Hey,
What’s it going to be? I’ve just spent three days welding on the Salt torpedo and rattle can attacking parts for final assembly to begin this weekend.
In a world gone insane with regulation you see that freedom still matters. In Missouri they are about to repeal the adult helmet law. I just read a thoughtful report from a Los Angeles Times reporter who is a rider and decided not to signal other riders to the presence of cops. He was so moved by negative statistics he felt it necessary to punish us with more speeding tickets.
The accident rate for motorcycles hasn’t increased in a decade, yet the number of riders on the road has, but who cares. We ride for freedom and excitement, not to improve safety statistics.
The Bikernet Weekly News is sponsored in part by companies who also dig Freedom including: Cycle Source Magazine, the MRF, Las Vegas Bikefest, Iron Trader News, ChopperTown, BorntoRide.com and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum. Most recently the Smoke Out and Quick Throttle Magazine came on board.
QUICK THROTTLE MAGAZINE NEWS–Dysfunctional Veterans: 2019 Blue Collar Build Off Champions
The 2019 Blue Collar Build Off brought some of the most talented custom motorcycle builders you’ve never heard of to Las Vegas and the Saddle Sore Ranch over the weekend of March 29-31. A total of 26 teams started the competition and eighteen made it to the finale. Of the eighteen bikes that made it only one can be called the absolute best.
This year the best of show went to the Dysfunctional Veterans. These guys started with a pile of parts/raw metal, added in $1,500 and ended up producing a one-off custom motorcycle that could upset far more expensive bikes built by much bigger names in the industry. Allow me to give you a small glimpse into this beautiful work of art.
This bike was designed to highlight the custom fabrication and machine work. The one of a kind frame, swingarm, front end and footboards were all cut from 3/16” and 14 gauge plate steel on Buck Miller’s home-made CNC plasma table.
When it comes to details this bike is mind blowing. Nearly all the wiring is hidden within the frame. The ignition coils are tucked away under the split tank. One side of the split tank houses fuel and the other side houses oil. The first glance over the rear end might stump you. It almost looks like a rigid frame that is missing chain tensioners. Take a closer look and you will notice the leaf springs as well as the chain tensioners hidden on the inside of the swingarm. The repurposed tractor seat compliments the rest of the bike nicely. There are so many small details I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few.
The Specs
Frame: 45-degree rake, 5” raise in the backbone, 4” stretch over stock. No downtube.
Powertrain: 88” H-D Evolution, Ultima 6 speed. Custom machine work and covers.
Front End: Custom leaf spring 14” over stock
Wheels: 26” King spoke front, 18” King spoke rear with a 240 rear tire.
Tank: Demons Cycle reworked (split and modified to match custom frame).
Rear End: Custom leaf spring. Utilizes H-D swingarm bushings/sleeves.
Brake: Rear only, sprocket/rotor combo (sprotor) with custom mounting spacer.
Controls: Bars and risers off an H-D Softail Deuce. Custom split skull footboards.
Finish: Powdercoat and pinstripe.
By Justin James
Photos by Michael Hernandez. Model: Baylee Krisine Smith
MISSOURI HELMET LAW A SIGNATURE AWAY FROM REPEAL--The Show-Me State may soon grant adult motorcycle riders the freedom to choose whether or not to wear helmets, as legislation to repeal their mandatory motorcycle helmet law for those 18 and older who carry qualifying medical insurance is currently sitting on the desk of Governor Mike Parson (R) awaiting his signature. Parson previously supported repeal as a member of the state legislature.
Senate Bill 147 passed the Senate 21-12 on Thursday, May 16 and the House voted 94-46 the following day to advance the omnibus transportation package to the governor.
Missouri is currently in the minority among states, as only 19 states and the District of Columbia mandate the wearing of motorcycle helmets by all riders. Repeal efforts have been debated in the General Assembly for decades, and twice before lawmakers had passed helmet law repeal bills, in both 1999 and 2009, but couldn’t overcome gubernatorial vetoes.
But now, with Republicans holding hyper-majorities in both chambers and the governorship, riders’ rights groups like ABATE for Missouri and Freedom of Road Riders of Missouri took advantage of the “perfect storm” to navigate their bill through the Conservative-controlled legislative agenda.
Gov. Parson has voted in favor of this issue in the past, and according to the St. Joseph Post newspaper, “nearly all stakeholders expect him to sign it.”
–Bill Bish
NCOM
Read Bill’s entire legislative report right here in the Cantina.–Bandit
STURGIS HALL OF FAME HIGHLIGHTS-– Hall of Fame Highlight
Class of 2019
The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame is featuring Hall of Fame Highlights of this year’s outstanding new group of inductees. Here is a glimpse at what they had to say. For the full story join us at the 2019 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (tickets available below). Congratulations and welcome Terry Rymer.
*Please note: Hall of Fame Highlights will be published as we receive them from the Inductees. We look forward to sharing information about all of our Inductees in the weeks and months to come.
