Since buying this 2017 M8 trike, I’ve been working on refining the ride as possible. This entailed changing the shocks to coil over Legend Revo A’s, adding a lift kit and adjusting everything as optimally as possible.

Also, the front springs were removed and replaced with Legend Axio canister front suspension. The combination of the modified front and rear suspension really made the ride much, much better.

At this point I really needed to change the rider ergonomics as these trikes from Harley are really a one size fits all seat and leg room combination. Shorter riders may feel comfortable with the leg room but for anyone with long legs 6 feet or over, the seat is way too short and the handlebars are too far forward.

So, starting with handlebars I selected Khrome Werks 2+2 12-inch-tall bars (part number 300517). They make a wide version and a narrow version of these bars, and I selected the wide version because the hand position is a little more natural for me.

These bars will work with the OEM wires, clutch and brake lines. This is a job that if you’re not comfortable pulling the fairing off you may want to have your local mechanic do it for you.

It is a little pricey so if you can do it yourself, you’re only out the price of the bars, otherwise you’re looking at five to $800 in labor. These bars bring your hands back 2 inches and up 2 inches, which I find much more comfortable and allows me to sit back up against my back rest. Huge benefit is also that the steering is considerably lighter because it changes the leverage on the bars.

These trikes can be a bit of a truck to steer, so by adding the lift kit and the handlebars it really becomes like having power steering. You may decide that you prefer the meat hook style of bars or regular style ape hangers, and they also add benefit to the steering but leave you forward. You may prefer this, but I was after a comfortable position to ride long distance and this was my preference.



I still had the same problem with the seat being too short, and I felt like I was sitting on the tank, and my legs were cramped unless I used the highway pegs. This started the hunt for a new seat.

I did look at the offerings from Harley-Davidson but I did not feel that the quality or the ride was much different than the stock seat. One of the problems I believe with Harley-Davidson seats is the pan is made out of a flexible plastic. The foam is not very dense and with the flexible seat pan you do feel a lot of the road bumps.

Also, the shape of the seat in the front is a little too wide and thick which can play havoc with the family jewels. I settled on a road sofa from Saddleman, and it was just what the doctor ordered.

I’ve had a few seats from Saddleman and they’re always beautiful and of great quality. Their customer service is excellent and they always follow up after you’ve purchased a seat with updates on how the seat is progressing.

When the seat is in final inspection, they send you a text and within one day it is sent out. Since these seats are custom made to order you do have a choice of the stitching and the particular material. Mine took about three weeks from the time it was ordered.

I have to say this seat is beautiful and it really added a lot to the look of my trike. I also ordered the tour pack backrest, so that I would have a matching seat and backrest for the passenger with the diamond stitching with black thread.

As you can see in the pictures it really flows with the lines of the trike. The feel of the seat is very different from many other seat manufacturers, it’s firm and supportive not squishy and soft like the Harley seat. By the way, I also got the rider’s backrest at the same time and it has proven to be more than I expected.

The stock Harley backrest is very firm and feels like you have a knee in your back. The Saddleman backrest is easy to adjust to find just the right height and it floats from front to back so you barely notice it, but it is still very supportive. With the handlebars brought back 2 inches from stock, this lets you sit up against the backrest and is just great for cruising long distances.

Aside from the suspension modifications, which really help the ride and handling, this seat takes out, the sharp small bumps much better than the stock seat. Most riders don’t consider how much the seat helps the overall ride. I have my touring foot rests on the crash bar. so with the modifications of the handlebars and this wonderful seat from Saddleman the ergonomics are perfect.


Sources:
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https://www.khromewerks.com/page-handle-bars/



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It features subtle styling changes from the Gold Star on which it’s based.

In November, 2021, the revived BSA Motorcycles proudly presented its first new motorcycle in decades, the 2022 BSA Gold Star. Fittingly, the reveal took place at the 2021 Motorcycle Live show, which is the U.K.’s biggest annual motorcycle event—and which, let’s not forget, is also held in the BSA birthplace of Birmingham. The new Goldie—powered by a liquid-cooled, dual overhead cam, 625cc single—was met with a mostly positive response.

Fast-forward to 2022, and the latest edition of Motorcycle Live rolled into the NEC Birmingham events hall for visitors to see all the latest motorcycles on display. Of course, BSA was there, and of course it brought the Gold Star along. The company also brought along something new—a shiny new scrambler.

At this point, we must caution you that it’s only a design concept at the moment—but this, friends, is our first look at a conceptual BSA Scrambler. According to BSA, this is the first design that was developed entirely in-house at BSA’s new West Midlands facility. While the team didn’t offer a whole lot in the way of details, since it is only a concept, it’s meant to “offer a snapshot of what the future could look like,” as well as “showcase the customization capability of BSA’s Gold Star platform.”

The BSA Scrambler concept is built around same 652cc single found in the production BSA Gold Star. If you need a refresher, that engine makes a claimed 45 horsepower at 6,000 rpm, in addition to 55 newton-meters (or 40.5 pound-feet) of torque at 4,000 rpm. It’s also mated to a five-speed gearbox.

The concept boasts a sportier look, with a particularly grippy-looking seat cover, high front mudguard, and what at least looks to be a beefier front fork setup. Without knowing more details about what, precisely, was changed, it’s difficult to offer a full assessment. The dual, slash-cut exhaust looks more modern than the extremely traditional styling found on the Gold Star—but still exits low down on the right side of the bike, instead of featuring the high-mounted routing that’s common on some other scrambler-styled bikes.

The BSA Scrambler concept rolls on a pair of Excel Takasago spoked wheels, wrapped in dual-sport Pirelli Scorpion rubber, as opposed to the Pirelli Phantom Sportscomp tires mounted on the Gold Star. There’s a bit of a bash plate mounted up front, just under the radiator—though it’s clearly not meant to be a serious off-roading machine.

What do you think of this concept? Would you like to see it come to life as a future production model? What would you change about it? Let us know in the comments!

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Allegedly, New Royal Enfield Electric Bike Concept Photo Leaks Online

Is it a pre-production glimpse into the future.

