The total cost of the speed camera resistance in France continues to rise. Tensions flared last July after the government reduced the speed limit to 80km/h (50 MPH) on all secondary roads. President Emmanuel Macron recently announced local authorities would be able to restore the 90km/h (56 MPH) limit on some roads, but the damage from the pushback has already been done. According to official figures reported by the experts at Radars Auto, 93 percent of the speed cameras in France were functional in January 2018. By December, the readiness rate had plunged to 73 percent. The cost to repair the disabled devices rose from 6.8 million euros (US $7.6 million) in 2016 to 23 million euros (US $26 million) last year. This cost came in addition to the$714 million in profits that were lost while the cameras were out of service. Officials realized that, instead of raising net revenue by lowering the speed limit, as they hoped, camera income plunged because of the vigilante action. Vigilantes kept up their work last week. On Sunday, the speed camera on the RN12 in Lecousse was destroyed by fire. The same fate befell the speed camera on the D155 in Saint-Meloir-des-Ondes on Friday — one of the few in the department that still worked. In Brusvily, the speed camera on the RD766 was destroyed with burning tires on Tuesday. On May 18, the speed camera on the A13 in Porcheville was torched. The next day, the frequently attacked speed camera in Chenedolle was blinded with a thick coat of red paint. On May 17, an unidentified bicyclist in Oberhausen, Germany, passed by a mobile speed camera trap on Elpenbachstrasse and decided to kick over the radar unit. Local police estimated the damage at 1000 euros (US $1100). 

–The Newspaper.com

 

The Sport Glide is the ninth model introduced in the overhauled 2018 Softail lineup, and it combines lightweight long-haul elements that include a removable fairing and saddlebags. Plus performance upgrades like the Milwaukee-Eight 107 engine, a re-engineered Softail frame, and an inverted single-cartridge fork.

The Sport Glide’s ride quality is vastly improved thanks to a 43mm inverted Showa fork with single-cartridge damping control and the new Softail-spec single-shock rear end, preload for which is adjusted by hand using an easily reached dial. Another bonus: Cruise control and ABS are standard equipment.

The saddlebags are solid plastic, light and weatherproof and will hold 25.5 liters of luggage. They can be opened with one hand by a seated rider and the side door has a damping strut for smooth opening.  It’s a clamshell style design and they open outwards which may limit the size of luggage you may be able to put into the bags. Additional luggage capacity can be added with an accessory sissy bar, luggage rack or even Tour-Pak rack.

The 5 gallon gas tank and claimed 47 mpg allows for some serious mileage between fuel stops. I found the Sport Glide to be very comfortable and with a low seat height of 26.5 inches, broad seat and forward-mounted foot controls it suits a wide range of riders. All-new Softails have a mono-shock rear suspension that offers a remote hydraulic spring preload adjustment. It can be adjusted for load by an exposed knob below the right-side cover.

Powered by the Milwaukee Eight 107 which is both balanced and rubber-mounted and affords a 75 percent reduction in primary vibration at idle, so the motor will be dancing considerably less at stops. The 107 also offers precision oil cooling around the hottest areas of the cylinder heads to keep the heat off the rider and passenger.

The Sport Glide has Mantis cast-aluminum wheels, 18-inch 130 front and 16-inch 180 rear with Michelin Scorcher 31 performance tires.   The single disc brake exposes the eye catching  directional motion wheel normally reserved for their elite Custom Vehicle Operations models. Even with one disc, the Sport Glide still has plenty of stopping power with strong initial bite, progressive feel and of course ABS is standard.

It has a traditional round speedometer with a digital screen below showing fuel gauge and gear position. The tank-mounted instruments sit up high so they are easy to see without having to glance away from the road ahead.

 

Esthetically, this motorcycle is gorgeous, the mantis –cast wheels look totally custom. The sweeping 2-1 black and chrome exhaust muffler sport style and improved cornering clearance and the raked out front end just look cool. Functionally its keyless ignition, USB port, hard bags and faring are spot on. Harley-Davidson even offers an optional tour pak designed for the Sport Glide for the long haul. I have always thought a two-in one bike was missing in the HD line-up and now, it’s here.