Terry Rymer
Born September 1960 in Aberdeen SD and raised in a single parent home with his mother and two younger sisters, motorcycles were never on Terry Rymer’s radar. At the age of 17 Terry purchased a new 1977 Yamaha IT175 it served as both a race and road bike. That purchase made Terry a staple at the local Yamaha shop, which turned a free time hangout into a fulltime job in 1978.
Learning motorcycle sales, parts sales, promotions, marketing, but mainly, improving great customer interaction and experiences, all of which proved to be a valuable tool for the future.
Then at the age of 24, wanting more of a motorcycle racing scene, Terry packed up everything and moved to Rapid City. In 1986 things started to accelerate with Harley-Davidson and the annual Sturgis Rally. Terry’s dream was realized in 2010, after 25 years with Black Hills Harley-Davidson, from parts counter to general manager, Terry’s lifelong commitment to the dealership paid off, as his dream came true when he was made partner of Black Hills Harley-Davidson.
Motorcycle racing was, and still is Terry’s passion. Particularly Flat Track. Terry has promoted or co-promoted many races throughout his career and presently owns a race team that sponsors local Sturgis rider Dawson Schieffer campaigning in the American Flat Track series.
Learn more about Terry Rymer and all of the 2019 Hall of Fame Inductees on August 7, 2019 at the annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
NEW PEGS FROM BILTWELL–Cast Stainless Steel Mushman Foot Pegs
Enjoy more grip, less slip with our vintage MX-inpsired, investment-cast stainless steel Mushman foot pegs. We’ve got ‘em in polished or black electroplate finishes for a variety of vintage and modern motorcycles, including most 07-19 Sportsters and 18+ Softails.
THIS WEEK’S CROP—From Barry Green, Bikernet contributor.
World’s hottest peppers
I grow these. This was this Mornings harvest ….
Carolina Reaper, Scorpion and a cross between both.
You like really hot peppers?
–Barry G
Hang On for more reports—Bandit
BRAND New Bikernet Reader Comment!--Weekend Round-Up for June 17, 2019
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/Weekend_RoundUp_for_June_17_2019.aspx
Captain America pic.
I was out yesterday riding around locally and made a stop. Parked outside of the place was a Capt America tribute. It had updates such as disc brake and turnsignals The tank had a signature scribbled on it which looked like Peter something.
Kinda made me miss my old ‘53 pan I sold many years ago to buy a house.
–Rhys
S. Daytona, FL
I need to confirm this, but one of the Big Dog like companies built Captain America upgraded replicas until the financial crisis. They looked like Panheads but were Evos.–Bandit
MEMO TO THE PUBLIC–TO MY BOSS:
I have enjoyed working here these past several years. You have paid me very well and given me benefits beyond belief.
I have 3-4 months off per year and a pension plan that will pay my salary until the day I die and then pay my estate one year salary death bonus and then continue to pay my spouse my salary with increases until she or he dies, and a health plan that most people only dream of having.
Despite this, I plan to take the next 12-18 months to find a new position. During this time, I will show up for work when it is convenient for me. In addition, I expect to draw my full salary and all the other perks associated with my current job.
If my search for this new job proves fruitless, I will be coming back with no loss in pay or status. Before you say anything, remember that you have no choice in this matter. I can, and I will do this.
Sincerely,
Every Senator or Congressman running for President in 2020, Republican or Democrat.
–from Sam
FEMA welcomes new members
At the FEMA meeting in Prague on 1 June, the FEMA Committee voted in two new member organizations. FEMA is proud to welcome our newest member, MotoADN from Romania. FEMA’s general secretary Dolf Willigers said: “I am very happy having more riders from eastern Europe on board, helping us shaping and securing the future of motorcycling. I look forward to working with them!”
Joining us as a full member after a year with observer status, is Comitato Coordinamento Motociclisti (CCM) from Italy. CCM represents several Italian riders’ organizations.
LIFESTYLE DEAL OF THE WEEK–
2017 Harley-Davidson FXDLS – Low Rider S
only $20,995.99
Check it out here: https://www.lifestylecycles.com/default.asp?page=xPreOwnedInventoryDetail&id=7138831
This is a very rare and hard to find, very fast, and very beautiful Dyna with some cool extras and low miles. Just 2,499. If you want to make it tough on your buddies to keep up and look good doing it, this one is for you!
Stripped down, yet stuffed with the largest engine that Harley puts in a motorcycle and a laundry list of features previously reserved for CVO editions, this new dark custom was created for the next generation Harley-Davidson owner.
Harley listened to what customers wanted– everything and nothing at the same time. Welcome to the dark side. With a bigger motor, blackened fork tubes, 2-into-1 exhaust and anything else that is normally chrome on a Harley, the Low Rider S also gets Vivid Black Ram air treatment and magnum gold painted 5 split-spoke wheels and trim pieces.
ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT INCLUDE:
Black Beauty was a horse, but meet Black Beauty the iron horse! Vivid Black paint is pristine and has a black powder console. Vivid Black 12″ T bar, Memphis quarter fairing, black mirrors, switch housings, levers and Performance Machine charcoal grips.
The fork is chrome (also the push-rod tubes) but that is about it. The fork lowers are vivid Black and sit on magnum gold painted 5 split-spoke wheels and trim pieces that really make this bike POP. It has a beefy Screaming Eagle black 110 motor with the machine cut fin edges. Black 2-into-1 Thunderhead exhaust.
It has ABS braking system and a Power Commander dyno-jet tuner. Vivid Black 90* Ram air with cone filter, and battery case with a black powder strap. Black powder trans, rocker covers, and cam with ‘Twin Cam’ cover. Black powder chain guard, primary and vivid black derby cover. Vivid black exposed adjustable shocks, shift / brake arms and peg mounts. Even the kickstand is black. A solo seat and side license plate with rear stop / turn / tail blinkers in red. It puts the horse to pasture!
This bike has passed Lifestyle Cycles rigorous 101 point safety and mechanical inspection. Whether your looking to commute to work, ride the coast or take that dream vacation, this bike is ready to go!!!
EZ FINANCING-SHIPPING AVAILABLE!!!
Fill out an online application and ride today!!!
NEW FROM LOWBROW–Weld-On Hardtails for 1982-2003 Harley-Davidson Sportsters
Sportsters continue to be a popular platform for custom builds as they offer excellent reliability and low-maintenance. For those builders (home and professional alike) looking for the classic styling of a rigid frame, the Lowbrow Customs Sportster Hardtail offers ease and affordability.
These hardtail frame sections are a 3 inch stretch and 1 inch drop compared to a stock Sportster. This means axle-to-axle the hardtailed bike will be 3″ longer, and have 1″ less ground clearance.
This is the perfect blend of style and performance. Every aspect of these frames has been engineered for the ultimate in strength and style. They accept the stock rear wheel and axle, and include slick, custom axle adjusters. Frames are 100% professionally TIG welded and proudly made in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Lowbrow Customs Weld-On Hardtails for 1982-2003 Harley Sportsters are in stock, ready to ship and are $374.95. Easy-to-follow hardtail install instructions are available, as is a step-by-step hardtail installation video. For more information or to order please visit www.lowbrowcustoms.com or call Lowbrow Customs at 1-330-850-7040.
TOP 10 Reasons to Fight against Road Diets in your Community–You just learned that your city intends to install a road diet on an arterial route you take every day. You are not alone—this now happens regularly all over the country. Here are 10 excellent arguments to combat road diets in your city council or county commission.
Road diets can cause more accidents. When traffic does not flow, more accidents occur. Vulnerable road users sometimes have the mistaken belief that the road is safer. In reality, all users of the road need to remain vigilant and responsible.
There are better and less expensive ways to make a street safer: Better crosswalks, improved stoplights, and bikeways placed on non-arterial streets.
Emergency vehicles such as large fire ladder trucks cannot always navigate corners on streets that have been reduced, which could violate fire codes.
Blocked egress during mass evacuations can cause injury and death.
Loss of parking can cause business districts to be decimated with job losses and business closures.
Gridlocked boulevards will divert traffic to residential streets which are not intended to handle that load.
Due to the increased gridlock, there is more individual vehicle wear and tear, greater overall street noise, and increased vehicle emissions.
Many times, a road diet may cause violations of the Americans with Disability Act due to difficult curb cuts and the loss of handicapped parking.
Road diets can present already underfunded local and county street departments with more street elements to maintain, stretching their budgets and liability exposure even further.
Road diets can create animosity between neighbors in the area.
Residents and business owners can have increased distrust of government if the process is forced and not transparent.
If you would like to become more involved in defeating road diets in your city, contact the NMA today at nma@motorists.org.
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director
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NEWS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE–Ivanka Trump, Wilbur Ross: President Redoubles Efforts to Ensure Good Jobs for All
“On Tuesday, we were in Charlotte discussing workforce development with local leaders and executives as well as the new opportunities that this economy has brought to the state and region,” Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross write in the Salisbury Post. “With a record 48 states registering unemployment rates below 5%, President Trump’s economic agenda is paying off.”
That said, many of the new jobs American companies are creating require highly skilled workers. “Today’s labor market challenges combined with rapid technological change call for a clear national workforce strategy,” Ms. Trump and Secretary Ross write. As of today, the President’s efforts have resulted in more than 250 companies pledging more than 9 million new opportunities to train and reskill American workers and students.
In Fox News, former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan writes that President Trump made the right call in ordering the deportation of illegal immigrants—and points out that Democrats were noticeably silent when the Obama Administration did the same in 2015. “The same lawmakers who are quick to criticize ICE officers now have done nothing to address the humanitarian and national security crisis on our border. They have not offered up one idea, one fix, or one dollar of the supplemental budget request that President Trump has made for border security.”
