I know what you’re saying, ”What’s you being a failed loser tv anomaly got to do with me thinking you know what the fuck you’re talking about even regarding bran muffins, forget about global meteorology?” Nothing. It has nothing to do with it. Why would you even make that association? Is this how you treat […]
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I’ve seen the term “suicide shifter” used in describing a plain old ordinary tank shift. I’ve also heard people referring to a stock rocker clutch as a suicide clutch. Simple ignorance allows that term to be used incorrectly. There is no such thing as a “suicide shifter.” Nobody has ever died because of using “hand
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Hey, Erika Ball is my daughter in law and I’m proud of her on several levels. Plus, I know that pride will continue into the future with her efforts with my son, Frank to help addicts recover and find strength and their futures. Check out this article from Canvas Rebel Magazine in Austin Texas. We
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With all the buzz going around about Born Free 23, I couldn’t wait to jump on my bike and ride through the sunny Southern California canyons to get to the show. The weather was perfect, It couldn’t have started out any better. Stopped for a quick bite and to top off my
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While the reunion is now remembered for its gathering of hippies and rednecks converged in the Texas Hill Country to see Waylon, Willie and the rest of the redneck rock brigade, the actual lineup was far more conservative. The reunion assembled country legends like Earl Scruggs, Tom T. Hall, Tex Ritter and Roy Acuff. Missing
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In 2020, scholars published more than 50,000 peer-reviewed papers on climate change in almost 6,000 journals. A new study by Marie-Elodie Perga and colleagues looks at how these papers were covered by news media and reveals some profound biases in coverage of climate. There are still some excellent journalists providing good coverage of climate,
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Snake sat in the deepest corner of Deadwood, SD notorious Number 10 Saloon, wet to the bone. The middle of June and riders were determined to cruise the Black Hills before the factory anniversary, but torrents of rain got the best of them. It rained in the black hills like an automatic sprinkler system keeps
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Here’s just a taste of the action: HISTORIC HARLEY-DAVIDSON 120TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY Harley-Davidson celebrated its 120th Anniversary in style with a huge international festival of motorcycles, music and wide ranging entertainment in Hungary’s national stadium campus in Budapest •More than 100,000 participants attended the ticketed event across the four
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There are two stereotypes for bikers. Some people believe bikers are something a little more than human… and some people believe we are something a bit less. Those of us who actually ride know that the mores, are generally the correct assumption. True bikers ride farther, laugh louder, live harder, and fuck longer than
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ABOUT AIM / NCOM: The National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM) is a nationwide motorcyclists rights organization serving over 2,000 NCOM Member Groups throughout the United States, with all services fully-funded through Aid to Injured Motorcyclist (AIM) Attorneys available in each state who donate a portion of their legal fees from motorcycle accidents back
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At 6:00 AM on Sunday, May 28th I woke up to a crisp radiant morning in the eye of a swirling cold snap. Just 100 miles south of bustling Indianapolis, it took just a few moments to make a seismic shift to a mental, full-on party mode. Under dire deadline pressure, I prepped for the
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This month, we are having ‘Pride’ shoved down our throats and up our asses in a metaphorical sodomized fellatio the likes of which the world has never seen before. Generally, I don’t care who sticks what in where, and the rest of us don’t either. But there is SO MUCH of it everywhere that
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Hunter Thompson once wrote a novel called Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Journalists love it: it’s a litany of stupidity and ignorance and behavior asking for a fist in the face. Journalists can totally relate. Why Las Vegas is dragged into it at all is an insight into Hunter’s brain: Las Vegas bases its
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Dustin Hill, my tattooed Biker brother from the gym rides a sic-ass Dyna with all the upgrades. He invited me and 5-Ball Racing Leathers to be a part of his motorcycle event deep in the heart of the Texas hill country, about an hour and half outside of Austin, Texas. Deemed The Texas Hills
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It’s Memorial Day 2023. There’s a jammin’ bike show happening in Deadwood. Dan’s hands are full with Sturgis Museum projects. I’m trying like hell to understand Outlaw Justice, my second book and proof reading each page for reprinting. I’m also building a Knucklehead chop and searching for a 1913 twin engine. Spring hit the Black
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Each year, I produce the Daytona edition of the Flying Piston Benefit Builder Breakfast and online silent auction with industry maven, Marilyn Stemp. This year it was a tale of 2 rides, the cold one and the hot one. The cold ride is where all the trouble happened and, well, I’m still thawing out.
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There is a preposterous rumor going around that Caite Upton, the girl who became inadvertently famous in a beauty contest long ago when she attempted to explain, on national TV, why American school children, in a test, could not find the USA on a globe. She gave a convoluted, disconnected answer, no doubt due to
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This tale or tail started after the big poker game in Big Bear, California. I was flying down the backside of the mountain. The high desert, beautiful in the fall, laid out before me as the mountain twistiness turned to bleak open sand. I rode past a female hitch hiker, and she looked to have
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In the early years of motorcycle manufacturing, many manufacturers used bought-in engines for their motorcycles as the cost of developing engines was beyond the means of many of them. Of all the manufacturers of proprietary engines, possibly the most famous was J.A. Prestwich, otherwise known as J.A.P. Without
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Well, if you are new to the planet – money does make the wheels go round and round. The obvious benefits of motorcycling are often missed by the Western media because they cannot see beyond the large V-Twins and color-patch-wearing ‘outlaw’ motorcyclists. It’s almost as if these Ivy League grad journalists are stuck
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We were facing $10,000 to take the team to the Texas mile to make some trial passes, when my son called and spoke to me about financial reasoning. I paid attention and saved. Found out later there might be a Colorado Mile event by the Texas Mile folks in the near future. I quickly made
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The roar of engines echoed through the streets of Austin as the Lone Rat Riders, an infamous motorcycle gang, thundered through the city. They were a tight-knit group of outlaws, feared and respected throughout Texas and Nevada. One percenters, they dabbled in successful criminal activities, including (but not limited to) drug trafficking, extortion, and
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Electricmotorcycles have been making waves in the motorcycle industry in recent years,with more and more riders opting for eco-friendly and cost-effective electricalternatives to traditional gas-powered motorcycles. In this article, we willexplore the benefits of electric motorcycles, their technology, and the topmodels available in the market. TheAdvantages of Electric Motorcycles Environmentalresponsibility is one of the
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Roy Martin of Roys Toys Customs recently headed up Build Team 13, comprising an elite group of veterans and first responders to build a ground-up custom bobber. Crystal Hess’s Motorcycle Missions is a 501(c)3 non-profit focused to help Veterans and First Responders with PTS(D). Roy donated his shop and provided mentorship to build a one-of-a-kind
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