FANTASTIC NEW YEARS EVE BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS EDITION for December 31,2015

NEW YEARS WISHES FROM CHOPPERTOWN–Hey Guys,
Hope you have a great long weekend – don’t you love when the 1st falls on a Friday?

Use code: “NewYears20” or “NewYear20” for an extra 20% off your orders through Jan 1st including all downloads, DVDs, shirts, discount bundles and the cool new goodies below. Thanks and have a great new year!

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Stay Independent,

–Zack and Scott
ChopperTown

QUICK, LET’S GET THE PARTY STARTED IN THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY–
My husband hasn`t worked for the last 14 years . All he does is get dressed in the morning and hop in his fancy car to visit his cronies . I know he`s cheated on me many times with young girls who could be his grand daughter. I know because he brags about this to me .

He smokes fancy cigars and drinks the most expensive Champagne day and night. We sleep in separate beds because he`s always telling me he knows I`m a lesbian and my varicose veins and hairy back turn him off!

Should I clobber him with my frying pan, or should I leave him , Abby ? Your advice would be appreciated.

–Mad as Hell

Dear Mad as Hell,

You don`t have to take that kind of treatment from any man. I suggest you pack your bags and move out a.s.a.p! Don`t resort to clobbering him with the frying pan, and try to act like a lady!

Remember ……. you`re running for President of the United States , so try acting like one!

–Abby

–from Rogue and Jerry

Merriam Webster’s Full Definition of “joy”

1 a : the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires : delight

2 : a state of happiness or felicity : bliss

3 : a source or cause of delight

Thanks to brother biker Darius Moldovan for permission to use the photo his wife snapped of him riding his son on the back of his tricked-out Victory Cross Country Tour. If ‘ya look closely at the lad’s expression, you’ll see what this thing we do, riding motorcycles, is all about -pure joy.

Veteran biker and close friend, Karen Franklin, summed it up in a documentary film I made in 2006, “Showdown In Durango,” “Nothing’s in the way…I love it!”

The first time I rode anything with two wheels and a motor was on a friend’s mini bike down a fire road in the Santa Monica mountains -accidentally on purpose.” I was twelve years old, an age when boys are seeking ways to be independent and powerful.

I was emboldened to disobey my parents who had forbidden me to do what I simply had to do. Briggs and Stratton engine. Pull-cord starter. Centrifugal clutch. Mini chrome apes bristling with the most important cable – the throttle . Padded seat. Foot pegs. Chrome tipped exhaust that sounded (to me) like Blues’ chopper. Oh yeah… Foot brake. Intoxicating!

A week before the love affair with motorcycles officially began on that mini bike, my aunt, a film critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, took my cousin and me to a showing of Roger Corman’s 1966 film “Wild Angels” with Peter Fonda as “Blues,” Bruce Dern as “Loser” along with Diane Ladd and Nancy Sinatra. I remember it like yesterday….

The film was showing at the Regent Theatre in Westwood Village on Broxton Avenue up the street from Oakley’s Barbershop and The Kazoo, the west side’s first free press bookstore and psychedelic shop. After the showing, full of infectious rebellion inspired by the film, a poster of Fonda (purchased at The Kazoo the next day) on his angel pipe Springer scotch taped to a wall in my bedroom and humming “Blues Theme” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YswkF-d2VZ )to myself wherever my cousin and I roamed on our Schwinn Stingrays, there was little hesitation accepting the friend’s invitation to take a turn on his ‘rich-kid toy.’

After that first ride there has not been a day that I haven’t thought about that feeling. I still feel the same every time I throw my leg over the saddle and fire up my motorcycle. I bet y’all do, too.

Happy New Year to Keith, Ray and the staff at Bikernet. To our biker brothers and sisters: Enjoy your heartbeats and ride every chance you can, ’cause time is short. (My wife approves of this message.)

