Hey,
It’s a slow holiday Sunday Post, so maybe, just maybe I’ll be able to work in the shop this afternoon. If I keep scrambling and don’t get interrupted, I may, just may be able to work on the Mudflap girl FXR. No way. These Smoke Out shots just arrived from the Prince. I’m not complaining!
I want to perform an alignment procedure. This is tough with an FXR configuration. Check what it outlines in the manual. I believe it relies on the swingarm mounts to align the engine and trans. That’s the key. This is not a rigid with just the two wheels to align. I need to align the engine and trans with the frame first, and then the wheels.
I have Mil Blair’s laser alignment tool, and it’s cool, but I think I need more help. I’ll report on what I come up with. We have the parts for the 1928 Shovelhead back from powder, and I’m slipping it back together, but it has an internal throttle system, and I’m trying to figure out how to replace the throttle cable.
Hell, let’s hit the news. The shop awaits.
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NORML LEGISLATIVE REPORTS–Oregon: Governor Signs Laws Reducing Marijuana Possession Penalties
Salem, OR: Democrat Gov. John Kitzhaber this week signed two separate measures into law reducing penalties associated with the possession of marijuana.
Senate Bill 40 amends the state criminal code to reclassify marijuana offenses involving the possession of over one ounce, but less than four ounces of marijuana, from a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by no more than six-months in prison. It also reclassifies offenses involving the possession of less than 1/4 ounce of hashish from a felony to a Class B misdemeanor. The measure also reduces the maximum fine associated with civil violations involving the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana from $1,000 to no more than $650.
Senate Bill 82 eliminates the suspension of driving privileges for persons cited for possessing one ounce or less of cannabis. The law does not amend existing state law mandating the suspension of driving privileges for those marijuana offenders convicted of possessing greater quantities of the substance.
Both laws took effect on Monday.
Maine: Medical Cannabis Program Amended To Include Patients With Post-Traumatic Stress, Other Debilitating Conditions
Augusta, ME: Patients diagnosed with post-traumatic stress, Crohn’s disease, and other debilitating disorders will be eligible for cannabis therapy under legislation approved last week absent the Governor’s signature.
The new law expands the list of qualifying conditions for which a Maine physician may legally recommend cannabis to include “post-traumatic stress disorder,” “inflammatory bowel disease” (such as Crohn’s and/or ulcerative colitis), and “dyskinetic and spastic movement disorders and other diseases causing severe and persistent muscle spasms” (such as Parkinson’s disease and/or Huntington’s disease). It is the second time that Maine legislators have acted to expand the pool of patients who may have access to medicinal cannabis.
The law takes effect in approximately 90 days.
Four states — Connecticut, Delaware, New Mexico, and Oregon — explicitly allow for the use of cannabis to treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Clinical trial data published in the May issue of the journal Molecular Psychiatry theorized that cannabinoid-based therapies would likely comprise the “next generation of evidence-based treatments for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).”
Survey data published in 2011 in the European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology reported that the use of cannabis therapy is common among patients with inflammatory bowel disorders. In May, researchers at the Meir Medical Center in Israel reported that inhaling cannabis reduces symptoms of Crohn’s disease compared to placebo in patients non-responsive to traditional therapies.
A MALE FAIRY TALE–Once upon a time, a Prince asked a beautiful Princess, “Will you marry me?”
The Princess said, “No!!!”
And the Prince lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles and banged skinny long-legged big-titted broads, hunted and fished and raced cars and went to naked bars and dated women half his age and drank whiskey, beer and Captain Morgan, oops Sailor Jerry, and never heard bitching and never paid child support or alimony and banged cheerleaders and kept his house and guns and ate spam and potato chips and beans and blew enormous farts, and never got cheated on while he was at work and all his friends and family thought he was frickin’ cool as hell and he had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up.
The End
–Art Hall
SUNDAY POST GUN NUT REPORT—This commercial is a trip.
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THIS JUST IN, New Bikernet Reader Comment!--4TH OF JULY THURSDAY NEWS 2013
http://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=11146
Kudos to Uncle Monkey. I applaud his effort to get a reminder out to those that need reminding. Not meaning to sound negative, but some guys will never understand what he’s talking about. They’ve never mowed a yard much less changed a spark plug.
Also, thanks for bringing up the point about being a gentleman. I told my boys the importance of opening doors, etc. I told my girls if their date didn’t treat them like a lady to call and I’ll pick them up (lol).
–John “Tinman” Mills
tinman5713@hotmail.com
Longwood, FL
BIKERNET FAMILY COUNSELING SEMINAR–Tim decided to tie the knot with his longtime girlfriend.
