Hey,
It’s supposed to be raining cats and dogs on the coast today, but last night we worked on the good Doctor’s dresser. He faced starting issues, and Dr. Willie came to our rescue. I didn’t have the JIMS clutch puller he had. We ran smack dab into the center of Evo heaven.
We tinkered with the Doctor’s ’89, and Dr. Willie rides a ’93 Dyna, while I was warming up my son’s ’98 Mudflap girl custom. They all purr with just 80-inches of muscle.
The Doctor’s jack shaft acted up intermittently, and since we just recently grappled with an ’89 model, we thought we could give it a shot and check the coupling. Willie pointed out how dangerous it can be to over-tighten the jackshaft rod. Then we analyzed the new clutch and adjusted it again.
While we messed with the primary side, the doctor pulled the bag above his 2-into-1 D&D muffler, and discovered a broken mounting bracket. It had been welded once before. We pulled the bar running down the fender and welded it back together, plus added a strong gusset.
“The ride home was good,” said Dr. Hamster. “The real test is going be when I start her this a.m!”
Hang on for more reports from Ray C. Wheeler, who stood in the corner yesterday and barked orders, then called for help.
GYPSY REPORTING FROM THE ROAD–
Lot’s have happened since our paths last crossed. I’ve relocated to Texas and have bought a little cabin about a hundred miles north of Houston, on Lake Livingston.
The good news is that I’m back with my Gypsy MC family and am running the roads like I did before trying Arizona. I’ve lost my writing momentum but have kept up with publishing a few odds and ends on the club website. It’s taken about six months to make the transition and get myself set up and settled in my new home. For the first time in decades I’m living out of a major urban environment and I’m loving it.
I bought your Terry the Tramp book and was extremely impressed with your intro chapter. Your description of how the “biker culture” evolved and both the MoCo and AMA’s role was superb. I hope you’ve had a chance to look at Bill Haye’s One Percenter Encyclopedia … I was happy to contribute to his book and am proud of the project.
INTERNATIONAL EDITOR, ART, IS BACK ON THE COAST– Saturday was a big car show day at the beach. Mostly all Woody’s = wood sided station wagons from the old days.
They pretty much stopped making them by the 1960’s.
–Art
Magnificent photographer for Quick Throttle Magazine
Bikernet International Editor
WILL GAS PRICES SUBSIDE?–
3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate—
Reston, VA – North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.
A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency’s 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil.
3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Oil in North Dakota and Montana
Technically recoverable oil resources are those producible using currently available technology and industry practices. USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources.
New geologic models applied to the Bakken Formation, advances in drilling and production technologies, and recent oil discoveries have resulted in these substantially larger technically recoverable oil volumes. About 105 million barrels of oil were produced from the Bakken Formation by the end of 2007.
The USGS Bakken study was undertaken as part of a nationwide project assessing domestic petroleum basins using standardized methodology and protocol as required by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 2000.
The Bakken Formation estimate is larger than all other current USGS oil assessments of the lower 48 states and is the largest “continuous” oil accumulation ever assessed by the USGS. A “continuous” oil accumulation means that the oil resource is dispersed throughout a geologic formation rather than existing as discrete, localized occurrences. The next largest “continuous” oil accumulation in the U.S. is in the Austin Chalk of Texas and Louisiana, with an undiscovered estimate of 1.0 billions of barrels of technically recoverable oil.
“It is clear that the Bakken formation contains a significant amount of oil – the question is how much of that oil is recoverable using today’s technology?” said Senator Byron Dorgan, of North Dakota. “To get an answer to this important question, I requested that the U.S. Geological Survey complete this study, which will provide an up-to-date estimate on the amount of technically recoverable oil resources in the Bakken Shale formation.”
The USGS estimate of 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil has a mean value of 3.65 billion barrels. Scientists conducted detailed studies in stratigraphy and structural geology and the modeling of petroleum geochemistry. They also combined their findings with historical exploration and production analyses to determine the undiscovered, technically recoverable oil estimates.
USGS worked with the North Dakota Geological Survey, a number of petroleum industry companies and independents, universities and other experts to develop a geological understanding of the Bakken Formation. These groups provided critical information and feedback on geological and engineering concepts important to building the geologic and production models used in the assessment.
Five continuous assessment units (AU) were identified and assessed in the Bakken Formation of North Dakota and Montana – the Elm Coulee-Billings Nose AU, the Central Basin-Poplar Dome AU, the Nesson-Little Knife Structural AU, the Eastern Expulsion Threshold AU, and the Northwest Expulsion Threshold AU.
