Hey,
Started to feel strange about a week ago. I worked and napped too regularly. I tired too quickly, and then I started to feel a thickness in my neck and lungs. This weekend it hit me hard just as I was taking break-in laps with the Panhead.
I finally got it to run consistently. Mostly carb, but could have been this Mallory electronic auto-advance distributor. I don’t think it wanted to retard when I backed off the carb. I’m still looking for an old used stock one.
Okay, so I rode it maybe a ½-mile and was having a blast in rush hour traffic, which wasn’t a good notion. The brakes don’t work well and the front brake is a shaky drum unit. I wasn’t using the rear disc hardly at all.
My position wasn’t perfect and I returned to the shop. I was able to move the seat forward, the bars back and the shifter arm down.
Let’s hit the news and I’ll tell you about the three-mile ride on Thursday after the news.
Something Weird This Way Comes: 2018 Sturgis Buffalo Chip Lost & Found
Another Sturgis Rally has come and gone, which means hordes of fans and friends have passed through the legendary Sturgis Buffalo Chip gates once more to party at the Largest Music Festival in Motorcycling.
Each year, these folks bring a host of strange and wonderful objects to make their party one for the books, and it never fails that many guests leave some of that stuff behind for the Chip’s staff to discover. See what the cat dragged in this year to make staffers to scratch their heads in the 2018 Sturgis Buffalo Chip Lost And Found!
See what’s in the Buffalo Chip’s 2018 Lost and Found!
BIKERNET TRIKES SPONSORS THE FIRST ALL-TRIKE SHOW IN THE TOWN OF BUFFALO CHIP–I have the following info from Rhonda about the winners of the Three-Dom show:
OEM Division – Bernadette Adams – 2015 Harley-Davidson Free-Wheeler
Conversion Division – Lonnie Blum – 2001 Harley-Davidson Sportster (Lonnie is our Veteran and also took 2nd in the People’s Choice Category)
Custom Division – Stephanie Komro – Homebuilt by Carey Shoemaker. Stephanie did her dad proud that day, she also took first place in the People’s Choice Division.
The Bikernet Staff has committed to sending gift packages with signed books to each winner.
–Marilyn Stemp
Editor:
•Iron Trader News
•Kiwi Indian E-News
•Sturgis Rider Daily
Marilynstemp@gmail.com
828-205-8482
The Hooligan 2-into-1 Exhaust for Harley-Davidson Sportsters
Lowbrow Customs has teamed up with Kerker to bring you the Hooligan Exhaust. An affordable, USA-made, high-performance, 2 into 1 exhaust system for your Harley-Davidson. This expertly crafted exhaust fits Harley-Davidson Sportsters 1986 through 2003.
“Our goal was to create an exhaust system we would want to run on our bikes,” says Tyler Malinky of Lowbrow Customs. “We continuously find ourselves drawn to performance race vehicles. Form follows function, and the 2 into 1 Hooligan Exhaust is all business.” The Hooligan Exhaust is so named because the marriage of high performance and plenty of ground clearance make this an excellent exhaust for Hooligan racing. This exhaust performs as well on the street as it does on the track, and pairs well with stock as well as custom Harley-Davidson Sportsters.
The Hooligan Exhaust features a full-flow mechanical core for a deep throaty sound and excellent mid to top end performance. If shifts the power curve shift to the top end, providing high RPM power noticeable at once to the rider. A 2.5” non-baffle, mechanical core provides a deep, bottomless rumble. The core and packing are rebuildable for minimum maintenance.
This system offers a trouble-free install, and this exhaust system works perfectly with OEM mid controls or forward controls. Installs using the stock OEM exhaust mount (not included). Made in the USA. The Hooligan 2-into-1 Exhaust retails for $399.95.
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QUICK, OPEN THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY–First Condom
“I recall my first time with a condom, I was 16 or so. I went in to buy a packet of condoms at the pharmacy. There was this beautiful woman assistant behind the counter, and she could see that I was new at it. She handed me the package and asked if I knew how to wear one. I honestly answered, ‘No, this is my first time.’
So she unwrapped the package, took one out and slipped it over her thumb. She cautioned me to make sure it was on tight and secure. I apparently still looked confused. So, she looked all around the store to see if it was empty. It was empty.
‘Just a minute,’ she said, and walked to the door, and locked it. Taking my hand, she led me into the back room, unbuttoned her blouse and removed it. She unhooked her bra and laid it aside. ‘Do these excite you?’ She asked.