When you think of the name “Royal Enfield,” the first thing that comes to mind probably isn’t electric bikes. Yet, since it’s nearly 2023, of course Enfield has a plan for electrification that it’s currently in the midst of undertaking. Now that it’s November, 2022, it seems that the OEM has recently reached the Quality Function Development concept phase.

As recently as late October, we learned that the company is currently aiming for a 2025 release date. If that hasn’t changed, then the timing of the QFD model and product brief that our colleagues at Autocar Professional recently got to see makes total sense. For those unfamiliar, a QFD concept helps product developers integrate customer wants into a given product design. While it’s a part of the design process, it’s not necessarily what the finished production version will look like.

Dubbed ‘Royal Enfield Elektrik01,’ the front right closeup that we’re able to see in the single QFD model shot that’s leaked so far is a fascinating design. There’s a glossy black ‘tank’ piece, which catches your eye via a reflection that highlights the matte silver frame that surrounds it. Is it a frunk? Is it an airbox? I mean, since it’s so early in its development, chances are excellent that we’re a long way off from knowing.

Royal Enfield plots entry into the world of EVs; early stages of development seen in its Electrik01 concept motorcycle https://t.co/Lv17Wvfdmp pic.twitter.com/CrGUu7EAzx

— Autocar Professional (@autocarpro) November 23, 2022

What is incredibly clear here is the girder front fork design, picked out in matte black. It leads up to the single round headlight, which is also matte black on this concept bike. Additionally, the photo shows a black alloy front wheel wrapped in Avon rubber, and not much else. Since girder forks are mainly seen on either extremely vintage machines or custom builds in the current era, that design choice is certainly one way to set the Elektrik01 apart from the pack if it makes it to the production version.

Since Autocar also got a sneaky peek at the product brief, the team there has some additional insights into what they read. For those already familiar with Royal Enfield’s design choices in the 2020s, though, the idea of “neo vintage/classic” styling may be the least surprising combination of words that you would probably expect to see. They know what their fans like, they know who they are, and they’re not afraid to integrate those styling cues and choices into future designs—no matter how they’re powered.

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PRE-PREFACE-THING PART

This is called the non-Mafia-crime-family-member’s guide because Mafia dudes don’t need to read this shit. They already know this shit. They live in reality. Not in the mystical world of magical events and wondrous “representatives” and “the wisdom of the law” and the worship of “our sacred democracy” garden of delights that you live in and that Nancy Pelosi, who probably can’t even spell democracy, prattles on about.

Mafia members know government is a con. They know it’s a superstition. They know it’s a bunch of snakeoil salesmen selling “liberty,” “rights.” “justice,” “happiness,” “equality” and all the things inhabiting a fairy tale all wrapped up in promises of magical powers at the end of the “journey” if you just place your “faith” in government.

They know It’s incompetent people running things under the guise of “wise leadership.” Unlike the Mafia which is actually competent people running things under profit and loss leadership. The Mafia deals with people and reality. The government deals with magical, supernatural abilities and noble achievements of fucking spirit and holiness and sanctity like some fucking psycho cult filled with selfless leaders who only care about you. And yet the only people they actually deal with is each other: other members of government. They don’t deal with you. Once they get into office it’s screw you, you lazy assholes, you can’t figure out life so you need us to tell you what to do? Haha, ok, here’s what to do: do everything we say.

You deal with a Mafia guy?….. you gotta actually deal with a Mafia guy. You deal with a bureaucrat he says thank you for your campaign donation for which you will get nothing in return, goodbye, behave yourself. At least with the Mafia guy you get your narcotics or your hijacked load or your tax-free cigarettes, or protection, or that gun you need. The elected guy? He arrests you for even having narcotics or a gun or a hijacked load then he takes them and sells them to a Mafia guy. And I’m just gettin’ started here.

On this planet only members of a Mafia crime family would have absolutely no argument or problem or disagreement or upset or “troublings” or “concernings” with anything that is contained in this book. Believe me, Mafia guys are a billion times smarter than you. At least when it comes to knowing when they’re bein’ fucked with. So nuthin’ in here is gonna be a problem for ‘em emotionally. Nothing in here is gonna cause them emotional upset. They will not panic and seek out a safe space readin’ this. Not that they’re gonna read this. Cause they ain’t. They have fucking lives.

Everyone else who actually does read this, however, is going to, guaranteed, find something, probably tons of things, that are going to send them flying, like stench in a shitstorm, into pearl-clutching-mode hysteria. Right Wing, Left Wing, don’t matter, it’s gonna fucking happen.

 Mafia guys don’t need this. Everyone else does. Still, at best, only half of “everyone else” is going to find it 60 to 70 percent enlightening. Cause they’re going to find it also 30 to 40 percent aggravating.

The other half, however, they’re gonna go total fucking apefire batshit berserk readin’ this shit. They not going to just get pissed, they’re going to go fucking blue-faced, red-faced, fucking polkadot-faced hyperbaric bottom of the sea vacuum-of-space fucking swollen-up explosionary pinwheels of hysteria over this. Hey: fuck them: they’re the fucking problem.

The Purpose Of This Dictionary

Journalists and bureaucrats are working together with vigor and enthusiasm to turn you into even more of an idiot than you already are. This interpretive guide to their language – which you think is the same language you are speaking – which it is not – will at least give you the opportunity, or at least hopefully show you that it is possible, for you to actually get a fucking clue and maybe self-install a fucking brain into your head. I know what you’re saying: “That’s kinda rude.” Actually it’s more than just “kinda” rude. It’s basically right there over the plate rude. So, yeah. You’re right. That was kinda rude. I’m sorry.

