V-Twin Expo Sunday Post for February 9, 2014

 

 

 

Bandit peeled out of here Friday on his way to the V-Twin Expo in Cincinatti, OH. Leaving the rest of the lowly crew behind to fend for themselves. We gave him instructions to keep us updated on the happenings at the show but we have not heard a thing since he landed in Cinci.  and we are pretty sure he is hidden away in a hotel room somewhere with a busty little redhead.

 

 

 

Thankfully we sent WildMan Ray Wheeler with him and he was able to send us a few photos from the show, but not any updates, so we will just have to wait until they get back to headquarters and the hangovers subside. Then maybe we can tie them down to their desks and get the details from the show?!

 

Hang On this will be a fast one!

 

 

 

Cantina Bad Joke Library is Open-– Bubba called his attorney and asked, “Is It true theys suin them cigarette companies fer kauzin people to git cancer?””Yes, Bubba, sure is true,” responded the lawyer. “And now someone is suin them fast food restaurants fer makin’ them fat an cloggin’ their arteries with all them burgers ‘n fries, Is that true, Mista Lawyer?” “Sure is, Bubba.” “And that lady sued McDonalds for millions when she was given that hot coffee that she ordered and spilt?” “Yep.” “And that football player sued that university when he gradiated and still couldn’t read?” “That’s right,” said the lawyer. “But why are you asking?” “Well, I was a thinkin’ . . . What I want to know is, Kin I sue Budweiser fer all them ugly women I slept with?”

 

–from Rogue and Jerry

 

 

 

 

 

 

Readers Comments– DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION THURSDAY NEWS for February 6, 2014

 

 

Wow!! Thanks for the great issue and for telling us about The Middle East

Memorial Wall in Illinois. I live in Illinois and knew nothing about this

but Bikernet was here to inform us. 

 

 Doug Watson

 dwatson144@comcast.net

 Rolling Meadows, IL

 

 

 

 

 

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have responded to the Congressional letter sent by long time motorcycle advocate and Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) champion Tomas Petri (R-WI). The letter asked the CDC to focus on areas relative to their expertise and not involve themselves in any way with motorcycle safety. Petri was joined by fellow Congressmen Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Davis (R-IL), Runyan (R-NJ), Harris (R-MD), Ribble (R-WI), Griffin (R-AR), Walberg (R-MI), Kline (R-MN), Paulsen (R-MN), and Peterson (R-MN).

 

The letter also asked the CDC to leave motorcycle safety to the relevant federal agencies such as National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Department of Transportation. 

 

The CDC response is predictable government product. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death in the first 30 years of human life and how the CDC is uniquely positioned as the nation?s public health protection agency to ensure the most current science is available to keep people safe.

 

According to the CDC 41% of all motorcycle operators who died in 2010 were not wearing a helmet. That means the majority of those who died in 2010 were wearing a helmet. 59% or most of the people who died in 2010 were helmeted, not exactly a ringing endorsement for the life saving ability of helmets.

 

The CDC goes on to claim they are addressing motorcycle safety in the same manner as other public health issues, such as heart disease, asthma, and cancer. We define the problem, identify the risk factors, and assess prevention strategies.

 

The Motorcycle Riders Foundation feels prevention strategies are the best way to save lives as well, by preventing the crash from ever happening. In multiple conversations between the MRF and the CDC it has been clear that the CDC has no interest in rider education and repeatedly made it clear that rider education programs and motorist motorcycle awareness campaigns play no part in the prevention of crashes. So prevention strategies for the CDC are simply to pass mandatory helmet laws in each state. While ignoring every other proven life saving strategies.

 

The letter also attempts to insert itself with the other government agencies and how they all need to work together to keep everybody safer. 

 

It is unlikely that we will sway the views of the CDC to a more comprehensive approach to motorcycle safety. Its reasons like this that we as a motorcycle community need to stay involved and united. The MRF thanks ABATE of Wisconsin for their relationship with Congressman Petri through out the years. 