Well, I was so dumb-struck that all I could do was nod my head. She then said it was time to slip the condom on. As I was slipping it on, she dropped her skirt, removed her panties and lay down on a desk.
‘Well, come on’, she said, ‘We don’t have much time.’ So I climbed on her. It was so wonderful, that unfortunately, I could no longer hold back and KAPOWWWWWWWW, I was done within a few moments.
She looked at me with a bit of a frown. ‘Did you put that condom on?’ she asked.
I said, ‘I sure did,’ and held up my thumb to show her.
She fainted.”
–from Rogue
ACLU Sticks Up for the NRA?!
The civil rights group and the gun rights group don’t always get along. But today the ACLU stuck up for the NRA against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
ACLU/NRAACLU/NRAThe official view of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) remains that the Second Amendment protects a “collective right rather than an individual right.” But the organization nevertheless is helping the National Rifle Association (NRA) fend off extralegal attempts by New York state officials to put it out of business.
In a brief filed in federal court today, the ACLU argues that New York’s strong-arm efforts to compel banks and insurance companies to ditch the NRA as a customer represent a glaring violation of the First Amendment.
“Although public officials are free to express their opinions and may condemn viewpoints or groups they view as inimical to public welfare, they cannot abuse their regulatory authority to retaliate against disfavored advocacy organizations and to impose burdens on those organizations’ ability to conduct lawful business,” the ACLU says.
The ACLU’s amicus brief never says the group agrees with the NRA’s positions on firearms. Instead, the group invokes a long series of First Amendment cases to argue that the regulators should not use their power in office to punish political enemies.
A timeline prepared by the NRA suggests the intimidation campaign began last fall. The anti-gun group Everytown for Gun Safety met with New York officials in September 2017; a month later the Department of Financial Services began an investigation that started with a company called Lockton, which administered the NRA-branded personal liability insurance program known as Carry Guard. Despite a 20-year relationship, Lockton responded by abruptly ditching the NRA as a customer in February; so did Chubb and Lloyd’s.
Emboldened by this initial success, Maria Vullo, head of the state’s Department of Financial Services, sent a pair of ominous letters to all banks, financial institutions, and insurers licensed to do business in New York. Vullo warned companies to sever ties with pro-Second Amendment groups that “promote guns and lead to senseless violence” and instead heed “the voices of the passionate, courageous, and articulate young people” calling for more restrictions on firearms. All companies receiving the letter, she advised, should “review any relationships they have with the NRA or similar gun promotion organizations, and to take prompt actions to managing these risks and promote public health and safety.”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo underlined the regulatory threat in a tweet the next day: “The NRA is an extremist organization. I urge companies in New York State to revisit any ties they have to the NRA and consider their reputations, and responsibility to the public.'”
As a result of those not-very-veiled threats, the NRA says, multiple banks withdrew bids to provide basic depository services. The NRA is also worried about being able to continue producing its NRA TV channel, with hosts including Dana Loesch and Cam Edwards, unless it can obtain normal media liability insurance. (In May, NRA sued Cuomo and Vullo, a former Cuomo aide when he was attorney general. See J.D. Tuccille’s Reason coverage at the time.)
“If Cuomo can do this to the NRA, then conservative governors could have their financial regulators threaten banks and financial institutions that do business with any other group whose political views the governor opposes,” David Cole, the ACLU’s legal director, wrote in a blog post today. “The First Amendment bars state officials from using their regulatory power to penalize groups merely because they promote disapproved ideas.”
Today’s brief filed by the ACLU points to examples of how liberal groups like Planned Parenthood can also be targeted by governments based on their political views, an approach that courts have shot down on First Amendment grounds:
For example, in Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Herbert, the Tenth Circuit held that the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah (PPAU) was likely to succeed on its First and Fourteenth Amendment claims by showing that the Government of Utah denied the PPAU government funding in order to “weaken the organization and hamper its ability to provide and advocate for abortion services.” To be sure, unbiased application of facially neutral laws does not violate the First Amendment simply because those laws may affect expressive associations. But the NRA has alleged that Defendants are explicitly targeting the NRA based on its hostility to the NRA’s viewpoint and its difference whether Defendants are attempting to suppress a “particularized” instance of speech or “gun promotion” writ large.
For its part, New York State insists that Cuomo’s and Vullo’s warnings that regulated businesses should ditch the NRA and other pro-Second Amendment groups are perfectly legal.
The letters to regulated companies “do not constitute unconstitutional threats as a matter of law,” New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said in a brief filed on August 3. The brief adds: “The Guidance Letters encouraged insurers and financial institutions to evaluate and manage risks that might arise from their dealings with gun promotion organizations in the face of the polarized political debate. Both the Guidance Letters and the Press Releases are classic government speech—they are expressing the government’s position in the public gun control debate, which is entirely permissible.”
