THE THOUGHT PROVOKING SUNDAY POST for May 21, 2017

Hey,

This is a bittersweet week. Easyriders auction didn’t work for the owner. Last we heard staff members were clearing out their offices. I keep hoping members of the staff would rally together, get a loan and find a new path for the brand.

There is always another path available. I’ve been very fortunate to recognize treachery and avoid pitfalls. Life is so short and if you can follow a couple of rules it can generally run in a smooth direction.

So many of our problems are self-inflicted. Try to understand what’s going on and change it. Change is hard for some and adventurous for other. And follow the right path, in other words do everything with honor.

May the Easyriders name find and follow a new and exciting road. As bikers, we know how it’s done. Let’s hit the news:

BAKER DRIVETRAIN CURE FOR H-D PRIMARY NOISE

On my 2007 FLHTCU the spring cup is part of the rotor. In your picture
there is no spring cup on the rotor. Did you replace the rotor? There is no mention of a new old style rotor in the things you will need. I feel that my compensator is going bad because when I back off the throttle coast a little then get back on it there is a clunk.

Any info/input would be great.

Thanks

— Patrick J Craig
skibony@aol.com
Columbus, MI

Patrick
It does sound like your compensator is going bad. Harley has updated their compensator numerous times and you may want to check to see what they have.

If you want to use the Baker Compensator you will need to replace the rotor
with a H-D Rotator Assembly 300410-08A You can get more information on using the Baker Compensator by contacting Mark Pavlica at Baker mark@bakerdrivetrain.com

No matter what you do I would strongly suggest replacing the H-D automatic
chain adjuster with a Baker Adjuster.

I hope this helps
–Rogue
SUPREME EDITOR
Bikernet Baggers

LET’S JUMP RIGHT INTO THE NAKED BLONDE JOKE WING OF THE BIKERNET LIBRARY– A blonde was bragging about her knowledge of state capitals. She proudly says, ‘Go ahead, ask me, … I know ’em all.’

A friend says, ‘OK, what’s the capital of Wisconsin?’

The blonde replies,’Oh, that’s easy .. it’s W.’

–from El Waggs

MORE FROM THE BIKERNET CLIMATE CALAMITY NEWS DESK–
First, thanks for clearing up for me, and my friend Cam, as to why bikers don’t like the concept of climate change. We assumed it would elevate bikers to being heroes of the environment, given that bikes emit far fewer emissions than cars. But you’re saying no, Prius-driving environmentalists have decided the answer to the problem is to punish bikers by taking away aftermarket performance components.

Your answer is to attack the major premise of the climate changers, that the climate is indeed changing. That’s really going against the tide, right or wrong, and there may be easier ways to do it to get your cams back. Let me just say for the record that I am a climate change agnostic. It might be happening, it might not. Too complicated for me, and furthermore, I don’t care. Let’s first look, though, at the major premises of the people who want to make sure your bike remains fully stock.

Premise 1. The climate is changing.
Premise 2. This will be bad for humans. (Forget the “save the Earth” people; the planet will do just fine; it has survived all sorts of huge changes.)
Premise 3. This climate change is man made.
Premise 4. We can do something about it.
Premise 5. It is our responsibility to do something.

You may not agree with any of these premises. But for the sake of argument, let’s assume they’re all true. (I know. That’s a stretch and a half.) What you can still attack are the methods for fighting climate change.

One plan is to restrict performance parts for motorcycles? Are you kidding me? What the fuck will that do? Like telling kids not to piss in the ocean.

Again, I have to rely on my buddy Cam. He says the biggest threat to the climate is coal-burning power plants. China has lots of them, but China is starting to close them down. The Chinese evidently believe in climate change.

In the U.S., we still generate 30 percent of our electricity with coal, which means that about 30 percent of all electric cars are actually coal burners. I don’t believe there are any motorcycles that burn coal. How many cams does it take to equal one coal-burning plant? A shitload, I would imagine.

I don’t know what the numbers are–maybe somebody has run them–but the suppression of greenhouse gases by making high-performance aftermarket parts difficult to buy can’t amount to very much. Like telling people to stop pissing in the Pacific (those damn surfers).

I would ask the climate changers–or the aftermarket bike and automotive parts manufacturers–to come up with a figure for how fucking over bikers is helping the climate. I’ll bet either the numbers are very very very low, or they don’t have any numbers.

You can’t buy a cam for your bike, but Laurie David (Larry David’s ex) has built a second home (20,000 square feet!) on Martha’s Vineyard, destroying some wetlands to do so. She justifies this by saying she installed those awful corkscrew lightbulbs throughout. Nice going. Laurie David is a prominent “environmentalist” who produced “An Inconvenient Truth.”

That movie, “The Great Global Warming Swindle,” is right on target on a number of points, one being that computer models cannot predict the weather with certainty (I think we knew that). You get one parameter off by a tiny amount and the whole scenario goes haywire. And of course there are parameters we don’t know about. I believe the dinosaurs restricted the use of high-performance cams. Then the Earth was struck by a meteorite. See, it didn’t help. They went extinct anyway.