–Jeff Kraus

BIKERNET UNIVERSITY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT VOCABULARLY LESSON FOR NEW YEARS—

Wing-Ding: WING-ding

noun

1. Slang. a noisy, exciting celebration or party.

2. Slang. a fit, either induced by drugs or feigned.

Quotes
Garp glared at Roberta Muldoon. “I loved her, he said. “I’m her only child. Do you mean I can’t go to this wingding because I’m a man?”
— John Irving, The World According to Garp, 1978

Origin
The rhyming compound wing-ding is an Americanism from the 1920s.

NEWS ALERT, CHOPPERTOWN FIXED–
Just a quick not to let you know that the errors we were having with the shipping system are fixed now. Please check it out and let us know if you have any more problems.

Use code: “Thanks2015” for an extra 10% off your next order. Thanks to all the guys who wrote to tell us!

Stay independent,

–Zack and Scott
ChopperTown

1. Meatball’s calendar is back! Get the sixth edition of Meatball’s Hell On Wheels Calendar shipped right to your door – as always, it features gorgeous girls and gorgeous bikes. (If you don’t know who Meatball is, check out our movie – Brittown)

BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY STILL OPEN–Tom had been in the liquor business for 25 years. Finally sick of the stress, he quits his job and buys 50 acres in Alaska, as far from humanity as possible. He sees the postman once a week and gets groceries once a month. Otherwise it’s total peace and quiet.

After six months or so of almost total isolation, someone knocks on his door. He opens it to find a huge, bearded man standing there.

“Name’s Lars, your neighbor from forty miles up the road. Having a Christmas party Friday night, thought you might like to come. About 5:00.”

“Great!”, says Tom, “After six months out here I’m ready to meet some local folks. Thank you.”

As Lars turns to leave, he stops. “Gotta’ warn you, though … be some drinkin.'”

“Not a problem” says Tom. “After 25 years in the liquor business, I can drink with the best of ’em.”

Again, the big man starts to leave and stops. “More ‘n’ likely gonna be some fightin’, too.”

“Well, I get along with people, I’ll be all right. I’ll be there, thanks again.”

“More’n likely be some wild sex, too.”

“Now that’s really not a problem,” says Tom, warming to the idea. “I’ve been all alone for six months! I’ll definitely be there. By the way, what should I wear?”

“Don’t much matter … just gonna be the two of us.”

–from Billy Tinney

BELLY TANK ALERT, 1948 Ford Other–1948 Ford WWII Airplane Drop Tank Bonneville Salt Flat car belly tanker

Build a frame and a V8 60?

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THIS IN FROM BIKERNET SENIOR EDITOR–Here’s a new story for the New Year, a reflection of times past and futures imagined….

–Paul Garson
Bikernet Most Gracious Senior Editor

KEEP THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY OPEN UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR–A man goes to see the Rabbi. “Rabbi, something terrible is happening and I have to talk to you about it.”

The Rabbi asked, “What’s wrong?”

The man replied, “My wife is trying to poison me.”

The Rabbi, very surprised by this, asks, “How can that be?”

The man then pleads, “I’m telling you, I’m certain she’s trying to poison me. What
should I do?”

The Rabbi then offers, “Tell you what. Let me talk to her, I’ll see what I can find out and I’ll let you know.”

A week later the Rabbi calls the man and says, “I spoke to your wife on the phone for three hours. You want my advice?”

The man said, “Yes” and the Rabbi replied,

“Take the poison.”

–from El Waggs

BIKERNET AUSTRALIAN CLUB REPORT–Biker asks, “Is Australia pressuring New Zealand immigration officials?
Tuesday, 22 December 2015

An Australian biker denied entry to New Zealand is questioning whether Australia is putting pressure on New Zealand immigration officials.
Mr Millar was recently interviewed by Radio New Zealand about his experience.

John Millar belongs to the Rebels motorcycle club, which Australian authorities have cracked down on, and some New Zealand born members are currently fighting Australian deportation orders.

The 34-year-old said he had travelled to New Zealand three times before without any problem but it was a different story when he arrived on 2 December.

On arrival, he said a big red “F” was written on his incoming card and comments were made about his neck tattoos before customs pulled him aside for a search.

“They went through my stuff and found my club colours and club shirts and laid them all out,” he said.