 

You can read the full letter here  www.mrf.org/pdf/CDCResponse1-14.pdf

 

 

 

 

BAD JOKE COFFEE BREAK–An Amish woman and her daughter were riding in an old buggy one cold blistery day.

 

The daughter said to her mother,

‘My hands are freezing cold.’

 

The mother replied,

‘Put them between your legs and your body heat will warm them up.’

The daughter did, and her hands warmed up.

 

The next day the daughter was riding with her boyfriend who said,

‘My  hands are freezing cold.’

 

The girl replied,

‘Put them between my legs and the warmth of my body will warm them up..’

He did and warmed his hands.

 

The following day the boyfriend was again in the buggy with the daughter.

He said, ‘My nose is cold .’

 

The girl replied ‘Put it between my legs, the warmth of my body will warm it up.’

He did and warmed his nose.

 

The day after the boyfriend was again driving with the daughter, and he said, 

‘My penis is frozen solid.’

 

The next day, the daughter was driving in the buggy with her mother again,

and she asks,

‘Have you ever heard of a penis?’

 

Concerned the mother said,

‘Why yes….. why do you ask?’

 

The daughter replies,

‘They make an awful mess when they defrost, don’t they!!!’

 

–from Jim Waggaman

 

 

 

 

 

 

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So you want to stream audio from your phone to your bike? We hear you and finally you can! Introducing the NEW Rockford Fosgate Universal Bluetooth Adapter! This trick accessory turns your head unit into a modern music machine! No cable from your phone or MP3 player into the deck, no double-stick tape holding your device to the fairing… those days are through!

 

 

 

Just enable the Bluetooth in your phone, search for the Rockford Fosgate device, click play, and BOOM! Your music is streamed wirelessly, and your Bagger can rock! We shop tested this device here at Bagger Nation world headquarters, and it’s roadworthy and rider approved! This accessory changes everything… Turn on your music, stick your phone in your pocket and ride!

 

Instructions included.

 

 

Paul Yaffe’s Bagger Nation

602.840.4205 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a good one, and I’ll do my best to tell an accurate tale. Richard Kranzler, our esteemed Bikernet Baggers, all-powerful editor in chief, sent me a couple of shots of this bike with a note. “The HORSE turned it down,” he said. “Can we help a brother out?”

 

Of course, my answer was, “Yes, goddammit.”

 

– See more at: http://www.bikernet.com/pages/BIG_CARB_MONSTER.aspx

 

 

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I finaly signed up!!!!!  couldn’t get past having to pay… this is a first 😀 but I think it will be worth it…

 

I found 2 articles about Killing Machine Choppers…and “Hun” run up to the Redwoods with Algie

 

I cant even find the first 2 now… do you know if there is a 3rd chapter?? an where is it located??

 

UnclePsycho

www.shovelhead.us

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Word of the Day — dulcify DUHL-suh-fahy  , verb; 

1. to make more agreeable; mollify; appease.

2. to sweeten.

 

The delectable little Dutch songs with which she used to dulcify  the house grew less and less frequent, and she would forget her sewing, and look wistfully in her father’s face as he sat pondering by the fireside. — Washington Irving, “Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams,” Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. , 1824

 

Time had not dulcified  the tempers of the three elder. — William Blackwood, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , 1831

 

Origin: Dulcify  is derived from the Latin word dulcis  meaning “sweet.” It entered English around 1600.

 

 

 

 

 

5 Ball Racing T-Shirts now available at J&P Cycles, Check out page 25 of the New 2014 catalog. Or just click here to go straight to J&P Cycles website.

 

 

 

 

 

Throwback Bobber Style And Take-No-Prisonners Attitude — Victory Motorcycles welcomes another model to its expanding line of heavyweight American cruisers: the Gunner. Victory designed the Gunner as a “blend of heavyweight motorcycle with V-twin muscle and an edgy bobber style without compromise”. Unveiled today at the IMS show un Chicago, the Gunner is sure to turn heads and hopefully win hearts too. With a retail price set at $12,999 for the U.S., the Gunner strives to leave the competition in the dust. 