There are 7 billion people on Earth right now. Here’s a shocking fact: they will ALL die. We don’t worry about them. We worry about people in the future somewhere. There’s a comedian named Jerrod Carmichael, I think, who said he wasn’t going to recycle for the sake of people in the next century. “I’m not going to spend my evening separating paper from plastic for the sake of hypothetical rug rats.”

Those are my deep thoughts.

–Dick Teresi

NEWS FROM PROFESSOR LEE PARKS–
It’s been a while since we last sent out a newsletter but I think you’ll be happy when you see what’s been keeping us so busy.

I’m very proud to announce two brand new gloves that have literally been 15 years in the making.

Say hello to Sumo! Inspired by the needs of supermoto racers who require both extreme flexibility and extreme protection, the Sumo gloves are ideal for street riding too. In fact, to make it even more useful for everyday riding, I added a new touch screen interface to the finger tips for controlling your iPhone/Android/GPS, etc.

The secret to adding protection without sacrificing our legendary flexibility and comfort is the use of a specialized Thermoplastic Rubber (TPR) material. Its computer optimized, segmented design is transparent to the user yet provides serious impact resistance.

Compared to the standard DeerTours, the Sumo has a half-inch longer cuff with a closed-loop design. It also adds impact protection to the knuckles, fingers and wrist bones.

Also new is the Sumo R model. The R features a full-length gauntlet and for the first time on a long glove, a completely outseam construction. It is suitable for all kinds of street and track riding, and includes all the same features as the standard Sumo model.

Both Sumo gloves are going into production this month. As a special for our newsletter subscribers we are offering special Kickstarter pricing for those who want to pre-order them. Deliveries will be 30-60 days from your order.

In Total Control news, we have many new classes posted below and on the website including this weekend in Youngstown, OH and next weekend in Madison, WI with yours truly teaching. We also have our popular Total Control Track Clinics scheduled for September 9-10 at the Horsethief Mile track at Willow Springs in Southern California.

In case you missed it, Total Control took over the contract for the California Motorcyclist Safety Program in January of 2015. Since that time we have trained well over 100,000 new riders in the state with our new learn-to-ride curriculum (known as the Motorcyclist Training Course in CA and Beginner Riding Clinic in the rest of the country).

Together with the California Highway Patrol and the rest of our partners on the Strategic Highway Safety Plan we saw an 11.5% reduction in motorcycle fatalities (60 fewer dead riders) versus the previous year (2014) in the Golden State. We’re still waiting for the numbers to be finalized for 2016. What’s noteworthy about this is it happened at a time when motorcycle fatalities rose 10% on average nationwide and total traffic fatalities in CA went up 4%. All of us at Total Control want to thank our 430+ instructors and training site owners whose dedication helped make this possible.

Thanks again from all of us at Lee Parks Design and Total Control for your continued support.

–Lee Parks

LIFESTYLE DEAL OF THE WEEK– 2007 Harley-Davidson Sportster 883

Our Price
$10,995
Exterior: Red
VIN: 1HD4CN2377K441571
Mileage: 16,854 miles

THE VERN REPORT– Subject: Victoria, Texas ……….. this is priceless be sure to read it ……..

–from Vern

LAW TIGERS Arizona Mile AFT Championship: Bryan Smith Takes Another Mile Win In Five-Lap Shootout With Teammate Brad Baker

The Indian Wrecking Crew once again lived up to its moniker in the fourth round of the 2017 American Flat Track championship. The trio of factory riders secured a dominant sweep of the AFT Twins presented by Vance & Hines podium at the Law Tigers Arizona Mile presented by Indian Motorcycle.

Leading the charge around Turf Paradise was reigning Grand National Champion Bryan Smith. Smith drew upon every last ounce of his trademark Mile magic to position his No. 1 Indian Motorcycle Racing backed by Allstate Scout FTR750 ahead of the identical No. 6 Indian Scout FTR750 of Brad Baker at the checkered flag by a scant 0.057 seconds.

Following two red flags and with the sun quickly headed to the horizon, the AFT Twins presented by Vance & Hines Main Event was reconfigured into a dramatic five-lap shootout. At the second and final restart, Baker again resumed his place at the front of the field and appeared well on his way to grabbing his first victory of 2017. However, Smith had other ideas, ducking down the inside at the opening of the penultimate lap and held strong from there.

“It was a little bit of strategy,” Smith said. “I just sat on Brad’s rear tire, and luckily it worked out where I got by him with two to go. I went on by him and had just enough where I was a little bit better, mostly off of (Turn) 2.”

The cagey performance was the 20th Mile victory of Smith’s career, good enough to rank fifth most in American Flat Track history. It was also his 28th overall AFT Twins win, which ties him with fellow Michigan natives Bart Markel and Henry Wiles for tenth on the all-time order.

“It’s pretty cool at 28 wins that I tied Bark Markel, the original godfather of the Michigan Mafia,” Smith said. “And it’s pretty special for me to be, I believe, the only rider to win a Mile on three different brands and tie his record. Hopefully next weekend I can break it.”