Vulgarity Warning Pro’bly A Little Late

I wrote comedy fiction and snarky essays at Easyriders Magazine during its initial heyday, a magazine targeting marginally civilized Harley Addicts as its audience. I was deemed suitable for the slot because…..I arrived draped in the social graces? No. I was deemed suitable for the slot because I was able to meet if not greatly exceed their editorial lack of societal propriety.___jjs

INTRODUCTION AND ACTUAL PREFACE-THING PART: WHY YOU’RE STUPID

Only through me can you learn the degree and the extent of your political ignorance and suckertivityness. To say “I AM ZOD!!!” would be an exaggeration. However I have been an American cultural Icon twice: once following someone else’s path and once following my own path. Ya know, now that we’re on the subject, I should say world cultural icon. Or at least English-speaking-world cultural icon. Not just cultural icon. Global cultural icon. Yeah, that’s better.

Global cultural icon. And not just once but twice. Twice times global cultural icon, my fren. I could say that. But I think that would be, I don’t know: gilding the radiant sunrise upon the Himalayas. Or putting car lot triangular-banners along the roof of Abu-Simbel. Garish gewgaws upon already-perfect edifices. Or, so not-like-me, in other words.

I was a cultural-icon Mouseketeer J.J., misspelled by corporate executives into “Jay-Jay,” at 12 years old in 1955 and that’s, ya know, something. Because, ya know, Annette. I had Annette for a coworker. To say that that did not go to my head would be an understatement. I didn’t even really want to be there. But I was there. And I moved-up in capacity and experience and, of course, tap-dancing ability since then and became – once again – a cultural-icon at the early versions of Easyriders Magazine, from Mickey Mouse Club to outlaw biker clubs, and which magazine, singlehandedly ushered in the current age of trying to “make America great again.” And because of the paths that took me to both places I can assure you that I now know more about how this political planet “works” than you do. No offense. No, never mind, you can be offended. Not a problem.

Now, you might say “Well you can call yourself an icon but that doesn’t mean you’re a fuckin’ icon.” I can understand legitimate criticism. But I don’t see any reason to be rude or to take what I consider to be a civilized conversation down into the level of gutter-sweepings. There’s no need for that. I can actually prove I’m – to bring it down to your rather crude level – a fuckin’ icon, as you put it.

The August 1997 issue of ICON magazine has an article about me in it. Do you see any articles about Annette in there? No. In fact a quote of mine from the article is contained within the O of the name of the magazine on the cover with Vince McMahon looking right at it. I mean, ya know, his picture is lookin’ at it. In fact I basically co-wrote the article under the name of Stuart Podacjol. I’m such a ”fuckin’” icon as you so crudely put it, I had to step-in on my own interview to keep it up to my sky-high standards of excellence. Which you are getting a glimpse of right here. But it was not a problem, I was glad to do it. They were journalists. I felt the need to help. That was then.

I realize none of this proves to you, not that I could prove anything to you based on your rudeness, why I am the Final Authority on the sewer-level nature of the global press and the sewer-level nature of global politicians and why journalists, who actually own and operate bureaucrats, are smugly pulling everyones’ strings and laughing about it. Don’t get me wrong: journalists don’t want power. They have it.

However, to prove it to you, that I am more politically savvy than you, even if you are Ayn Rand or – another even – even if you are William Randolph Hearst, I am going to explain to you why all the things you think you know are in error. That is, regarding politics.

I am the political supreme being on this planet, meaning, I have more understanding of politics and government than you do. This is not boasting. Me talking about getting to personally attend an Easyriders photo shoot of Summer Knight, which you did not get to attend…..that’s boasting. Me proclaiming vast, far more lofty positioning in the hierarchy of political acumen than you have is not boasting. It’s drawing a line in the sand that I’m on the other side of and you are not. If you cross over it you will not get threatened or beat up. You will be over here where I am. And I could use the fuckin’ company.

I am also the Arbiter of Aesthetics for planet earth but that is way outside the scope of this subject matter. But you will get some inkling of it as you read my prose. Which exceeds all normal current parameters for American hacks. Of which I am one. However, aesthetics-wise…… there is nothing remotely aesthetic about politics or journalism. They’re anti aesthetics. They’re pig stys of grunts, ugly shapes, and foul odors.

But this is not a treatise on aesthetics and why I own this subject. It is a small encyclopedia of political and journalistic words and expressions and how what they – journalists and bureaucrats – mean by them is a whopping lot different from what the dictionary says they mean and from what you probably think they mean.

In other words, journalists and bureaucrats are working together to turn you into even more of an idiot than you probably already are. For instance, you probably already think that humans actually affect the climate. You didn’t think that once. It would never occur to you. You would call yourself stupid and so would everyone else if you thought that. But now you do think it. You probably now actually worry about it. You likely now get actually angry if anyone says different. Because you’ve been turned into an idiot. Or I should say – in your language – a idiot. Because you believe dedicated liars. No matter what they lie about. The more idiotic the better. You drink it up.

So let’s talk about the nature of bureaucrats – people in authority in government – and journalists…..news “reporters” and “political analysts” and “according to sources close to” stenographers…..and why they, even though they are more stupid than you, are running your life to the extent that you routinely look to these two moldering cisterns of stupidity, duplicity and cunning for advice and information. As to why I am the only person – at least as far as EYE know – who is competent-enough to straighten you out on these matters? I’ll explain that farther on down. You’ll notice I said farther and not further. You wouldn’t have said that. You would have said further. I hear you saying “No I wouldnt.” So typical. Yeah, you would.

THE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT AND “THE PRESS”

Government – or, people who can’t do anything and who have jobs that have no actual function or job description – cannot keep up with private enterprise individuals – whose job is to make life better and easier for people and who either continually succeed at this or disappear and are replaced by someone more successful at it. Government never succeeds in anything productive. Ever. It only succeeds at failure. So government has to impede private enterprise into non-existence otherwise government will become obsolete due to people simply not using it or not needing to use it. Apparently only me and bureaucrats realize this.

The industrial revolution and American free enterprise, for the short time it, the latter, to some extent actually existed, made the State, and overall bureaucratic incompetence, obsolete. That’s why Marx created Communism: to make Industrialism and free enterprise capitalism obsolete, and in fact, declare it inherently villainous “and uncaring,” and who has put the State and incompetence back in control. If control is the right word for systemic collapse via “the law.”