 

– See more at: http://www.bikernet.com/pages/Victory_Motorcycles_Launches_The_Gunner.aspx

 

 

 

We at Bikernet Baggers have had a crazy two weeks. Thanks to LifeStyle Cycles we were able to acquire a 1997 FLH as a long term project bike. The 5-Ball Bagger was picked up from Lifestyle Cycle as soon as I could arrange flights from the secluded compound in the Pacific Northwest down to the Galactic headquarters of Bikernet hidden away in Wilmington, Ca. 

 

Once I arrived in SOCAL it was off and running, a week of non stop bagger changes to get the 5-Ball Bagger ready for its 1200 mile ride to it’s new home up north.  Do you really think I could ride a stock bagger?

 

 

 

Before we even left Lifestyle Cycle we installed Samson True Duals Exhaust with the help of the crew of Lifestyle Cycle’s service department.  We had this accomplished in 4 hours and then I was on my way to see Bandit and the rest of the Bikernet staff.  Special thanks to Mike Weber and his excellent crew of mechanics.

 

Upon arriving at Headqaurters I discovered that Bandit had just completed a photoshoot  that had filled the shop with half naked babes, seems I am always a day late and a dollar short. Guess, like you the reader, I will just have to be satisfied with the photos.

 

 

The next three days was spent wrenching on the new bike, and figuring out some of its idiosyncrasies. I made some much needed mods that included 13″ Twin Peak bars by LA Choppers, HED/LED headlight by Primo Rivera, Profile Seat by Saddlemen, and brake rotors and pads by Lyndell Racing Brakes. We will be covering all these techs over the next few months on Bikernet Baggers so make sure you are following us on Facebook so you can get it while it is hot.

 

 

 

After a week of wrenching and nights spent out on the town with the Bikernet crew: I would fill you in on the debauchery of those late nights spent with the crew of Bikernet but that will have to wait until the statute of limitations runs out. I was more than ready to fire up the 5-Ball Bagger and point the front wheel north on I-5 for the 1200 mile ride home. The bike was flawless, the mods we made perfect, after riding choppers and pro-street bikes for 30 years I really had no idea what I was missing. Those 1200 miles passed under my tires way too fast and way too comfortably and I would have kept riding if I wasn’t worried that the Mistress would go find a younger man to replace me.

 

Richard Kranzler

Editor Bikernet Baggers

 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s exactly how I felt when I first got a look at George Bennett’s the owner of G and B Customs first bagger build, “Copper Seduction”.  She isn’t the most dressed up Bagger in the parking lot but everyone in town is talking about her and its dressed just right for a night on the town whether that is the local strip club or a 5 star steak house, like that cute little thing at the gas station this bike is able to fit in anywhere. 

 

See more at: http://www.bikernetbaggers.com/pages/Copper_Seduction.aspx

 

 

 

 

With the Cincinnati Big Show over the weekend, Headquarters in California emptied out as they all raced to catch their flights on Friday afternoon.  The responsibility to keep Bikernet running smoothly fell on the shoulders of the Pacific Northwest Headquarters folks.  Emails kept appearing from Bandit…..Here’s some stuff I’ve collected so far. I’ll send anything I run across before I peel out.

 

We did vaguely hear the promise of a report or two from the show, but guess the guys were too busy to put digits to devices, and all we received were some great photos.  Thanks to Ray Wheeler for the photos!

 

So, we cobbled together bits and pieces, and here is your blast from the V-Twin Expo in Cinncinati. –Mistress Chris

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, daylight is fast fading, and the guys are on their way back to sunny California. We kept the ship afloat, and even managed a Sunday Post…..

 

Enjoy!

 

Mistress Chris and Bikernet Bagger Editor, Richard Kranzler