Runner-up Baker said, “I wanted that win so dang bad. I don’t think I’ve wanted a win more in my life. This type of track is one I typically struggle at – one that’s dry, slick, one-lined – where you kind of have to go slow to go fast and ride with a lot of discipline.

“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed and angry. But they call Bryan the “Master of the Miles,” and he’s great at this. This is definitely a heartbreaker because I was the guy to beat all day… We’re on identical equipment so it’s not like I had any more horsepower than him or he had any more horsepower than me. It was all about who was the best rider, and today, Bryan proved his experience and craft on the Miles.”

Smith now sits perfectly even on top of the AFT Twins title fight with Jared Mees (No. 9 Indian Motorcycle Rogers Racing Scout FTR750) at 87 apiece. Mees retained a share of the points lead by furthering his season-long string of podium results with a close third.

Despite struggling with shifter issues, Mees managed to keep Smith and Baker honest throughout and finished just over a half-second back of the win.

“It was good for Indian Motorcycle, but we just didn’t quite have it today,” Mees said. “Honestly, we were third place all day… I was pretty much a sitting duck in third; we couldn’t really do anything. I was just grateful to get it into gear really quick off the line and kind of latch onto these guys. Brad had a helluva pace early on, but hats off to Bryan – he just put in a veteran move in on that last lap and a half and made it happen. I feel like Brad was probably the fastest, but Bryan out-schooled him.”

Thanks to the combined efforts of Smith and Mees early in 2017, the Indian Scout FTR750 has now opened its first full season of American Flat Track competition by claiming a victory in each Grand Slam discipline (TT, Short Track, Half-Mile, Mile).

Sammy Halbert continued to make his mark as the top privateer with a solid fourth-place run aboard the No. 69 Estenson Logistics Yamaha FZ-07. Halbert actually had to put in a charge just to snare the final qualifying position in the LCQ in order to advance into the Semis. But following that early scare, Halbert proved himself to be the only rider capable of reliably keeping the Indian Wrecking Crew in sight in Phoenix, even if only for a handful of laps at a time.

Jarod Vanderkooi (No. 20 Richie Morris Racing Kawasaki Ninja 650) completed the top five, finishing just ahead of the similarly mounted Briar Bauman (No. 14 Zanotti Racing Kawasaki Ninja 650) andJake Shoemaker (No. 55 Weirbach Racing Kawasaki USA Kawasaki Ninja 650).

Harley-Davidson’s early-season woes continued at Turf Paradise. Jake Johnson (No. 5 Harley-Davidson Factory Flat Track Team XG750R) was the only rider among the firm’s trio of factory-backed talents to make the Main Event. To make matters worse, Johnson’s day then ended in a crash which brought out one of the aforementioned red flags.

Texter Takes Title Lead With AFT Singles Triumph

Shayna Texter stepped forward to seize control of the AFT Singles class with a hard-earned win aboard her No. 52 Richie Morris Racing Honda CRF450R.

Texter was hounded throughout the Main by Tristan Avery (No. 16 Ron Ayers Honda CRF450R) and Brandon Price (No. 92 DPC Racing/Don’s Kawasaki KX450F), but proved almost impossible to draft by and even more difficult to stay in front of.

Texter said, “It was a long 15 laps. I just tried to stay smooth and make as few mistakes as I possibly could. I knew those guys were on me; I could see them in my shadow going down the back stretch. I just tried to be smart and keep them behind me.”

The narrow .041 of a second win was the seventh of Texter’s AFT Singles career and her first since the 2013 season. Her 2017 campaign is trending upward in a serious fashion; she’s now logged third-, second-, and first-place finishes in consecutive events.

“It feels awesome to get back up there – it’s been a rough couple of years,” Texter admitted. “I finally get to ride a motorcycle that’s stable and allows me to show what I have under the helmet. It’s really exciting to get back up here.”

American Flat Track powers right into the second of its run of four Miles in four weeks with the Harley-Davidson Sacramento Mile presented by Cycle Gear on Saturday, May 20. Live coverage can be viewed on FansChoice.tv beginning on Saturday at 6:00 p.m. ET (3:00 p.m. PT). Tickets for the Sacramento Mile are on sale and can be purchased at http://sactomile.com/tickets/.

Fans can also keep up-to-date with race day action by following American Flat Track on Facebook (American Flat Track), Twitter (@AmericanFlatTrk) and Instagram (@AmericanFlatTrack).

Award Updates:
AFT Singles

McElroy Packaging Lucky 7 – #52 Shayna Texter
Motul Move of the Race – #52 Shayna Texter

AFT Twins presented by Vance & Hines

Ohlins Fastest Lap – #1 Bryan Smith

McElroy Packaging Lucky 13 – #1 Bryan Smith

–Posted by Jackie
Law Tigers

TECH OF THE DAY— Cleaning cast aluminum cases. http://www.rrrtoolsolutions.com/articles/engine-cases-and-cylinder-finishing/

NEWS FROM THE TOWN OF CHOPPER– So excited to announce that we got the Best Bar in America back in stock! DVD and Digital versions are ready to go. All single movie downloads are just $5 this weekend, so enjoy and kick back with a brew or two. Please pass the word on these promotions so we can keep supporting these filmmakers to make more films.

