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LOVE RIDE 20– ZZ TOP HEADLINES LOVE RIDE 20, THE LARGEST MOTORCYCLE FUND-RAISING EVENT IN THE WORLD ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 GRAND MARSHAL JAY LENO TO LEAD 20.000 MOTORCYCLISTS OVER $1 MILLION WILL BE RAISED FOR CHARITY
GLENDALE, CA – ZZ TOP will headline the milestone 20th anniversary of the Love Ride, the largest motorcycle fundraising event in the world, on Sunday, November9. Grand Marshal Jay Leno and Honorary Grand Marshal Peter Fonda will lead thepack of 20,000+ motorcyclists on a 50-mile caravan from Harley-Davidson of Glendaleto Castaic Lake. The barbecue, motorcycle trade show, and concert is expected toraise over $1 million for The Los Angeles Times’ literacy initiative Reading By 9, theMuscular Dystrophy Association, and other charities. In 18 years, the Love Ride hasraised over $15 million for charity
SIGN-UP BEGINS AT 6:00 A.M.
Sign up for Love Ride 20 begins at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 9 at Harley-Davidson of Glendale, located at 3717 San Fernando Road between Los Feliz Blvd.and Brand Blvd. in Glendale, California. San Fernando Road and 22 adjacent streetswill be completely closed to all automobiles, turning the entire street over to Love Ridemotorcyclists.
For more information, call the 24-hour Love Ride hotline at (818) 246-5618 ext. 7. You can also visit the Love Ride website at
POST-APOCALYPSE REPORT COMING– I snail-mailed you a page out of Dixie Rider this morning. It was a cartoon strip named The Adventures Of Guzzi Lemans Biker Chick of the Post-Apocalypse.
The chick goes into Doorhinge County Choppers and wants to buy a bike. Of course it is obvious where she is and it was the Laugh of Daytona Beach. Well, most People thought it was funny.
I am sending some shots Scott Cochrane the editor sent me of when he showed the paper to Tuttle (Orange County Choppers) You know them as the Discovery Channel Comedy Team of Motorcycle Builders.
–Rogue
BIKERNET REMEMBERS A BROTHER–This is a shot of Myron and I in 1999 riding in Sturgis. I was riding a new 1999 Excelsior-Henderson. Recently a rider who has assisted Bikernet, and not long ago contributed a Sportster to starving artist Jon Towle, found himself in a jam. Richard Kransler has been married to Chris for over a decade, when they discovered she had severe MS. He was forced to sell his motorcycle, all his parts and move his family within reach of one of the best MS clinics in the country. He’s put every dime he could muster into her care and comfort.
The Bikernet crew took a vote to help Richard get into the wind once more. Several options were considered. The running rare 1999 Excelsior-Henderson is being air freighted to Richard in Washington within 48 hours. It’s the least we could do.
BIKERNET COP CONVICTION STUDY–Bad Cop: Convicting a cop, nearly impossible… California – It’s been more than three decades since a police officer faced criminal charges for fatally shooting someone in Santa Clara County.
As a county grand jury considers this week whether to charge a San Jose officer in the July shooting death of a Vietnamese woman, the long-ago case of former officer Rocklin Woolley illustrates the long odds involved in trying an officer for killing in the line of duty.
“It’s always hard for a jury to convict an officer, particularly in our county, where the public has a high opinion of police,” said Dave Davies, a retired prosecutor who unsuccessfully sought to convict Woolley of felony manslaughter.
Woolley’s case bore many similarities to the July 13 shooting of Bich Cau Thi Tran by San Jose police officer Chad Marshall. Both shootings drew public outrage and involved victims who were not white. The officers said they acted in self-defense and were accused of overreacting with deadly force to a harmless threat.
But what is especially telling about the failed prosecution of Woolley is that in some ways, his behavior seems more difficult to justify than that of Marshall, the officer in the Tran case. While Marshall faced a woman wielding a large, sharp instrument — which turned out to be a vegetable peeler — Woolley shot an unarmed man who was running away from him.
Woolley was a 27-year-old patrol officer when he stopped motorist John Henry Smith Jr., 37, for allegedly making an illegal U-turn Sept. 19, 1971. Smith, a black IBM research technician on his way home from a date, angrily protested the traffic stop when two off-duty officers who lived nearby happened on the scene.
Police said Smith threatened the officers with a tire iron. Woolley said he tried to subdue Smith with tear gas, then sent his police dog after him as he slipped free and fled toward an apartment complex.