Journalists and bureaucrats – or scribes and pharisees as I like to call them – determine how words and concepts will be re-defined into their opposite, or, “new-and-improved,” definitions and meanings in the hopes of maintaining chaos. We’re actually at the moment in the chaos the pro-government people insist we’ll be in….without government. This is the chaos. This is what actual anarchy actually looks like. What we’re in. Right now. This is anarchy: bewilderment, stupidity and out of control criminal – not illegal – behavior from governed and governing alike. This is the anarchy the pro-government devotees think will happen…..without government. You’re saying “Well that’s crazy.” Yeah. I know. Wow! We’ve achieved common ground! Already! I’m optimistic!

Journalists and bureaucrats revere government – or anarchy – because journalism and public office are the two lowest levels of human failure short of living on the sidewalk. In fact most sidewalk vagrants have more sterling and admirable qualities than any office holder or journalist.

Journalists and bureaucrats also know something you don’t: they have no idea what the fuck they’re doing but they know you think they do. Why do you think this? EYE think it’s because you’re an idiot. But it could be you think this because your parents and grandparents thought this, they being every bit as stupid as you are.

As a result, if you like government you pro’bly think bureaucrats are wondrous miracle workers who can make everything euphorically functional. If you don’t like government you pro’bly think it’s a cabal of evil magicians capable of turning jet-aircraft water vapor into mind-controlling insidious behavioral modification atoms via cellular reconstruction as it rains down upon you without your noticing and penetrating your hide. Either way, like government or fear it, you think it’s supernatural at its core. It’s not. It’s a hive of lazy pompous blowhard idiots who – with a lot of justification outside the scope of this book – are convinced you’re a gullible moron.

The purpose for this deception-via-vocabulary bureaucrats and journalists energetically endorse is to further a New Pagan Anti-Christian-In-Particular Cult Agenda of Global Herd Control Such That Individual Fulfillment At All Imaginable Levels Is Rendered Impossible. And Eventually Unimaginable. So that everyone remains stupid.

You’ll notice I didn’t say so that everyone becomes stupid. No. Everyone is already there. Now it’s just guiding the herds into the ever narrowing corridors leading toward the actual pens. Except they’re psychological pens. And this is done by cooperatively altering the traditional meanings of “items-of-vocabulary” – meaning words – and thus gradually eradicating the American cultural mandate of Individualism and replacing it with the new cultural mandate of a collective We’re All In This Together shithole of stagnation and universal misery….via “concept warping.”

The Covid 19 hoax and its ongoing not-actually-a-vaccine vaccination horror of blind obedience being a pretty good example of what to expect now that these two entities of the government and the “press” know that you’re ready for roundup. They got a ton of compliance via this carnival nonsense, backed up by threat of licensing deprivation.

If you think when I said “anti-Christian” back there that I mean I am promoting Christianity here, I am not. I am promoting the idea that anti-Christianity as opposed to anti any other religion in existence, is the driving impetus for these two scoundrel entities, journalism and politics.

Because – as opposed to Christian preachers and Christian “members” – I am convinced bureaucrats and journalists actually understand the fundamental essence of Christianity, unlike whatever the fuck it is Christians think Christianity is, and they know that political extinction in all it’s forms, be it government politics (or office politics, the adopted son of government politics) is what lies at the heart of the Human part of Jesus’ two-part job on earth.

I told you you would have problems with this. However a Mob guy? If he could read this he’d be saying, “Oh, really? How do you figure?” He’d want some details. You? You’re fucking freaking out. Hey, I warned you, asshole. Mob guy though?…. they hear something weird? They want to get to the bottom of it. It’s a fucking obsession.

You? You fucking shit your pants and start renting your garments. Because you’re a fuckin’ idiot. Hey, nothing personal, it’s almost – almost – not your fault. You don’t want the truth. The truth pisses you off. You want reinforcement of your long-time erroneous assumed-assessments of things. Most of which are batshit. I did say you are stupid, right? Hey, I get it, no one wants to hear that. Especially coming from me. Where the fuck was I.

For the record, this is not an epistemology essay on how words, ideas, definitions, and concepts are related inside your head and what happens to your behavior and convictions when you are not paying attention to what someone is actually telling you. Unlike what lawyers do automatically. Which would be to “actually pay attention to” what people are saying to them. So you’re going to have to do some research on your own. You might have to learn how to listen and think like a lawyer. God forbid.

People in government are usually terrible communicators because they’re sociopaths: they worship lies. They talk in lies, usually random, meandering, off-topic, imbecilic word-concoctions which is easier than constructing a focused lie, which is why you don’t actually pay attention to them, they’re babbling.

You just react to their position: namely, they have some government title; they’re talking in your direction so you think they’re actually talking to you; they sound like a school civics preachers, so they must be saying something ok. Some very small sane pathway of your crumbling brain, however, knows that what the bureaucrat is saying is not addressed to you personally but rather to some steamcloud of hazy ineptitude called the public.

You don’t work in the public government sector of “employment” unless you’re a sociopath and have no awareness of actual individuals. Except in Joe Biden’s case when he spots an eight year old. Bureaucrat sociopaths are not good at winning over a crowd unless promising them free money because on some level the crowd knows that the bureaucrat is 1: taking money and property from them without permission and 2: threatening to jail them at any time for any one of ten million legal reasons. And the bureaucrat is always wondering when the crowd is actually going to realize this to the point of not having bureaucrats. My guess is never.

Bureaucrats can relax. Nonetheless, bureaucrats, therefore, not being communicators, rely on “the press” – failed novelists – to send their message of despair-touted-as-happiness to all who can read or who can at least stare at Rachel Maddow for long periods of time without wondering if they’ve been marooned on the ugly side of the Island of Sappho.

These definitions are not in set-order or category. They are randomly presented and with no underlying pattern or structure. Each stands alone and does so unalphabetically. Goodbye.

3: HEAT DOME……High pressure system: a sign of impending “climate catastrophe.”

4: BOMB CYCLONE……Low pressure system: a sign of impending “climate catastrophe.”