Stay independent.

–Zack and Scott

LOVE JUGS SUCCESS— They just completed independent oil temperature studies using Love Jugs cooling system and it works like a champ. We will bring you wild news in the next couple of weeks.

They have also completed R&D with Victorys and units are available, plus big news from Indian will be forthcoming. Hang On!

–Bandit

WEEKEND GUN NUT REPORT– Bloomberg’s Everytown Creates “Authors Council” to Push Anti-Gun Propaganda

As if the country’s media weren’t already sufficiently co-opted by anti-gun advocates, this week, Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety announced an effort to pervert an additional facet of American entertainment. The billionaire bank-rolled interest group has developed the Everytown Authors Council. According to Bloomberg’s astroturf campaign, “The Council is designed to harness the power of the literary community to amplify the gun safety movement.”

Such efforts to influence an already biased entertainment sector are nothing new for Everytown. An April 2016 Variety article detailed how the gun control group worked hand-in-hand with writers for Netflix’s “House of Cards” to push their anti-gun agenda.

That same month, NRA-ILA’s Grassroots Alert informed readers of the extent of Everytown’s involvement in trying to distort television programming. It explained that an Everytown employee has the position of “Director of Cultural Engagement,” who, “oversees Everytown’s storytelling efforts, partnerships with the creative community and develops cultural assets that mobilize Americans to support common sense reforms…”

Much like with their efforts to pervert television, Everytown’s Authors Council will reportedly “use its collective reach and cultural influence to support common-sense solutions…” In providing comment for an Everytown press release, author Jodi Picoult seemed to express a willingness to create agitprop for the anti-gun group, stating, “It is because of this that authors are singularly suited to speak out on the need for common-sense gun laws, and to tell the stories of those who have been devastated by gun violence in this country.”

One would hope that shameless shilling on behalf of a statist billionaire would be derided in any artistic community. Unfortunately, many in America’s “creative” class appear all too willing use their “art” in service of Bloomberg’s vanity project. As such, the gun-owning public should do their best to apprise the general public of the gun control movement’s propaganda techniques, and consider their own consumption of media accordingly.

UNIVERSAL HIGH TUNNEL CHOPPER TANKS

Once again Paughco has you covered when it comes to real deal chopper tanks that are as functional as they are cool looking.

Shown here is one of their latest additions to the popular High Tunnel line of universal gas tanks for custom applications.

This particular unit boasts a 4 gallon capacity but other are available in 3.5 and 4.6 gallon capacities.. Designed primarily for bikes with stretched back bones they feature retro Tear Drop styling and are fit with stock style screw in filler vent (cap not included) and 22mm external threads on the petcock bung.

The 4 gallon tank measures 21”Lx 12”W x 9”D. Tunnel is 5 “ deep and 3” wide and centerline hole-to-hole on the mounting brackets is 22”.

Retail is just $392.95 and the screw-in vented caps go for $35.95. For complete details call 775-246-5738 or catch them on line at www.paughco.com

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5-BALL RACING LEATHER PRICE ADJUSTMENT— Since the economy isn’t singing yet, I got together with my lovely bookkeeper, Laura and adjusted the pricing, even though our shipping costs jumped through the roof.

I don’t know how she did it, but she just smiled and I said, “Okay.” Most of the prices have been reduced between 10 and 20 percent. We just want to be fair.

–Bandit

THE AIRBAG CONSPIRACY–
By James C. Walker, Executive Director of the NMA Foundation, and the NMA Staff

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, NHTSA, ordered the recall of 60 million Takata airbags – which could ultimately affect 100 million vehicles around the world – because the inflators can blow apart and turn into deadly shards of shrapnel when the bags deploy. There have been at least 16 deaths and well over 100 injuries. The cause was the use of cheaper technology with ammonium nitrate as the propellant, but that chemical can deteriorate over time with temperature and humidity changes and become dangerously explosive on deployment.

Many automakers purchased the Takata airbags because they were cheaper, but the dangers did not become apparent for many years, so the size of the recall is massive. It takes time for parts manufacturers to gear up to design and produce enough replacement airbags with safer technology, along with their needs to produce units for new vehicle production. This led to long delays for vehicles to have safer new parts available.

Fewer than half the driver side bags and less than a third of the passenger side ones have been replaced. Some automakers have offered “interim” replacements of new units with the old technology that have not had time to deteriorate, while waiting for the safer style parts to become available. And vehicles operated in southern states with higher temperatures and humidity have been given recall parts priority over vehicles in northern states.

Toyota offered to disconnect the dangerous airbags if customers so desired. NHTSA immediately advised owners to not disconnect the units because only a small percentage deploy dangerously and a disconnected bag offers no crash protection. Your defective airbag may kill or maim you but best to roll the dice in case of an accident.