At the time of the assessment, a limited number of wells have produced oil from three of the assessments units in Central Basin-Poplar Dome, Eastern Expulsion Threshold, and Northwest Expulsion Threshold.
The Elm Coulee oil field in Montana, discovered in 2000, has produced about 65 million barrels of the 105 million barrels of oil recovered from the Bakken Formation.
Results of the assessment can be found at http://energy.usgs.gov.
Contact Information:
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Office of Communication
119 National Center
Reston, VA 20192
HERE IS THE SUNDAY DEAL FROM THE BIKERNET CLASSIFIEDS!– A 1995 Springer Softail! Samson exhaust, Corbin seat, Arlen Ness lowering kit, Drag bars. Very clean, very sharp bike for $9900!
GO CHECK OUT THE BIKERNET CLASSIFIEDS, WHERE THE ADVENTURE IS JUST WAITING TO BEGIN! YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU WILL FIND!
–MIKE the STEALTH
http://bikernet.sprocketlist.com/FXSTS-Springer-Softail/2516473/Must-See-HD-Softail-Springer-.html
CHOPPERS FACE EURO-SION OF RIGHTS–
They’re long and lean, and Europe is looking to ban them. Custom motorcycles are coming under fire across the pond, according to Motorcycles.about.com. Along with proposals to limit motorcycle emissions, force anti-lock brake systems on all bikes, and prohibit engine tuning for increased power; European Parliament is considering a ban on extended forks. The issue will be voted on in April and the limits on modifications could take effect by 2014; ABS rulings and stricter emissions could be enforced by 2016.
–Bill Bish
NCOM
Bill is the publisher of Ride On magazine and editor of this monthly legislative report, which we publish every month on Bikernet. Don’t miss the full report: http://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=10438
LET’S PAUSE FOR A MOMENT OF RELIGIOUS SERENITY– Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside with only a pet dog for company.. One day the dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and asked, ‘Father, my dog is dead… Could ya’ be saying’ a mass for the poor creature?
Father Patrick replied, ‘I’m afraid not; we cannot have services for an animal in the church…. But there are some Baptists down the lane, and there’s no tellin’ what they believe. Maybe they’ll do something for the creature.’
Muldoon said, ‘I’ll go right away Father. Do ya’ think $5,000 is enough to donate to them for the service?’
Father Patrick exclaimed, ‘Sweet Mary, Mother of Jesus! Why didn’t ya tell me the dog was Catholic?
–from Jim Waggaman
AUSTRALIAN COPS OUT IN RUN FORCE–
Queensland state police, including a SWAT team with armoured personnel carrier, have rolled into the Gold Coast to monitor the Hells Angels motorcycle club. The Hells Angels are on the Coast for their national run and plan to stay for the weekend in the heart of Surfers Paradise.
Police have responded with an over the top show of force, which has drawn criticism from traders including council candidate Todd Downie.
Dozens of officers including cops from Task Force Hydra, in up to 20 marked and unmarked police cars followed the bikers on their way from Browns plains, north of the Coast, down to Byron Bay and then back to Surfers Paradise.
A command post was set up at MacIntosh Island and will be backed up by elite SERT officers.
Regional Crime Coordinator Detective Superintendent David Hutchinson says extra precautions have been taken to keep the heart of the tourist strip ‘safe’ over the weekend.
Police from Taskforce Hydra and two senior liquor licensing inspectors went to Charlies Restaurant in Surfers Paradise last night after Hells Angels arrived at the restaurant for a meal.
Owner Todd Downie said his staff were told they were not allowed to serve the Hells Angels because they were banned from Surfers Paradise and were wearing colours.
Officers also said the restaurant should have put on extra security due to the clubs arrival.
“I think it is ridiculous our staff were told it was up to them to tell the bikers to leave,” he said. “I have never heard of any legislation where the Hells Angels are banned from Surfers Paradise or that we can’t serve them while they are wearing colours. I don’t see why it’s my staff’s job to move them along, that should be the job of police.”
The Angels yesterday checked into the four-star Mantra Sun City Resort in Surfers Paradise.
Hell Angels members commented yesterday that they were not here to cause trouble, they were only there to party and some even joked that rivals, the Finks motorcycle club, were welcome to join in the fun.
“It’s just our national run. We’re here to relax and have fun,” one said.
The bikers, who set out from a heavily fortified clubhouse at Browns Plains in Brisbane, switched their route, diverting around the Gold Coast into NSW to meet up with southern chapters.