One evening, after the honeymoon, he was cleaning his golf clubs for his Saturday game. His wife was standing at the bench watching him.
After a long period of silence she finally speaks.
“Honey, I’ve been thinking, now that we are married I think it’s time you quit playing so much golf. Maybe you should sell your clubs
and cancel your membership at the golf club.”
Tim gets this horrified look on his face.
She says, “Darling, what’s wrong?”
He says, “There for a minute you were sounding like my ex-wife.”
“Ex wife!” she screams, “I didn’t know you were married before!”
“I wasn’t.”
–from Jim Waggaman
By John Bowman, NMA Communications Director
As I reflect on this year’s Fourth of July holiday, I’m reminded of the injustices our nation’s founders fought so hard against: oppressive taxation, government intrusion and harassment, a corrupt judiciary.
I find it therefore troubling that as many of us hit the road for the long holiday weekend, we still find ourselves vulnerable to these abuses thanks to overzealous traffic enforcement operations targeted at holiday drivers.
According to AAA, some 34 million Americans will drive 50 miles or more over this long Independence Day weekend. In response to this onslaught, thousands of local and state police forces have swarmed the highways with stepped-up speeding patrols, distracted driving crackdowns, and the ubiquitous “Click or Ticket” and “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaigns.
Public officials, police and the so-called highway safety organizations tell us the sole objective of these “ticket blitzes” is to make people safer on the roads. And while there may be a kernel of truth to this, it certainly is not the sole reason, nor even the primary reason.
Let’s look at speed traps. You’ll see plenty of them this weekend and throughout the summer driving season. Speed traps may get drivers to slow down temporarily, but they have no lasting effect on driver behavior or on highway safety. They do, however, generate millions in revenue for cash-strapped municipalities at the expense of responsible drivers. Sounds like an unfair tax to me.
Speaking of money, in 2011 police agencies across the country collectively received $771 million in NHTSA grant money to conduct these “selective enforcement” operations, much of it going to pay overtime to the officers on duty. But that largesse comes with strings attached. Departments getting such grants must meet specific enforcement milestones in order to continue receiving federal money. That directly translates to ticket quotas and the arbitrary enforcement practices they engender.
Thousands of police departments are also marking our nation’s founding by conducting what are euphemistically called checkpoints, otherwise known as roadblocks. Ostensibly used to check for seatbelt and DUI violations among other things, roadblocks are established to circumvent the need for probable cause to stop, interrogate, and search the occupants of a motor vehicle. Under the roadblock rubric everyone is a suspect. Again, roadblocks have no positive impact on highway safety, but they are an effective way to harass and intimidate a peaceful citizenry.
If you are unfortunate enough to be ensnared by one of these celebratory ticket fests and you wish to fight your ticket, will you get a fair hearing? If you’ve ever appeared in traffic court, you already know the answer, but consider this: the traffic justice bureaucracy in the United States is funded through the very fees it collects from the motorists over which it presides. Coupling this huge conflict of interest with the growing trend to deny motorists their constitutional rights to due process makes it tough for an individual driver to get a fair shake. All the more reason to force change by fighting every ticket.
NMA members understand that overbearing traffic enforcement doesn’t just occur around holiday time. Countless small injustices take place every day on our highways and in our courts; the cumulative impact is a cowed and financially exploited citizenry.
Such shows of force are misguided and ineffective from a safety standpoint. Instead, let’s focus on solutions that do work: proper intersection engineering, setting speed limits to their appropriate 85th percentile level, and more robust intervention for multiple DUI offenders. Now those are things worth fighting for.
BIKERNET 5-Ball RACING WHEELER REPORT–
One more time, here comes the Sunday Post full of Good News Only. The good news in the 5-Ball Racing department after missing the Hollister Event by a few close miles, we are within a wire or two of running as of Saturday afternoon in Long Beach sequestered in the garage of Dr. Willie, sometimes if not most times an ace electrical wizard.
The details from stem to stern are nuts on, or soon will be. The, black accented Inner cooler mounting and connections fit like we had a plan. Toby The Welder modified the S/S tubing connecting the inner cooler and the Turbo. We still need to machine finish the air plenum backing plate.
We filled the primary, transmission and engine with fluids. Removed the plugs and spun the engine over until the oil pressure light indicated pressure and a happy oiling system. The oil pump is a Dan Thayer 3-Stage. With stored air-in-frame activating the Pingel air shifter, the gage stayed at 60 lbs all day without a leak. The Spyke starting system works flawlessly. Lighting front and rear check out perfectly.
Yet no fire to the coil, today. No sweat. Never Fear.
