Hey,
It’s a mystery weekend as we fly toward Christmas. We’re in that two minute lull between a myriad of holidays leading up to the big one. If you’re smart you’ve started buying gifts online to avoid, traffic, lines, and bullshit. I sat and hand wrote Xmas cards last night.
I feel like this is the last weekend before the rush begins. I’m also curious about the Chicago dealer show. How did it fare? I heard from one person who planned to attend then was pulled away because of a family issue.
So, like I said it is the calm before the storm. Let’s hit the news:
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THE SEARCH FOR CYCLE NIRVANA THURSDAY NEWS FOR December 4, 2014
http://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=12020
Australia WTF!!!!!! Fuckin coward politicians. Serious human rights violations with heresay as proof. The only criminal orgs are the politicians and police…..Shameful really.
–Speeddaddy
Canada
THIS JUST IN FROM THE MARKUS CUFF FILES— a ’39 Indian 4, retrieved from the film vaults, scanned, and painstakingly adjusted and retouched. This shot was taken in 2002, at The Bunch Museum, San Jose, with Don Whalen curating and Bandit moving sandbags, light stands, fill cards, while trying out for a photo-assistant position.
He never got it. He’s too old, doesn’t move fast enough.
–Markus Cuff
BRASS BALLS CYCLES / Darwin Motorcycles
End of the year sale on Bike orders placed by December 31st 2014–Free upgrade to an S&S 111-inch motor ($1,350 value) and $500 allowance in custom paint upgrade.
Available on the following Brass Balls Cycles:
Digger
Classic Bobber
69 Chopper
Rocketeer
And for the Model 1, Free upgrade to S&S 96-inch motor ($595 value) and $500 allowance in custom paint upgrade.
As always, $500 discount to active duty military members and veterans on bikes.
Check them out at http://brassballsbobbers.com/bbc/bikes.aspx
email inquiries to evolve@DarwinMotorcycles.com
New West Australian police strike force to hunt hoon motorcyclists–WA Police will establish a new strike force to hunt hoon motorcyclists and serial speedsters by scrutinizing speed camera images to track unidentified, revhead riders.
The dedicated team will target “extreme recklessness” and drivers repeatedly caught travelling more than 50km/h above the speed limit, with a particular focus on motorcyclists who evade detection knowing police cannot trace them from speed camera images.
Traffic and operations assistant commissioner Nick Anticich said police had been forced to deploy new tactics to curb risk-taking behaviour by motorcyclists, amid evidence an increasing number of riders were avoiding detection by not displaying numberplates or using stolen or disguised plates.
Mr Anticich said the new team would use alternative investigative tools to track offenders, including liaising with bike manufacturers to uncover owners as well as identifying personal features like rider appearance, tattoos and unusual motorcycle paintwork.
Specialist intelligence analysts and other expert traffic enforcement units will also join forces with the new team.
“We need to turn our eye to identifying these riders through other intelligence means and not simply the numberplates,” Mr Anticich told Fairfax Media.
“We have launched a crackdown on this type of offending because it’s dangerous and because these people are putting their own lives and the lives of others at risk.”
Police have released two images of motorcyclists showcasing risky, brazen behaviour, which officers say shows utter contempt for the law and other road users.
In one case, a motorcyclist was clocked travelling at 135km/h in a 70km/h zone on Forrest Road, Hilbert at 6.34pm on November 16. The bike had stolen numberplates, which were later linked to a hire car company and the driver was not wearing any protective clothing.
Five days later on November 21, an unidentified motorcyclist was clocked travelling at 199km/h – double the 100km/h speed limit) on the Mitchell Freeway near Erindale Road, Stirling at 4am.
The move comes amid grave concerns about the high number of riders killed on WA roads.
So far this year, 40 people have been killed in motorcycle crashes. Twenty-six were found to be the fault of the motorbike rider, while 13 were caused by driver other vehicles.
Speed and reckless behaviour were factors in 22 of the crashes, while carelessness and inattention accounted for seven and alcohol was a factor in four fatalities.
Traffic Enforcement Group Inspector Ian Clarke said officers would use “targeted tactical operations as required” to stop reckless road behaviour by motorcyclists.
“This team is purely an enforcement tool but they’ll be doing more detailed investigations into some of these more high-end recidivist offenders which we call prolific priority offenders,” Insp Clarke said.