“The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement looms over the congressional agenda this summer. In recent weeks, officials have rolled up their sleeves and begun to prepare the ground for a positive vote on this landmark trade agreement,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President Myron Brilliant writes in CNBC. “Each day that passes without approving USMCA is a day that [its] benefits are deferred.”
The Democrat mayor of a Texas town near the U.S.–Mexico border slammed Washington’s neglect of the border crisis, “saying ‘we are sick and tired of the deaf ears’ for failing to protect towns like his from illegal immigration,” Lukas Mikelionis reports for Fox News. Bruno Lozano, mayor of Del Rio, Texas, said that illegal immigration has overrun his town and urged members of Congress to visit these border towns and witness the situation firsthand.
“Thanks to President Trump’s economic policies, Pennsylvania’s unemployment recently hit an all-time low of 3.9 percent, while the state’s job count hit a record 6.2 million,” Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) writes in the Observer-Reporter. “But it’s his rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), known as the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), that promises to be an even greater boon for our state economy and the nation.”
BARNETT TOOL OF THE WEEK–Clutch Spring Compression Tool – 2001 and up Victory
Ventura, California based manufacturer Barnett Clutches and Cables is helping passionate Victory enthusiasts to ‘keep the flame alive’ with a new clutch spring compression tool for 2001 and later Victory motorcycles.
“Designed to compress the diaphragm clutch spring, making it easy to remove and re-install the retainer ring, this clutch tool makes working on the clutch much easier and efficient and is a ‘must have’ for anybody working on Victory clutches – precision machined in the USA from billet aluminum, then hard anodized.”
BARNETT CLUTCHES & CABLES
www.barnettcables.com
QUOTE OF THE WEEK– “The sin of nearly all left-wingers from 1933 onward is that they have wanted to be anti-Fascist without being anti-totalitarian.”
– George Orwell, 1944
–from Wayfarer
Supreme International Report
Bikernet News Desk India
WILD Modern Day Biker
By BikerCrap
I’m a modern day biker, got a scooter to prove it, got ink on my arm, took 5 minutes to choose it.
My putt she’s a beauty 40 grand worth of chrome, I’d never rode when I bought her, so I trailered her home.
I bought her on credit, accessories up the wazoo, bought some worn chaps and a leather jacket on HD credit too.
I got me some apes, about 3 feet tall, they’re way over my head, can’t reach them at all.
Big carb and big cam, big tire to boot, but I pray she don’t break cuz I can’t fix my own scoot.
Couple falls, couple crashes, another 5 grand in fix’n, now I got my permit just can’t take my little vixen.
The vixen she’s a hottie, she’ll be 18 in June, she loves all the chrome and now gives me the poon.
I wear a bandana, all folded and pressed, no helmet for me, I ride to impress.
I got me an attitude, I’m the baddest in town, but I check it at the door when real patchers are around.
I bought a big knife but I leave it at home, I wore it out once but it got in the way of my phone.
I call my friends “bro” now, they got new scooters too, we think we need an oil change, just no sure how to.
I watch Pauly and Cody and Vinny and Senior, but I love Mikey the most, he’s the freaking ring leader.
And don’t forget Jessie and his West Coast Choppers, building every bikers dream, 50 thousand dollar bar hoppers.
I won’t ride to Sturgis, man that’s way too far, I’ll just load up the trailer and tow with the car.
I’ll stay in a motel, five stars there’s no doubt, One with great food and where credit has clout.
I will trailer near town then jump in with some scooters, 1200 miles to drool at some girl with fake hooters.
I might get my ear pierced or another tattoo, of skulls or of dagger or maybe F**k U.
If the vixen don’t like it and thinks I’m a dope, no problems here, it’ll wash off with soap.
Sleep on the ground! You’re kidding me right? Next thing you’ll want me to do is stay up n party all night.
I’ll buy me a patch that says “I RODE MINE THERE”, who the hells gonna know, it’s a lie but who cares.
Ride to live, live to ride, I got riden in my veins, except when it’s too hot or too cold or windy or it rains.
Yea, I’m a modern day biker, you got something to say? Send me an email, I’ll reply someday.
–Rogue
Senior Supreme Editor
Bikernet.com™
NEWS FROM THE MASTER DAVID UHL–In David’s words, “Talk about going for a beer run. Well, this story surely takes the cake.
The first known landing of beer during the D-Day invasion was presumably 270 gallons of beer from Heneger and Constable a week after the historic day in 1944. But it’s the way it was being transported that makes this story quite spectacular. Some of the first attempts to bring beer over the Channel after D-Day used the expendable drop tanks, or jettison tanks carried by aircraft such as the Spitfire and Typhoon. Enterprising pilots in the RAF – and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) – had been engaged in shipping beer into Northern France privately, using what the troops called “flying pubs.”
Flying at 15,000 feet ensured the beer was chilled when it arrived. I had to do a painting of this!”
