Arlington, Texas. (February 17, 2018) – Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki’s Austin Forkner started his sophomore supercross campaign with a heat race win and then came through the pack to earn seventh inside AT&T Stadium. Teammate Martin Davalos had a good day going for him as the top qualifier and heat race winner, but was hit hard from behind in the first turn of the main event and was unable to continue the race.
Davalos put all eyes on him as the top qualifier on the day. He was able to translate that day speed to the night racing, winning his respective heat race to enter the main event with first gate pick. Davalos got a good jump off the line and was about to put his KX250F into the first turn when he was hit from behind and went down. The hard crash forced Davalos to retire from the race, turning his attention to Round 2 in Tampa, Florida, next weekend.
To find out more about Pro Circuit products, visit www.procircuit.com. Don’t forget to follow the Pro Circuit race team on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using the handle @pcraceteam.
250SX Class Western Regional Main Event Results
1. Zach Osborne (Husqvarna)
2. Colt Nichols (Yamaha)
3. Jimmy Decotis (Suzuki)
4. RJ Hampshire (Honda)
5. Jeremy Martin (Honda)
6. Jordon Smith (KTM)
7. Austin Forkner (Kawasaki)
8. Brandon Hartnaft (Yamaha)
9. Sean Cantrell (KTM)
10. Luke Renzland (Yamaha)
250SX Class Western Region Points Standings
1. Zach Osborne (Husqvarna), 26
2. Colt Nichols (Yamaha), 23
3. Jimmy Decotis (Suzuki), 21
4. RJ Hampshire (Honda), 19
5. Jeremy Martin (Honda), 18
6. Jordon Smith (KTM), 17
7. Austin Forkner (Kawasaki), 16
8. Brandon Hartnaft (Yamaha), 15
9. Sean Cantrell (KTM), 14
10. Luke Renzland (Yamaha), 13
Based in Corona, Calif., Pro Circuit Products, Inc. is a leader in off-road motorcycle and ATV exhausts and aftermarket performance parts. Started in 1978, Pro Circuit is the go to shop for recreational riders and professionals for everything from suspension work to complete engine packages and everything in between.
Created by former desert racer Mitch Payton, Pro Circuit proves its products and services week-in and week-out through its tagline “We Race.” Every product that dons the Pro Circuit stamp stems from the legendary Pro Circuit race team. A staple in the professional paddock, Pro Circuit Racing has earned 30 AMA championships and more than 250 race wins in more than 30 years of competition.
Good Post
rogue@bikernet.com
Palm Bay , FL
I was trying to take temp readings and catch a little of her first start and then hold up the kicker pedal! And she puking a little oil from somewhere? I didn’t figure you wanted the video
RFR
The old woman looked up at the gunslinger and said, “No… I never did dance… Never really wanted to.”
A crowd had gathered as the gunslinger grinned and said “well, you old bag, you’re gonna dance now,” and started shooting at the old woman’s feet.
The old woman prospector — not wanting to get her toe blown off –started hopping around. Everybody was laughing. When his last bullet had been fired, the young gunslinger, still laughing, holstered his gun and turned around to go back into the saloon.
The old woman turned to her pack mule, pulled out a double-barreled shotgun, and cocked both hammers.
The young gunslinger heard the sounds, too, and he turned around very slowly. The silence was almost deafening. The crowd watched as the young gunman stared at the old woman and the large gaping holes of those twin barrels.
The barrels of the shotgun never wavered in the old woman’s hands, as she quietly said, “son, have you ever kissed a mule’s ass?”
The gunslinger swallowed hard and said, “no m’am… But i’ve always wanted to.
There are five lessons here for all of us:
1 – Never be arrogant.
2 – Don’t waste ammunition.
3 – Whiskey makes you think you’re smarter than you are.
4 – Always make sure you know who has the power.
5 – Don’t mess with old people; they didn’t get old by being stupid.
NEW BIKERNET READER COMMENT!–
Bennett’s Performance Evo Engine Rebuild
Very impressive. What would it cost to do a 1990 Evo 1340 rebuilt.
MargaretWrein@frontier.com
BIKERNET VIDEO DEPARTMENT WORKS OVERTIME–
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PEREWITZ CUSTOM PAINT SHOW SERIES KICKS OFF IN DAYTONA–
Trophies, are you kidding? Big Daddy Perewitz Trophies’ are the coolest you’ll find at any show and probably the most sought after awards in the industry. Score one of these unique hand fabricated, custom painted works of art and you’ve scored big time.