“We will be targeting any road user that presents potential risk to the rest of the community.
“We’re in a terrible situation at the moment with losing so many motorcycle riders and unfortunately we’re seeing it on a daily basis, people doing really, really stupid things on our roads.
“Motorcycles are our priority purely because of the percentage of riders who have been killed and seriously injured.
“We should not forget about the serious injuries because that’s four or five times the number of deaths and it has a massive impact on people’s lives and their families.”
—from Australian Bikernet Undercover Agent
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OFFICIAL BIKERNET PHILOSOPHER SPEAKS OF Raising My Conscious Thoughts
Thoughts are things
As we begin the Gift of Today let us Pause and take inventory of where our consciousness is. What kind of thoughts are we holding as our Truth? Are we being held hostage by stinkin thinkin’, do we believe that we are limited to who we can be? Are we living in the past allowing that the past to have precedent over our present? Do we live on someday isle, someday I will do this or someday I’ll do that?
In the Upanishads it is beautifully written “As far as the mind extends, so far extends heaven” and Henry Ford says it more bluntly “If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right”.
If we want improve our lives we must raise our level of conscious thinking and get off automatic pilot.
Ford also wrote “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” It takes practice to stay conscious and in the moment.
If you want to improve your world you must Pause and take the time to find out what is going on in our subconscious mind and what are the lessons we have learned from the past, so we don’t repeat them. Besides pausing, one of the big things I do to improve my Life is to make lists and write goals, daily, monthly, yearly and lifetime goals. I refer back to these written words as a reminder of where I want to be, do and have.
My soul is filled with Peace, with joy and great anticipation knowing that I am expressing Life at a newer and higher level of Consciousness.
And So It Is
Namaste’
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. –Steve Jobs
BARN FIND OF THE WEEK, EXPERT WEIGHS IN ON 60-CAR DISCOVERY IN FRANCE—
By Larry Edsall, Classiccars.com
“Certainly for 2014, this is the barn find of the year. We’ll have to see how it shakes out if it’s the barn find of the decade, or even the barn find of all barn finds.”
“There’s an occasional Ferrari or Maserati that pops up, but this is like a Paris auto show that was simply forgotten.”
– Tom Cotter
Those words from Tom Cotter, who wrote not just the book on barn-found cars but several books on the subject, starting with The Cobra in the Barn and his latest, 50 Shades of Rust: Barn Finds You Wish You’d Discovered.
Cotter was responding to news that a 60-year-old collection of amazing classic cars — including a Ferrari 250 GT short-wheelbase California Spider, Bugatti 57 Ventoux, Maserati A6G 2000 Gran Sport Frua, Hispano-Suiza H6B Millon-Guiet cabriolet and three Saoutchik-bodied Talbot Lago T26s — had been discovered in open sheds in western France, and they will be offered for sale in February at the annual Artcurial Motorcars auction that takes place as part of the Retromobile showcase in Paris.
The cache of some 60 vehicles, known as the Baillon collection, was discovered by Matthieu Lamoure, Artcurial’s managing director, and Artcurial car specialist Pierre Novikoff.
Lamoure said their experience was the automotive equivalent of Lord Carrington and Howard Carter when they first entered the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamen in Egypt in 1922.
“You go into this profession for discoveries like this,” Lamoure was quoted in an Artcurial news release announcing the discovery and upcoming sale.
“What is so special here is the number of cars, the range and the quality and pedigree of the models,” Novikoff added. “Unlike the Schlumpf collection that was known about and documented, our’s is completely new. It’s a discovery.”
Yet it is not a fantasy. The cars were collected in the 1950s and ’60s by Roger Baillon, a truck manufacturer and transport-company owner who in 1947 had built and exhibited his own sports car, the Oiseau bleu (Blue Bird).
Baillon’s plan was to create a car museum with the cars he collected.
“You go into this profession for discoveries like this.” – Matthieu Lamoure
Within the walled garden of his property, Baillon built a series of open-sided, corrugated metal-roofed sheds for the cars. But his plans for a museum ended when his businesses went into decline in the 1970s. Baillon sold off many of the cars he had collected. Most people figured that what he sold was all he had.
But he kept 60 of his most extraordinary cars on his property. Their presence was known only by some of Baillon’s heirs until Lamoure followed up on a rumor he had heard.