5: ARCTIC VORTEX……Low pressure system: considered too mild and uncatastrophic; changed to bomb cyclone: a sign of impending “climate catastrophe”

5a: ATMOSPHERIC RIVER……Rain: a sign of impending “climate catastrophe.”

12: GRAY SWAN CLIMATE CHANGE EVENT……At the moment I have no idea what this is. It’s that fucking nebulous. I never claimed to be perfect. Just this-far short of it.

A routine internet exploration of whatever this is, after visiting many many sites in the manner of my usual employment of data searches, being a practitioner of Gestalt Learning Theory, what I have seen as being the common overarching thread is that a gray swan climate change event is a massive hugely disastrous freak anomalous “perfect storm times one thousand” ruinous weather occurrence that probably won’t ever happen.

What I have surmised from all this is that, politically, it will be used routinely in all future weather discussions to further bend the malleable listless mind of the listener into associating all weather all the time anywhere on earth with potentially horrific possibilities of bulging without warning into the word-of-the-age which would be a “catastrophic” somethingorother.

Gray swan climate change event is the only entry in this remarkable dictionary regarding which the compiler admits to being totally adrift regarding spotting landfall wherein a complete understanding of this strangely-poetic gibberish expression lies exposed and revealed upon the glistening white sands of a shoreline.

13: CLIMATE-CAUSED WILDFIRES……Things that don’t actually ever happen on this planet. Do not confuse “climate-caused wildfires” with lightning-caused wildfires. Which actually exist. Climate-caused wildfires is part of the “new science of politically-decreed atmospheric reality,” touted by such titans of learning as Ocasio Cortez and Greta Thunberg.

Air temperature has never sparked a fire in the history of humanity. Or in the history of air. Or in the history of fire. But according to journalists and bureaucrats that is what is now sparking all of them. In addition, and this is new, increased air temperature caused by human-instigated-climate-change, even of a fraction of a degree, causes forest fires to burn hundreds if not thousands of degrees hotter.

According to experts and sources close to a report based on studies from someone close to the issue who spoke on conditions of anonymity.

27: HUMAN-CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING (JOURNALIST/BUREAUCRAT DEFINITION)……A reality. (ACTUAL DEFINITION)……A fabricated imaginary meteorological scapegoat created by bureaucrats who are unable, or more likely unwilling, to provide the utilities and roadways and water supplies – the most important aspects of modern life – their respective citizenries have for some imbecilic reason entrusted them with providing…… and enthusiastically endorsed as fact by journalists because it amuses them to see ruination and spiritually excites them to write about it.

This sort of thing – that humans control the weather – used to be called “rain dancing.” At least when the Apaches were controlling the weather. Academically it was referred to as “paganism,” or “Pantheism” or “Animism” whereat primitive superstitious people such as lived in Ancient Persia and Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome attributed self-awareness and infallibly-wise willful motivation to plants and animals and terrain and sea and sky, and to anything else that doesn’t actually have these things.

Today these notions are mandatory as belief systems whether you ascribe to them or not. Incidentally, from an American Constitution standpoint, not that it matters, these notions violate the “establishment of religion” clause in the Bill of alleged Rights. In fact the Constitution itself violates the establishment of religion clause and every Supreme Court Justice and Constitutional Law student in history knows that. Good luck getting them to admit it, they’d have to take a drastic cut in pay via an actual job.

32: HUMAN-CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING (CONT)……a technologically impossible achievement, even if intended, and proclaimed by journalists and bureaucrats and below-amateur unschooled meteorologists like Greta Thunberg and Al Gore to be actually in operation by accident!

Only the most primitive and/or the most narcissistic minds imaginable can manage to convince themselves that the planetary atmosphere of Earth is affected in any way by human activity. The sun and the earth’s atmosphere do not care what we do, especially since they both played a major role in the creation of humans, and did it without any bureaucratic or journalistic or ecological oversight.

42: ATTRIBUTION SCIENCE……This goes into Biden-Ocasio-Harris levels of Pretend-Chicken-Little Hysteria so let’s get on board. Attribution science is a new “science” created basically overnight by a committee of UN doctrinaires and devoured by journalists and bureaucrats as further proof that their commands must be obeyed.

It’s a lie-bolstering “proof” that the insistent proclamations by Marxists in government and journalism that human progress – in America – and improvements of standards of living for humans – in America and Europe – is heating the earth up……are now “proven to be true” by an additional non-science of attribution science bolstering the original non-science of human-caused climate change science. Attribution Science now gives validity to “climate science.”

Formerly meteorology. Attribution Science is now an addendum, “added proof” variation of “climate science.” So it’s one propaganda creation reinforcing another propaganda creation. This sort of thing is called childish make-believe under normal circumstances.

It’s called demonic possession when adults do it in total seriousness. Attribution science is a word combination that has no actual definition or even a reality. It has, rather, a function: to condition the mind more firmly to the fiction that humans affect the atmosphere and the sun.

Specifically: this new overnight science – actually created by a “climate committee” – measures, via make-believe, or “modeling” as it’s called, how much any particular storm has been magnified from its normal energy to a higher energy via human activity. Which is not a science. It’s a proclamation. Actually it’s lunacy. On purpose.

To see just how fucking stupid you are. So, there is not now just Climate Science, thus replacing meteorology, an emotionally neutral word being replaced with an expression rife with emotional charge, but there is also now “attribution science” added to “climate science” thus creating two new sciences to “study” (meaning “to create edicts for you to obey”) thus giving “human caused global warming” a reality so firm and unquestioned that it requires two entire “sciences” to fully unravel it’s catastrophic potential should you fail to obey the very non-scientific commands and regimentations being prepared for dumpage onto your head by “health advisors.”

43: CLIMATE SCIENCE……The political left-wing progressive socialistic/Marxist, and now Islamic, version of meteorology. It’s most fundamental axiom or tenet is that your use of a car and an air conditioner, and exhaling CO2 from your lungs, and using electricity, except for powering your non-“fossil”-powered car…. are warming the earth; the assumption being that a warmer earth is a catastrophe of enough import to warrant you living like a Tanganyikan veldt-inhabitant circa 25,000 BC courtesy of whoever is giving the orders at the moment.

