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A GREAT BIKERNET.COM HISTORY FIND– A team of archaeologists was excavating in Israel when they came upon a cave. Written across the wall of the cave were the following symbols: A woman, a donkey, a shovel, a fish and the Star of David. It was considered a unique find and the writings were said to be at least three thousand years old! The piece of stone was removed, brought to the museum, where archaeologists from around the world came to study the ancient symbols.
They held a huge meeting after months of conferences to discuss the meaning of the marking. The President of the society pointed to first drawing and said: “This is a woman. We can see these people held women in high esteem. You can also tell they were intelligent, as the next symbol is a donkey, so they were smart enough to have animals help them till the soil. The next drawing is a shovel, which means they had tools to help them. Even further proof of their high intelligence is the fish which means that if a famine hit the earth and food didn’t grow, they seek food from the sea.
The last symbol appears to be the Star of David which means they were evidently Hebrews.” The audience applauded enthusiastically.
Then, a little old Jewish man stood up in the back of the room and said, “Idiots, Hebrew is read from right to left…… It says: ‘Holy Mackerel, Dig The Ass On That Woman’
–from Weasel Dave
ESTOK RIDES BUELL TO THUNDERBIKE WIN AT BARBER–Victory Gives Estok Lead in Formula USA Season Points Race.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Aug. 14, 2005) – Millville & Wildwood Harley-Davidson/Buell rider David Estok took his Buell Firebolt to victory and put his team into the series points lead at the Formula USA Thunderbike National at Barber Motorsports Park.
Estok was the top qualifier for the event and led from the start of the 14-lap Thunderbike national, but was hounded until the final lap by Hal’s Performance Advantage/Richie Morris Racing rider Dan Bilansky. During the course of the race, Bilansky set a new race lap record of 1:34.004.
“Dan challenged me throughout the race, but I held on in the end for the win,” said Estok. “I’m excited to be on top of the points race with two races remaining.”Bilansky finished second aboard a Buell Firebolt. CAD Cycles rider David Yaakov was third on a Suzuki. Sound Waves/Hal’s Performance Advantage rider Sam Rozynski finished fourth on a Buell Firebolt, followed by Blue Springs Harley-Davidson/Buell rider Walt Sipp, also on a Buell Firebolt. Buell riders claimed four of the top five positions in the race.
After six of eight Formula USA Thunderbike National events, Estok leads the Thunderbike series with 159 points, as Yaakov dropped to second with 149 points. Sam Rozynski is third with 100 points, followed by teammate Joe Rozynski with 99 points. Hal’s Performance Advantage/Richie Morris Racing rider Clint Brotz sits in fifth with 97 points, and Bilansky and Harding Harley-Davidson/Buell rider Bryan Bemisderfer are tied for sixth with 91 points. Seven of the top 10 riders in the points race are aboard Buell motorcycles.
The next event on the Formula USA schedule is Sept. 9-11 at the Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, Ill.The Formula USA National Thunderbike series is a horsepower-to-weight ratio restricted class, open to a variety of production-based motorcycles. Buell-mounted riders compete in the eight-event 2005 Thunderbike series race for a share of the $70,500 contingency fund posted by Buell Motorcycle Company.
To learn more about Buell motorcycles, visit your local Buell dealer today and experience the pure streetfighter attitude, style and performance only found on board a Buell. For the Buell dealer nearest you, pull into www.buell.com.
NEW 2006 IRON & LACE CUSTOM MOTORCYC AND GARAGE GIRLS CALENDARS–2006 Iron & Lace Custom MotorcycleThe 2006 Iron & Lace Custom Motorcycle and Centerfold Model Pinup Model Calendar sponsored by Mikuni Carburetors, Performance Machine and Jardine Performance features the world’s top custom bikes together with sexy centerfold models. Photographed by Jim Gianatsis, Iron & Lace offers a month by month look at the top winning bikes from the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show including Zero Engineering of Japan’s Best of Show winning retro street rod, Jesse Rooke’s Pro Class winning “Rockstar”, and Dreamcraft Studio’s show stopper “Sega”.
