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PROWLER’S NEW BAR Transmissions now available at MC Advantages–Prowler’s New BAR transmissions are engineered for high horsepower engines. These are not your run of the mill 6 speeds on the market today. They feature a patent pending stabilizing bar centered between the shafts that prevents flexing of the shafts.
This stabilizing BAR provides a smooth transfer of power without the wear and tear of traditional transmissions. Additional you will find a critical patented bearing support that other RSD 6-speeds lack. The Prowler bearing support gives additional stability for smooth quiet operation. If you run engines larger than stock and want reliability, Prowler has the solution.
Prowler products include Performance Engines, Belt Drives, and the new Patented 6 speed BAR transmissions. Suggested retail is $2499.99.
–Lauren Thorson
MC Advantages
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SETH DOULTON REQUEST VOTES FOR HIS GIRL–If you could send this to lots of people I would be gratefulhttp://www.maverickmag.com/Kaylee_Brown_from_Windsor_Ontario__633603796824238506_model.htm
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TRIAL UPDATE–Bryan Joseph ?B.J.? Mough was shot in the back Feb. 25, 2008 WATKINSVILLE – Jurors watched a video this morning of Richard Harold “Ricky” Gear, the Bogart man accused of gunning down a motorcyclist at the foot of his driveway, as Gear demonstrated that he stood back from the road when he fired the fatal shot.
Oconee County investigators secretly made the video the evening of Feb. 25, as they questioned Gear soon after he shot and killed Brian Joseph “B.J.” Mough of Winder.
In the video, Gear told deputies that a motorcyclist had followed his daughters home after he collided with their car, and that Mough drove past soon after his daughters car pulled into the driveway
“He whipped around and came right at me, like he was going to take me out,” Gear said in the video.
But when deputies asked Gear to return to the place where he fired at Mough, he positioned himself back from the roadway, with a culvert and mailbox between himself and the biker?s path.
“He was right there, like where the mail-lady comes through,” Gear said in the video.
In testimony Wednesday, Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry told jurors that Gear told investigators he acted in self-defense, but the sheriff ordered Gear arrested after he saw that Mough was shot in the back.
Gear told Berry at the schooting scene that he fired only once at Mough as the biker came toward him while he stood on his own property, the sheriff said.
But when Berry examined the victim at Athens Regional Medical Center, he and a coroner concluded that Mough was shot from behind.
“As I looked at the body of Bryan Mough in the hospital, I didn’t see how that was possible” that Mough was shot as he drove at Gear, the sheriff told jurors.
“We were satisfied the (bullet) came from the right rear,” he said.
Berry took the stand at the end of a full day of testimony from law enforcement officers and emergency medical workers.
Earlier, Deputy William “Ken” Elrod told jurors he was the first to arrive at the shooting scene, and he knew from his experience as a combat medic that Mough would not survive.
“He took two deep breaths and that was pretty much it,” Elrod told jurors.
Authorities allege Gear shot Mough as he drove past Gear’s home outside of Bogart, but Gear has claimed he acted in self-defense after Mough harassed his daughters as they drove along Atlanta Highway, then followed them home and tried to run him down.
A grand jury indicted Gear on charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and three counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a crime. Jurors watched video footage Wednesday that sheriff’s investigators taped with a camera disguised as a flashlight as Berry questioned sisters Chelsea and Samantha Gear about events that led to Mough’s death. Chelsea Gear was animated and called Mough a “jackass” and “douche bag” because of the way he drove. The 21-year-old told Berry in the video that as she and her sister left Target in Athens, Mough’s motorcycle passed close to her car in the same turn lane while traffic pulled onto Atlanta Highway. “He was in my lane,” she said. Mough was in front of the Gear sisters’ car most of the way as they traveled west, but at some point, the car got ahead of the motorcycle. Chelsea Gear complained in the video that Mough followed closely behind her, and as the two westbound lanes of Atlanta Highway narrowed to a single lane at the junction of Monroe Highway near the Pepsi plant, Mough passed her on the left side, in the turn lane. When she reached Burson Avenue, where Mough was stopped for a red light, she made an obscene hand gesture as she turned right into downtown Bogart, Chelsea Gear said in the taped interview.
Instead of continuing on Atlanta Highway toward his home in Winder, Mough followed the sisters’ car and at a stop sign “slammed into the side of (the) car and knocked the sideview mirror out of whack,” Chelsea Gear said in the interview.
