Hey,
I hit the Long Beach Swap Meet this morning, at the crack of dawn, with brother Jeremiah and his son Evan. We searched, while it threatened to rain, for Assalt Weapan headlights, for the World?s Fastest Panhead attempt. I found three and bought all three. I don?t know the width of the front end or what might work, so I picked up a variety of springer and classic sizes.
All the girls snuck out of here, while we paced the asphalt lanes for treasure, and headed to the Renaissance Fair. I?m on my own for the news, so watch for lots of sex and little substance. Let?s hit it:
TOMMY THOMPSON ANNUAL REUNION RIDE– Many are familiar with Tommy Thompson’s Annual Reunion Ride, now in it’s 13th year. This year we will ride to Ames Iowa for the Straw Poll Vote. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in a historical event.! Attached is the flier. You can also go to http://www.accidentscene.org/events to find information and sign up online. Don’t delay. Hotel rooms in Ames will be a difficult to find the closer we get to August. As usual, we will get a chance to experience many things in the few days of this ride. Check it out!
You can also check out the updated http://www.TeamTommy.org website for more information about the Ames Iowa straw poll vote and our attempts to get thousands of bikers from all over the country to Ames on August 10th. If you would like to be involved, contact
Director Accident Scene Management, Inc. (ASMI)
President Safety Or Survival, LLC (SOS) & Conspicuity Inc.
400 Travis Lane #30
Waukesha, WI. 53189
(877) 411-8551 – toll free
(262) 521-2880 – local
(262) 436-0286 – fax
info@accidentscene.org
www.accidentscene.org
www.conspicuityinc.com
BIKERNET SUNDAY PHOTO ART EXHIBIT– Looking back, I think I heard someone behind me say, now that is a sick son of a bitch. Was that comment about me, how could that be? I thought the rear end was very nice work and worth the shot.
Ride Hard,
–Whiplash Biker Photog
whiplash@photo.net
http://www.photo.net/photos/Whiplash
PAUGHCO CHOPPER WHEELS– Paughco?s latest line of spoked CHOPPER WHEELS has been expanded to include new models in both 40 and 80 spoke designs. These new wheel assemblies feature flawless chrome spokes laced to a brilliant chrome steel rim and chrome steel hub.
Designed for most HD applications each assembly comes with bearings pre-set and ready for installation. Additionally, Paughco wheels come with custom chrome plated hubcaps that hide the mounting hardware.
The new line includes sizes 16 x 3 and 21 x 2.5 front and 16 x 3, 16 x 5.5 and 18 x 5.5 for the rear. Wheels are available for a variety of disc and drum brake applications.
For additional fitment details check with your local Paughco dealer or call 775-246-5738. On the Web at www.paughco.com Hi there!
Leather and Lace @ the Playboy? Mansion, October 6, 2007 Los Angeles, California– This exclusive party will invite motorcycle industry entrepreneurs, such as dealership owners, motorcycle rally organizers, and enthusiasts from all over the country who share the common goal of supporting worthwhile 501(c)3 charities.
Party suggestions: Prices and/or packages may be subject to change. 800-327-1124 Tickets are Limited – Call Today! MotorcycleCharityAssociates.org ? 5621 Littler Drive ? Huntington Beach ? CA ? 92649 KARA REACHES OUT TO BIKERNET.COM– I took these last weekend here in Arizona with another model, and thought you might like to use them in the ad you have been running in The Horse. I will be emceeing the Smoke Out events this year, and hope I get a chance to meet you. (I am the redhead) –Kara Lenae I have a deep seated problem with Redheads, especially beautiful ones. They slip under my skin like heroine for the addict. Best not go to the Smoke Out.–Bandit H-D RUMOR CONTROL–It?s reported that the follow models will be discontinued for 2008. If you want one of these models, better move. VRSCR –Undercover Bikernet Agent HELMET LAW PROTEST ARE COMING BACK– East Coast Helmet Law Protest! When: Last Sunday of Myrtle Beach Bike Week, every year: Location: South of the Border, I-95 and US 301/501 Dillon, SC. On your way back from Myrtle Beach Bike Week, enjoy a freedom ride in protest of mandatory motorcycle helmet laws! Of course, you CAN wear a helmet. This protest is for the riders right to decide. This ride is not organized, sponsored, or supported by anyone except other bikers. PLEASE – It is absolutely crucial that you ride sober, responsibly, and safely. Suggested Minimum Age: 21, Be advised that there are mandatory helmet laws in most of the states north of South Carolina, and there is a high likelihood of being pulled over and ticketed. If you are ticketed, it is up to you to decide whether to help the states by paying the fines, or become a freedom fighter by arguing it in court. Info: bikersusa.org –from Rogue PURE FORGED BILLET FROM PRO-ONE– Regardless of what style wheel you are looking for, from mild to wild, PRO-ONE has you covered. A small sample of current offerings, shown here, includes the ZEPPELIN, ZEPHER, FOKKER V, FOOKER III, P-51 and GOLDFINGER. 