We are making an exclusive canvas print edition available in three sizes (all hand-signed by David, numbered with Certificate of Authenticity):
*Image size 24×18, $695 framed. Edition of 44 plus 4 Artist Proofs
*Image size 32×24, $1,295 framed. Edition of 24 plus 2 Artist Proofs
*Image size 40×30, $1,895 framed. Edition of 12 plus 2 Artist Proofs
You can read a bit more on this great history here:
http://www.ghostgrey.gaetanmarie.com/articles/2010/Modification%20XXX/Modification%20XXX%20-%20Beer-carrying%20Spitfires.htm
Please let me know if you have any questions. If you’d like to acquire one of the prints, simply respond to this email or call me at 303-913-4840.
Thanks for your time!
Greg
Greg Rhodes
International Sales Director
THIS JUST IN FROM THE BIKERNET TEMPLE OF DOOM—At the base of the gray mountain.
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles
must begin with a single step.
+ Lao Tzu
NEWS FROM THE HEMPWORX EMPIRE–Did you see what the President recently did Keith?
The Farm Bill was introduced and signed into LAW!
This is a huge breakthrough for Industrial Hemp Production and for HempWorx!
Check out what Business Insider had to say about this BIG news!
…Trump signed the US Farm Bill into law. It legalizes hemp, a plant that’s roughly identical to marijuana and is a key source of highly touted wellness ingredient CBD.
The law defines hemp as an agricultural product for the first time and amends a major drug law that hadn’t been altered in 50 years.
Experts said the shift could spike interest in CBD, which is also the active ingredient in the first cannabis-based medicine to gain federal approval in the US.
Despite its hazy legal status, CBD already makes up a roughly $1 billion industry.
This week, a plant that’s nearly identical to marijuana is set to become legal to grow in the US.
Thanks to the US Farm Bill, which President Trump signed into law on Thursday, American farmers will be able to plant and harvest hemp, a strain of the same plant species from which marijuana originates. The bill passed the House last week in a 369 to 47 vote; it passed the Senate the previous day in an 87 to 13 vote.
Hemp legalization has been a longtime goal of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, who believes it can help replace tobacco as a key crop for his state’s farmers.
The move alters the language of a major drug law that had previously remained unchanged for half a century and loosely defined hemp alongside marijuana as a controlled substance. The new bill exempts hemp from that law and defines it as an agricultural product. That means farmers and researchers of hemp now get some of the same benefits as farmers and researchers of other crops, like the ability to apply for insurance and federal grants.
“The era of hemp prohibition is over,” Jonathan Miller, legal counsel for a lobbying coalition of over 60 hemp companies called the US Hemp Roundtable, told Business Insider.
That’s a key change for scientists, many of whom say previous drug laws deterred them from studying hemp because it was regulated like marijuana.
The bill may also boost interest in a nascent but booming $1 billion industry based on a component of the cannabis plant called CBD, which has been touted for a variety of health and wellness claims. CBD is popping up in more and more products, from coffee and tea to supplements and beer.â•?
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QUICK, OPEN THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY–If sex is a pain in the ass, then you’re doing it wrong …
I’m emotionally constipated. I haven’t given a shit in days.
Life is like toilet paper, you’re either on a roll or taking shit from some asshole.
–from Rogue
SALT TORPEDO UPDATE–My missions today and tomorrow:
Coat inside of body. Build Parachute box
Find four 1-inch ball bearings and fix system for lead shot. I think our system is working out perfectly for more weight in the front of the torpedo.
Make and tack top body mount tabs
Make and tack gussets for roll cage as required by the supreme rule book.
Prep and or start welding process.
Lt. Ball
Squad leader
5-Ball Racing Minions
THE BANDIT ORIGINAL–My name is Lance Barron & I am from Louisiana, I was wondering if you could tell me what the rake & stretch may have been on your bike in this picture?
I love the stance of it. I am trying to build another Shovel & this is exactly the look I’m shooting for. Any info on this picture would help me a bunch.
–Lance Barron
MWD/LWD Mechanical Tech III
Schlumberger Drilling and Measurements
This is the first bike I had featured in Easyriders in 1971. The frame was a stock Panhead I raked ½ inch. The glide front end was 8-over stock. Keep in mind that I’m 6’5” tall. –Bandit
REPORT FROM SMOKEOUT NIRVANA–
Hey man, 20th Anniversary Smokeout Rally was great. I got to see everyone, meet a bunch of new friends, and made a lot of great business contacts and commitments for my handmade leather seats, Vintage American Cycles and Dimebag.
I was also able to grasp a better understanding for what I want and need for my interactive Kustom Kulture Roadshow coming soon.
Early into Saturday night I sat alone in front seat of my Phantom of the General Lee smoking a cigar and observing all the people– wondering what’s going to happen next.
So many amazing conversations running through my mind, as I began to go into a meditative state of mind after reading Psalms 118.5. Slowly my mind wandered into a state of happiness and remembering all the reasons why I was positioned into this awesome chopper reality timeline as a father, friend and artist.