Other featured bike builders include World Championship winner Roger Goldammer’s reto Boardtracker, along with Paul Yaffe, Roland Sands, Mike Stafford, Harold Pontarelli, Chica and Russ Mitchell. Pose their bikes with the gorgeous FastDates.com Calendar Angels including Miss Great Britain Nicki Lane, Miss Texas and Hawaiian Tropic International winner Robin Cunningham, and Pet of the Year Zdenka and you’ve got the world’s top motorcycle pinup calendar!
2006 Garage Girls Calendar
The 2006 Garage Girls Pinup Calendar sponsored by Feelin’ Lucky apparel features beautiful models hard at work. “All Killer, No Filler” is the only way to describe the exciting Garage Girls Calendar which always features a close-up look at the beautiful FastDates.com Calendar Angels without the bikes getting in the way! This year’s Angel’s include cover girls Andra Cobb, Chandi Mason and Taylor McKegney.
All FastDates.com Calendars are full color 15 x 15″ spiral bound and printed on heavy dull coated art board.revealing 16 months beginning with September 2005. Calendars are available at you favorite Motorcycle Dealer from leading parts distributors, or order online at http://www.FastDates.com. Order by phone in the USA 1-800 461-1226
To order by mail specify the calendar name, quantity, your name, address, and phone number. Mail with check, money order, Visa/MasterCard info for $16.95 each, plus $6 S&H per US order. International orders should consult the FastDates.com website for ordering information.Mail to: FastDates.com Calendars, 13275 Paxton Street, Arleta, CA 91331
Advanstar’s BooKoo Arenacross Championship SeriesPosts Record Purse and Championship Point Fund–$150,000 Championship Point Fund Plus a $30,000Race Weekend Purse Up for Grabs!
Santa Ana, CA – August 18, 2005 – Advanstar Communications, Inc. – a leading provider of print, event and online media for the powersports, off-road and automotive aftermarket industries – today announced the largest Arenacross championship purse and largest per race payout ever offered in Arenacross racing.
“BooKoo means big, so we are going with the largest purse and point fund in the history of Arenacross right out of the gate,” said Mike Kidd, Arenacross Director for Advanstar. “This further emphasizes our plan to take Arenacross to the level we feel it deserves and sends a strong message to our teams and riders that we will reward them accordingly.”
All BooKoo Arenacross pro racers will have four chances to win a portion of the $30,000 purse each race weekend, with a race format of a 250cc and 125cc main event both Friday and Saturday nights. All pro racers are eligible to compete in both classes. “What this means to our racers is that a bad start or mechanical failure in one race won’t mean they have to go home empty-handed,” said Kidd. “There’s serious cash up for grabs and a big incentive for racers to run the entire series.”
Consistency will also have its rewards throughout the 12-race series as $150,000 will be divided up into four separate overall point funds. The 125cc Champion will take home $5,000, 250cc Champion $5,000, Dash for Cash Champion $7,500 and the BooKoo Arenacross Champion $25,000. For more specific details on the purse and point fund visit
The BooKoo Arenacross Championship Series kicks off November 4-6, 2005 in Fort Worth and the point fund will be awarded after the final race in Tulsa, February 10-12, 2006.
BERRY WARDLAW SURVIVES CRASH–On the way home to his shop Accurate Engineering in Dothan Alabama,Berry Wardlaw the famous motorcycle engine builder was in a motorcyclewreck and survived even though the 2004 Harley-Davidson motorcycle hewas riding was totaled.