Toyota and Subaru even went so far as to tell customers to keep passengers out of the right front seat until the Takata airbags have been replaced. We’ve reached a time when calling “shotgun” has become a literal game of Russian roulette.

NHTSA countered by making an absurd suggestion that people ask their dealers for a loaner car until the recall could be completed. There is no chance of dealers having millions of loaner vehicles available or the desire to endure that kind of expense for months or even years until all the new style parts become available.

There is only one solution, one that NHTSA apparently doesn’t have the resolve to enforce: Order automakers with defective Takata equipment to offer each car owner a free airbag disconnection service. Let the customer decide whether to gamble with his/her own safety and that of passengers, be they family or friends. Also, rental car and leasing agencies should be required to warn potential clients of vehicles with faulty airbags before contracts are signed.

NHTSA’s mission: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is responsible for keeping people safe on America’s roadways. In the midst of this crisis, the agency should heed its own words.

NEW HAMPSHIRE REPEALS HANDLEBAR HEIGHT LAW
Without a federal standard, the regulation of handlebars on motorcycles rests with the states, and until recently New Hampshire was among more than 30 states that limit the height of handlebars.

On May 15, 2017 N.H. Governor Chris Sununu signed SB27; “RSA 266:77, relative to grips and handlebars on motorcycles, is repealed.”

The Granite State began regulating handlebars in 1967, a time when many state legislatures associated motorcycling with the counter-culture captured by films like “The Wild Ones” and “Easy Rider,” explained Charlie St. Clair, executive director of the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association. “Law enforcement pulled people over for high bars as a tool for probable cause,” he said in applauding the bill’s passage, adding, “I have never heard of handlebars presented as a safety issue.”

Unfortunately for attendees of this year’s Laconia Motorcycle Week, held annually since 1923 during the nine days in June ending on Father’s Day, the law becomes effective 60 days after passage, which will be July 11, 2017.

–Bill Bish
NCOM

Watch for Bill’s full legislative report coming this week to Bikernet.–Bandit

BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY IS STILL OPEN ON BUDDHA’S BIRTHDAY–
One Sunday, in counting the money in the weekly offering, the Pastor of a small church found a pink envelope containing $1,000. It happened again the next week!

The following Sunday, he watched as the offering was collected and saw an elderly woman put the distinctive pink envelope on the plate.

This went on for weeks until the pastor, overcome by curiosity, approached her. “Ma’am, I couldn’t help but notice that you put $1,000 a week in the collection plate,” he stated.

“Why yes,” she replied, “every week my son sends me money and I give some of it to the church.”

The pastor replied, “That’s wonderful. But $1000 is a lot, are you sure you can afford this? How much does he send you?”

The elderly woman answered, “$10,000 a week.”The pastor was amazed. “Your son is very successful;
what does he do for a living?”

“He is a veterinarian,” she answered. “That’s an honorable profession, but I had no idea they made that much money,” the pastor said..”Where does he practice?”

The woman answered proudly, “In Nevada ..He has two cat houses, one in Las Vegas , and one in Reno ‘

–from Rogue and Sidehack Jerry

KOTTON MOUTH KINGS
Saturday, August 12
IRON HORSE SALOON – STURGIS, SD
8:00 PM. NO TICKETS, NO COVER. AGES 21+

verb 
1. to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
2. to commit theft; steal.

QUOTES
… a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments. The individual who purloined it is known; this beyond a doubt; he was seen to take it.

ORIGIN
Purloin entered English in the 1400s from late Middle English purloynen, from Anglo-French purloigner “to put off, remove.”

NEWS FROM DUCATI SEATTLE–
Ducati is offering excellent incentives for you to trade in or trade up from what you are riding now. Check out our low financing rates of 2.99%³, or get up to $1,500² in Ducati Incentives on selected 2016 models. But hurry, because those incentives only last until the end of May!

THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY CONTINUES TO EXPAND–
A woman walks into an accountant’s office and tells him that she needs to file her taxes.
The accountant says, “before we begin, I’ll need to ask you a few questions.”

“He gets her name, address, Social security number, etc. and then asks, “what’s your occupation?”

“I’m a Lady of the night,” she says.

The accountant is somewhat taken aback and says, “let’s try to rephrase that.”

“The woman says, “ok, I’m a high-end call girl.”

“No, that still won’t work. Try again.”

They both think for a minute; then the woman says, “I’m an elite chicken farmer.”

The accountant asks, “what does chicken farming have to do with being a prostitute?”

“Well, I raised a thousand little peckers last year.”

The accountant says, “Chicken Farmer it is.”

–El Waggs

THE CHANGING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for May 18, 2017

The on-going effect of inflation.

— Sam
TX

TRANS HIMALAYAN SKY ADVENTURE– DAY 1: ARRIVE NEW DELHI
Arrive at Delhi’s airport; our representative will personally meet you outside the EXIT gate of arrival terminal, holding a placard of your name to welcome you with garland & a bottle of mineral water. He will escort you till your hotel to make your hotel check-in smooth & fast. Overnight in Hotel.