Swarms of police lined the route waiting for the Hells Angels to arrive.
BIKERNET 5-BALL RACING WHEELER REPORT, WHERE’S THE SHIT?– We’re goin LIVE in an hour.
New hot air balloons over Alb, NM.
Yet another fine week in So Cal while the foreign wars over oil and power continue to thin out the cream-of-the-crop.
The sun shines everyday here, except rain days, makes sense? Today, rarely observed water saturated clouds are predicted to take a dump, assisted by a cool, double-starched-stiff-gale, skipping ashore over the tips of the white-capped Pacific. Come on down, we need the water.
Late afternoons are calm most days around the bustling headquarters, other than the Boss and dedicated staff members slipin’-and-glidin’ over the freshly-polished-hardwood-floor, feverishly attempting to reach the ever looming deadline.
Around the Bikernet shop
Yesterday afternoon, Dr. Willie our local Long Beach motorcycle medic on a roll was called-in for a hands-on consultation. Seems another esteemed Dr. was in town for lunch in the harbor, traveling from the small community of Santa Monica, located 35 miles North on the bumper to bumper 405. The starter on Dr. Christians recently rebuilt long distance road bike was acting up, intermittent starting?
PROBLEM SOLVED
The outer primary was off, the dancin girls were worn out and headed home to clean up for second shift, while the ailing patient was strapped to a grease-rag-clean operating table, cool and void of most slippery fluids, waiting in the ready position when Dr. Willie rolled past the shops electric gate after running the gauntlet out of Long Beach. Willie strolled in, shook his head, scratched his beard and unloaded a small arsenal of top secret tools.
Hmmmmmmm…..wtf? Willie determined the long bolt holding the starter gear in place may have been over tightened, which causes a miss alignment and binding in the bushing located in the outter primary cover. Seems to work perfect one more time.
Do Not Over-tighten the long bolt. All in a days work, not a problem.
Reports: 96-inch Twin Cam, Hardtailz, San Jose, CA
Yesterday afternoon the postal department safely delivered, intact, a set of S&S Cycle throttle body injectors, with the attaching hardware bringing the 96-inch build closer to the finish line and the start of some serious ROAD testing, once again.
Were in line to test a top-secret throttle body that does not have a butterfly obstructing the bore. More everything is the claim by the lucky few, who have experienced the ride. Cleaner, crisper with serious increase in seat-of-the-pants horsepower! Stock replacement size will be the first available.
We’ll find out first hand and report the good, the bad and the ugly.
Report: 5-Ball 124 inch Raycer
Were in line to hit the laser assisted frame table at Rick’s in just a few days with a two week or so guesstimate that’s subject to change slightly.
Rapid fire reports will hit the news like double-tappin a freshly-oiled, fully loaded AK-47 after dark.
Rats Hole Winner in Daytona.
The hot rod is drag strip bound for the stress test ¼-mile at a time. Time slips from the timing tower will be headed our way. You’ll see them on Bikernet, soon, plus more Bonneville build reports this week.
[25634 photo]
Stay Tuned to Bikernet for the ride of your life!
Haul Ass!
Ride for your Life!
–Ray C. Wheeler
Performance Editor
Paul Martin, veteran harmonica player (and veteran pinstriper) has been seen on stage with the band before, but this time Kenny and the guys had him front and center rockin’ the Bank, for more than one solid set, what a treat.
Kenny Duda, who formed The RAZORBACKS in 1983, leads the band with charismatic vocal styling. Kenny has been playing guitar since grade school. His versatile ability to switch between styles ranging from the twang of Duane Eddy to the raw drive of Brian Setzer has developed into the signature sound of The RAZORBACKS. Bordering on country, surf and swing with a bit of the blues; The RAZORBACKS are the best Roots Rockabilly power trio in the USA!
Rob “Bobcat” Bundy slaps the double bass like no other. Rob became a permanent member right after the Crusin’ Down LP came out. “Bobcat” has now become one of the most recognized slap bass players in the genre.
Ira Kaye has been drumming for The RAZORBACKS since 1987. He started playing as a youngster and has excelled at playing all types of American roots music including blues, country, Rock-and-Roll and, of course, Rockabilly. This versatility has made him a vital asset to The RAZORBACKS. Over the years Ira has logged many miles with the band, playing all over the UK, Scandinavia and the USA. His solid style of playing provides the foundation for Kenny and Rob’s stage antics.