Berry and I were traveling East on I-90 and had just re-entered theinterstate after getting fuel. We were in the right lane getting up tospeed; he was on the left and me slightly behind him to the right.There was an opening and I watched him move his head slightly to checktraffic as he made the move to the left lane. Just as he made thatmove a tire came out of the trailer in front of us carryingmotorcycles, it did a wobble and settled in the center of the leftlane. The only thing he could do was to try and get around it on theleft and he almost made it. His right floorboard caught the outsideof the tire and sent him into the grass median. He fought to maintaincontrol but the ground was damp and soft, the motorcycle got side waysand went down and I watched it start to flip as I went by.
I stopped as quickly as I could with out getting run over and made myway back to him. Two other riders had stopped to help and numerousothers followed as the vehicle that caused this continued on its way.By the time I reached him he was up and walking. After checking him wechecked the bike, which was sitting on the side of the road with thewheels straight up in the air. He told me to get my camera and takesome pictures as he said “ain’t no one going to believe this”referring to the way the motorcycle had landed.
The carelessness of the A-Hole towing the bike trailer and notsecuring the tire properly almost cost my friend his life. I feel thatBerry’s years of experience riding, which included some flat trackingand riding in the dirt helped him to make the right decisions in a badsituation. He was wearing full leathers and gloves all of which took aserious beating and did their job of protecting his skin. He survivedwith a injured wrist, some bruises and scratches.
The bike was totaled, we had to find a motel, get him a doctor, getthe bike back to Alabama and a host of other problems because ofanother motorcyclist’s carelessness. This was not the first thing weencountered when leaving Sturgis which included a young girl on a cellphone in the left lane doing 10 miles per hour under the limit, theusual truck tire casings, cooler lid tops and even two bags of trashthat we had to s turn to get past, vehicles towing trailers withmotorcycles on them cutting in front of motorcycles causing them tobrake sharply and on and on.
Some of these things we deal with on a daily basis But We Should NotHave To Deal With Other Motorcycle People Doing Them.
–ROGUE
LONE STAR RALLY BIKE SHOW SPONSORED BY BIKERNET.COM–Hi Bandit, I thought if you had some space in the Thursday new you could give us a little press for the bike show.The Texas National Bike Show in Galveston ,Texas September 30th and Oct 1st at the Galveston Island Convention Center. At this time registration is going strong, we still have space available for vendors as well as show participants, on line registration is available at www.texasnationalbikeshow.com and there is a convenient pay pal option for easy payment. The show will have a variety of vendors including our feature builder Rick Fairless of Strokers Dallas, the host for the show is Kent Weeks of Lucky Devil fame , and our esteemed judges are Rick Fairless, Keith Ball and Joe T. Prime Media will award three of the winners a feature in one of the 3 magazines, Hot Bike, Street Chopper and Bike works.
We will have custom trophies for the winners sponsored by Hooters, and gift certificates from Custom Chrome, BDL and a host of other prizes and goodies. There is also a bikini model search sponsored FAME and you can get more details on how to register on the Texas National site as well. So come and check out the Texas National Bike Show during the Lone Star Rally in beautiful Galveston, Texas September 29th thru October 2nd.
BIKERNET REPORTER FROM THE FRONT– A Marine squad was marching north of Basra when they cameupon an insurgent soldier badly injured and unconscious.
Nearby, on the opposite side of the road, was an AmericanMarine in a similar but less serious state. The Marine was conscious and alert. As first aid was given toboth men, the Marine was asked what had happened.
The Marine reported, “I was heavily armed and moving northalong the highway and coming south was a heavily armed insurgent. Seeing eachother we both took cover.
I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein was amiserable low-life scumbag, and he yelled back that Teddy Kennedy is a rich, good-for-nothing fat drunk.
We were standing there shaking hands when a truck hit us…”
–from Bbblehead
THE BIKERNET VINTAGE CAR RACE EFFORT CONTINUES–’53 Lincoln Capri and Cosmopolitan.Lincoln seemed to go a different way in 1952. Introducing an entirely new body style, much more sporting, which would be copied by Pontiac in 1955. A new ball joint front suspension and a completely fresh engine design, done from a clean sheet of paper. It was a properly designed overhead valve V8 of 317ci. At 20 cubic inches less than the previous engine it put out 8 more horsepower, being rated at 160.