DAY 2: DELHI-MANALI BY OVERNIGHT JOURNEY
After breakfast in hotel, get ready for a guided city tour of New Delhi with many historic monuments such as the 12th century Qutab Minar (the World’s tallest free standing minaret & it has five distinct storeys with the height of 72.5 Meter), Humayuns’ Tomb is a forerunner of the Mughal style of architecture, and in contrast, visits the Lotus Temple. Later drive past India Gate, the city’s World War I war memorial, the President’s residence, Parliament House and the Secretariat buildings, all designed by Lutyens. Later you will be transferred to bus station for a comfortable overnight journey to Manali in Air-conditioned Bus. Overnight in Volvo Bus.

DAY 3: MANALI (60 Kms Rides in & around Manali)

After Lunch, you will be introduced to our Royal Enfield 500cc Motorcycle & our road Captain will make you understand about the driving rules of India & you will be taught all skills to handle Royal Enfield in Indian mountains. We will ride Royal Enfield in & around Manali for local sightseeing, so you can be habituate with your motorbike for the tour. Overnight in Hotel at Manali.

And so your adventure begins for 13 days

In our Fixed Departure we take maximum 10 Riders.
Tour Date: 5th August’2017 to 17th August’2017

Price-
US $ 2650 Per Rider
US $ 2150 Per Pillion
US $ 395 Single Room Supplement

PACKAGE COST INCLUDES:
Ø 10 Nights Hotel/ Camp accommodations on Twin / Double Sharing basis.
Ø Breakfast & Dinner throughout the tour, except in Delhi where accommodation with breakfast basis only.
Ø All Ground Transfers from your arrival at Airport in India to till departure from India, sightseeing & overland journey by Air Conditioned Vehicle on non-riding days.
Ø Royal Enfield 500 CC Motorcycle on all riding days.
Ø Fuel (Gasoline) for Motorcycle.
Ø Experienced English speaking Motorcycle Road Captain for whole trip on his own Royal Enfield Motorcycle including his accommodation & food.
Ø Experienced Royal Enfield mechanic with all necessary spare parts for bikes including his accommodation & food.
Ø Spares parts change in Motorcycle during tour. –Front tube/ Rear tube/Spark plug/Clutch and Brake Wire/Clutch and Disc brake pads/ Engine oil/Clutch Plate.
Ø First-Aid Medical kit.
Ø Refreshment during rides like Packed Juice, Fresh Fruits, Biscuits, Tea, Coffee Etc.
Ø Back-up Vehicle (Support Car/Van) for your Luggage & Pillion Rider.
Ø One Time Monument / Monastery / Temple Entrances.
Ø Delhi-Manali-Delhi Air-conditioned Volvo Bus Tickets.
Ø The services of an English speaking guide on sightseeing days.
Ø Inner Line Permits (Restricted Area & Wild Life Area Permits).
Ø All required Video / Camera fees.
Ø Farewell Dinner with Unlimited Beer.
Ø Assistance by friendly, knowledgeable English speaking ground representatives from the moment you arrive in India until the time you leave.
Ø All Currently Applicable Taxes.

RATES EXCLUDE:
International Flights, Lunch, personal medical insurance (compulsory), Bike damage, extra drinks, visa fees and items of personal nature such as tips, laundry, liquor, extra drinks etc & anything which is not mentioned in included section.

Bharat Singh….
Mobile:+91-9871483018

D-207, Vikas Chamber,
Central Market, Sector-14,
Rohini, New Delhi-110085.
Skype: legendarymotorides

E-mail:- info@legendarymotorides.com
Website: www.legendarymotorides.com

GUNS AND KNIVES FROM TEXAS– Can’t sleep checking out the news and figured I’d share mine. Never fired it, suppose to shoot well!

Grips aren’t original, unsure of the finish? 100 years old, has a higher capacity mag which is worth almost as much as the pistol on the sites I’ve come across.

–RFR

Is it for sale?—Bandit

Never really thought about it, I’m a Texan I own a variety of weaponry. Maybe, no one ever made an offer, so I couldn’t really say? This is most of my “good” knives. I have about as many no name cheap ones. You probably know where they came from…

–RFR

HANG ON FOR THIS– Abolish Drunk Driving Laws

If lawmakers are serious about saving lives, they should focus on impairment, not alcohol.

Last week Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo advocated creating a new criminal offense: “driving while ability impaired.” The problem with the current Texas law prohibiting “driving while intoxicated” (DWI), Acevedo explained, is that it doesn’t allow him to arrest a driver whose blood-alcohol content (BAC) is below 0.08 percent without additional evidence of impairment.

“People sometimes focus on how many drinks they can have before they’ll go to jail,” Acevedo told the Austin-American Statesman. “It varies….A person may be intoxicated at 0.05, and you don’t want them out driving.” Acevedo wants to be able to arrest people with BAC levels as low as 0.05 percent, and he may have support for that idea in the state legislature. John Whitmire (D-Houston), chairman of the state Senate’s Criminal Justice Committee, told the Statesman Acevedo’s plan “might be one way to go,” adding, “Some people shouldn’t be driving after one drink—probably below the 0.08 limit—and this could address that.”