I remember seeing groups of people, club members, couples, nomads and business groups everywhere having fun, relaxing, focused and very friendly. I began to see just how blessed I was to be in that moment.
Relearning the m/c culture has and is a great journey for me… Not to just fit in, but to remember who I truly am.
–Adam Croft
The SmokeOut does that to you…–Bandit
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REVER and EagleRider Make Epic Rides More Accessible Than Ever–Access to great rides and motorcycles nationwide.
— EagleRider and REVER announce a partnership that integrates the world’s foremost ride discovery, planning, tracking and sharing app with the world’s leader in motorcycle rentals, tours, and motorcycle membership services.
Through this partnership, current and new REVER Pro members receive savings and massive bonuses when they sign up for Club EagleRider, a membership that offers 72% savings on motorcycle rentals. Similarly, Club EagleRider members receive greatly discounted rates on REVER Pro services, including 50-percent off an introductory membership.
Riders are no longer limited to the area they live or even the motorcycle in their garage. With REVER and Club EagleRider, motorcycle enthusiasts can plan a ride anywhere in the country using REVER’s application.
Once planned, select one of EagleRider’s thousands of Harley-Davidson, BMW, Triumph, Yamaha, and others from any of EagleRider’s 200+ locations in the US.
When a customer signs up with REVER’s discount code, save $29 up front, and score extra free rental days on top of the massive savings Club EagleRider members earn over non-member rentals. When you ride, you’re only responsible for tax and insurance. After the ride, simply return the motorcycle to EagleRider, bug splatter and all. No cleaning, no maintenance, just a great ride, and you can keep accrued rental credits for up to two years.
“REVER is all about encouraging and facilitating motorcyclists to get out and ride as much as possible,” said Justin Bradshaw, Co-Founder of REVER. “Partnering with a leading brand like EagleRider truly opens up the entire country for those of us who don’t have time to ride to all the destinations on their bucket list.”
Current Club EagleRider members receive REVER Pro for 50-percent off the introductory price, giving unlimited access to features including ride tracking, creation of custom routes, turn-by-turn navigation, ride sharing, off-line maps, communities, in-app satellite and radar weather overlays, automated alerts, and much more.
“Using a GPS is great,” says Shawn Fechter, EagleRider’s VP of Sales, “But, the REVER navigation tools are much more than just knowing where to go. We’re excited to integrate the amazing REVER tools to our Club EagleRider member benefits.”
Both REVER and EagleRider are excited about the exchange of member benefits, allowing more people to experience motorcycle riding integrated with technology that reflects motorcycle rider habits.
NEWS FROM THE DAV–Post-traumatic stress disorder impacts 11-20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans, approximately 12 percent of Gulf War veterans, and 15 percent of Vietnam veterans. In addition to the combat-related PTSD, roughly 1 in 4 women and 1 in 100 men utilizing the VA report instances of sexual assault, which can also result in prolonged traumatic stress.
How do you know if you or a loved one suffer from PTSD?
Symptoms:
Reliving the event – Awake or asleep, a trigger can cause painful memories to surface and make the sufferer feel as though they are experiencing the event all over again.
Avoidance – Veterans will often avoid situations that remind them of the event. For example, some veterans avoid crowded places or loud, overstimulating situations. Some veterans will even avoid talking about the incident that effects them.
Persistent negative emotions – Veterans experience PTSD can be overwhelmed by negative feelings. A veteran may also feel difficulty establishing trust, experience feelings of guilt, shame, remorse, disinterest in previously enjoyable activities, or genuinely find it hard to feel happy.
Hypervigilance or hyperarousal – Veterans experiencing hyperarousal will feel constantly on alert and often uneasy in unfamiliar situations. For instance, they may prefer to find a seat facing the door in a restaurant, watch for dangerous people or objects in normal everyday situations, or feel the need to be near a point of egress. This can be distracting and make it difficult to focus or enjoy simple experiences, like dinner with family. Veterans with PTSD may also find it difficult to sleep or relax, be prone to anger or irritability, startle easily, act recklessly or abuse drugs or alcohol as a coping mechanism.
Does PTSD have to control the veteran?
There are ways to cope with PTSD, ways that empower a suffering veteran to take control of the PTSD rather than allowing it to control the veteran. Some of those coping mechanisms are outlined below:
Lifestyle changes – Interacting with other trauma survivors and other veterans who have experience with PTSD, exercising, eating healthy, volunteering, avoiding drugs and alcohol, spend more time with loved ones and practicing optimism are all helpful.
Mindfulness – To be mindful is to be aware of and concentrate on the present instead of dwelling on the past. It can be breathing exercises or focusing on a singular thing in your present—perhaps a certain smell or taste—and intensely focusing on that one thing.