–CARLR
NEW CAFÉ RACER MODEL MAY COME TO BIKERNET–
The Ryca CS-1 is a 650cc, air-cooled, single cylinder café racer designed to be lightweight, reliable, and fuel efficient for urban commuting. The engine and chassis components are sourced from the unsung heroes of the thumper world: the venerable Suzuki S40. You can purchase a new CS-1 or build your own from custom parts.
The bike was designed by Casey Stevenson of Ryca Motors in Los Angeles. Casey was an engineer at NASA. He traded a super cushy desk job for the chance to build motorcycles. Here’s what he says about the bike:
“I was in the market for a new motorcycle and wanted a lightweight thumper to get around the streets of L.A. I quickly discovered the lack of available options, so I started working for a new design. I imagined a motorcycle with a Japanese engine and classic cafe styling, but more sleek and modern than the single cylinder customs based on old bikes that are popular at the moment.
I discovered my ultimate thumper café racer hidden inside a bike known as the Suzuki S40 (aka the Savage). They have been around for over 20 years and are still available brand new. The custom parts and accessories were designed to avoid any major modifications to the frame or engine, which allows anyone with basic tools to build their own bike from kit components. The end result is a machine that is simple, fun, and affordable.”
http://www.rycamotors.com/bikes/
WEEKEND BIKERNET GUN NUT REPORT–
If you like custom guns, this is a MUST SEE!
Subject: + Bowen Classic Arms + Home
http://www.bowenclassicarms.com/
–from Buckshot
THE STORY BEHIND NOBLE CAUSE CORRUPTION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT–
There exists a serious threat to law enforcement, which can compromise the high ethical standards and values our profession has achieved during the past several decades. This threat is typically referred to as “Noble Cause Corruption.”
Traditional corruption is defined as the use of one’s official position for personal gain. The personal gain can be economic or otherwise, such as sexual favors. As a profession, we have long understood this type of abuse of power and, when discovered and investigated, those involved are arrested.
A less obvious but perhaps even more threatening type of misconduct in law enforcement is Noble Cause Corruption. This type of misconduct involves not necessarily the rotten apples in the agency but sometimes involves the best officers in the agency, or the golden apples. Noble Cause Corruption is a mindset or sub-culture which fosters a belief that the ends justify the means. In other words, law enforcement is engaged in a mission to make our streets and communities safe, and if that requires suspending the constitution or violating laws ourselves in order to accomplish our mission, then for the greater good of society, so be it. The officers who adopt this philosophy lose their moral compass.
This type of thinking is misguided and places the officer at risk of losing his/her job, facing criminal charges, and seriously damaging the reputation of their agency. Some examples include: lying in court to convict a suspect, also referred to as “testilying,” planting evidence on suspects, and falsifying reports. When we engage in this type of behavior, we adopt a philosophy that supports the notion that justice should be dispensed on the street, not in the courtroom, and it is morally right to do whatever it takes to imprison those who prey on society.
–from Rogue
PAUGHCO UNIVERSAL LOW TUNNEL TANKS–
Paughco’s latest “Universal Low Tunnel” custom gas tanks are the perfect fit for a wide variety of machines from choppers to open road cruisers. Available in 3.4, 3.8 and 4.8 gallon capacities, the new tanks are sleek yet very user friendly for real street machines.
Designed for use on bikes with stretched top tubes, they feature an unmistakable “Teardrop” shape. Each tank has stock style screw-in filler and vent and standard 22mm external thread petcock fitting for use with OEM and aftermarket left side mounted petcocks.
Tunnel depth is just 3 ½”, overall length measures 21” and center hole-to-hole mounting bracket dimensions are 21” for the 3.4 tank and 22” for the 2 larger versions.
Retail on all 3 sizes is just $314.95. For complete details call 775-246-5738, email to info@paughco.com or visit them on the Web at www.paughco.com
DicE ISSUE 43 out now–
It’s brilliant! I think it is our best issue yet but then I feel that about every one when we get them back from the printers. I’m biased though.
So anyways, If you are one of those sweet sweet people who subscribe you will actually get the free ‘FUCK THIS LETS RIDE’ patch attached to your cover!!! Yes…it’s more incentive to subscribe huh?!!
If you don’t, no matter, you will still get 16 pages of pure pleasure.
Here’s what people are saying about issue 43:
“Matt,
Just received your latest issue.
Best damn cover I have seen in a long time for ANY other magazine.
You should enter it in the Art Directors Club in NY annual competition.
Anyway I don’t want to open the one I have
I want to keep it in the wrap on my shelf
but I want to read the mofo.
Can you spare another to send me to read????