Lamoure said the Ferrari California Spider is one of only 37 produced. “Every example has been carefully documented by historians and this one was thought to be lost. We have found it!
“And we really did ‘find’ it: It was buried, in a garage, under a pile of papers (old copies of la Vie de l’Auto) and various covers. Not what you would expect for a car worth $12 million to $15 million.
“Its neighbor was another gem,” he added, “a Maserati A6G Gran Sport Frua,” one of only three such vehicles built.
“All the cars are significant for their heritage, and we hope that some of them will join big collections in and outside France. Perhaps even museums,” Novikoff said.
“They will be displayed (at the auction) and sold as they are. Just as we found them. Possibly one or two spider’s webs may be lost in transit, and some of the dust blown away, but that’s all.”
BIKERNET BLONDE ARCHIVES OPENED—
Two blondes were going to Disneyland. They were driving on the Interstate when they saw the sign that said Disneyland LEFT.
They started crying and turned around and went home.
Two blondes living in Oklahoma were sitting on a bench talking, and one blonde says to the other, ‘Which do you think is farther away… Florida or the moon?’
The other blonde turns and says ‘Helloooooo, can you see Florida?’
–from Bob Clark
WEEKEND CANTINA AWARD FOR INNOVATION—Illuminadic, a brand of the Seattle based Ancilia Enterprises LLC has designed what they claim is “The most Innovative Protective Clothing in the Universe”. The most common response by drivers in any motorcycle related incident is “I didn’t see them”.
Anything we can do to increase visibility is a plus, especially for the midnight rider in us all. Personally, I don’t want ride around looking like a road cone and the Vengeance jacket combines protection with style and comfort. Battery powered light strips contour the front and back of the jacket illuminating in three available colors, white, blue and orange.
Reflective material on the front, the back and shoulders adds a secondary layer night time visibility.
WEEKEND GUN NUT REPORT–N.J. Attorney General Rejects Brady Campaign Bid to Trigger Handgun Ban.
A lawsuit filed in May by the Brady Campaign sought to force the attorney general to issue a report finding that the iP1 is a “personalized handgun” and would therefore trigger a more than decade old New Jersey law. Under the law, all new handguns sold in New Jersey have to be personalized 30 months after a single production model of a personalized handgun is delivered to a firearm dealer in New Jersey or another state.
The New Jersey law that requires the attorney general to issue reports on the availability of personalized handguns has specific requirements that a handgun must meet before it is considered a “personalized handgun.”
To meet the definition the firearm must be “a handgun which incorporates within its design, and as part of its original manufacture, technology which automatically limits its operational use and which cannot be readily deactivated, so that it may only be fired by an authorized or recognized user.”
Additionally, the law provides a further condition that “no make or model of a handgun shall be deemed to be a personalized handgun unless the Attorney General has determined, through testing or other reasonable means, that the handgun meets any reliability standards that the manufacturer may require for its commercially available handguns that are not personalized or, if the manufacturer has no such reliability standards, the handgun meets the reliability standards generally used in the industry for commercially available handguns.”
According to the report, officials from the attorney general’s office met with a representative of Armatix to determine whether the iP1 meets the definition of a personalized handgun.
The officials discovered that the iP1 uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) to link the handgun to a wristwatch that can be worn by the user. As long as the iP1 is held within 10 inches of the watch, the electronics will not prevent the handgun from firing. While RFID is a suitable means of “personalization” under the law, the report concluded that the iP1 “does not satisfy the statutory definition because, as a matter of design, the pistol may be fired by a person who is not an authorized or recognized user.”
Since the law specifically requires that a personalized handgun can only be used by an “authorized or recognized user”, the iP1 is not a personalized handgun because it can be fired by anyone, authorized user or not, as long as it is held within 10 inches of the connected wristwatch.
The report noted that no reliability testing was conducted on the iP1 since it was determined not to meet the definition of a personalized handgun. Presumably, had the iP1 met the definition, such testing would have been conducted before it became the only handgun available for sale in New Jersey.
While the Brady Campaign continues to insist that its focus is “gun safety,” its lawsuit has to the potential to result in a near complete ban on the future sale of handguns in New Jersey. As much as Brady might wish otherwise, the Armatix has not ushered in a tide of similar designs in its wake. In fact, the attempted commercial introduction of the Armatix has floundered so badly that it remains the sole example that Brady can cite as even approximating a “smart gun.”