“They asked me a few questions and I had nothing to hide so I told them I was there for a motorcycle ride – I had my helmet with me, I was wearing actual motorcycle pants. I was travelling very light because I was basically there for a few days to ride around the South Island.”

Mr Millar said after waiting an hour or so, he was read section 16 of the Immigration Act 2009 and told he would not be allowed into the country because he was allegedly part of a criminal organization.

Section 16 states that entry permission may not be granted if there is reason to believe the person is likely to commit an offence in New Zealand that is punishable by imprisonment, or if that person is deemed a threat to public interest.

Mr Miller said he was taken to Christchurch Central Police Station and told he would be able to have a shower and call his family to tell them he was alright.

“I was put in a cell, they turned the light off and that was it basically… until the next morning when I finally got someone’s attention to ask what was going on.

“They came and got me about three o’clock. But no shower, they didn’t even worry about putting toilet paper in there for me.”

He was then put on a plane back to Brisbane.

“I have no criminal history and then they say that I’m part of a criminal club and more likely to commit a crime. But I’m 34 years old. Is that not long enough to prove that I haven’t committed a crime and I’m not going to commit a crime.”

“I didn’t expect it. I expect it from our government because they’re just out of control over here [in Australia]. Whether it’s our government making you guys do it too… I’m not sure what the go is. It could be a little bit of payback and if it is payback then I’m grateful I didn’t get locked up for longer.”

Despite everything, Mr Millar said he would love to come back to New Zealand and would be happy to apply for what’s called a “special direction” waiver to do so.

‘Not desirable’

Immigration New Zealand assistant general manager Peter Devoy told New Zealand Radio Morning Report Mr Millar’s deportation was part of a concerted effort to hold the line against ‘gang’ members, even when they had committed no crime.

Organized motorcycle ‘gangs’, although not outlawed, were generally not in the public interest.

“It’s a position that is being taken across government that gangs are criminal organisations and it’s not desirable that people who are gang members and members of criminal organisations will be welcome into New Zealand.”

But Council for Civil Liberties secretary Kevin McCormack said Mr Millar appeared to have been treated without basic humanity, and it was a denial of human rights for such a blanket assessment to be made.

It was a poor decision given Mr Millar has been to New Zealand before without any incident, Mr McCormack said.
Last month it was revealed former Lance Corporal Ko Haapu’s visa had been cancelled by the Australian government on character grounds – as set out in Section 501 of the Australian Migration Act – because he was also a member of the Rebels motorcycle club.

He is currently being held in a Perth prison, despite having no criminal convictions in Australia or New Zealand.
The enormity of guilt by association is lost on most New Zealanders. The freedom of association is guaranteed under article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and and article 17 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990

TROPICAL TATTOO BIKETOBERFEST ACTION–
I think Willies Tropical Tattoo Old School Chopper Show is the most popular during the motorcycle events in Daytona Beach during Bike Week and Biketoberfest. It takes place on Thursday and the proceeds benefit Veterans and a No-Kill Animal Shelter.
The show has Twenty (20) Classes and some special homemade trophies. 

BIG FUN YA GOT TA MAKE THIS EVENT!!!!

–Rogue

These are now in the Cantina here. –LaLa

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CLASSIC TRIUMPH CALENDAR FOR 2016, AVAILABLE NOW–If you like vintage bikes, Triumphs in particular, you’re sure to like the latest Classic Triumph calendar from longtime motorcycle photographer Timothy Remus.

For 2016 Tim and crew at Wolfgang Publications bring you twelve of the most triumphant motorcycles ever produced.

How about a perfect Triumph Cub from 1964 or a very rare 500cc Flathead from 1940? There are two TR6s, one from 1966 and another from 1970; followed by a Trophy Trial born in 1973.

For pure competition bikes, the 2016 Triumph Calendar brings you a beautiful 500cc Cheney-framed Triumph and the 1968 single ridden by Gary Nixon to a big win in the Houston Astrodome.

Measuring 16 inches across and printed on heavy glossy stock, the Classic Triumph Calendar is only 19.95 + 6.95 S&H (Priority Mail to the lower 48). Just click on www.wolfpub.com, and scroll down the page until you see the cover image. Questions to: info@wolfpub.com.