Friday the Dr. installed the latest lug drive Lyndall Racing Brakes ceramic rotors. The carrier is clocked perfectly to match the lightweight 3-spoke Busa wheel. Light as a feather rotors, a Tiger Racing, no weight fender coupled with the latest, greatest Race Tech Suspension from axel to axel. Expecting a safe, smooth, straight ride very soon.
Before Bub Speed Trials we’ll install race tires and a NHRA Funny Car designed Halon Fire System to cover our ass in the event of a fuck up or a Black Swan at midnight.
Ride past the Doctors office, often, safe and fast, it’s good for your heart.
Next on possible events is the Sturgis Rally in 32 days, then the BUB Speed Trials in 48.
Thanks to the following,
Tobey The Welder, 2 out 3 Ex-Wives, My 3 Sons, Aerocharger, All Balls Racing, Kent Rich, Dutch and the Crew@Air Tech Streamlining, Arai Helmets, Keith Ball and the Crew@Bikernet, Bikers Choice, Brad Beach@Beach Racing, Dr. Willie Lanham, Long Beach, Ca., Cometic Gaskets, Dan Thayer@vtwinfuelinjection, Allen Alvarez@Daytona Twin Tech, ERC Race Gas, George The Wild Brush, ET Krankvents (Thanks Ted Shrode, Ph.D—- R. I. P.), Fisher Harmonic Damper, Dan Stern@House of Thunder H-D, Horsepower Inc., Ron Williams, Jeff, Kevin@Hardtailz, Randy Torgeson, Michelle and the Crew@Hyperformance, Jim’s Machine USA, K&N Air Cleaner, Paul Kittrell@Lyndall Racing Brakes, Marc Susman@Colorado Custom Cycle Wheels, Juan, Colorado Custom Cycle Wheels, Ray Whitehead@Pegasus, Pingel, Walt, Pro Charger, Jim @Sharp Eye Transmission, Reggie and Crew@R&R Cycle, Ben Kudon@Rivera Primo, Matthew Wiley@Race Tech Suspension, Rick Tedder@ R/T Performance, Schnitz Racing, Mr. McCahill@Spyke, S&S Cycle, Matthew Negherbon@Thunder Motorcycles in San Jose, Guy Caputo@Tiger Racing, Steve The Turbo Doc, Tsubaki Chains, Vanderbeck Race Cars, Vanson Leathers, World Wide Bearings, Duncan Keller, Yankee Engineuity in San Jose, Ca..
Thanks again….With one helleva lot of help from my family and Industry friends….Thanks, Thanks, Thanks.
We’re on track for a safe, straight, stellar year on the street and on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Haul Ass!
Ride for your Life!
–Ray C Wheeler
Performance Editor
wheeler@bikernet.com
Two weeks while the lawyers were left like hounds to yawp over what counted as admissible evidence and what was mere gambit and divide, desperate countermeasures.
You don’t yawp to God. Bach doesn’t yawp to God
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Yawp is a very old English word. It entered English in the 1300s and comes from the Middle English word yolpen. It is related to the word yelp. Walt Whitman popularized the noun sense of the word in his book Song of Myself
HOLLISTER REPORT JUST IN–
Last week the temperature hovered at 100 degrees in Hollister, CA, and even though the temperature was a balmy 77 degrees for this patriotic weekend, it heated up when the custom bikes rolled into town for the 2013 Hollister AMD Qualifier Custom Bike Show.
Sam Baldi of Profile Cycles took 1st place in the FreeStyle class with Lost Angel and won the $1,500 check and an automatic bid to compete in the 2nd Annual AMD Invitational Custom Bike Show is held in Milwaukee on the Harley-Davidson Museum campus during the 110th celebration. Lost Angel is a custom 2013 build with an EVO Patrick Racing 113 mil softail with trans brake, centrifugal clutch and Paul Cox seat. Paint is by One Xtreme.
Hollister has been synonymous with California motorcycle rallies for decades. It secured its place in pop culture from the 1954 film “The Wild One” with Marlon Brando, which is based on the 1947 rally. The free motorcycle and street music festival (30 bands on 4 stages) featured Yamaha demo rides, vendors, a food festival, a vintage and Cafe Racer ride-in show, poker runs, bike games, Beer Garden and the premier custom bike show.
Word had it that the Blue Angels were doing a fly by but because of sequestration that they settled for two WWI biplanes.
Mark Cresswell, the Hollister Promoter, receives a custom leather briefcase from Bob Kay of Biker Pros, which is designed and hand-crafted by Howard Knight of Rocking K Leathers.