100% Made in the USA these wheels feature a unique forged billet aluminum one piece rim, CNC machined to for a precision fit and style like no other. Rims come complete with appropriate hub, bearings and mounting hardware. Available in diameters from 16? to 23? and widths from 2.15? to 10.5? these awesome wheels can be ordered in flawless show quality chrome or black anodized with mill cut highlights. Additionally, PRO-ONE manufactures sprockets, rotors and pulleys to match all of their unique wheel designs. For complete details call 800-884-4173 or visit them on the Web at MIKE EGAN OF EGAN VINTAGE MOTORCYCLES REPORT– Got a message from Christian about needing a cylinder for a VL. Harley in their wisdom made 5 cylinder variations on VLs and no telling which are on his engine. I get $2500 up for a boreable bare set of two if I have them. When available, the cylinders will most likely need fin repair, valve seat repair, new guides and possibly sleeves as well as boring. I’m really only interested in selling those type components when I am doing the engine overhaul. He might be able to buy a whole VL engine somewhere and change out the top-end. –Mike NEW CROCKERS ARE COMING–I have attached photo’s of our Crocker Big and Small Tank original type transmission. The set up you see has shafts holding the two trans covers in place for set up. Once the trans is set up, the shafts and one cover are removed and inserted “cassette style” into the transmission case. I have also attached a photo of our team here at Crocker Motorcycle Company. People in the photo are Markus Karalash and Michael Schacht, founders, Daryl Tearne our designer (pointing) and Andy Schywiola our assembly technician. Marko Gofman our engineer did not get in on this pic. I will send you some pics of the concept bike next week when we get the parts back from painting. My cell number is 416 857-3191, although I may have a different number for the trip. If so, the new number will be on my voice message at my regular cell number. –Michael 
VRSCX (one year, limited)
XL50 (one year, limited)
FXSTD (Softail Deuce)
FLSTSC (Softail Springer Classic)
FLHRS (Road King Custom)
FXST (Softail Standard)
FXDWG (Dyna Wide Glide)
XL883R (883 Sportster Roadster) 
Suggested minimum riding experience: 3 years.
Begin lining up at 10am. Ride briefing at 10:45. Kickstands up at 11am. 
mfegan@inreach.com 
CROCKER MOTORCYCLES 
KUSTOM FAB IN HAWAII EXPANDING– As for us guys we are in the process of expanding. The business on the side of our moved out and we purchased his lot. It doesn?t have a whole lot of area, but anything will help. You know how expensive it is to get space in Hawaii, what we pay to rent to two small spaces we could probably could rent a small warehouse elsewhere.
Check this chop Roger built for his wife 9 yrs. ago…..
–Darren
Kustom Fab
ROYAL ENFIELD USA & CAF? PRESS UPDATE– Just released to our dealers and our Store REadership, this kit is a very sweet deal we’ve been working on! We can now offer a stunning “Classic” model of the Electra.
Successful in Europe, it effectively teams the great mechanics of the Electra with the vintage ambience of the Classic Enfields.
The Classic Electra is our stock Electra modified to include a new and handsome tank in either Green and Chrome or Black and Chrome, paired with a deeper-valenced and wider 350-style chrome front fender that’s very popular with classic bike enthusiasts.
First come, first serve, the first Classic Electras are here and only in limited quantities at this time from a Royal Enfield dealer, so you need to contact the dealer closest to you to get your hands on one. There is no guarantee on quantity and availability once the dealers start claiming them for their clients.
— by Classic Motorworks
1-800-201-7472
Fax 1-507-333-0714
1405 Cannon Circle, Suite 12, Faribault, MN 55021 USA
MOTORCYCLIST CHASES DOWN HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER– FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A member of a local motorcycle club took the law into his own hands when he chased after a driver who hit one of his fellow bikers and sped away Wednesday.
About 25 members of the Rough Riders motorcycle club were riding their bikes in formation at about 11:30 p.m. when, according to Angelo Fulford, “this car zigs in-between us and starts jamming his brakes, making bikes move off the side of the road.”
When the driver of the car actually hit one of the bikes and sped off, Fulford said he chased after the driver for about 15 minutes until he finally caught up with him at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
“He stopped, jumped out of his car and ran through the airport terminal, where I ran inside and took him down, brought him back outside and held him until the cops got here,” Fulford said.