Cuomo’s social media announcements aren’t likely to help his attorney general fend off the NRA’s allegations of unlawful bias. Earlier this month, Cuomo posted on Facebook: “The regulations NY put in place are working. We’re forcing the NRA into financial jeopardy. We won’t stop until we shut them down.”
Two days later, Cuomo, who is fending off a primary challenge next month from actress Cynthia Nixon, posted on YouTube: “New York has the NRA on the brink. Together, we can end the gun lobby’s stranglehold on American politics.” Cuomo titled his video: “Stand with us in the fight to end the NRA’s stranglehold on American politics. VOTE SEPT. 13”
Cuomo, of course, is the same vocally anti-gun governor who, in 2013, promised the “toughest assault weapons ban in the country”—which became a problem when he belatedly realized he mandated gun magazines that don’t actually exist. As far back as 2000, Cuomo referred to supporters of gun rights as “the enemy.”
In its own supplemental brief filed today, the NRA warns of the slippery slope that occurs when regulatory scrutiny is weaponized against political enemies: “The state could enact onerous building regulations, then make it known that such regulations will be enforced only against landlords that rent space to the NAACP or Black Lives Matter. Or, the state could begin charging a sales tax for internet purchases, but only enforce the tax against merchants who stock books by a dissident author. The Court should not indulge this end-run around equal protection.”
A hearing on New York State’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit is set for September 10.
–Declan McCullagh
REASON.COM
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QUICK, OPEN THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY–A teacher goes around her class asking each of the kids, what do they need at home?
1st kid says “A computer”. Teacher replies “That’d be very useful. Every family should have a computer”
2nd kid says “We really need a new lawn mower” and the teacher responds by saying that’s an excellent choice.
Little Johnny pops up and says: “At my house we don’t need anything.”
The teacher asks him to think again carefully because everybody needs something.
Little Johnny replies, “Nope I’m sure! When my sister started dating a Muslim, I remember Dad saying, “Well, that’s the last fucking thing we need.”
–David Campbell
Bikernet Correspondent
Earl’s Garage
REAL NEWS PRESIDENT TRUMP DOESN’T WANT YOU TO MISS
Mainstream Media vs. Main Street USA
-RealClearPolitics
Steve Cortes tells a tale of two Americas: “the concerns of Mainstream Media vs. those of Main Street USA.” Those worlds couldn’t be more different. “Far from New York newsrooms and the Georgetown salons of Washington lobbyists, Americans grasp the reality of a stronger and more prosperous country,” Cortes explains.
US Stock Market Sets Record-Long Bull Run
-Fox Business
Leia Klingel reports that U.S. stocks have set a record for the longest bull market in history. “Many believe it has plenty of room to run. Consumer spending makes up about two-thirds of U.S. economic growth, and economic data shows that consumers are confident in their finances.”
ICE Deports Former Nazi Labor Camp Guard Who Lied About His Past
-Washington Examiner
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement early Tuesday deported a former Nazi SS labor camp guard to Germany, pursuant to a 2004 deportation order,” Pete Kasperowicz reports. “Jakiw Palij, 95, had lived in Queens, N.Y., for decades, according to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. She said President Trump prioritized Palij’s deportation after ‘extensive negotiations’ with Germany.”
I Was an Astronaut. We Need a Space Force.
-The Washington Post
Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Terry Virts, who served as commander of the International Space Station, explains the importance of President Trump’s vision for a sixth branch of our military. “There has been a fair amount of criticism stemming from a lack of understanding about what such a force would be,” Virts says.
President Trump Awards Medal of Honor to Fallen Airman John Chapman
-USA Today
“President Donald Trump on Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor to the widow of John Chapman, a U.S. Air Force technical sergeant, who died at 36 in Afghanistan,” Caroline Simon reports. “In this final act of supreme courage, John gave his life for his fellow warriors,” President Trump said at a ceremony in the White House.
A Better Way to Ensure Clean, Reliable Energy
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler breaks down how under the Trump Administration’s new Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, “the era of top-down, one-size-fits-all federal mandates is over.” Unlike the Obama-era Clean Power Plan—which was formally disapproved in a bipartisan act of Congress—the ACE rule appreciates that “reliable and affordable energy is the foundation of America’s strength.”