Biker Pros produces custom bike shows for Advanstar, Harley-Davidson and the AMD World Championship. They are also working with the MRF on a certified judging criteria. Our goal is to support the custom motorcycle marketplace and build strong relationships with the motorcycle community. Enter your bike into the Ultimate Builder in Sturgis. Details at http://custombikeshows.com.
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–Wayne Otte
waotte@hotmail.com
Fort Madison, IA
BIKERNET PHILOSOPHER SOBERS UP LONG ENOUGH TO SEND A SUNDAY MANTRA–Live Today Fully.
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What great words of wisdom from Emerson. Today is a brand new day to learn from our lessons and move on to new things. It is time to Let Go of the past and live in the present.
We do not need to beat ourselves up anymore, have regrets or have feelings of guilt or shame. What has been done in the past is done and the only life the past has is what we give to it. For every minute we live in the past we lose 60 seconds of living in the present, why give up one more second?
Why not decide to move on from the past, learn from the lessons and refuse to repeat them, forgive ourselves and others, isn’t it time?
Today Know: Today is a brand new day, I am open to the wonderful new experiences that lie ahead. I am Grateful for this gift of this brand new fresh day, I will not waist it.
And So It Is
–Namaste’
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
–Yale
Yale Custom Cycles
403-453-1999
2003 11 ST SE
Calgary AB
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NEVADA COPS COMMANDEER PRIVATE HOMES, ARREST RESIDENTS FOR OBJECTING–Henderson police arrested a family for refusing to let officers use their homes as lookouts for a domestic violence investigation of their neighbors, the family claims in court.
Anthony Mitchell and his parents Michael and Linda Mitchell sued the City of Henderson, its Police Chief Jutta Chambers, Officers Garret Poiner, Ronald Feola, Ramona Walls, Angela Walker, and Christopher Worley, and City of North Las Vegas and its Police Chief Joseph Chronister, in Federal Court.
Henderson, pop. 257,000, is a suburb of Las Vegas.
The Mitchell family’s claim includes Third Amendment violations, a rare claim in the United States. The Third Amendment prohibits quartering soldiers in citizens’ homes in times of peace without the consent of the owner. …
“Although plaintiff Anthony Mitchell was lying motionless on the ground and posed no threat, officers, including Officer David Cawthorn, then fired multiple ‘pepperball’ rounds at plaintiff as he lay defenseless on the floor of his living room. Anthony Mitchell was struck at least three times by shots fired from close range, injuring him and causing him severe pain.” (Parentheses in complaint.)
Officers then arrested him for obstructing a police officer, searched the house and moved furniture without his permission and set up a place in his home for a lookout, Mitchell says in the complaint.
–Reason.com
–from Rogue
QUICK READER TECH QUESTION, New Bikernet Reader Comment!--LA Choppers Twin Peaks Bagger Bars Install
http://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=10985
very interesting layout. just bought these for my ’13 bagger. my big concern is, will I be able to use my old wires and cables??
–Greg
grobin2288@aol.com
Norwalk, CT
Greg, if you have the 10-inch Twin Peaks, you can use your stock cables, no problem. If you go higher than that, you will need to change them out. –Gunner
* * DREW’S SUNDAY NEWS * *
Hope everyone had an enjoyable Independence Day Celebration, and came through it with all their fingers still attached.
My lovely bride and I spent the day motorcycle riding all over Northern Indiana.
Going through small farm towns, and catching a couple of their July 4th parades was great.
Kids, Marching Bands, Vintage Tractors pulling floats with Veterans onboard, Classic Cars, Corn on the cob, & riding a Harley-Davidson.
Hope you had as much fun as we did.
All I can say is…GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
–Drew
DREW GATEWOOD
AMA/F.I.M. Technical Steward
GEARS – Gatewood Engineering And Race Support
P.O. Box 2568
Chesterton, IN.
tele/fax: 219-926-5647
email: gears55@frontier.com
www.gearswebsite.com
BIKERNET MEDICAL CENTER SEX STUDY–Sex is the secret to looking younger, claims researcher
Regular sex could now be the key to looking up to seven years younger, a researcher claims.
By Claire Carter, The Telegraph
He said sex has a number of health benefits which can make men and women look between five and seven years younger which includes; it causes the release of endorphins, the ‘feel good’ chemical which acts as a natural painkiller and reduces anxiety aiding sleep; exercise boosts circulation which is good for the heart; and it also causes the human growth hormone to be released which makes the skin look more elastic.
Dr Weeks said: “My message is that lovemaking is good.
“The stereotype of an elderly person is that when they get their pension and bus pass, they stop having sex and that’s not true.
“Sexual satisfaction is a major contributor to quality of life, ranking at least as high as spiritual or religious commitment and other morale factors, so more positive attitudes towards mature sex should be vigorously promoted.