Let me know”
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and
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BIKERNET UNIVERSITY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT LAZY STUDENT WEEKEND VOCABULARY LESSON–adroit uh-DROIT, adjective:
1. Cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious.
2. Expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
He knows that Jory is handsome, talented, and most of all, adroit. Bart is not adroit at anything but pretending.
— V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns
It requires finesse. She was very adroit — oh, very adroit — but Hercule Poirot, my good George, is of a cleverness quite exceptional.
— Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Adroit is from the Old French meaning “elegant, skillful” from the roots a- meaning “increase” and droit meaning “correct.”
Anti-Gun Season Starting in the ANTI-EVERYTHING California Assembly–
Firearm season has started in the California Assembly. Around the same time every year, the California Legislature starts assigning firearm bills to committee. This year is no different. The state Assembly Committee on Public Safety is expected to hear two anti-gun bills this Tuesday, March 27 at the State Capitol in room 126 at 9:00 a.m.
Assembly Bill 1527, introduced by anti-gun state Assembly Member Anthony Portantino (D-44), would expand on last year’s ban on open carrying of an unloaded handgun to also include unloaded rifles and shotguns.
Assembly Bill 2182, introduced by state Assembly Member Norma Torres (D-31), would require that a person be arrested if they inadvertently attempt to bring a firearm through an airport TSA checkpoint and ban that person from entering that airport in the future.
Please call AND e-mail members of the state Assembly Committee on Public Safety TODAY and urge them to OPPOSE AB 1527 and AB 2182. These bills do nothing to prevent crime and are only trying to stop law-abiding gun owners from exercising their Second Amendment rights in California.
Members of the state Assembly Committee on Public Safety:
Tom Ammiano (D-13) – Chairman
(916) 319-2013
Steve Knight (R-36) – Vice Chairman
(916) 319-2036
Gilbert Cedillo (D-45)
(916) 319-2045
Curt Hagman (R-60)
(916) 319-2060
Holly J. Mitchell (D-47)
(916) 319-2047
Nancy Skinner (D-14)
(916) 319-2014
Founded by TF Watson in 1912, Watsonian has survived two world wars, the Great Depression of 1929 (and numerous economic recessions that followed) and a devastating factory fire in 1930. Today the company still makes Great British sidecars in the Heart of England, exporting across the globe.
Visitors will have opportunity to see the “Watsonian Wizard” outfit, based on the combinations that the factory supplied for the filming of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”. Watsonian supplied several sidecar Royal Enfield Bullet/GP Manx combinations to the film-makers for use in the spectacular chase sequence in which Harry Potter flees from the “Death Eaters” in a sidecar outfit driven by Hagrid.
Watsonian will also be promoting their centenary rally, which they are hosting at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry on 18-19th Aug 2012. Attractions include a display of historic sidecars along with the company archives, driving skills test, prizes for Best in Show, celebrity guests, trade stands and an opportunity to test ride Royal Enfield motorcycles, which have been distributed by Watsonian since 1999.
For more information on Watsonian’s current range of sidecars and details of the Centenary Rally call 01386 700907 or visit
NEVER A DULL MOMENT–I’ve experience a strange stretch in our widened road. I don’t know about you, but some days are full of goodness and light. You know, positive vibes all around. Others make me wonder what the hell I did wrong, and they bring me down. Whenever you’re a creative sort, like the Bikernet gang, you’re going to face uplifting successes, then down-and-out obstacles. But we never stop, or give up. I stumble, make a bad decision from time-to-time, but never stop or give up.
This may just be the toughest year I’ve encountered since I left ER. We’ve taken on a bunch of additional projects and stepped seriously beyond our comfort zone. Once more, I’m going to attempt to be candid with only our Cantina members about my feelings, good and bad, as we face whatever potholes we encounter this year. Our mantra is simple: We will do everything with honor, honesty, and never give up. In addition, while we grapple with projects, we will do all in our power to help others in the industry, from readers, to the rights community, to our Bikernet advertisers, and our Bonneville Sponsors.
One of the interesting/positive aspects of producing Bikernet, is the 24/7 nature. We can help anyone, just about anytime of the day, and we don’t hesitate to step up. And as Americans, this year we need to keep the faith. So, let’s see: Let’s keep the faith that the economy will continue to improve, our Bikernet expansion will work for all the freelance talent out of jobs, that our Bonneville Program will succeed, and that I complete my next Chance book this year, and it will be better than ever. Oh, and that all of our project bikes take us safely to Sturgis. How’s that?
Hang on!
Ride Forever,
–Bandit
