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BIKERNET SPELLING LESSON– A bus stops and 2 men get on. They sit down and engage in an animatedconversation.
The lady sitting next to them ignores them at first, but her attentionis galvanized when she hears one of them say the following:
“Emma come first. Den I come. Den two asses come together. I comeonce-a-more! Two asses, they come together again. I come again and peetwice. Then I come one lasta time.”
The lady can’t take this any more, “You foul-mouthed sex obsessed pig,”she retorted indignantly. “In this country we don’t speak aloud in publicplaces about our sex lives.
“Hey, coola down lady,” said the man. “Who talkin’abouta sex? I’m ajusta tellin’ my frienda how to spell ‘ Mississippi ‘.”
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UGLY DUCKLING WINS BEAUTY CONTEST–On August 7, MC Advantages/Klock Werks “Ugly Duckling” Sportster® took firstplace at the AMD World Championships in the Modified H-D® class held inSturgis, South Dakota. The modified 1200cc Sportster® was given the UglyDuckling moniker by builder Brian Klock and his team at Klock Werks as theircustomizing concept grew from its less than handsome beginnings.
The Ugly Duckling name fits the bike well. With a powerful gold flake paintjob and a stout Kiwi Leaf Spring Front End, “The Duck” rolls retro with astylin’ snout. In addition to the front end, MC Advantages supplied aStampede?? 240 Wide Tire kit for uncommon road-holding ability, Ride Wrightspoked wheels, S&S? Hot Set Up Kit?, Progressive? Suspension, StampedePulley, and Spyke? Ignition, Battery, Battery Cables and Petcock.
“We are ecstatic about this win,” says MC Advantages’ General Manager, KentReed. “Brian’s team did an amazing job converting a sad, overlookedSportster into a rolling work of art. We look forward to working with himagain,” he noted.
The “Project Ugly Duckling” Sportster is currently on display at MCAdvantages offices in Grimes, Iowa.. KlockWerks, located in Mitchell, South Dakota, can be reached at1.605.996.3700.
MC Advantages is a distributor of high-performance V-Twin parts based inGrimes, Iowa, serving dealers in the U.S. and abroad. MC Advantagesdistributes many brands including: S&S? Cycle, Martin Bros.?, Spyke?,Stampede, Prowler?, D&M Custom Cycle, Platinum Air Suspension,Tauer Machine?, Hooker? and many more.
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HINES LEADS SCREAMIN’ EAGLE V-ROD TEAM WITH SEMIFINAL FINISH AT U.S. NATIONALS IN INDIANAPOLIS–CLERMONT, Ind., (Sept. 4, 2006) – Andrew Hines was so close, yet not nearly as close as he would have liked to be. Hines earned a trip to the semifinals on his Screamin’ Eagle/ Vance & Hines V-Rod Monday during the 52nd annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals at O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis.
The semifinal round appearance surpassed last season’s first round loss but that doesn’t make up for the team’s goals going into the event. Hines held the points lead going into the event and walked away with it too. Still, the Indianapolis resident was disappointed the day didn’t last longer and end with a victory. “I really did have the bike to beat,” Hines said. “That V-Rod ran nine awesome passes between 7.02 seconds and 7.09 seconds. Hands down, the bike deserved to be in winner’s circle. I just got amped up going into the semifinals and let the clutch out too early.”
Hines won his first round matchup with a 7.028 pass at 189.18 mph to Chris Rivas’ 7.091 at 184.90 on his Mohegan Sun Racing Buell. In Round Two, Hines posted a 7.098 at 186.10 to Paul Gast’s 7.196 at 180.52 on his Fast By Gast Suzuki. Hines fouled at the starting line in the semifinal race against Angelle Sampey and the U.S. Army Suzuki team.
Teammate GT Tonglet also saw red on Monday. After his Screamin’ Eagle entry broke at the starting line, the team re-fired the motorcycle, but Tonglet fouled out of his first round race against Matt Smith and the Torco Buell team. Smith went on to win the race.
“The reason Indy means so much to everyone is because it is such a tough race to win,” Harley-Davidson Racing Manager Anne Paluso said. “It has more competitors, it’s a longer event and it takes everything out of a team to be the last group standing on Labor Day. This Screamin’ Eagle team did their best to put Andrew and GT in the position to win, but it just didn’t work out this time.”
Hines qualified in the No. 2 position with a 7.020 at 189.68 while Tonglet was 16th with a 7.117 at 186.38.
The team now must shake off the U.S. Nationals and move on to the next race – the Toyo Tires NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Penn., on Sept. 14-17.
“The U.S. Nationals really does take it all out of you,” Tonglet said. “It was a long weekend and we saw some really good things but it just didn’t translate into a win. This is one of the races I want to win the most, so I guess the team has to wait another year to try again.”
Hines was also nearing a possible double-up bonus. Hines beat Chip Ellis in the final round of the eight-bike Ringer’s Gloves Pro Bike Battle bonus race on Saturday. Each NHRA POWERade Pro Stock Bike racer has one calendar year to qualify for the event and the top eight riders get to race for more than $50,000 in prize money. Hines collected a $25,000 paycheck for his win.
“All weekend we were nailing our 60-foot times and we found the consistency we have been looking for all season,” Hines said. “It would have been amazing to win both events in one weekend and it’s disappointing it had to end with a red light. The good thing is that we have the points lead and three more races to go after some more round wins.”
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SALT’S STILL DRIPPING FROM OUR FENDERS–See that lovely face above. That’s Nyla Olsen, the Queen of Bikernet, the woman who set up our tents on the salt everyday. She made us sandwiches, arranged to have our 5-Ball racing team patches embroidered, hats stitched, stickers printed, shirts silk screened, truck serviced, and the damn thing packed. Plus she ain’t bad looking for all the abuse she puts up with. I love her, and I thank her daily.
Keep your eye on the site, we’re getting back in gear. I may post TBear’s coverage of the AMD Canadian show this afternoon. We have a story on a Pro One build from Bob Clark and Capn Bill sent us another tale. I’m wrapping up our Road King Test story to Sturgis and will dip into the Salt Flats Saga next week.
I’m flying to Phoenix next week to ride new Saxon Models and meet with Rock ’em, Sock ’em. Plus we have another story from India to post and maybe winner features from the AMD Pro Show in Europe. It’s all happening here on Bikernet.
Ride Forever,
–Bandit
Kerry Priddle from Austraila. All the props above for me have to be shared with Kerry. If it wasn?t for her, we would have dried up on the salt. ~Nyla