Trump: ‘Open-Border Extremists’ Oppose ICE, Border Patrol
-The Daily Signal
“President Donald Trump praised the actions of federal immigration agents Monday and denounced ‘open-borders extremists,’” Fred Lucas reports. “Any politician who puts criminal aliens before American citizens should find a new line of work,” the President said at a ceremony honoring immigration law enforcement officers.
Media’s Biggest Kavanaugh Misses: Aspiring Hit Pieces on Supreme Court Pick Draw Mockery
-Fox News
The most recent attempt by the left to discredit Judge Brett Kavanaugh? “A detailed New Yorker analysis of his college sports reporting three decades ago,” Brian Flood writes, “which quotes one academic, somehow, asserting that Kavanaugh’s college basketball articles show he would endorse ‘unlimited Presidential power.’”
KEEP THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY OPEN FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL–Happy Sunday y’all!
A small church had a very attractive big-busted organist, Linda, and her breasts were so large that they bounced and jiggled while she played the organ.
Unfortunately, she distracted the congregation considerably.
The very proper church ladies were appalled. They said something had to be done about this or they would have to get another organist.
So one of the ladies approached Linda very discreetly about the problem, and told her to mash up some green persimmons and rub them on her nipples and over her breasts, which should cause them to shrink in size, but warned her not to taste any of the green persimmons, because they are so sour they will make your mouth pucker up, and you won’t be able to talk properly for a while.
The voluptuous organist reluctantly agreed to try it.
The following Sunday morning the minister walked up to the pulpit and said,
“Dew to thircumsthanthis bewond my contwol, we will not hab a thermon tewday.”
–from Rogue
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Tuesday Aug. 28 at 4pm till we run out.
Welcome to MOONEYES Magazine —One week left for August. YOKOHAMA HOT ROD CUSTOM SHOW 2018 (HCS2018) is starting to activate!
This week’s MMM will release the completed HCS2018 Poster, Guest Car and Motorcycle, the Spotlights and the detailed information for the Entry Registration!! All of these information is available on HCS Official Website so, please have a check.
Furthermore, Online Shop Limited Stuck in the ‘70s Long sleeve T-shirt Pre-order has started! Wildman design that reminiscent the ‘70s. The design is printed with faded printing that gives some retro look! Then item that is recommended for the coming season.
THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY STAYS OPEN–
I received a phone call from a gorgeous ex-girlfriend who this morning called ‘out-of-the-blue’ to see if I was still around.
We lost track of time, chatting about the wild, romantic times we used to enjoy together.
I couldn’t believe it when she asked if I’d be interested in meeting up, and rekindling a little of that “old magic”.
“Wow!” I was flabbergasted.
“I don’t know if I could keep pace with you now”, I said. “I’m a bit older and a bit greyer and balder than when you last saw me. Plus I don’t really have the energy I used to have.”
She just giggled and said she was sure I would “rise to the challenge”.
“Yeah.” I said. “Just so long as you don’t mind a waistline that’s a few inches wider these days! Not to mention my total lack of muscle tone… everything is sagging, my teeth are a bit yellowed, and I am developing jowls like a Great Dane!”
She laughed and told me to stop being so silly.
She teased me- saying that tubby, gray haired, older men were cute, and she was sure I would still be a great lover!
Anyway, she giggled and said, “I’ve put on a few pounds myself!”
So I told her to FUCK OFF.
–from Steve Bauman
SLINGSHOT CELEBRATES NATIONAL DOG DAY–Happy National Dog Day from all of us at Slingshot®! We know that getting behind the wheel and taking a joyride will give you as much joy as seeing these Doodles getting ready to ride in their favorite Slingshot!
Stop in to your dealer this week to experience…
THE ULTIMATE JOYRIDE™.
HEY JUDE COMES TO BIKERNET–“Hey Jude,” I Hear It’s Your Birthday
Fifty years ago, The Beatles released a Paul McCartney-penned single that would become the greatest power ballad of all time. A look back on the ambiguous meaning and unambiguous staying power of the Fab Four classic.
It is a testament to the awesome power of “Hey Jude”—arguably the single best Beatles song, inarguably among the longest, proudly one of the most joyous Beatles songs, and quietly one of the saddest—that it has inspired me to recommend a segment of “Carpool Karaoke.” Even if you usually find James Corden’s thirsty viral series way too cloying, the Paul McCartney installment, first aired in June and reworked earlier this week into an hour-long special, is a goofy, tear-jerking joybomb. It is McCartney’s job, after all, to find transcendence in the very corniest of notions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=A_MjCqQoLLA
They kick off with “Drive My Car.” They sing “Penny Lane” whilst tooling down Penny Lane. Corden nearly cries during “Let It Be.” They revisit McCartney’s old Liverpool haunts, including his childhood home, where he plays “When I’m Sixty-Four” on the piano. (He is now 76.)