Practicing optimism – Hunting for the good stuff in life, the things that create joy and a sense of peace or happiness, can help take focus off feelings of stress or anxiety. At some point in the day, it can be helpful to reflect on the good things that have happened in the last 24 hours. It can be a small as finding your favorite ink pen or something life-changing like birth of a child—whatever brings feelings of joy.
Peer groups – Finding others who have experienced similar events can help veterans feel comfortable talking about the traumatic events they have experienced and work through the intense emotions associated with them.
Emotional support animals – Many veterans who struggle with PTSD have adopted emotional support animals that help veterans feel more at ease and comfortable in situations that may otherwise cause them undue stress.
Professional help – Sometimes correcting emotional or chemical imbalances in the brain requires the help of professionals. There is no shame in asking for help with PTSD symptoms. Remember—it’s not a sign of weakness to ask for help, it’s a sign of strength. The Department of Veterans Affairs Vet Centers offers combat veterans across the country provide a broad range of counseling, outreach, and referral services. Additionally, seeking help from a local DAV benefits expert can be a first step toward getting the help needed to diagnose and treat PTSD and other service-connected issues, or to find other resources that can help veterans and their families adjust to post-military life.
Exploring the options – There are many different ways to gain control over PTSD, including non-pharmacological options such as talk or recreation therapy. Exploring the different options and being open to new solutions can help veterans overcome the effects of PTSD.
What resources are available for a veteran struggling with PTSD?
https://www.ptsd.va.gov/index.asp
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml
BIKERNET UNIVERSITY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT VOCABULARY LESSON OF THE WEEK—
insipience
[in-sip-ee-uhns]
noun
1.
lack of wisdom; foolishness.
QUOTES
Too many prefer the charge of insincerity to that of insipience—Dr. Newman seems not to be of that number.
— Charles Kingsley, What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean? 1864
ORIGIN
Insipience “foolishness” comes via Old French from Latin insipientia. The Latin prefix in-, which has a negative or privative force, as in insipientia, is the ordinary Latin development of a reduced form of Proto-Indo-European ne “not,” which is the same source of Germanic (English un-). The Latin stem -sipient- is a reduced and combining form derived from sapientia “reason, soundness of mind, wisdom,” hence insipientia “foolishness, folly, stupidity.”
The root word behind sapientia and insipientia is sapere “to taste, taste of, smell of, have good taste, feel, show good sense, be intelligent.” Sapere is the source of Italian sapere, Spanish saber, and French savoir, all meaning “to know.” The Latin noun sapor “flavor, taste, odor, smell” becomes Italian sapore, Spanish sabor, French saveur, and, through French, English savor and its derivative adjective savory. Insipience entered English in the 15th century.
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BANDIT’S CANTINA BAD JOKE LIBRARY IS NOW OPEN–What is Stress?
You pick up a hitchhiker, a very pretty girl. Suddenly she faints inside your car and you rush her to the hospital. Now that’s STRESSFUL.
At the hospital, they say she is pregnant and congratulate you that you’re going to be a father. You say you are not the father, but the girl says you are. That is VERY STRESSFUL.
So, you then request a DNA test to prove that you are not the father. The doctor gets the test results and says you are infertile, probably since birth. You are EXTREMELY STRESSED, but relieved.
On the way home you suddenly think about your three kids. Now, that’s TOTAL STRESS.
–from Sam Burns
NEWS FROM THE CLIMATE DEPOT— Consensus? 200+ New 2019 Papers Support A Skeptical Position On Climate Alarmism
By Kenneth Richard on 17. June 2019
In the first 5½ months of 2019, over 200 scientific papers have been published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources.
These 200+ new papers affirm the position that there are significant limitations and uncertainties inherent in our understanding of climate and climate changes, emphasizing that climate science is not settled.
More specifically, the papers in this compilation support these four main skeptical positions — categorized here as N(1) – N(4) — which question climate alarm.
N(1) Natural mechanisms play well more than a negligible role (as claimed by the IPCC) in the net changes in the climate system, which includes temperature variations, precipitation patterns, weather events, etc., and the influence of increased CO2 concentrations on climatic changes are less pronounced than currently imagined.
N(2) The warming/sea levels/glacier and sea ice retreat/hurricane and drought intensities…experienced during the modern era are neither unprecedented or remarkable, nor do they fall outside the range of natural variability.
N(3) The computer climate models are neither reliable or consistently accurate, and projections of future climate states are little more than speculation as the uncertainty and error ranges are enormous in a non-linear climate system.
N(4) Current emissions-mitigation policies, especially related to the advocacy for renewables, are often ineffective and even harmful to the environment, whereas elevated CO2 and a warmer climate provide unheralded benefits to the biosphere (i.e., a greener planet and enhanced crop yields).
In sharp contrast to the above, the corresponding “consensus” positions that these papers do not support are:
A(1) Close to or over 100% (110%) of the warming since 1950 has been caused by increases in anthropogenic CO2 emissions, leaving natural attribution at something close to 0%.
