(When I) got off the train, I could see the Atlantic and I could see the Pacific, and went ‘Wow, this is flat,’ ” he jokes.

Albert went on to work for General Motors and Harley-Davidson, which speaks to both of his passions, cars and motorcycles.

The idea for the raised handle bar came almost out of necessity. As he puts it, he’s already used seven of his nine lives.

When he was 27 in 1989, while riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle from Davidson to the Alberta border, he attempted to pass a truck near Gull Lake and ended up underneath it. The truck sucked him under its front wheel and dragged him for a distance, crushing his right ankle and breaking his right hand and collarbone.

He spent time in three different hospitals, he says.

While rehabilitating over the course of three to four years, he found the best thing for him was to be on a bicycle to move his right leg and hand.

One day, while at work unloading Harleys, he came close to suffering another injury when a three-ton truck backed up, nearly missing him. After that, he designed the raised handlebars.

Albert can’t bend over traditional handlebars, putting his weight on his right wrist, so he made a version of what would come to be known as the Toon Bar for himself. Almost 10 years ago, he had a friend weld a piece of pipe to his bike’s existing handlebars, then added a crossbar. He wants to make telescopic handles and functional hand brakes for it, he says.

He’s been approached by many people while out riding his bike with the raised handles who have asked him to bring it to market, he adds.

“I wish I had a log and a camera on the bars to show their expressions, because you’d think I was riding a bike on Jupiter or on Mars.”

While he works to move his invention past the prototype stage, sales of his art are what “buys the mac and cheese,” as he puts it. Albert repurposes unused motorcycle parts, such as exhaust pipes stripped off at the retail level for new owners who want custom pipes. He’s used them to create and sell custom-built lamps.

He’s had vehicle parts in his hands since he was a General Motors parts manager in his 20s, he says, and became familiar with cars at a young age when his dad raced cars in Montreal.

He fondly remembers his time working for Harley-Davidson.

“It’s a shame when a customer buys a brand new Harley that the pipes are $500 each and they take them off brand-new and throw them in a corner and nobody uses them again. So I figure, why not repurpose them and make all kinds of stuff with them?”

After his accident and rehabilitation, he learned how to work with glass. Over the last 10 years, he’s created commissioned glass works, including tables and mirrors, for customers in Vancouver, Calgary, New Brunswick and Montreal. To generate sales, he relies on word of mouth, online classified ads and appearances at craft, art and car shows — anywhere he can exhibit his work for free.

One piece he keeps for himself is dedicated to his Acadian roots. It took 20 hours of airbrushing and etching behind the glass, he says.

Louis Paquette, the owner of Saskatoon Truck Centre, met Albert at a Cruise Night event earlier this year and bought a lamp, which led Albert to show him photos of his other custom furniture pieces. Paquette saw a coffee table he liked and asked Albert to build him one. The lamp and table are now at Paquette’s business. When clients ask where he got it from, he says “It’s an old family secret.”

Paquette, a past director of the Saskatchewan Craft Council, said he isn’t a motorcycle enthusiast, but he does collect cars. Albert’s work is unique, he says.

“He uses his imagination when it comes to motorbike parts. Who the hell would think that you’d take some mufflers and make a coffee table out of it?”

What drew him to Albert’s display at Cruise Night was his custom-built Corvette — the combination of the back end of a 1976 model and the front end of a 1981 model.

One child dubbed the vehicle The Batmobile, Albert says. He attributes his interest in rebuilding cars to his father’s own interest in hot rods, and going to car shows.

“Everything I have, I pretty much make it to my own liking and make it custom made so it’s not a cookie-cutter item,” he says.

JASMINE CAIN Releases Official Lyric Video for “Money,” Out 12/20, Pre-Order NOW!
Download / Stream New Christmas Single, “Fairytale of New York” NOW!

December 16, 2019 – Nashville based Alternative Pop / Rock artist JASMINE CAIN, named Musician of the Year by All That Shreds Magazine, has released the official lyrix video for her newest single, “Money.” Created by Jordan Roepke, “Money” is the second single off of her upcoming LP, SEVEN (due out February 2020), and can be pre-ordered for 12/20 release via The Label Group / INgrooves.

“Have you ever found yourself working for free or doing favors that just never seem to be returned? If you said YES, this song is for YOU!” – JASMINE CAIN

Track List:
1. Burnout
2. Do it for you
3. Be Brave
4. Are you ready
5. Let it go
6. Money
7. Ghost
8. Real World
9. Powers
10. Long Shot

Download / Stream JASMINE CAIN Online

JASMINE CAIN has also released her uplifting new Christmas single, “Fairytale of New York,” available now via The Label Group / INgrooves.

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Multi-Award winning, Sturgis, SD, native, Jasmine Cain moved to Nashville in 2003 and went to work paving the way for female fronted rock in the motorcycle events industry. Jasmine covers everything from Classic and Modern Rock to revved up Pop and Metal. But that isn’t all she is known for. Jasmine has 6 studio albums of award winning original music with her 7th titled Seven slated for release in February 2020. Jasmine has won more than 30 awards for her music and performances including: JPF Female Artist of the Year, (MCMA) 4-time Female Rock Vocalist, and NIMA Artist of the Year and 2 time Alt-Rock band of the year to name a few. Her performances (over 120 shows in 2018) are professional, stadium quality, and high energy, keeping the audience’s attention from the first note until the last. Her songs are emotional and timeless, and her voice is strong and soul-filled, taking audiences on a supercharged ride.

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