Estimated cash value of giveaways this year is in the vicinity of $10,000 and growing. Our judges are custom painted in the industry. All bikes with custom paint are welcome!
If you’d like to get your business involved with the Perewitz Custom Paint Show Series give Jody a call at the number below.
Perewitz Paint Show Schedule for 2018
Daytona Bike Week – Riverfront Park – Wed March 14
Reg 11-1pm
Awards 4pm
Cave Creek Bike Week – Hideaway – April 14
Sturgis – Iron Horse Saloon – Aug 8th
Cherokee Blue Ridge Run – Sept 8
Lonestar Rally – Hotel Galvez – Nov 2
Messan [mes-uh n]
Noun
1. a lap dog; small pet dog.
QUOTES
They are good enough lads, Sholto and Laurence both, but they will be for ever gnarring and grappling at each other like messan dogs round a kirk door.
— S. R. Crockett, The Black Douglas, 1899
ORIGIN
The English noun messan “small dog, lap dog” comes from Scots Gaelic measan “small dog,” cognate with Irish Gaelic measán, both of which are diminutives of Gaelic mess “favored (one).” Messan entered English in the late 15th century.
TEN YEARS OF BUDWEISER COMMERCIALS–
These are absolutely great. Just a pleasure to watch. Ten years of Budweiser commercials. These commercials will put a smile on your face
Bikers’s for Trump – Daytona Update
Very good and informative article, looking forward to you coming to Daytona Beach, Florida for bike week. My fianc? and I will definitely come out to meet y’all. We were at the Bikers 3 day event in October 2017, we had a blast seeing all the different custom made motorcycles and just the overall experience. Keep up the good work for our president and our country.
-Barbara Myrick
ladynite54@aol.com
Daytona Beach , FL
One World Digital Launches 24/7 Choppertown Channel on Twitch for Bikers
New 24/7 channel to feature live and recorded programming for gearheads, such as Choppertown: the Sinners and Jesse James: Austin Speed Shop to real-time coverage of rallies, races, and more
LOS ANGELES – February 19 2018 – One World Digital, LLC today announced the official launch of its 24/7 Choppertown channel on social video service Twitch. The channel (twitch.tv/choppertown) features motorcycle, hot rod, racing and other gearhead content curated from over a decade of library acquisitions and original award-winning productions. The channel will also include live programming from motorcycle rallies around the world, visits to underground shops, and live coverage of motorcycle racing events, such as Harley-Davidson’s Hooligans and others.
“Twitch has built an incredible service based on community and conversation,” said One World Digital CEO, Zack Coffman. “We have spent the past twelve years engaging and building a massive global community around our films and it’s incredible to finally have an interactive linear channel dedicated to our audience and easily available to our fans on a global scale.”
“The Twitch community has a wide range of interests with Choppertown representing the latest in compelling new programming,” said Jane Weedon, Director of Business Development, Twitch. “By letting the Twitch community interact in real-time with Choppertown’s impressive library of gearhead TV shows and films, as well as live content from races and rallies, it marks a cool milestone for 24/7 content on our service.”
One World Digital’s launch of a linear channel on Twitch builds on its rapidly growing distribution network that includes Facebook Watch, Amazon Prime, Vimeo, and its owned and operated content hub Choppertown.com.
About Choppertown and One World Digital
Choppertown: the Sinners (One World Studios Ltd.) was shot on a borrowed digital camera, edited on a Mac and released by producer Zack Coffman and director Scott Di Lalla to 300,000 fans via MySpace in 2005. Since then the Choppertown brand has grown into a global movement of biker fanatics with a Facebook page of over 2.3 million and weekly engagement numbers often equalling or surpassing much larger media brands such as NY Times, Discovery, and Red Bull.
Founded by Zack Coffman, a pioneer in direct-to-consumer distribution, One World Digital, LLC has amassed a library of over 500 hours of long-form motorcycle and automotive documentaries and narrative features as well as creating and distributing original content for global brands such as Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum, Discovery, and Harley-Davidson Motor Company. In addition to One World Studios’ Choppertown brand, One World Digital also develops and manages distribution platforms for global content partners including Globe Trekker from Pilot/555 Productions and Gemini award-winning Ice Pilots from Omnifilm Entertainment.
About Twitch
BURAPA BIKEWEEK 2018 COVERAGE–
PART 2
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This bar is right next to my hotel. I happened to be coming back to get some QT mags for my biker friend her and happened to get to see a typical Chinese “ blessing of the business” customarily all the lions get fed red envelopes with gratuities inside. It’s all for good luck and fortune.