K-MODEL MAGNUM HEADS TO PAUGHCO—Tom Seymour’s Saddlemen project bike is being built by the Paughco team in Carson City, Nevada.

Just this week, the Departure Bike Works crew in Richmond, Virginia completed scouring the engine, packing and shipping it to the Paughco Headquarters.

“It was like brand new inside,” said Lee Clemens, of Departure Bike Works as they took a couple of shots of this classic before lowering it into a custom crate for shipment.

We will bring you more reports as this vintage project comes together in Carson City, Nevada.

–Wrench
Bikernet Tech Associate Editor in charge of nothing

UNCLE MONKEY NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS–A new year is on the horizon. A time to make the same old resolutions that we all make every year – lose a few pounds, maybe drink a little less, quit smoking and get in shape.

But every year the days go by and we forget all about those resolutions. I haven’t made those commitments in quite a few years mostly because I know I am setting myself up for failure.

It is because we are set in our ways and unless something dramatic happens we aren’t going to move out of our comfort zone. Maybe we are just aiming to high, reaching for brass rings outside of our reach.

The only resolution that should be made is to be a better person. It seems overly simplistic but really that is what it all boils down to – being a better person.

For some it may mean being hospitable to our asshole neighbor, being the bigger man and realize that you are not getting anywhere. For others it may be cutting back on the number of smokes they have, or cutting back to beers only on the weekend. For some it is simply taking the dog for a walk down the road.

Others it is taking a few minutes to visit the parents in the care home – listening to the stories of one of the other residence. It is simple little steps. You see, we didn’t pack on these extra pounds over a weekend or a couple of months. It was years of eating badly or bigger portions than we needed.

It took years to get to this point. It took years to finally snap on the neighbor. It was a long a winding road to get where we are today. And just like riding to Sturgis the only way to get back is to beat out the miles on the highway. There is no short cut.

So instead of setting goals you know you will never reach kick start to just being a better person. You’ll be surprised where you will end up.

-bad Uncle Monkey

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–Bandit
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HISTORIC TRIBUTE TO Robert Paxton McCulloch–He brought the London Bridge to Arizona, and superchargers to street-driven cars

Feature Article from Hemmings Muscle Machines- Daniel Strohl

14.7 PSI

That’s normal atmospheric pressure at sea level, and, when your naturally aspirated internal combustion engine gulps air, that’s pretty much what regulates how much fuel gets added to the air and how much of the resulting mixture fills the combustion chambers.

For Robert Paxton McCulloch, 14.7 PSI wasn’t enough. The devotee of speed saw a better way to stuff more air into an engine and from that, made supercharging more attainable for other gearheads.

Born in 1911 in Missouri, McCulloch inherited a fortune from his grandfather at the age of 14 and was thus able to attend Princeton and Stanford to pursue a degree in engineering. Racing filled his first few years out of college–he raced to multiple national class championships piloting outboard hydroplanes and built Midgets so fast that they were banned from the tracks.

To support these endeavors, he formed McCulloch Engineering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the city in which his grandfather made millions as an early pioneer of electric utilities and manufacturer of electric trolleys. McCulloch hired on a number of engineers at the firm, including Francis L. Colburn, who designed a simple, easy-to-install centrifugal supercharger.

Of course, superchargers were not a new invention. Francis Roots first developed his twin-rotor blower for industrial purposes in 1860, and Gottlieb Daimler and Louis Renault started messing around with blowers on internal combustion engines not long after they’d first fitted those engines to buggies and carriages.

Real supercharger development, though, didn’t take place until the waning days of World War I, which spurred aviation engineers to design their craft to fly higher and faster.

Automotive racers took to the technology in the 1920s, and luxury carmakers like Bentley and Duesenberg slapped superchargers on their engines at the time. But it was not until Colburn showed McCulloch his supercharger designs that blowers became available to the masses.

McCulloch began offering the superchargers as kits for Ford’s flathead V-8 engine, advertising them to truck owners as well as racers and owners of everyday street-driven cars. The crankshaft-driven supercharger had a fixed 6:1 ratio and was seated horizontally between the carburetor and intake manifold. McCulloch first offered the kit in 1937; by 1942, his sales topped $3 million, making him the second-largest supercharger manufacturer behind General Motors.