BIKERNET READERS NEVER STOP, New Bikernet Reader Comment!–November 2011 Interview with Billy Lane
http://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=10250
Billy, I remember drinking jack with you and Ib enebriated @ the deck during bike week, tons of great memories of Indian Larry and you cruising Daytona, Sturgis, Steel pony. We all make mistakes and grow from them. They make you stronger and more aware of true friends and family.
Can’t wait to see your new bikes…. Money is fake-Trust no one!
–Eric
ericminks@hotmail.com
Las Vegas, NV
MAJOR EVENT COMING FOR RON AND RUTH FINCH--Ron & Ruth Finch…….. 45th Wedding Anniversary!
Cook Out…… Saturday, July 6th…….. 5:00 pm.
NO Gifts!
Congratulations!
–Gary, Jules, Ron Harris, and Bandit
THE 2013 EASYRIDERS RODEO TOUR IS GOING TO BLOW THE ROOF OFF WILSON, NC– For the first time in it’s long history the Easyriders Rodeo Tour is opening up the midway so patrons can bring their own beer on the midway and check out all the cool features.
Patrons now can bring their coolers right up to the stage and check out the live concerts featuring Cowboy & Madison Rising. The world’s wildest motorcycle party is now not only on the campgrounds but is expanding to the midway!
Grab your six pack from your camper and head to the midway to check out the vendors selling all your favorite industry products and more! Bring your beer right up to the grandstand like never before and witness the best motorcycle rodeo action on the planet and the legendary barstool races.
Ride your bike right up to the stage and don’t miss the wet tee shirt and trophy girl contests. Experience the Easyriders Wilson, NC Rodeo like never before!
There will be no beer sales on the property so stock up!
DUE TO NORTH CAROLINA STATE LAW YOU CAN ONLY BRING BEER ON THE MIDWAY, NO LIQUOR.
BIKERNET DOGS VS. THE EVIL NESTERS ALERT–Now that Gays and Lesbians can legally marry, it has been determined that Lesbians will not need to apply for a Marriage License, a Liquor License will suffice nicely
–from Jim Waggaman
STURGIS SHOVEL COMING BACK–Here’s a pic of the front pipe after some sanding a being painted with VHT ceramic paint. Now just need to wrap it to the muffler with DEI titanium pipe wrap.
–Richard Kranzler
TWO NEW ROGUE TECHS COMING TO BIKERNET—Rogue just reminded me of two techs idling in a holding pattern above the Bikernet Interplanetary Headquarters, in a little third world country, between San Pedro and Long Beach, California.
ROGUE BAD COP FILES NOW OPEN–Hawthorne Officers Involved With Rottweiler Killing Reassigned Due To Death Threats
Police Chief Robert Fager said he’s worried about the men’s safety after a YouTube video went viral that showed an officer killing an 80-pound Rottweiler.
“These aren’t just threats of wishing ill will. These are absolutely threats to their life,” he said.
Leon Rosby, the owner of the dog, is suing the police department in another case, but pointed out that he doesn’t want to see retaliation against police.
“Those officers, we need to make sure that we’re not going to resort to violence like they did. Do not threaten them. Do not do that,” he said.
On Sunday, police were at the scene of a barricade situation at 137th Street and Jefferson when Rosby began to record the arrest of two suspects involved in an armed robbery.
Police asked him to step away and turn down the music in his car.
Officers eventually approached Rosby and asked him to put his dog, 2-year-old Max, inside his vehicle.
While Rosby was being handcuffed, however, Max jumped out of the passenger window.
The canine lunged at officers. One officer shot the dog four times, killing it.
Law enforcement consultant and retired LAPD Lt. Sergio Robleto has seen raw video of the shooting and said Max charged at one officer not once, but twice.
“The officer then reacted. With no choice other than to put the dog down,” he said.
Robleto said the shooting could’ve been avoided had the officers ignored Rosby when he inserted himself into a robbery investigation.
–from Rogue
FIRE UP THE BARBECUE—Make margaritas, and fresh guacamole, soft tacos, and ribs. Does that work? Being single is the cause for whacked out eating habits. I’m lucky to run across one solid meal a day, but I always have a morning protein shake packed with fresh fruit, and yogurt.
I’m anxious to wrap up a bike feature on a 1960 Panhead restoration, Rogue’s techs, Mike Pullin’s Smoke Out Report, My Mudflap Girl feature for IronWorks, Bob Clift’s Indian Collection, a World Run Chapter, and who know what else may fly over the fence into the Bikernet Prison Yard.
In the meantime, relax, go for a ride, and chase a redhead.
Ride Forever,
–Bandit