As Smith reached the apartments, Woolley fired a single shot from his .45-caliber pistol, killing the unarmed man. Woolley later said he acted in self-defense, fearing Smith would arm himself once inside the apartments.
Community tension prompted calls for outside investigations. Two months later, a grand jury indicted Woolley on charges of manslaughter and using illegal tear gas.
At Woolley’s trial, Davies told jurors the unarmed Smith posed no threat when he was shot. There was evidence Woolley threatened to kill Smith for suggesting he would sue over being tear-gassed. And officers said Smith had brandished a tire iron, but the tire iron turned out to fit one of their cars, not Smith’s.
Then-Police Chief Robert Murphy said afterward that he no longer believed Woolley was justified in the shooting. Woolley, who was later fired along with another officer, lives in Placerville and declined comment. The city paid $30,000 to settle lawsuits on behalf of Smith’s three children.
Though other fatal police shootings have been controversial since then, none resulted in charges against the officers, let alone convictions. Officials declined calls for an open grand jury hearing into the 1976 shooting of unarmed Latino bartender Danny Trevino by two San Jose officers.
The first such open hearing was held 20 years later over the 1996 death of Gustavo Soto Mesa, a suspected drunken driver fatally shot in the back as he ran from a sheriff’s deputy. The grand jury declined to charge the deputy, who said his gun fired accidentally.
–Rogue
NEW PRINT AVAILABLE IN THE GULCH– From the master, Eric Herrmann, we bring you “Wired”. Inspired by a chopper he saw in Florida, built by Eddie Trotta’s Thundercycles. Now available in the Gulch.
DRAG RACING EFFORT–THE CONDEROSA–Miss Great Britain 2003 Nicki Lane in the pits with Neil Hodgson’s Ducati Fila 999F03 Superbike.The Fast Dates Calendar girls including Nicki were again tthis year the official Team Ducati Corse umbrella girlsat the 2003 Laguna Seca USA round of the World Superbike Championship.
History was made as “Nicki” Nicola Lane, formerly Miss Great Britain 1999, became the first girl to ever win the title twice. Nicki was sponsored for her home country British national pageant leading up to the Miss World competition by the FastDates.com Motorsports Calendars and Website, who’s sash she wore on stage during portions of the competition and when she was crowned at the end.
Nicki Lane will be familiar to American sportbike fans who may have seen her in America last summer 2002 where she was working with FastDates.com, serving as an official SBK World Superbike Fast Dates Calendar model at Laguna Seca World Superbike shooting for the calendar in the paddock with the top factory race bikes, and on Sunday Nicki also served as the official Team Ducati Corse umbrella girl for SBK World Superbike Champion Troy Bayliss.
Nicki again returned to America this year at the invitation of FastDates.com Calendar producer Jim Gianatsis and Paolo Ciabatti, Marketing Director at Ducati Corse, to be a Fast Dates Calendar model at Laguna Seca World Superbike where she also served as official Ducati Corse team umbrella girls on Sunday for the former British Superbike National Champion and now 2003 World Superbike Champion Neil Hodgson. “We couldn’t be more pleased to have FastDates.com be part of a such a world class championship winning combination.” said Paolo Ciabatti.
Visiting the vet from Bob T.
COFFEE AT STARBUCKS– An elderly Irish woman goes to the doctor and asks his help to revive her husband’s sex drive …
“What about trying Viagra?” asks the doctor.
“Not a chance,” says Mrs. Murphy. “He won’t even take an aspirin for a headache.”
“No problem.” replies the doctor. “Drop it into his coffee, he won’t even taste it. Try it and then call me in a week to let me know how thingswent.”
A week later, Mrs. Murphy calls the doctor and he inquired as to howthings went. “Oh, faith and bejaysus and begorrah, it was terrible, justterrible, doctor.”
“What happened?” asks the doctor.
“Well, I did as you advised and slipped it in his coffee. The effect was immediate. He jumped straight up, with a gleam in his eye and with hispants bulging fiercely!!! He swept the cutlery off the table, at the same time ripping my clothes off and then proceeded to make wild, mad, passionate love to me on the tabletop for hours!! It was terrible!”
“What was terrible?” said the doctor. “Was the sex not good?”
“Oh no, doctor, the sex was the best I’ve had in 25 years, but I’ll never be able to show me face in Starbucks again.”
–Bob T.
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