Thus, were it to trigger the New Jersey law, the result would surely collide with the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. There, the Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the individual right to possess arms “in common use at the time” for lawful purposes. Even the Brady Campaign cannot seriously argue that all handguns other than the iP1, an $1800, 10- shot pistol chambered in .22LR, are not commonly used for lawful purposes.
BIKERNET WINTER WARNINGS–A man wakes up one morning to find a bear on his roof. So he looks in the yellow pages and sure enough, there’s an ad for “Bear Removers.” He calls the number, and the bear remover says he’ll be over in 30 minutes.
The bear remover arrives, and gets out of his van. He’s got a ladder, a baseball bat, a shotgun and a mean old pit bull.
“What are you going to do,” the homeowner asks?
“I’m going to put this ladder up against the roof, then I’m going to go up there and knock the bear off the roof with this baseball bat. When the bear falls off, the pit bull is trained to grab his testicles and not let go. The bear will then be subdued enough for me to put him in the cage in the back of the van.”
He hands the shotgun to the homeowner. “What’s the shotgun for?” asks the homeowner.
“If the bear knocks me off the roof, shoot the dog.”
–from Rik Savenko
A MORNING MEMO FROM OUR DAV COMMANDER–We are asking everyone to say a prayer for “Dark Horse” 3rd Battalion 5th Marines and their families. They are fighting it out in Afghanistan & they have lost 12 marines in 4 days.
They are: Justin Allen, 23 Brett Linley, 29 Matthew Weikert, 29 Justus Bartett, 27 Dave Santos, 21 Chase Stanley, 21 Jesse Reed, 26 Matthew Johnson, 21 Zachary Fisher,
24 Brandon King, 23 Christopher Goeke, 23
Sheldon Tate, 27
All are Marines who gave their lives for YOU this week.
Please Honor THEM!
–Jim Torrez
Commander
DAV
Let’s stay on top of this.–Bandit
SATURDAY NIGHT IN TOWN—
Saw these two great guitar performers tonight. They put on one heck of a show here.
My description of Sonny would be a mixture of Jeff Beck & Leo Kottke! Cindy plays lap steel guitar ala Jeff Healey style.
Both if them together turn out to be very mellow & were in sync, complimenting each other’s style. They are headed for Nashville Sunday. If you ever get a chance to check them out live don’t pass it up. You can also find them on youtube.
–PSD
USO CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL 12/6/14 11am-3pm
San Diego Harley and the USO of San Diego partner together to throw a huge festival for Military Families of San Diego!
Activities include a Santa Store, Pictures with Santa, Face Painting and Caricatures done by Santa’s Helpers and Elves! Plus free BBQ lunch and drinks!
BIKER BOOT STRAPS Introduces Weather Proof Straps…World’s Toughest Boot Strap!
BIKER BOOT STRAPS, the leading supplier of premium boot straps for Bikers has introduced its fourth generation product – the world’s first weather proof boot straps.
The all new design includes nylon clips with sure-lock technology and durable rubber straps designed to keep your pants in place like no other product on the market.
The new materials are designed to perform in the harshest conditions, including wind, mud, rain, sleet and more. Biker Boot Straps continues its commitment to enthusiasts everywhere to build and deliver the most durable products and using only the best materials available.
The new weather proof straps incorporate a self-adjusting strap to keep pants snug, in place and not hinder the operation of the motorcycle. This also means when you get off of your machine, the straps adjust automatically and keep from dragging on the ground while walking.
The straps come in two sizes, four inch and six inch to fit both men and women. The four inch strap expands to about seven inches and the six inch to about 11 inches and that will cover virtually all biker applications.
The new clip design is made with high quality nylon with a heat treated metal insert for a sure-lock experience. These clips hold stronger and last longer than the suspender clip that has been the industry standard until now. The decorative emblems are double machine pressed onto the clips for durability and which will keep the emblems from spinning on the clip. You can easily interchange the emblem with additional new emblem designs without having to buy the whole strap.