A year later, McCulloch sold McCulloch Engineering to Borg-Warner for $1 million. He started a new company, McCulloch Aviation, to build drone planes, powered by lightweight two-cycle engines, for the war effort, but continued to develop his supercharger. In fact, between March 1942 and December 1943, he applied for no less than seven patents relating to a new type of blower–still crankshaft-driven, but more compact and with better low-RPM boost capabilities.

In 1946, McCulloch moved his company to California, changed its name to McCulloch Motors, and changed its focus to lightweight two-cycle chainsaws. He did some development work for Kaiser-Frazer at the time, but didn’t return to the automotive field until 1953, when he launched the VS57 supercharger, the result of those earlier patents. As with his earlier supercharger, the VS57 initially was produced in kit form for Fords, but soon was available for a wide range of cars and engines.

Kaiser became the first manufacturer to install the VS57 on its cars from the factory, starting with the 1954 Manhattan. Studebaker followed on the Golden Hawk and on the Packard Clipper in 1957, the same year Ford famously offered the supercharger as an option on the Thunderbird.

By then, McCulloch had set up a separate division within the company to produce the superchargers under the Paxton name. McCulloch also had developed two other superchargers: One, used on the Novi cars at Indianapolis, helped their V-8s produce 650hp. The other, the VR57, used a variable ratio and featured numerous improvements over the VS57, not the least of which was the use of engine oil to cool and lubricate the supercharger.

In 1958, McCulloch sold the Paxton division to Andy Granatelli (see “Hot Rod Hero,” HMM#48, September 2007), again changed the name of his company (to McCulloch Corporation), and changed focus once more–to outboard motors. To test those motors, he bought 26 acres at Lake Havasu in Arizona, where he eventually founded Lake Havasu City and spent from 1968 until 1971 relocating the London Bridge.

McCulloch died in February 1977, but his two major companies live on. McCulloch Motors, after being sold to a Taiwanese company in 1999, was bought by Husqvarna in 2008 and continues as a chainsaw brand. Paxton still markets superchargers to the automotive aftermarket.

This article originally appeared in the January, 2010 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines.

DAVID MANN TRIBUTE TAPESTRY–This high Quality “IN MEMORY OF” tapestry is 21″ by 34″ and printed on 100% polyester poplin cloth. You can push-pin it right up on the wall – or, have it mounted and framed for a real class act!

All you have to do to get one for your own man cave, FREE – is subscribe to Easyriders or V-Twin for only $29.99 for 1 year (12 issues) OR $49.99 for 2 years – OR $69.99 for 3 years. And a uniformed messenger will bring your tapestry and magazines right to your door!

Six, word savvy, reader/writers are going to win one of these 30″ by 45″ limited edition canvas giclee prints of David Mann’s “IN MEMORY OF” painting, which was first published in 1999.

All you have to do to win one of these 6 very limited edition canvas giclee prints (we are only printing 6 for this contest) is tell us in 50 words or less, what this iconic image means to you, and/or tell us what David Mann’s body of artwork has meant to you in your lifetime. Our magazine editors will judge the entries and pick the 6 winners – and – who knows, they may want you to be an on going, PAID CONTRIBUTOR to our magazines!

The winners will be announced in the August ’16 issue of Easyriders and V-Twin and their entries will be published in that issue too! The contest deadline is 3/16/16.

BRANDENTONMOTORSPORTS ACTION– Street Heat
Saturday January 2nd – 7pm to 12am

Anyone can come out and run the 1/4 mile dragstrip with their race car, street car, truck or motorcycle!

BIKERNET UNIVERSITY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FINAL WORD OF THE YEAR—

Probity: PROH-bi-tee, PROB-i-

noun

1. integrity and uprightness; honesty.

Quotes
…in Judge Dukinfield we believed that Old Anse had chosen the one man among us with sufficient probity and honor and good sense–that sort of probity and honor which has never had time to become confused and self-doubting with too much learning in the law.
— William Faulkner, “Smoke,” Knight’s Gambit, 1949

Origin
Probity came to English in the 1500s and finds its roots in the Latin probus meaning “upright.”