RealClimate.org: “The best estimate of the warming due to anthropogenic forcings (ANT) is the orange bar (noting the 1?? uncertainties). Reading off the graph, it is 0.7±0.2ºC (5-95%) with the observed warming 0.65±0.06 (5-95%). The attribution then follows as having a mean of ~110%, with a 5-95% range of 80–130%. This easily justifies the IPCC claims of having a mean near 100%, and a very low likelihood of the attribution being less than 50% (p < 0.0001!).”
A(2) Modern warming, glacier and sea ice recession, sea level rise, drought and hurricane intensities…are all occurring at unprecedentedly high and rapid rates, and the effects are globally synchronous (not just regional)…and thus dangerous consequences to the global biosphere and human civilizations loom in the near future as a consequence of anthropogenic influences.
A(3) The climate models are reliable and accurate, and the scientific understanding of the effects of both natural forcing factors (solar activity, clouds, water vapor, etc.) and CO2 concentration changes on climate is “settled enough“, which means that “the time for debate has ended“.
A(4) The proposed solutions to mitigate the dangerous consequences described in N(4) – namely, wind and solar expansion – are safe, effective, and environmentally-friendly.
To reiterate, these 200+ papers compiled in 2019 thus far support the N(1)-N(4) positions, and they undermine or at least do not support the “consensus” A(1)-A(4) positions.
–NOtrickszone.com
MEANWHILE BACK IN NIRVANA–21 June is International Day of Yoga, Exercising the mind
When you take drugs, ganja or LSD, for example, you immediately see the effect. Some people experience a greater effect, and others less. In the same manner, in our society there are people who can develop their equilibrium, mental peace, mental calmness to a great extent; but there are those people who have absolutely no mental peace; they don’t even have a fraction of equilibrium.
Why talk of big things in life, when even the little things upset us. If I know that someone has been talking about me on the street, I don’t get sleep at night. Don’t you think it is the lack of yoga in me? Yes, it is yoga. Yoga means mental control.
Please go through the eighteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. It talks about control, it does not talk about renouncing life; it does not talk about renouncing your wife and children, property and accomplishments. It says, “Have everything with you, but have perfect control over the reactions, over the effects of the actions of the mind.”
You do your karma, you do your duty, but they should not affect you, they should not bring about a crisis in your life. This is the fundamental teaching of yoga according to the Bhagavad Gita.
Another scripture, the Yoga Sutras of Rishi Patanjali, which is the most important one in yoga, says in the beginning: “What is yoga? To have automatic control, to have voluntary control, to have spontaneous control over the mind, its tendencies, its fluctuations, its dispassions, is yoga.”
When your mind is happy, you must have the capacity to hold that happiness. If your mind is calm, you must have the capacity to hold it there. If the mind is taking you along the wrong path, you must say “No, I don’t want it,” and you must bring it back. You must be like a trained horseman. You must be like a good driver with a car, so that when your car is going at full speed, and the traffic is according to your wish, you should be relaxed but still in control. You should use your car by all means; it does not mean that you should keep your car in the garage as an ornament and then go on foot.
The message of yoga is to exercise the mind every day, just a little, so that you have conscious control over the reactions of the brain. This method is known as dhyana. It is known as concentration and meditation, and can be done by each and everyone. It is not necessary nor is it right to say that only sannyasins, saints, monks and mahatmas can practise it. Everyone can and should do it. –
Yoga and Present-Day Living
Swami Satyananda Saraswati
http://www.yogamag.net/archives/2016/fjune16/present.shtml
–From Ujjwal Dey
Supreme Leader
Bikernet Commune India
Harley-Davidson will make small motorcycles in China
Harley-Davidson has struck a partnership to start making a small motorcycle in China for sale in the country.
MILWAUKEE, Wisc. – Harley-Davidson has found a new partner in China as it ramps up efforts to sell more motorcycles abroad. The company said Wednesday that it’s teaming up with Qianjiang Motorcycle Company to make a small motorcycle that will go on sale only in China.
–EIN News
MOVING FORWARD—As soon as I complete the news I must suit up for welding and hit the shop. The next few days are critical. I need to finish welding and grinding. Then I need to install the belly portion of the tank and go after the firewall.
Once the firewall steel construction is completed and welded I can start to paint the frame. This is not an easy task. I’ll bet it takes all weekend.
But then final assembly is underway. That’s exciting. I spoke to the windshield team today and they will have it completed first of next week. I also spoke to George “The Wild Brush” and he said he can help with the canopy cut, hinges, etc. That was a major relief.
In the meantime Michael Lichter and his son, Sean are headed to Haas motors then to some indoor flat track racing in the City of Industry.
For the first time in over 30 years, he won’t be covering Sturgis. Easyriders no longer covers events and they tried to shut down his coverage of Born Free, but Lichter pleaded for leniency.
We’re working on a suit for our pilot, Micah McCloskey.
Hang on for more reports constantly.
Ride fast and free forever,
–Bandit