At THIS moment it’s “health experts” in the UN: which is the current world government, currently being run – according to the Muslims, who quite proudly admit it – by Muslims.

THE major declaration, pronouncement, edict, threat, whatever you want to call it, is that the earth is a greenhouse. The earth is 4+ billion years old and has never been a greenhouse before. But now it is. And it took a bureaucrat to discover this. Probably Al Gore, famous Cal Tech-Level atmospheric scientist bureaucrat Jabba the Hutt look-alike. In fact, as it turns out, Al Gore is wrong, the earth is not a greenhouse, nor is it a giraffe. (see greenhouse gas)

45: FOSSIL FUEL……An imaginary – but proclaimed as real – fuel that does not actually exist. Coal and oil and methane, which do exist, are natural hydrocarbons found in the earth and probably on the moon where no fossils ever existed. That does not mean that any coal or oil eventually found on the moon will not be declared fossil fuel. Because there seems to be no cure for this delusion.

83:GRETA THUNBERG (PRESS/BUREAUCRAT DEFINITION)……Child meteorological prodigy steeped in advanced preternatural understanding of the human threat to world atmospheric temperatures, yet fortunately blessed with a clear and infallible plan of action incumbent upon all humanity to follow if we are to survive as a species.

(ACTUAL DEFINITION)……Self-proclaimed teenage major climate and atmospheric super scientist and Fahrenheit and centigrade monitor/analyst who has probably never taken her own temperature due to ineptitude.

How she has come by her expertise in meteorology no one knows so apparently the assumption is she is an atmospheric mystic of sublime insight. Her face seems to be devoid of skin muscles with the exception of the eternal wrestling match that seems to always be going on in the writhing flesh of her forehead.

Her emotional wrath regarding the refusal of “leaders” to obey her is unabating. When she is not screaming her demands of compliance to her wishes and commands and edicts – which are basically “Do something about this!!!” – she glares silently with what apparently is a scowl, though it could be delight, there is no way of knowing, her face is very similar everywhere in its absence of contrasting features, much like a large plate is.

To date no one has asked her where she comes by her certainties about how terrestrial climate and weather can be “reversed,” whatever reversing the weather could actually mean.

She seems to want less heat although many of the “major” news and journalistic entities are insisting that “climate change” is now heating formerly cold areas and freezing formerly hot ones, which, it would seem to me is not climate change but merely climate relocation, which no one has yet explained why THAT would be a problem.

No one also ever explains why climate CHANGE is a problem either but the suggested hint is that without an abandonment of the industrial revolution the earth will burst into flame.

Greta Thunberg, for all her fulminations and demands for obedience seems to possess not even one item of scholarly qualification for her monomania. Therefore she is more than qualified to be the global-press’s go-to gal for global temperature prognostication. Idiots always know their own.

86: THE DELICATE BALANCE OF NATURE……The only “science” myth bigger than the ones about fossil fuels actually coming from fossils and humans affecting weather and being presumed innocent until proven guilty and the bill of rights actually being a bill of rights and covid 19 being an actual human-species health threat and killing children being a “right.”

The “balance of Nature” is not delicate. It’s pulverizingly relentless. If you outwit Nature, you’re fine. At least for a while. You screw up you’re history. Sometimes paleontological history. Sometimes recent history.

Nature doesn’t care. Only hacks living with their moms think Nature cares. Only hacks living with their moms think we matter to Nature. They also think the weather obeys us.

One thing the hacks do teach us about Nature however is that Nature will just as easily make 8 billion blithering human idiots as it will 800 trillion totally-focused ants. And then let time decide who is here for the long run. ‘Cause Nature’s like honey badger. In fact Nature created honey badger. And honey badger just don’t give a shit. And neither does Nature. Despite what the people praying to it think. Which is why it’s given female synonyms. Because it doesn’t listen.

93: THE NEW NORMAL……..Go-to expression used by journalists and bureaucrats to inform that you must obey them, especially regarding weather and climate tyrannies as each one is dreamed up and declared the new normal and immediately replacing the old new normal. The new normal is always a sub-par, sub-standard, sub-previous condition. The new normal is never an improvement.

The new normal is always ABnormal and worse than what the new normal is replacing. Journalists and bureaucrats are always more comfortable with new normals because they can relate to them since the new normals are always a step backwards in standards of living, and journalists and bureaucrats are a step backwards in a zoological sense, so backward movement relaxes them and makes them feel a part of things rather than confused outliers.

99: DENIER (DENY-ER)….…Having an opinion or evidence or reasoned argument against an organized lie. The word “deny” is used strategically for psychological reasons, and of course used incorrectly and with a brand new meaning, the brand new meaning being “deny” now means “insane.”

For instance, a “climate denier” does not really deny the existence of climate. Nor does he deny the existence of a cabal insisting that “A” ‘s behavior is affecting the weather. He’s not actually denying anything. He’s asserting. He’s asserting a counter position, namely that humans are not on a scale large enough to affect the global juggernaut called ” the weather” and certainly not global long range climate, which is like saying humans are gods.

Pagan societies routinely, having no industrial technology, insist that their ritualistic actions will alter reality, such as creating, healing, wish-fulfillment, and rain for the crops. The world is now being run by Mesopotamian shamanists called “health advisors.” Or witch doctors, in normal historic language, or “rain dancers” to put it in the language of the Western American Palefaces, as the Indigenous North American Aborigines used to call the American Government invaders.

102: ATMOSPHERIC RIVER (CONT)………Rain. Atmospheric river is more menacing and ominous a word for rain than is, just, rain, the effort being to make all normal earth weather into something heinously monstrous thanks to the Industrial Revolution making life easier for humans and thus endangering the planet that put them here. Nature is apparently suicidal. So humans must save Nature from itself by the humans ceasing to exist, for this is the moral thing to do.