Happy New Years!!!

GOOD LOOKING TRUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found this cool picture of a street-rod truck……..

Peterbilt no less, but check out what else I found.

–Jay Martinez

AUCTION NEWS–60 rare, pre-war American motorcycles are about to hit the auction block.

This 1922 Harley-Davidson 1,200cc Model JD Motorcycle Combination will be among the 60 motorcycles going up for auction. Photo by Bonhams
Bonhams to auction Lonati collection of American pre-war bikes

On Oct. 17, the eyes of the classic motorcycle world will be on Bonhams’ annual sale in Staffordshire, U.K., as 60 vintage motorcycles from the Lonati collection cross the block at the two-day auction. The collection is essentially a private museum of mostly American motorcycles, and it contains a number of gems that will approach the $50,000 and $100,000 barrier.

The Lonati collection hails from Brescia, Italy, and was started by Francesco Lonati with the purchase of a 1942 Harley-Davidson WLA. The collection quickly grew in size, eventually gaining a permanent home at a Santoni textile machine factory.

“This is an incredibly rare find — 60 fantastic collectors’ motorcycles, all carefully stored in the Brescia-based private museum of entrepreneur and CEO of the Santoni Group, Tiberio Lonati,” commented Ben Walker, international director at Bonhams Collectors’ Motorcycles.

“Mr. Lonati loved what motorcycles represent, ‘complete freedom,’ the open road, something highly synonymous with U.S. motorcycle marque Harley-Davidson, which is perhaps why he had so many!”

Here are a few highlights from the collection:

This 1930 Indian Model 402 Four Motorcycle Combination is estimated to bring between $61,000 and $77,000. Photo by Bonhams

1930 Indian Model 402 Four Motorcycle Combination

The Indian 402 debuted in 1929 and was based on the Henderson Ace. The Four was considered a luxury motorcycle at the time, and with four cylinders and relatively overengineered construction, it really was “The Duesenberg of motorcycling.” The Four would go through a number of mechanical changes throughout the 1930s, and despite its relatively high price sales remained strong.

This classic motorbike is estimated to bring between $61,000 and $77,000.

This 1929 Harley-Davidson 1,200cc Model JDH “Two Cam” Racing Motorcycle was one of the best performers back in the day. Photo by Bonhams

1929 Harley-Davidson 1,200cc Model JDH ‘Two Cam’ Racing Motorcycle

A good chunk of the collection comprises Harley-Davidson motorcycles, all of them from the pre-war years, and it includes this 1,200cc Model JDH “Two Cam” racing model. A performance model added to the range in 1928, the “Two Cam” featured side-by-side direct acting tappets, peanut-shaped timing covers and magnesium alloy high-compression pistons.

This model also boasted such features as a front brake, but it was the most expensive bike in the lineup with a price of $390. Nevertheless, these were popular with Harley-Davidson enthusiasts at the time and were essentially the hot-rod bikes of their day.

Bonhams estimates this example will bring between $31,000 and $46,000 on auction day.

Visit the auction website to view the full list of lots, as well as a detailed auction schedule.

Read more: http://autoweek.com/article/auctions/60-vintage-motorcycles-are-auction-uk#ixzz3vvY3BzgV

–from Harvey Tow

THERE’S MORE—I’ve struggled to finish my next Chance Hogan book. I was hoping for quiet time to concentrate after hip-replacement surgery, but none so far. Very disappointing.

We’ve also stumbled into a fight with the city over living in this building, but hopefully we’ve discovered some solutions. We can never give up. We have found a motorcycle nirvana within these walls, and they help so many folks. We need to keep the dream alive.

In general, we’ve had a terrific year and 2016 should shine even brighter. Others, like Atomic Bob have run into serious obstacles. If you can, check his web site and buy or commission a piece of original art. Help his wife keep the home front together, while he’s away.

Keep smiling and working toward a better tomorrow and a wild 2016.

Ride Free Forever,

–Bandit