The motorcyclist who was hit by the driver refused to go to the hospital and was treated at the scene. The driver, whose name has not been released, could be charged with leaving the scene of an accident with injuries.
“He’s trying to be like ‘The Fast and the Furious’ with the cars,” Rough Riders member Tony Perez said, adding that the driver was likely trying to imitate what he had seen in movies.?Channel 10 news.
–from Rogue
SHORTY ROAD RAGE NOW AVAILABLE FOR ?07 SFT– Ever since it?s introduction by Bassanipipes, the 2 into 1 ROAD RAGE has proven to be of the most potent exhaust systems on the market. Just released for ?07 Softail machines both head pipes are fit with bungs to accept factory oxygen sensors.
The system features a true reverse cone megaphone with removable spiral core baffle. Complete with mounting hardware and polished billet aluminum end cap, the SHORTY SFT ROAD RAGE retails for $549.00 with optional 3-piece heat shield set offered at $179.00.
As with all Bassanipipes the new ROAD RAGE is available in optional black thermal coat.
For complete details 866-439-4287 or visit them on the Web at
POT?S ACTIVE INGREDIENT HALTS LUNG CANCER GROWTH, BIKERNET MEDICAL STUDY REVEALS– Los Angeles, CA: The administration of THC significantly reduces lung tumor size and lesions, according to preclinical data presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Los Angeles.
Investigators at Harvard University’s Division of Experimental Medicine reported that THC inhibited the growth and spread of cells in vitro from two different lung cancer cell lines and from patient lung tumors. They also reported that THC administration reduced the growth of lung tumors in mice by more than 50 percent compared to untreated controls over a three-week period.
Researchers noted that THC appeared to block a specific cancer-causing protein in a manner similar to the pharmaceutical anti-cancer drugs Erbitux (Cetuximab) and Vectibix (Panitumumab).
Results of a large-scale, case-controlled study published last year found that smoking cannabis, even long-term, is not positively associated with increased incidence of lung-cancer. Investigators in that study noted that one subset of moderate lifetime users had an inverse association between cannabis use and lung cancer, leading them to speculate that cannabinoids may possess certain protective properties against the development of lung cancer in humans. Separate preclinical studies indicate that compounds in marijuana inhibit cancer cell growth in animals and in culture on a wide range of tumoral cell lines ?– including human breast carcinoma cells, human prostate carcimona cells, and human colectoral carcinoma cells, among others. Most recently, investigators at Madrid’s Complutense University, School of Biology, reported in the British Journal of Cancer that THC administration decreases recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (brain) tumor growth in patients diagnosed with the disease.
For more information, please contact Paul Armentano, NORML Senior Policy Analyst at paul@norml.org, or download the NORML white paper, “Cannabinoids as Cancer Hope,” available online at: http://www.norml.org/index.cfm
HARLEY-DAVIDSON TO PARTICIPATE IN LAUGHLIN RIVER RUN– More than 70,000 motorcycles will roll into Laughlin, Nev., April 25 -29 for the 25th annual Laughlin River Run. At the River Run, Harley-Davidson will offer demo rides of various motorcycles Thursday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Harley-Davidson New Product Trailer will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Enthusiasts will also be able to experience Harley-Davidson?s iconic history by visiting the H-D Traveling Museum, open the same hours as the New Product Trailer.
The Laughlin River Run also features a bike show, Miss Laughlin River Run Pageant, as well as two Poker Runs. The first Poker Run, hosted on Friday by the Southern California Harley-Davidson Dealers Association, will support the American Veterans through a $10 donation from all participants. For anyone who misses this Poker Run, or any participants who had so much fun they want to participate in a second Poker Run, the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino will host a Poker Run on Saturday.
WHERE?S MY MARGARITA?–Where?s the girls, the action, the help with the Sunday Post. Wait a goddamn minute. I?m tough, I?m not a whinner. I can make my own goddamn peanut and butter sandwiches. This Post wasn?t bad, if I don?t say so myself.
So what?s on for next week. Another GOB will hit the Cantina Tomorrow. I?m hoping Mike Egan will send a Digital Discovery. If you run across something truly rare from our industry and history, don?t hesitate to send me a jpg image and a brief description. Hell, it could be a rare gun, knife, war artifact, old engine part, whatever. We have more bike features coming and three techs are headed this way. We have a PM brake install, a D&D touring pipe install, and we?re planning a twin cam, switch from chain driven cams to S&S gear driven cams with Gene?s Speed shop doing the install.
There?s more coming on the Bonneville Worlds Fastest Indian research study. We?re making progress on aerodynamic design elements. You?ll read all about it in our lastest Assalt Weapan Report.
So Hang on as we step into the new week, now let?s ride.
Ride Forever,
–Bandit