Bill Lewis, head of the Texas chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, agreed. “I don’t see how it would hurt,” he told the paper. “The level of 0.08 is where we know most people are good and drunk…and there are people who are driving at less than the limit who probably should not be. It might keep some people from driving [drunk] again.”

Acevedo, Whitmore, and Lewis are right, although probably not in the way they intended. People do react to alcohol differently. For many people one drink may well be too many, while experienced drinkers can function relatively normally with a BAC at or above the legal threshold for presuming intoxication. A person’s impairment may also depend on variables such as the medications he is taking and the amount of sleep he got the night before. Acevedo et al.’s objections to the legal definition of intoxication highlight the absurdity of drawing an arbitrary, breathalyzer-based line between sobriety and criminal intoxication.

The right solution, however, is not to push the artificial line back farther. Instead we should get rid of it entirely by repealing drunk driving laws.

Consider the 2000 federal law that pressured states to lower their BAC standards to 0.08 from 0.10. At the time, the average BAC in alcohol-related fatal accidents was 0.17, and two-thirds of such accidents involved drivers with BACs of 0.14 or higher. In fact, drivers with BACs between 0.01 and 0.03 were involved in more fatal accidents than drivers with BACs between 0.08 and 0.10. (The federal government classifies a fatal accident as “alcohol-related” if it involved a driver, a biker, or a pedestrian with a BAC of 0.01 or more, whether or not drinking actually contributed to the accident.)

In 1995 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration studied traffic data in 30 safety categories from the first five states to adopt the new DWI standard. In 21 of the 30 categories, those states were either no different from or less safe than the rest of the country.

Once the 0.08 standard took effect nationwide in 2000, a curious thing happened: Alcohol-related traffic fatalities increased, following a 20-year decline. Critics of the 0.08 standard predicted this would happen. The problem is that most people with a BAC between 0.08 and 0.10 don’t drive erratically enough to be noticed by police officers in patrol cars. So police began setting up roadblocks to catch them. But every cop manning a roadblock aimed at catching motorists violating the new law is a cop not on the highways looking for more seriously impaired motorists. By 2004 alcohol-related fatalities went down again, but only because the decrease in states that don’t use roadblocks compensated for a slight but continuing increase in the states that use them.

The roadblocks are also constitutionally problematic. In the 1990 decision Michigan v. Sitz ,the Supreme Court acknowledged that stops at sobriety checkpoints constitute “seizures” under the Fourth Amendment but ruled that the public safety threat posed by drunk driving made them “reasonable.” In the years since, the checkpoints have become little more than revenue generators for local governments. When local newspapers inquire about specific roadblocks after the fact, they inevitably find lots of citations for seat belt offenses, broken headlights, driving with an expired license, and other minor infractions. But the checkpoints rarely catch seriously impaired drivers. In 2009, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, 1,600 sobriety checkpoints in California generated $40 million in fines, $30 million in overtime pay for cops, 24,000 vehicle confiscations, and just 3,200 arrests for drunk driving. A typical checkpoint would consist of 20 or more cops, yield a dozen or more vehicle confiscations, but around three drunk driving arrests…

Singling out alcohol impairment for extra punishment isn’t about making the roads safer. It’s about a lingering hostility toward demon rum.

— Radley Balko
Radley Balko is a senior editor at Reason magazine.

–Reason.com

See the full special report on the home page. At last we can push back against these bullshit laws.–Bandit

Under this constitutional guaranty one may, therefore, under normal conditions, travel at his inclination along the public highways or in public places, and while conducting himself in an orderly and decent manner, neither interfering with nor disturbing another’s rights, he will be protected, not only in his person, but in his safe conduct.”

Thompson v.Smith, 154 SE 579, 11 American Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, section 329, page 1135 “The right of the Citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, in the ordinary course of life and business, is a common right which he has under the right to enjoy life and liberty, to acquire and possess property, and to pursue happiness and safety. It includes the right, in so doing, to use the ordinary and usual conveyances of the day, and under the existing modes of travel, includes the right to drive a horse drawn carriage or wagon thereon or to operate an automobile thereon, for the usual and ordinary purpose of life and business.”…

This article first appeared on SomeNextLevelShit.com and was authored by Jeffrey Phillips.

–Bandit

GUN NUT REPORTS KEEP COMING– From My Cold Wet Hands: Humorless Scold Targets Squirt Guns

We have yet to reach Memorial Day, but the fun police have already set their sights on at least one cherished summer childhood activity. In an article for Pupsugar.com, titled, “Why Kids Should Never Play With Water Guns. Period.,” author Lauren Levy lectures the nation’s parents on the hidden menace of squirt guns.

According to Levy, no child should be permitted to use a water gun under any circumstances. That a particular squirt gun might bear no resemblance whatsoever to a real firearm is of no concern to Levy, who contends, “Even if they’re colorful and super cool, kids shouldn’t be playing with water guns because it normalizes the real thing.”

