The 9/11 Commission is in with findings and recommendations. Let’s see if I have this correct. They’re not pointing the blame finger, but everyone fucked up. They’re not recommending new governmental levels, just a new bureaucracy. We live in strange times.
As far as I’m concerned these so-called terrorist punks get way too much publicity, which gives them world credibility and power. See, CNN did it again. Enough of that shit, we’ve got real business to consider. Just the bikers in NYC could kick ass on all the Al Cuty members in the world.
The real biker terrorists are automobile drivers. Did you read the report that 70 percent of all bike accidents are caused by cell phone calling and drunken cager drivers. Imagine if this news was plastered on CNN daily. In a week Bush would be at war with the Los Angeles freeway system.
Let’s hit it:
NEW DANGER TO BIKERS–$5,000 Reward Offered By Minnesota Hupy Law Firm. It’s something that could be as devastating to a motorcyclist as a sniper with a high-powered rifle or kitchen-variety plastic wrap. On Tuesday, July 13, 2004, Daniel Buckel and his girlfriend, Theresa Brzycky, were injured by it on Guthrie Road in Waukesha County as they traveled the dark and foggy, rural road.
Somebody had stretched a barrier of plastic wrap, wound tightly from traffic pole to traffic pole on opposite sides of the road. Buckel did not see the potential death trap until he was ten feet from it.
“It’s appalling, and it’s really frightening,” Brzycky said. Buckel was driving 5 miles an hour under the 45 mph speed limit because deer had been seen along the road, and there was a slight haze.
Buckel announced that he would pay a $1,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons responsible. However, Attorneys Michael F. Hupy and Jason F. Abraham were so appalled by the incident and were so concerned about ensuring that this does not occur again, that their law firm, Michael F. Hupy & Associates, S.C., has offered a $5,000 reward in place of that offered by Buckel. For the actual newspaper account of this incident, click on: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/jul04/244241.asp.
Anyone having information about this crime should contact the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Detective Bureau at (262) 548-8156. Michael F. Hupy & Associates, S.C. has offered the reward to be paid to the first individual to provide information to law enforcement officials leading to the conviction of the person or persons responsible.
This is the third time the law firm has stepped up for biker’s rights recently. First, the firm helped draft and pass a law denying insurance companies the right to argue non-use of a helmet as a defense in a motorcycle injury case in Wisconsin. Next, the firm represented members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, Milwaukee, in a suit against the Summerfest and World Festivals Board asking police to remove the members from the festival grounds for nothing more than wearing club insignia on their t-shirts.
This latest event underscores the vulnerability of motorcyclists, as stated by the American Motorcyclist Association in it’s “Justice for All initiative.”
YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN Texas IN JULY WHEN…The birds have to use potholders to pull worms out of the ground.
The trees are whistling for the dogs.
The best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance
Hot water now comes out of both taps.
You can make sun tea instantly.
You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron.
The temperature drops below 95 and you feel a little chilly.
You discover that in July it only takes 2 fingers to steer your car.
You discover you can get sunburned through your car window.
You actually burn your hand opening the car door.
You break into a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:30 a.m.
Your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, “What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the pavement and cook to death?”
You realize that asphalt has a liquid state.
The potatoes cook underground, so all you have to do is pull one out and add butter, salt and pepper.
Farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying hard boiled eggs.
The cows are giving evaporated milk.
…….Ah, what a place to call home.
–from Skooter
SYNDICATED NEWS–The comic strip FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE has been running a piece on Liz coming home from college and family friend Gordon loans her a motorcycle and teaches her how to ride.
Good For Motorcycling
–from Rogue
http://www.bikerrogue.com
MOTORCYCLISTS “RIDE TO WORK DAY” NEARS–Rally promotes bikes as helpers in easing traffic.You want them as you trudge from your parking slot, miles away from the entrance to your office. Those motorcycle parking spots, so nice and close. Perhaps riding a motorcycle to work isn’t a bad idea.
Peter Cooper, who rides his Kawasaki daily from his Satellite Beach home to his job at Harris and Base View in Melbourne, agrees.”I have a family, and I don’t get to ride as much as I’d like,” Cooper said. “Commuting is a good excuse to ride.”
Feeling ultra-cool while going to work may be reason enough to ride a motorcycle to work, but there are many others.Ride to Work, a motorcycle advocacy organization, will highlight all the benefits of motorcycle commuting Wednesday during its 13th annual international Ride to Work Day.