 

PRICE: Vivid Black $18,649,  Color $19,049,  Custom Color $19,599,  Two Tone Color $19,79

ENGINE
Engine: Milwaukee-Eight 107 Engine
Valves: Pushrod-operated, overhead valves with hydraulic, self-adjusting lifters; four valves per cylinder
Displacement: 107 cu. in. (1746 cc)
Compression Ratio: 10.0:1
Fuel System: Electronic Sequential Port Fuel Injection (ESPFI)

DIMENSIONS

Length: 91.7 in. (2330 mm)
Overall Width: 37.6 in. (955 mm)
Overall Height: 44.1 in. (1120 mm)
Seat Height:
• Laden: 25.7 in. (653 mm)
• Unladen: 26.5 in. (673 mm)

Tires: (Michelin Scorcher, “31” front and rear)
• Front – Scorcher “31” 130/70B18 63H BW
• Rear – Scorcher “31” 180/70B16 77H BW

Fuel Capacity: 5 gal. (18.9 L) (warning light at approximately 1.0 gal.)
Oil Capacity: (w/filter) 5 qt. (4.7 L)

Weight:
• As Shipped: 670 lb. (304 kg)
• In Running Order: 698 lb. (317 kg)

DRIVETRAIN
Primary Drive: Chain, 34/46 ratio
Final Drive: Belt, 32/66 ratio
Clutch: Mechanical, 10 plate wet, assist & conventional
Transmission: 6-Speed Cruise Drive

CHASSIS
Frame: Mild steel, tubular frame; rectangular section backbone; stamped, cast, and forged junctions; MIG welded; aluminum forged fender supports
Front Fork: Single cartridge 43 mm inverted with aluminum fork triple clamps; triple rate spring
Rear Shocks: Hidden, free piston, coil-over monoshock; 43mm stroke; toolless hydraulic pre-load adjustment
Wheels: Black, machine highlighted, Mantis cast aluminum
• Front: 18 in. x 3.5 in. (457 mm x 89 mm)
• Rear: 16 in. x 5 in. (432 mm x 127 mm)

Brakes:
• Caliper Type: 4-piston fixed front and 2-piston floating rear
• Rotor Type: Front black, split 7-spoke floating rotor, rear solid, uniform expansion rotor
(diameter x width):
• Front: 11.8 in. x .2 in. (300 mm x 5.1 mm)
• Rear: 11.5 in. x .23 in. (292 mm x 5.8 mm)
• Anti-lock Braking System Standard
Suspension Travel:
• Front Wheel: 5.1 in. (130 mm)
• Rear Wheel: 3.4 in. (86 mm)

PERFORMANCE
Engine Torque (per J1349):
• North America: 108 ft. lb. @ 2750 RPM (146 Nm @ 2750 RPM)
Lean Angle (per J1168):
• Right: 27.9°
• Left: 28.7°
Fuel Economy: (Combined City/Hwy) 47 mpg

BARCELONA, Spain — In what might be seen as a Memorial Day gift to President Trump, residents of a mountain range outside of El Paso today woke up to a new vista—a mile-long wall of metal slats constructed along the border with Mexico that just shot up over the weekend. The secret project, which started on Friday evening and was completed by Monday morning, was the work of We Build the Wall, a new group whose director is the former White House strategist Steve Bannon. The CEO is Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, who had raised $20 million to build the wall through his GoFundMe project, but it appeared to be floundering until Bannon took the helm.

Bannon, who for much of the weekend was in Kazakhstan for a geopolitical seminar, says the project, overseen by construction mogul Tommy Fisher of North Dakota-based Fisher Industries, involved hundreds of workers and cost $6 million.

He says his group asked local authorities what is the most dangerous part of the border with Mexico, and they were pointed to this precarious mountain strip, “where the cartels and asylum seekers are coming in” through a gap between two 21-mile strips of completed wall. The group hastily “purchased the rights” to the land and went at it Friday evening. “We had to catch them by surprise,” says Bannon, who predicts residents are “gonna freak out” when they see what was erected over the past two days.

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Perhaps construction is Bannon’s new calling.