On a side note I read earlier that transportation services will see 3 BILLION trips over CNY. Total bus train plane moped Segway and of course rickshaw.
Another side has Thailand expecting 300,000 visitors for the celebration. Glad I’m in Cambodia. Lucky timeing.
Most people’s interaction with a police officer is usually during a traffic stop. The anxiety and fear that most of us feel when stopped by a police officer makes it worse when we believe we have done nothing wrong or thought we were doing the right thing. Placed in jeopardy of receiving a ticket or even being arrested during a traffic stop, a law-abiding citizen can be shaken to the core. Here are three situations that motorists have recently found themselves at odds with a police officer.
Indiana resident DelRea Good was arrested for refusing to pull over on a dark street after a police officer flashed his lights. Good claimed that she did not feel safe pulling over on the deserted road and instead slowed down, turned on her hazard lights and waved her arm out the window letting the officer know she was not resisting arrest. Less than a mile later, she pulled into a well-lit parking lot. The officer arrested her and charged her with a felony for resisting arrest. (See #3 in the NMA’s The Yin and Yang of Surviving a Traffic Stop.)
In Ohio, Lamar Wright pulled over to make a phone call and was soon pulled out of his car, pepper sprayed and tasered by two plain clothes police officers who approached his car on foot. Wright had pulled into a driveway and apparently had not used his turn signal. Wright was recovering from digestive tract surgery and was using a colostomy bag. The situation escalated when Wright reached for the bag to protect it from jostling. He was arrested, taken to jail, subjected to a full body x-ray, and detained for five hours. No contraband was found and the charges were dropped. Wright is suing the Euclid Police Department for malicious arrest.
In a lawsuit filed against the Bakersfield, Ca Police Department, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) claims that Robert Mitchell was unlawfully jailed after a traffic stop because the vehicle had an air freshener dangling from its rear view mirror. The suit filed in January alleges that “officers actually stopped the car with the intention of detaining the car’s occupants, all of whom were black, to investigate them without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Mitchell was arrested and jailed for 12 hours after he asserted his right as a passenger in the vehicle to not give his name. Lawfully the driver of a car must provide a driver’s license (ID) and in some states, proof of registration and insurance, when asked by police to do so during a traffic stop. Passengers don’t have the same obligation. The department and the Kern County Sheriff’s Office were both already under a civil rights investigation by the California attorney general.
Even if you have never experienced a traffic stop arrest, your tax dollars support police services and can be used to contribute to settlements with victims of wrongful arrests. Technically lawsuits filed by victims are paid for by those doing the filing or on contingency with their lawyers. It is settlements where cities/counties/states have to pony up. In other words, we all have a vested interest in police actions.
Asbury Park Press located in New Jersey released a two-year investigation in January on how much New Jersey pays in secret settlements to victims or their families each year. They concluded that more than 200 citizens had been victimized by police officers costing the state $42 million dollars in the past decade to cover-up deaths, physical abuse, sexual misconduct and wrongful arrests.
That’s just one state. Many times, this all starts with a traffic stop.
Now, some states are looking to expand the roadside authority of police.
A Virginia House of Delegates bill would allow police officers to strip search drivers at traffic stops. The reason—sheriffs have expressed concerns that those arrested might smuggle drugs into jails. Sheriffs did not ask for the strip search bill but sponsor Delegate Patrick Hope said:
“The existing statute allows for strip searches for weapons at traffic stops and going into jail, and that there’s a reason—because you don’t want to put someone in your squad car who might have a weapon. And so the question is whether opioids today are lethal enough where you need that same protection at a traffic stop where you are going to put somebody in your car.”
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BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY—
Back and forth . . . . back and forth . . .
In and out . . . . in and out . . . .
A little to the right . . . . a little to the left . . . .
She could feel the sweat on her forehead . . . .
Between her breasts . . . . and, trickling down the small of her back . . . .
She was getting near to the end . . . . !!
He was in ecstasy . . . . with a huge smile on his face as his wife moved . . . . Forwards then backwards . . . .
Forward then backward . . . .
Again . . . . and, again . . . . !!
Her heart was pounding now . . . .
Her face was flushed . . . .
She moaned . . . . softly at first, then began to groan louder . . . .
Finally . . . . totally exhausted . . . . she let out a piercing scream and shouted . . . .
“OK, OK, you smug bastard, I can’t parallel park . . . .
You do it . . . . !!”
LaLa