107: THE ENVIRONMENT.…..In journalese and governmentese and also according to unkempt, infertile, insufferable, astoundingly unattractive lesbians, anything anywhere that isn’t human. Especially that isn’t human male.

Liberals are convinced they can “protect” the environment even though the environment created THEM and not only doesn’t require their protection, it can, in an instant and under the right circumstances, eradicate, without any human assistance, thank you, all life on earth. And Libs are worried about IT being harmed.

112: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME.…… An early pre-emptive experiment by DC to convince “the governed” that humans can control the sun and the earth. Now we are being told that we are SO powerful that we have started a heating process on the very planet itself and that we have to pull-back our mighty powers, as though we are Jedi who have assumed too much control via our mighty connection with the Force. And this science fiction approach to mass-obedience seems to be actually working.

114: ATMOSPHERIC RIVER (cont)………..A more menacing, ominous word for rain, the effort being to make all normal earth weather into something heinously monstrous thanks to the Industrial Revolution and your air conditioner now destroying the earth.

125: CLIMATE SCIENCE……. Not actually one of the sciences. Meteorology is one of the sciences. “Climate science” is a government/journalist vocabulary-creation that has no actual texts or data or experiments or tested theories or examined hypotheses or anything else remotely scientific gathered together in anything that could be called collected research. It’s just two words created by, probably Al Gore, who now looks like a Bantha, that you – probably being stupid – are supposed to think is something that is declaring that you personally “are causing the earth to heat up.”

167: HUMAN-CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING.…..A Kabbalah-indoctrination process designed to convince idiots that they are gods. It has nothing to do with meteorology or atmospheric science or trees or CO2 or cars or boats or batteries or light bulbs or the Amazon or anything else being tossed your way other than Kabbalists who have no actual jobs who are for some reason called “The Government” decreeing that we are mighty beings filled with powerful spiritual potential and weather-controlling superpowers who need to reclaim our rightful ascendence to godhood.

Via obedience to perverse, very low IQ’d idiots on the public payroll who want you to not have air conditioning, swimming pools, lights, or food delivered by diesel. Which would be most food if not all of it.

184: GREENHOUSE GAS…….Two words assembled together in such a way as to put it into your head via relentless repetition by infinite human parrots including suddenly-genius first-graders, that earth is a man-made greenhouse, not a 4 billion year old mammoth amalgam of the entire periodic table.

The earth is not a green house. Nor is it a Popsicle. The expression “greenhouse gas” has one function: to put the idea of rising earth temperature into your head and associate it with you using an air conditioner or hair spray because your personal conveniences are killing others less fortunate.

That’s right, it’s just more fucking Marxism. The expression “greenhouse gasses” has been selected solely for the bizarre imagery that the phrase conjures: that the earth is not a successfully-self-operating monster of life-out-of dirt, winding and wending its way through a galaxy of a billion stars and a trillion planets, no, it’s fucking a greenhouse: a big glass building with its already hot, wet, humid essence being further compromised by your car which is turning the earth into more of a place for lizards and spiders and plants that eat animals than it already is, and you are at fault because of your selfish need for “modern conveniences” while others die.

The expression “greenhouse gas” has also been selected via some random bureaucratic catastrophe-generator to be associated with the sudden newly-appearing mysterious version of meteorology called “climate science.” Meaning “the science you created and made necessary for us to investigate so that you don’t kill everybody.” Climate science. Greenhouse effect.

Greenhouse gasses. Global warming. Attribution science. Gray swan climate event, Hotter. And hotter. Wetter. Droughtier. It’s a fucking mess. Do you care??? No. You have electricity. So YOU don’t care. (You’ll notice there is a worldwide sudden electricity problem in all the white countries.)

You won’t stop stop using your air conditioner? We’ll shut off the power. You won’t stop driving your gas and diesel vehicles? We’ll outlaw oil. You’ll use our mandatory electricity vehicles. Which don’t work. We don’t care. We need you dead before you realize you don’t actually need us.

Eventually there will be something called “terrain science” that will explain why walking on the ground rather than just lying six feet beneath it is causing warts on the moon. Just like all the other things declared out of nowhere, claimed as fact and always suspiciously designed to handcuff human life, human happiness, human progress and discourage more cool stuff and to keep people glued to one spot. Ya know, like Covid-19 successfully did.

190: EARTH (Journalist/Bureaucrat Definition)……A fragile, delicately-balanced surface upon which we walk, sufficiently content to be a provider of endless arrays of life and pleasantness until humans intervened and who now threaten its very existence due to our voracious power and might and indifference to the effects and ruin we are imparting to it.

(Real Definition)……A roaring engine of self-balancing physical laws which turned inanimate matter into self-reproducing life forms which multiply so fast and in more numbers than necessary in order to guarantee the continuance of life via random possibilities often pre-adapted to conditions that don’t yet exist should conditions change, in which we humans are one of the life forms.

We did not put Nature here. Nature put us here. Nature sets the rules. Not us. We discover the rules and use them to alleviate the threats Nature relentlessly presents in order to live more comfortably within Nature. We are not a threat to the earth. The earth is a potential, ongoing, indifferent, “doing its own thing” threat to us. Human who are convinced they can affect or alter Nature are normally called “insane people.”

192: UTILITIES……Actual services that have been entrusted to the exclusive control of government – an entity that has nothing to lose if it decides to focus on housing bums rather than keeping your lights, gas, and water supplies on, or by using these three necessities as bargaining chips to get you to believe that 1: flu is a global pandemic (get your shots or we’ll turn off your lights) and that 2: while you are not powerful enough to ever outrun the flu and thus require eternal booster shots never proven to be effective, you are still powerful enough to alter the global climate to catastrophic levels via your relentless addiction to not living like a neanderthal in a frosty cave and traveling by goat.

206: THE GREAT RESET (as yet #ff0000 politically or journalistically)……An attempted planned and peaceful and ongoing takeover of the UN – currently run and managed by Communists and Islamists – by Klaus Schwab, head of something called The World Economic Forum, which is the only “secret society” that is at the moment right out there on stage and shining a bright light on itself.