About that time, 18-year-old Samantha Gear called her mother to say a man was following them, and Dianna Gear said to her husband, “Rick, get your gun and c’mon,” prosecutor Ken Mauldin told jurors Tuesday, the first day of testimony.
The sisters already had returned home, and Chelsea Gear was inside when Mough drove by, Mauldin told jurors. Richard Gear walked about halfway down his driveway and fired twice at the passing motorcyclist, Mauldin said.
Mough turned around and made a second pass, and Gear fired the third and fatal shot from his .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol, said Mauldin, district attorney for the Western Judicial Circuit.
Gear told Berry that he heard the crunching of gravel between the road and his yard as Mough drove at him, the sheriff said, but investigators found no tire tracks in the gravel to back up Gear’s recollection.
The trial is expected to last at least through Friday, and possibly into early next week.
Gear, his wife and both daughters are slated to testify.
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HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?–
1 . At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.
2 . This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer. And most can’t speak English
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.
8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are SuperCenters; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a Wal-Mart store. (Earth’s population is approximately 6.5 billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart
13 Let Wal Mart bail out Wall Street
–from Rogue
BIKERNET READER SPOTS EAGLE–A couple of weeks ago I was going to Winchester, VA and saw a huge eagle sitting on a fence post along the side of the road. This weekend I had to go back, so I took the backroads and decided to take my camera along in case I got lucky and saw him again. Well, I got lucky. As I was cruising up a gravel road I saw an eagle sitting on a deer carcass about 100 yds off in a field. I stopped the truck and took a few pictures using my telephoto lens. I took this shot through the passenger window of my truck. I tried to get a little closer, but as soon as I got out of the truck and crunched through some dried leaves, he looked up at me and took off. Another eagle joined him in flight.
The only bad thing about it is whoever shot the deer obviously took the head for a trophy and left the carcass. That seems like a real waste, but I couldn’t get over how big this bird was. Take a look at how the eagle’s body size compares to the deer’s body size and that’ll give you an idea.
–Chuck
criddle123@earthlink.net
FULL THROTTLE’S 12TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!AN ESTIMATED 5,000 IN ATTENDANCE FOR THE LARGEST 1 DAY EVENTFULL THROTTLE HAS EVER HOSTED–The Cop Shop had a beer truck outside, hotdogs and burgers ready, beer girls around the parking lot and still couldn’t keep up with the massive amounts of people who showed up to congratulate us on another year of being the #1 motorcycle magazine in the state! People showed up from all over the state of Florida to come out and Party with Full Throttle Magazine. We had great prizes donated to us by Budweiser and Jagermeister like matching leather jackets, vests, bud lite blankets, bud button down shirts, a jager machine, deep fryers, smokers and a grill donated by Artistic Hardscapes.
FULL THROTTLE MAGAZINE would like to thank everyone who took the time to come out to The Oldsmar Cop Shop on Sunday Nov. 23rd for the Full Throttle 12th Anniversary Party. We have no plans of ever stopping this great magazine, in fact we are looking to expand further across the state of Florida and we are always looking for reps! If you are interested in helping the #1 motocycle publication become bigger and better than it already is, contact us at the information below.
–Tony Cianci
813-814-1424 – Office Number
800-889-8180 – Toll Free
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Editor – Florida Full Throttle Magazine
LA CHOP RODS SPRINGER BRAKES FROM ISR–I have front calipers and rotors for a springer, it’s a 250mm rotor,which is about 10″ in diameter.
We also have two piston 46 tooth sprocket brake kits. Plus we have 250mm LH or RH semi floating rotors
–Gard
We plan to use this stuff on the 5-Ball Factory Racer project.–Bandit
THANKSGIVING BLONDE JOKE–A Blonde is watching the news with her husband when the newscaster says, ?Two Brazilian men die in a skydiving accident.?
The blonde starts crying to her husband, sobbing, ?That’s horrible!!! So many men dying that way!?
Confused, he says, ?Yes dear, it is sad, but they were skydiving, and there is always that risk involved.?
After a few minutes, the blonde, still sobbing, says, ?How many is a Brazilian??
–VERN
FATBOB VINTAGE DEAL OF THE WEEK–Not–Here are the pics. I’m keeping the stock ’47 frame it has just been highboyed and I will take that out so she will be OEM.