Fully embracing the role of humorless scold, Levy earnestly warns readers, “There are some children who will never smile again — all because someone picked up a gun. At the same time, we have little ones playing and laughing over the very thing that is killing other kids. It just isn’t right.”

One could reasonably mistake Levy’s article for satire, were it not for the fact that recent decades have witnessed a wide-ranging effort to stamp out the fictional toy gun hazard. There have been toy-gun turn-ins modeled off of gun “buy-backs,” local bans on the sale of toy guns that have crippled small business owners with outlandish fines, and too many zero-tolerance school suspensions to count.

Levy makes several assertions about how toy guns are detrimental to children, but offers no evidence to support her claims. Levy’s expertise on the matter appears limited to a combination of her feelings and a childhood where her mother insisted on a toy gun-free home.

Levy’s lack of evidence is revealing. In an interview with WebMd.com clinical psychologist and best-selling author Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D. made clear, “Everyone has an informal causation theory that playing with guns leads to the use of guns in adulthood,” but that, “There’s no scientific evidence suggesting that playing war games in childhood leads to real-life aggression.” In recent years, the work of Thompson and other researchers has led to a bevy of articles in typically anti-gunpublications that have sought to calm parents’ fears about aggressive play and toy firearms.

Further, the type of ban Levy encourages has second order consequences. The Centers for Disease Control has made clear that physical activity and play are vital to a child’s healthy development, and research indicates that outdoor play is particularly beneficial. In surveying the available research on outdoor play, an article published in the journal Health & Place noted “encouragement of outdoor play and fostering an environment of movement among children improves the physical, emotional, social, and cognitive health of children…” Sadly, other research has found that today’s children are not getting enough outdoor playtime. Fun, wholesome physical activities like a summertime squirt gun battle should be embraced as an exciting way to get kids up off the couch and away from their screens.

Levy’s broadside on summer fun even puts her at odds with some of the most anti-gun politicians. NRA has had its differences with former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden, as both are unabashed gun control supporters. However, on the matter of water guns we have found common ground.

Super Soaker wars were an annual fixture at the former vice president’s summer parties at the Naval Observatory, where Biden was often pictured engaged in battle with young attendees. In 2012, the White House tweeted a picture of Obama wielding a squirt gun while taking fire from what appears to be one of his daughters.

At one point in her piece Levy writes, “as much as we want to teach our kids about gun control and safety, we contradict ourselves the second we allow them to run around with toy versions to shoot their friends.” Here Levy betrays her motives. Her piece isn’t about children mistaking real guns for toy guns, or that squirt guns will cause children to fail to appreciate the dangerousness of real firearms. Levy’s attack on water guns is about instilling an anti-gun political orthodoxy in America’s youth, lest a favorable childhood experience with a toy cause anyone to develop anything less than an unthinking animosity towards firearms.

Levy’s unsupported theories about the hazards of squirt guns should earn her derision from all but the most zealous adherents to the cult of gun control. Wise parents will look to the research on, and prevalence of, toy gun play and dismiss such overwrought attempts to curtail normal and healthy childhood behavior.

–NRA

Subject: URGENT WARNING FOR TOMORROW !!!

Intergalactic aliens are coming to earth tomorrow!

Their mission is to abduct all sexy, good-looking old people.

I’m just sharing to say “Goodbye. I gotta go pack.”

THE WEEK AHEAD IS FROUGHT WITH CHALLENGES DEADLINES AND ACTION— Bikernet is also faced with daily challenges. One of them is keeping up with all the content flying at us. I need to adjust my thinking as to how to handle it.

So, here’s the daunting deal for next week. My grandson has an issue with the FXR I built and he’s flying around town on. We could fix it in an hour, if we’re lucky.

If he has come up with the art concept and conveyed it to Chris Morrison, the painter, his sheet metal is making progress. Plus, we can now start to put his Dyna back together. We are ready to rock, but he came down with an eye infection. We’ll see.

I worked most of the day Friday mounting my rear fender on my Panhead, using the new Low Brow bitchin mounting tab. Then I moved onto mounting the stock cop solo seat I scored at the Long Beach swap meet. My goal was to be ready to go to paint with Deny 528 next week for the tanks and rear fender, although I would like to add the oil bag to the mix. On the other hand I would like to mount an oil cooler and filter to the bag, so that issue might answer the question.

The old adage, measure twice and cut once comes into play constantly. I often try to tack shit, walk away and come back another day, check it again, before final welding. In this case I didn’t. I kept plugging away. I measured and re-measured and still wonder if I positioned the seat correctly. Still it’s about an 1 ½ lower than my Indian seat and about the same distance from the pegs. It’s strong, but…

I spent Saturday, for the most part working on my sculpture project. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing, but I keep doing it.

I started on another Cantina Episode. We need to write a tech about Frankie’s Dyna. We have another Love Jugs tech headed your way.

I need to work with Frankie on the Scott Jacobs retreat article. The list goes on and it’s never dull. Let me know if you need anything.

Ride Free Forever,

–Bandit

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