Melissa Rossi is a U.S. journalist based in western Europe

–from Yahoo.com

As you know I have been involved in many issues that involve motorcycles.

I belong to many organizations and groups that I actively participate in involving Legislative, Safety, and Social. I will continue to be involved in all these organizations.

Because of a vehicle making a left turn and striking my son on his motorcycle in September of 2018, causing him to lose a foot and almost killing him, I have decided to concentrate more on safety issues at this time

Myself and some others have started a group named BIKER LIVES MATTER. We will be based out of Florida and address issues there and also on a National Level.

We will Not Be Charging A Fee to Join and people do not have to own a motorcycle to join. We are looking for people who want to help reduce crashes and collisions on all kinds of motorcycles. The more people we have, the more our voice will be heard.

We have released our new website https://bikerlivesmatter.com

We need our friends to share this and hope you will be able to help

As we move forward, I expect some things to happen quickly while others are going to take some time. I am confident in my ability but more so in our motorcycle family that this will be very successful.

Please Help Me and Others with This Important Issue.

–Rogue

Senior Editor

Bikernet.com(TM)

Foothill Ranch, Calif. (May 26, 2019) – The second round of the 2019 Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship continued in Southern California on Saturday to Fox Raceway in Pala, California for the first time in eight years. Monster Energy® Kawasaki’s Eli Tomac dominated the day in the 450MX class by sweeping the class with a 1-1 result and taking the championship points lead. In the 250MX class it was Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Adam Cianciarulo who fought hard for a 3-1 moto finish to earn him the overall win and increase his championship points lead.

Tomac, who was determined to regain the red plate and the 450MX points lead, lined up for the first moto and put on a performance that showed why his KX™450 machine is adorned with the No. 1 plate. A 13th place start had the two-time champion in tough spot with only one option, and that was to race forward as quickly as possible and not let his competition slip away. In true Tomac fashion, he had moved into fourth by the halfway mark of the first moto and was on a charge. Frustrated from taking roost, he dropped the hammer and went to work for the front of the field. After making a pass for third, he mounted a charge on the front two leaders, who appeared to be out of reach, but with three laps to go he passed into the lead and never looked back.

Tomac made it easier on himself in Moto 2 as he rocketed out to a third place start and quickly moved into second position. It was there where he would study his competition for the first 15 minutes of the race, and as a true hunter does he stalked his prey and at the half way mark of the race he moved into the lead. Tomac crossed the finish line 11-seconds ahead of the competition with a perfect 1-1 score for the day. Tomac now sits four points ahead of second place in the 450MX Championship Points standings.

The Colorado native returns home next weekend to defend his “home-town” race at the Thunder Valley National. Tomac proudly waved the Colorado flag in front of the Southern California race fans after going 1-1 on the day.

As the three-man Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki squad lined up for 250MX Moto 1 the 250MX Championship Points leader, Adam Cianciarulo found himself buried outside the top-10 in the opening laps. From there Cianciarulo showed why he had earned the red plate last weekend, charging the entire moto and on the last lap he passed into third place making it onto the podium.

250MX Moto 2 saw Cianciarulo rocket off the gate to a fourth place start, but knowing what was on the line he moved forward fast and by lap three he had taken over the lead. On laps 11 and 12 a battle broke out and Cianciarulo was forced to go outside around a lapped rider and lost the lead. Cianciarulo would not be outdone as he regrouped and made a pass stick for the remaining four laps and added a three second gap to make sure the victory was his. Cianciarulo and his No. 92 KX™250 leaves Fox Raceway with 92 Championship Points after two rounds of racing and a six point lead in the 250MX class as they head to Colorado next weekend.

In just his seventh Pro Motocross race, the No. 61 machine of Garrett Marchbanks scored his highest career finish with a seventh place overall. In 250MX Moto 1, Marchbanks like his teammate Cianciarulo, had to fight for every single position after a difficult start and would cross the line in ninth place. In 250MX Moto 2, Marchbanks would rebound from Moto 1 with a better start and was able to increase his position to eighth in the second moto.

Last week Martin Davalos revealed that his second moto crash at Hangtown resulted in cartilage damage to his rib cage and was not sure how the weekend at Fox Raceway would go, but the veteran rider fought through the day, finishing with 18-9 moto scores which earned him 14th place overall.