–FATBOB
PRICE FIXING FINES– Japan-based Sharp Corp., South Korean-based LG Display Co, Ltd., and Taiwan-based Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. were recently found guilty of ?conspiring to drive up the price of LCD panels? forcing consumers ?to pay more for these products? according to the Justice Department. LG Display agreed to pay a $400 million fine, Sharp agree to fork over $120 million and Chunhwa consented to a $65 million fine for fixing prices to gain prominence in the $70 billion worldwide LCD screen market.
But how does buying American enter into the picture since most of the electronic devices that use LCD screens are made outside of the United States anyway? The answer is that we can still buy American by supporting U.S.-based companies even when their products are sourced from overseas.
— Roger Simmermaker is the author of How Americans Can Buy American: The Power of Consumer Patriotism and writes “Buy American Mention of the Week” articles for WorldNetDaily.com and his website www.howtobuyamerican.com
WHO IS MORE DESERVING OF BIKER CHARITY THAN OUR OWN?–Fellow Riders and Freedom Fighters: Across our nation and throughout the year, “bikers” are called upon to ride for this cause and donate to that charity. And now that the holidays are upon us, requests that we “open our hearts and wallets” will be pervasive.
That’s all well and good. Those of us with something extra should be willing to help those who are truly needy and deserving. But being “needy and deserving” should not be the only test a charity has to pass to get a bucket of biker bucks. We must also consider where the money will actually go, and how it will ultimately be used. Before we let those eagles fly, we need to know whether the net result will be complementary … or counterproductive.
What I Mean By “Counterproductive” Let’s say, for example, your SMRO is asked to sponsor a poker run to raise money to fight some nasty-sounding disease or disorder. Who gets the money? The afflicted patients’ families, their doctors, the hospitals, or some physicians’ research institute? If the answer is “the families”, will it not then be applied to medical bills and insurance premiums? One way or the other, will not most or all of the money end up in the hands of doctors, healthcare firms or insurance companies? And will they not in turn spend at least some of what was OUR money to lobby against freedom of choice and other motorcyclists’ rights?
Everyday and everywhere motorcyclists–our brothers and sisters–are being injured, maimed, crippled and killed in accidents resulting from right-of-way violations (ROWVs) by care-less, negligent, distracted and impaired cagers:
And everyday and everywhere safetycrats … paid with OUR tax dollars and appointed by politicians elected with OUR contributions … ally themselves with healthcare and insurance lobbyists bankrolled by OUR premium payments and OUR charitable donations to condemn motorcyclists for the “social costs” of all this carnage … unjustly and unacceptably blaming the victims for the crimes. Must we continue to donate the dollars directed to deride and defeat us?!?
What I Mean By “Complementary”
Bikers may like breasts, but we are NOT breasts. We do not have to feed the mouths that bite us. And we do not have to look outside of our tribe to find potential beneficiaries who are needy and deserving. According to NHTSA, nationwide last year 103,000 motorcyclists were injured and 5,154 were killed in traffic accidents:
That’s more than 108,000 biker households who suffered loss of income, limb or life, incurring catastrophic medical costs and other expenses to boot. And I ask you:
WHO IS MORE DESERVING OF BIKER CHARITY THAN OUR OWN?
This holiday season, please remember the brothers and sisters in your area who went down, and do what you can to make sure their families have something under the tree. Even a small gift from you could mean the world to them.
Happy Holidays!
–Bruce Arnold 🙂
JIMS TOOL OF THE WEEK–EXHAUST STUD DRILL PLATE–This tool is designed to guide and keep alignment of drill bit in order tocompletely drill out broken exhaust stud. A follow up with a tap is all thatis needed to clean up threaded hole. This tool can be used with motor inmost frames.
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THE WHEREABOUTS OF VINTAGE KLASS–We are going to be local for the next couple months, so come see us!
11/23 – Long Beach Cycle Swap – Long Beachwww.toppingevents.com
12/7 – Long Beach Cycle Swap – again, you know where
12/13 – Mooneyes Xmas Party – Irwindalewww.mooneyes.com
12/14 – Dave Mann Tribute show, Chopperfest – Venturawww.cycleshop.com
As always, we appreciate the support!