Biker Boot Straps new professional grade weather proof straps are sure to be a hit with riders already using boot straps and are sure to see how they will work in many other applications on the job, on the farm or ranch, as well as operating other Powersports machines, including ATVs, UTVs and Snowmobiles. Buy your new weather proof Biker Boot Straps today! Or as the company founder Michael Screens says, “Get Strapped and Grab Some Throttle!“
For more information on Biker Boot Straps, please contact: bikerbootstraps@gmail.com or visit www.bikerbootstraps.com.
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R&R Cycles 124-inch Long and Short Blocks—
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–Brandon
AP REPORT SHOOTS FOR NEGATIVE GUN NEWS SPIN— Last week, Associated Press reporter Matt Stroud incorrectly implied that the recent increase in firearm-related background checks run through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) frequently results in violent criminals beating the system and acquiring guns.
Noting that in situations in which NICS cannot complete a check on a prospective gun buyer within three business days, a firearm dealer is allowed to transfer a firearm to the person, Stroud hyperbolically wrote, “More gun sales than ever are slipping through the federal background check system. . . . Someone is killed with a firearm every 16 minutes. Mass shootings are happening every few weeks. . . . If three business days pass without a federal response, buyers can legally get their guns, whether or not the check was completed.”
What Stroud neglected to mention–besides the fact that gun ownership is at an all-time high and the nation’s murder rate has fallen to at least a 57-year low–is that the FBI continues running checks after the three-day period has elapsed and reports all ultimate denials to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) on a daily basis. Thereafter, BATFE personnel and local law enforcement officers can and do take action to separate prohibited persons from any firearms they may have acquired during the delay.
Stroud also implied, incorrectly, that every individual who is delayed is presumptively prohibited and would pose a danger if successful in obtaining a firearm. That is certainly not the case, as identities can be confused, arrests don’t necessarily lead to prosecutions or convictions, and later events (like reductions in or dropping of charges, restoration of rights, or reversals of convictions) are not always reflected in the records available to NICS. Indeed, the provisions of the Gun Control Act allowing (but not requiring) licensed dealers to release firearms to purchasers three days after a NICS check is initiated without a subsequent denial recognize that such events are a very real possibility and that people should not be denied their rights based on unsubstantiated or incomplete information.
Stroud was right about at least one thing, though. Gun purchases are still taking place at an accelerated clip. The FBI reports that the number of firearm background checks conducted on “Black Friday” this year was the second highest in the history of NICS. The highest number of checks on a single day occurred on December 21, 2012, two days after President Barack Obama came out for banning AR-15s and other general purpose rifles, banning ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds, and imposing a so-called “universal checks” requirement on private firearm sales, trades and gifts.
NICS statistics aren’t a perfect measure of how many guns Americans are buying, but they suggest that after a large increase in the number of firearm checks coinciding with Obama’s reelection and subsequent push for gun control, from November 2012 until the second quarter of 2013, they have returned to levels that would have been expected in the absence of the Obama-provoked “surge.”
However, over time such NICS checks have steadily increased with a continuing decline in violent crime. The NICS data vindicate gun owners and give all Americans even more reason to doubt gun control supporters’ half-baked theories and unsupportable claims.
Friday Activities include a Live Broadcast from Scott & BR, Buffalo Wild Wings & Drinks from 3pm-6pm!
Saturday Activities incl: Pancake Breakfast, Phil’s BBQ Lunch & Roll the Dice to WIN a HARLEY (12-3pm)!
Sunday Activities incl: Breakfast, Taco Lunch & Roll the Dice to WIN a HARLEY (12-3pm)!
WHY DO I PONDER THIS SHIT—I’ve been reading about government corruption, extreme greed, and evil of the highest order. Then I listen to a Judy Garland song, “Somewhere over the rainbow,” from the film Wizard of Oz and I think of the ultimate talent and the pure creative genius.
I think about the pressures on our forefathers when they attempted to create a lasting structure for a nirvana on this planet, while we murdered and stole from American Indians all across this land, then snatched folks from Africa and forced them to work for us in the fields. How does anything make any sense?
I take a look at the world news and 3/4s has to do with violence, corruption, or religious leaders torturing kids. So, at the end of the day what does it tell us? We are sorta lucky to live in the United States, maybe. We need to keep a watchful eye on everything, learn to accept unwanted change, try to prepare for the future in more than one way (don’t trust the stock market). And constantly seek creative excellence and fairness in our lives daily.
Wow, let’s go for a ride.
–Bandit