They wind up at a local pub; suddenly, the ecstatic opening chord to a “A Hard Day’s Night” rings out, and McCartney’s full band whimsically materializes for a surprise set that includes “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” “Love Me Do,” and “Back in the U.S.S.R.”
Somehow you can sense a climactic “Hey Jude” coming long before it arrives, but the mass bombast of that blissfully endless Nahhh nah nah nah-nah-nah-nah coda bowls you over anyway, and leaves at least one woman in the pub wiping away tears of her own. The song turns 50 years old on Sunday. It has lost none of its power to conjure pure elation from pure melancholy, and vice versa.
The Beatles released the “Hey Jude” single, with the John Lennon-penned “Revolution” as the B-side, on August 26, 1968 via Apple Records, the label arm of the band’s hilariously utopian boondoggle of a then-new company.
Apple Corps Ltd, you see, aimed to revolutionize everything from music to film to electronics to schools to global economics. “Ending war, reshaping capitalism, rescuing artists, reinventing education: There were no limits to the Beatles’ hubris and hope,” writes Peter Doggett early in his 2009 book You Never Give Me Your Money, a history of the band’s epochal breakup and its aftermath, in which the hubris soon overwhelmed the hope entirely.
By Rob Harvilla
BRAND New Bikernet Reader Comment!–
SPECIAL MILWAUKEE SAFETY ALERT
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/SPECIAL_MILWAUKEE_SAFETY_ALERT.aspx
Have a look at how ordinary humans in USA were riding motorcycles on the city streets with thick and deep rail tracks without killing themselves.
In minute 02:07 it seems there are rail tracks and highly skilled daredevil stuntmen riding a motorcycle with a pillion passenger.
Well, don’t try this at home without expert supervision from your lawyer.
Chasing ambulance is a respectable American profession but yes soon all motorcycle manufacturers will indeed be sued for selling these dangerous motorcycles which are not able to balance itself on two wheels. That is the next big industry lawsuit coming up.
Harley-Davidson will have to get incorporated in some other nation just to survive.
–Dr. Goldfoot
richpolitician@capitol.com
Washington
NEWS FROM THE SALTY FRONT–Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trails 2018
The Stage Is Set And The Records Hang ready To Fall.
So Speed Week has come and gone at the Bonneville Salt Flats but for those of us only interested in the two-wheel variety of speed freak fun, the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials are just starting.
For me this is a bittersweet return. After many years away from what I have become to know as a second home, I am back among old friends and family. The salt conditions are, as many folks have reported, the best they have been in ten years.
With the weather report looking clear into next week it would seem that each of the 250 some registered riders are poised to smash the record books.
With the track set up complete, we spent the day watching all the riders shiver nervously as they stood in line for tech inspection.
Scrutineering, as it is called, is run by Drew Gatewood and he has broken many hearts at the Speed Trials over the years, exactly what I am hoping doesn’t happen to me this year.
All in all it seems as if the perfect conditions are set to meet the perfect weather and some of the longest standing records may fall this week at the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trails. Until I have more Intel, this is your BikerNet embedded reporter… Out.
–Chris Callen
Supreme Leader
Cycle Source Magazine
See his whole tamale report later on Bikernet later today or tomorrow.–Bandit
http://www.youtube.com/embed/wSuH9u0kvhU?rel=0
EL WAGGS VIDEO OF THE WEEK–
Makes you earn that glass of wine.
Wine Bottle Opener…
Every home should have one.
–El Waggs
ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE—But a caught a mung and hit’s holding me down. I wanted to roll to the Long Beach Hot Rod Swap meet this morning and look for a truck. Damn, Jeremiah might have encouraged me, but he’s in trouble with the lovely Honor again.
Okay, so I rode the Panhead about three or four miles, got gas and peeled back to the headquarters. At speed the rear chain banged the fender. I thought I cut it with plenty of room but no and I went to work on that puppy.
I also thought I had a tight enough clamp over the outside throttle cable housing, but it would slip. I pulled it apart and dug around the shot for a stop/guide. I think I discovered a way to go and made it work. The scooter feels more complete every time I ride it.
Yesterday, between bouts of DayQuil I started to assemble Christian’s Pan bobber in a knuckle frame with a slightly modified 45 springer front end. You’ll see a report shortly.
It’s nap time.
Ride Free Forever,
–Bandit