–Joel and Mary, Vintage Klass
Vintage Helmets and Leathers
949 355 8098
www.myspace.com/vintageklass
W8lessProducts Announces 4th Generation Rotors for V-Twins and Sports BikesComposite Rotors are now Forged and Exceed D.O. T. Standards–Tacoma, Wash.?November 17, 2008W8less Products, a manufacturer of composite rotors and brake pads for the motorcycle industry, today announced that its popular composite rotors are now forged instead of cast. Forging the material has proven to increase the tolerances of the material making for a much stronger product. The 4th Generation product (G4) is still approximately 60% lighter than a stock OE brake rotor and offers all the benefits of the original product. The G4 rotor is D.O.T. compliant and is currently shipping to the public.
?By forging the new 4th Generation products, we have tremendously increased the strength of the product, said Raymond Wheeler, director of sales and marketing. ?Now riders have the lightest and the strongest rotor on the market and it is currently available.?
Though there is no requirement to have D.O.T. testing on aftermarket products, W8less Products tests all of its rotors to ensure they are safe both on and off the road. Now dealers and consumers can rest assured that these products will be a perfect fit for their motorcycles.
All D.O.T. standards must be passed before a new production vehicle can be certified as road worthy. Now that W8less Products? rotors have exceeded the D.O.T. standards, they will continue conversations with high profiled motorcycle manufactures for inclusion as OE (original equipment) on their production vehicles.
W8less Products? rotors are made of a patent-pending Metal Matrix Composite (MMC) material that is upwards of 60% lighter than a cast iron or stainless rotor. The reduction of weight allows for increased acceleration, better handling at high speeds and a drastically reduced breaking distance. Testing has shown that W8less Products? rotors stop in less than half the distance of D.O.T. standards with only moderate brake line pressure. These rotors also shed heat quickly, run much cooler and show no evidence of fading despite numerous high speed stops during testing
In addition to the added safety, the W8less Products? rotor will not rust, warp or squeal unlike other rotors on the market. When used with the proprietary brake pads, riders will also see a noticeable increase in the life of their brake pads, providing an immediate return on the riders? investment.
All of W8less Products? rotors and brake pads are made in the US and are available with a polished full-floating carrier or anodized for a more custom look.
For more information on W8less Products? cutting-edge products, contact them at www.w8lessrotors.com or call them at 1-888-500-5567.
SUGARBEAR’S CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS–Due to an overzealous landlord, Sugar Bear Choppers will be closed from November 26 to December 8, 2008. The shop will re-open on the 8th at 12912 S. Normandie Ave, Gardena, CA 90249. Please make a note.
–Bear
330 BAD ASS BIKES– Here is one of our Latest Bad Ass Bikes, that we built, it has a 330 Rear Tire and 360 Front Brake and a Trans Brake, it has a Magnacharger with 7LBS of Boost on our 113CI Polished Diamond Cut RPM Engine, Io Tank in the front Spoiler, 3D One Off Rims, Fully Molded with 16 Guage Sheetmetal, and Almost everything on this Bike was done in House.
We will be Featured at the Cycle Pro Show, Somerset N.J. this weekend, and Cyle Pro Show, Shantily Vaginia next weekend, with this and a few more new ones. Hope to see you there. Call if you need any information or directions. ENJOY!!!
— Dave Torres
East Side Custom Choppers
845-778-2100
Pharmaceutical Commercials–I’m tired of Prescription ads that are forced to list all the downsides. The law or regulation is discriminatory. Why aren’t there warnings with car ads, like SUVs tip over if braking in a severe turns. How about warnings behind Wal-Mart ads: Be aware that Wal-Mart stores generally destroy local small business, distribute overseas product and ignore local labor laws.
FLOORBOARD SPACERS–Cruising with your legs tucked in all the time can get a little testy not to mention the whole heat issue and boot tracks on the pipe thing. Well, if your looking for a change Softbrake has just what the Dr. ordered in their billet FLOORBOARD SPACER kits.
Available for both rider and passenger the spacers move floorboards out approximately 1? and are a quick and hassle free modification. Depending on your bikes style you can order the spacers finished in show chrome or black powder coat.
Rear spacers shown at the top of photo retail for just $25.00 and the fronts go for $50.00. For complete details call 714-680-0911 or catch them on the Web at www.Softbrake.com
HOLIDAY BOARD TRACK RACER FROM U.S. CHOPPERS–Check this puppy from Rick Krost the designer at U.S. Choppers and Paughco, the frame manufacturer.
U.S. Choppers
8941 Atlanta Ave #266
Huntington Beach, CA 92646
714-546-4699
http://www.uschopper.com/
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