The team over at Fox designed special retro inspired gear for the Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki squad to wear this weekend at Fox Raceway. They collaborated with team sponsor Bell Helmets to match.

–Cable News network photo by DMac

POSTED BY: ROBERT KRAYCHIK MARCH 23, 2019

Members of the original green movement know that it was hijacked by charlatans who had another agenda than truly helping the environment: Technocracy dominated by the global elite. ⁃ TN Editor

Greenpeace co-founder and former president of Greenpeace Canada Patrick Moore described the cynical and corrupt machinations fueling the narrative of anthropocentric global warming and “climate change” in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Moore explained how fear and guilt are leveraged by proponents of climate change:

Fear has been used all through history to gain control of people’s minds and wallets and all else, and the climate catastrophe is strictly a fear campaign — well, fear and guilt — you’re afraid you’re killing your children because you’re driving them in your SUV and emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and you feel guilty for doing that. There’s no stronger motivation than those two.

Scientists are co-opted and corrupted by politicians and bureaucracies invested in advancing the narrative of “climate change” in order to further centralize political power and control, explained Moore.

Moore noted how “green” companies parasitize taxpayers via favorable regulations and subsidies ostensibly justified by the aforementioned narrative’s claimed threats, all while enjoying propagandistic protection across news media”

And so you’ve got the green movement creating stories that instill fear in the public. You’ve got the media echo chamber — fake news — repeating it over and over and over again to everybody that they’re killing their children. And then you’ve got the green politicians who are buying scientists with government money to produce fear for them in the form of scientific-looking materials. And then you’ve got the green businesses, the rent-seekers, and the crony capitalists who are taking advantage of massive subsidies, huge tax write-offs, and government mandates requiring their technologies to make a fortune on this. And then, of course, you’ve got the scientists who are willingly, they’re basically hooked on government grants.

When they talk about the 99 percent consensus [among scientists] on climate change, that’s a completely ridiculous and false number. But most of the scientists — put it in quotes, scientists — who are pushing this catastrophic theory are getting paid by public money, they are not being paid by General Electric or Dupont or 3M to do this research, where private companies expect to get something useful from their research that might produce a better product and make them a profit in the end because people want it — build a better mousetrap type of idea. But most of what these so-called scientists are doing is simply producing more fear so that politicians can use it to control people’s minds and get their votes because some of the people are convinced, ‘Oh, this politician can save my kid from certain doom.’

It is the biggest lie since people thought the Earth was at the center of the universe. This is Galileo-type stuff. If you remember, Galileo discovered that the sun was at the center of the solar system and the Earth revolved around it. He was sentenced to death by the Catholic Church, and only because he recanted was he allowed to live in house arrest for the rest of his life.

So this was around the beginning of what we call the Enlightenment, when science became the way in which we gained knowledge instead of using superstition and instead of using invisible demons and whatever else, we started to understand that you have to have observation of actual events and then you have to repeat those observations over and over again, and that is basically the scientific method.

–TechnocracyNews.com

Memorial Day is the day we honor all the men and women that never made it home. The Motorcycle Riders Foundation appreciates the sacrifices that allow us the freedoms that we cherish today. Their sacrifices and victories are what helped make our country great.

Freedom is not free.

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” — General George S. Patton

Dating back to the American Civil War when it was known as “Decoration Day,” the practice of placing flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers is not only done in remembrance of the men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces, but also to honor the freedom in which they upheld.

Looking forward to talking to all….there’ll be lots of great talent on this show.

Co-hosted with Kenny Abbott – Kenny is a former racer, Michael Jordan’s Crew Chief, Managed Fox Valley Honda, and all kinds of great stuff.

Terrie is out Social Media gal and will address people commenting into the LIVE show

Karel King is out producer and Andrew & Andy are on deck engineering the show!

Featuring Tim Buche, Joe Gustafson & John Ewert!

See attached Show Line-up and Show Flyer and share share share!

And THANK YOU for coming to the party- every Sat it’s a party some just rock more than others!  –

Happy Memorial Weekend!