Although each day more than 80 million cars and trucks do the commute routine, less than a quarter million people regularly ride their cycles to work, according the Ride to Work Day Web site.
At his workplace’s facility that has enough parking spaces for 70, Cooper is one of four cycling employees.
Ride to Work would love to change those figures.”For many people, riding is a socially responsible form of personal mobility that saves energy, helps the environment and provides a broad range of other public benefits,” said Andy Goldfine of Minnesota, this year’s Ride to Work event organizer.
Ride to Work estimates this year’s event will triple the number of riders on the road.Visit its Web site at ridetowork.org.
–BY MARIA SONNENBERG,FOR FLORIDA TODAY
CENTRAL FLORIDA SAFETY COURSE–The Central Florida Safety Council offers a course that teach riders skills needed to ride a motorcycle safely.
Students learn about physical impairment, riding gear, starting and stopping, swerving, turning, and slow-speed maneuvering — among other things.The course is required for anyone under age 21 and recommended for anyone who wishes to ride a motorcycle on the street.
The course fee ranges from $225 to $235 — depending on where the course is taken.
Melbourne: 1515 Elizabeth St., Suite C
Patrick Air Force Base: 1225 S. Patrick Drive
For more information, call 952-5327 or (800) 372-3335.
I do not understand how the courses are so expensive. There is money from our driver?s license and registration that is earmarked for education plus the motorcycles are donated by the manufacturers.
–Rogue
FLYNT/MAJOR CLASH ON SEX SHOP–Fort Lauderdale is to get an `upscale’ porn store. City leaders tried to keep it out. Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt is expanding his pornography empire to South Florida, opening an “upscale” sex shop despite opposition from this city’s mayor and others.
Hustler Hollywood is supposed to open Friday, featuring items ranging from coffee to vibrating eggs. Flynt is scheduled to visit Aug. 3.
“In every city we open a store there is always some politician who needs to showboat before his religious or conservative constituents about keeping us out,” said Flynt, 61, who is on a national 19-city book tour.
Mayor Jim Naugle and City Commissioner Dean Trantalis had spearheaded an attempt to block Flynt by changing a city zoning law.
Currently “less than half” of a store’s inventory can be sexually oriented if it is within 500 feet of a residential area. Otherwise, the city can close it.
Naugle and Trantalis wanted the ordinance changed so a store could be closed if a “substantial” amount of its inventory was of a sexual nature. But after Flynt threatened to sue, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission voted down the notion 3-2, despite Naugle’s and Trantalis’ opposition.
“These are upscale shops where sexuality is presented in a clean, healthy, natural way, which is why 50 percent of our customer base are women,” Flynt said.”I’m not done with South Florida — my next stop is Miami Beach,” he said.
–Sentinel Staff Writer
–from Rogue
http://www.bikerrogue.com
PITBULL MOTORCYCLE COMPANY RELOCATEDPITBULL MOTORCYCLE COMPANY has re-located its workshops and corporate headquarters to a new facility in Orlando, Florida. The main business of the company is the manufacture and distribution of high-end, affordable choppers and custom motorcycles. The present range features bikes in chopper and Pro-Street styles, with a choice of Softail and hard-tail models, supplied as complete bikes or rolling chassis.
Pitbull’s new facility has more than 14,000 square feet of space, with a newly renovated showroom for the display of finished motorcycles, parts and apparel.
In the workshop area, more than 20 motorcycle lifts are already installed and there is space to increase this number when demand increases.
Owners explain that the new facility will create opportunities to improve the services they offer and allow further expansion of the customer base.
PITBULL MOTORCYCLE
Orlando, Florida, USA
Tel: 407 290 9212
Fax: 407 290 9097
E-mail: mailto:info@pitbullmotorsports.com
http://www.pitbullmotorcycles.com
BASSINI SLIPS-ON TECH COMING TO BIKERNET–Actually the tech will be launched next week. Roque installed their new performance touring slip-ons last week, and if I get off my ass you’ll see it soon.
SOLID WORDS OF WISDOM FROM BIKERNET– People who live in glass houses should make love in the basement.
Never read the fine print. There ain’t no way you’re going to like it.
If you let a smile be your umbrella, then most likely your ass will get soaking wet.
The only two things we do with greater frequency in middle age are urinate and attend funerals.
The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
To err is human, to forgive – highly unlikely
Do you realize that in about 40 years, we’ll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos?
Money can’t buy happiness — but somehow it’s more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Hyundai.
Drinking makes some husbands see double and feel single.