Only one wheelbase was offered and Lincoln split the difference between the two used from ’49-’51. Nineteen fifty-two’s would stretch to 123. Somewhat on the small side for the largest Lincoln offering, but this, combined with the ball joint suspension would make these excellent performers. Not exactly what a Lincoln had represented, they nonetheless were quite successful in racing. A club even exists today celebrating the cars, The Road Race Lincolns. Our car is registered with them.
These great cars especially excelled in the Pan American Road races. A 4 speed “Hydramatic” transmission was made standard and it would not be until the 2000 Lincoln LS that a Lincoln would again be available with a manual transmission.
Two trim levels were available. The Cosmopolitan was now the less expensive and the Capri was the top of the line. Weight was about 4200 lbs and an average price was $3300.
Since Johnny Boyd first twanged it out in 1960, and Commander Cody passed it to a new generation some 15 years later, it has been applied to everything from a primered Model A to the forgotten LSC coupe of the Eighties. But the real, honest Hot Rod Lincoln was actually a series of remarkably stock Lincoln Capri hardtops that pulled Ford out of a self-imposed exile from racing that had lasted more than 15 years.
It was a glorious return for Ford, as a factory Lincoln-Mercury team eventually rose to dominance in the “La Carrera Panamericana”, the fabled Mexican Road Race, the very last of the great long-distance competitions to be contested on public highways in North America.
In 1952 and ’53, Lincolns finished first through fourth in the race’s stock car division. Chuck Stevenson won both times, with Smith as co-driver. The 1954 race was won by Ray Crawford in a privately entered Lincoln, prepared by Stroppe, with Walt Faulkner second in a factory car. The other team cars dropped out, either through accidents or mechanical problems.
Tech Info
The all-new Lincoln was launched in 1952 and was built through ’54, and it had the brand new engine to replace the dated Flathead V8. The new 317ci (5.2-litre) unit was extremely smooth, thanks to eight crankshaft counterbalances where most V8s had just six, plus it was easily tuned. The new car also had a very stiff chassis, with six crossmembers on the separate frame, making the car’s new MacPherson strut suspension work well and improving the model’s durability. In its inaugural year the Capri took the Carrera Panamericana in first, second, third and fourth places, then did the same the following year, but just first and second places in 1954. But the Capri boasted more than performance as it also has power-operated leather seats, power windows, power steering and brakes, and even a Hydramatic transmission. In 1956 the car was dramatically restyled; production fell by 50 percent.
This Capri, which won the event’s final running in 1954, was the race’s top-finishing stock car, albeit in the hands of an unheralded privateer who hung on after Lincoln’s factory juggernaut came to grief.Our car is a car that was manufactured in 1953 and consequently would have raced in ’54. It is painted in the same color scheme as the winning car.It participated successfully in the 2000 Panamericana and has been completely overhauled with a full roll cage, 5-point harnesses, Porsche seats. All mechanicals have been redone. The electrics are 12 volt and up to racing standards. All work was done to modern standards, yet kept according to the rules, so that the car still qualifies to run in the “Original Panam” class!! Very few cars qualify for this!
Ball and Christian Reichardt have been on the road for a number of trips, some of these lasting several weeks. Albeit mostly on Harleys, they are road-tested and have proven themselves to be a tough crew.We are currently looking for Sponsorship for this years event. Please see the website for www.LaCarreraPanamericana.com for info on this awesome road race. One of the last adventures in the motor world, the race lasts1 week and runs straight all the way through Mexico, from the bottom to the top on the same route it did in 1954.
The following sponsorship opportunities are available
Full Sponsor will receive placement on the car’s trunk and sidepanels: $10,000
Partial sponsor doors and hood: $5,000
Supporter: the rest $1000We are looking forward to have the artist put your company’s logo and artwork prominently onto this adventure!!
–Dr. Hamster
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