Living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
After a certain age, if you don’t wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead.
–from Rev CarlR
SCREAMIN? EAGLE FLAT TRACK TEAM DISAPPOINTED IN DAVENPORT–King Narrowly Misses Making the Main in AMA Grand National Event.DAVENPORT, Iowa (July 17, 2004) – Screamin? Eagle Performance Parts rider Rich King was thwarted in his attempt to qualify for the main event in the seventh round of the AMA Progressive Insurance Flat Track Championship held at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds.
The race was the first AMA Grand National event held at the half-mile track, and King, who is from Dysart, Iowa, was hoping to put on a good show for his home-state fans. King ran in the main pack during his 10-lap qualifying heat, but placed fifth and failed to advance to the main. King had a good chance to qualify in the first semi-final heat, and had just taken the lead on the seventh lap of the eight-lap heat. However, the heat was red-flagged when rider Josh Toungett crashed in turn four. Riders reverted to their position on the previous lap for the re-start, which shuffled King back to third place. With just two laps left in the heat, King was unable to pass for one of the top two spots and thus did not advance to the main.
?The Screamin? Eagle team worked hard, and Rich had a good running bike, but also had some bad racing luck,? said Harley-Davidson Racing Manager Anne Paluso. ?That?s racing, but we?ve got a strong team and we?re looking forward to the next round.?
The main was won by KTM USA/Jones Powersports/Mid-America Harley-Davidson rider Kenny Coolbeth aboard a Harley-Davidson XR750. His teammate Joe Kopp finished second. Chris Carr, riding for the Quality Checked Pre-Owned Ford/Lancaster Harley-Davidson team, finished sixth but continues to lead the series with 119 points. Kopp is second with 109 points, and Coolbeth third with 88 points.
The next stop on the AMA Progressive Insurance Flat Track Championship series is July 24 at the Atomic Speedway near Knoxville, Tenn., a race that was rescheduled after it was rained out in June.
The Screamin? Eagle Flat Track team is sponsored by Matco Tools.
THE NORTH CAROLINA STEALTH REPORT–I visited a new shop that is about to open. This shop is going to have a BIG impact on the biker scene here in Charlotte. The shop is called The Cycle Xchange.
Jeff and Brian Clark are the owners. I met Jeff back in February when he was just starting to get things set up. We talked and the conversation turned to the Run for Breath and before Jeff had left, “THE MEANEST” had him signed on as a sponsor and he also agreed to make two awards for the bike show. By the way, the 6th Annual Run For Breath “In Memory of Justin Pullin” will be held this Sunday July 25th here in Charlotte. What impressed me about Jeff was that he didn?t hesitate to support a good cause and it didn’t take long for him to make up his mind. Jeff is more of the hands on guy at The Cycle Xchange and from what I gathered Brian oversees shop operations.
The Cycle Xchange specializes in custom hand made exhaust systems. These exhaust systems feature some of the cleanest bends I have ever seen! That is not all they will do though, the facility is set up to do ground up builds, performance engine work complete with dyno room along with a complete parts department and service department which will feature nine wrenches when they are up and running. They will also have an apparel department. The building consists of 12,000 square feet. Speaking of performance Jeff and Brian know a thing or two about that, both have worked on NASCAR race teams!
Jeff tells me his big break came when he was asked to participate in the Gibson bike build off featuring the three kings of custom, Arlen Ness, Donnie Smith, and Jeff?s good buddy Dave Perewitz. Jeff built the exhaust system for this bike. The kings recognized talent and encouraged Jeff and that is how he got the idea to open the Cycle Xchange.
The VQ bike of the year from Shannon Davidson from the Chop Shop also features a set of pipes hand made and bent by Jeff. The Cycle Xchange also does exhaust for such names as Carolina Customs, Independent Cycles and Jeff and Brian have teamed up with Kendall Johnson on a couple of projects concerning exhaust systems.
I didn’t get to talk to Brian a lot, but Jeff is a down to earth guy. He tells me he talks to Dave Perewitz and Billy Lane for advice on a regular basis. From what I see and can tell they have given him some pretty good advice so far!
The Cycle Xchange opens its doors August 1, 2004. Good luck to everyone there! Give them a call at 704-708-5828 and tell them you heard about them in “THE STEALTH REPORT” on BIKERNET.com!
Well that is it for this week, gotta tie up a couple of loose ends on the 6th Annual RFB!
Until next week, RIDE!
–STEALTHMAN
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