Mr Schwab apparently is presenting himself as a wise guidance counsellor for humanity, as do all “public servants,” but for some reason he has acquired the clout to make it known to all the “leaders” of the world, especially the most imbecilic ones, like Justin Trudeau, King Charles, Angela Merkle, probably Gavin Newsom, and probably the crypt keeper running New Zealand, Joe Biden and the usual cast of especially-stupid world “leaders.”

According to Darth Klaus, who has been known to attire himself in Aleister Crowley-like apparel as though a transfer-point of information from the mystical realm into our maudlin human one as provided by the celestial overlords, according to Klaus, C-19 has emphasized the need for a control center of the earth’s businesses lest a future pandemic unprecedented, as was this past make-believe one, paralyze the money supply.

What exactly Klaus’s plan is for saving the earth is not clear but it does involve a major focus on “green” shit. Meaning the nationalizing, or in his case the globalizing, of industry into non existence. He’s a typical insane normal everyday historical-type sociopath tyrant convinced, or at least trying to convince you, he has mystical, science-fiction abilities in other words. He’s like Jim Jones but in better and plusher surroundings than a remote dustpile in a jungle.

The Great Reset is not a part of the normal everyday collection of journalist and bureaucrat “go to” bag of crap yet, but it should be making its formal appearance in day-to-day bullshit sessions aimed at you by both parties very soon.

215: CLIMATE (BUREAUCRAT/JOURNALIST DEFINITION)……Ten trillion cubic miles of atmospheric gasses encircling an entire planet that is controlled in movement and temperature by errant or conscientious behavior of a species of primate scattered randomly over a minute percentage of the surface, most of which members can’t control their dogs, much less the atmophere.

(ACTUAL DEFINITION)……Invisible, transparent floating molecules and atoms circling the earth 100 miles thick, influenced entirely by the sun and gravity and planetary rotation and used as a respiratory agent by life forms on the planet surface, which in humans cannot be halted for more then two minutes or death occurs, leading one to conclude, if the concluder is not a fucking moron, that the climate controls us. Rather than us controlling it.

220: ENVIRONMENTALISM (JOURNALISM/BUREAUCRAT DEFINITION)……The effort to save the earth from humanity. (ACTUAL DEFINITION)…… A combined, unified, concerted, focused, unrelenting, dogged, determined effort to overrule the deity calling itself I Am’s directive to humanity to “subdue the earth.” The route toward this end is engined by Marxism which will automatically bring human progress to a stop.

“Saving the earth” in a non-bureaucratic, non-journalism world would be symptomatic of delusionist psychosis of a major intensity of lunacy activators within the brain. In this present world however saving the earth is well within the powers of all of us if we but unite in concert and Gaia-Consciousness to the exclusion of every other single-minded activity of interest in the realm of existence.

–jj solari

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With even more orders being taken, only the last few build slots remain for the limited edition Langen Two Stroke – only 100 will be made.

The team from Langen Technology Limited (Langen), one of the leading automotive engineering and development companies specialising in low volume motorcycles, has returned from an extremely busy 9 days at Motorcycle Live at the NEC Birmingham. Visitors and the media flocked to the see the first two customer bikes being unveiled to their respective owners before being centre stage on the Langen stand.

Both bikes represent great examples of the bespoke nature of working with the technical team at Langen to achieve the ultimate motorcycle, tailored to the customers exact specification and aspiration.

• The first Langen Two Stroke customer motorcycles unveiled at Motorcycle Live
• The first two customers who chose VIN’s 13 and 59 are about to take delivery of their Langen Two Stroke machines having been part of the display at Motorcycle Live at the NEC last month.
• Langen received an exceptional response to the bikes on display from both the media and visitors, with many quoted as saying that “the Langen Two Stroke was the best-looking bike at the show”.

Discover more at: https://www.langenmotorcycles.co.uk/

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Peter, proud new owner of bike number 13, said on seeing his machine for the first time “I was overjoyed and it felt like being 18 again without the cost of a divorce!” but on a more serious note, added “I was over the moon with the full experience of the Langen team the little subtle changes I made to the design turned out better than expected, it is more than just a motorbike – it is more a work of engineered art.”

David, proud new owner of bike number 59, said on seeing his Langen Two Stroke – “I was expecting to see something special when they unveiled my bike at the show, but l wasn’t prepared for the that, I had no words, just a huge grin on my face. It’s been a long time coming but the wait has been more than worth it.”

Christofer Ratcliffe the founder and CEO of Langen went on to say “It was an absolute pleasure to see the faces of our first two customers light up on revealing their bikes, it makes all the hard work over the last 4 years’ worth every minute, we now have a steady production stream into 2023 to complete the remaining orders and very, very few build slots for the last remaining bikes. We enjoyed an exceptional level of interest and appreciation for the bikes we create at Langen from the show’s visitors and media, we also collected more deposits – it could not have gone any better”.

• Langen are now building a community of owners and looking to create unique experiences, apparel and accessories to compliment being part of the Langen family.
• The last few build slots for the remarkable Two Stroke remain before the Langen team turn their attention to the next project.

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Ricky Russell, Zach Osborne, Liam Draper, and reigning GNCC WXC Champion Rachael Archer looking to campaign for top honors aboard their YZs

MARIETTA, Ga. – December 1, 2022 – AmPro Yamaha is excited to announce a powerhouse lineup for 2023 with the signing of Ricky Russell to lead the charge in the premier class, and the addition of Zach Osborne and Liam Draper in the 250 class. Returning with the team to defend her crown in the Grand National Cross Country Series (GNCC) is 2022 WXC National Champion Rachael Archer.

Russell returns to the AmPro family looking to fight for the title aboard the all-new 2023 Yamaha YZ450F and will be racing the GNCC XC1 class, the National Enduro Series Pro 1 class, and select US Sprint Enduro rounds. The Washington State rider ended the year on a high note with a victory at the season finale to give him a pair of wins for third in the points standings and looks to keep his momentum rolling into next season.

Coming out of retirement to go off-road racing full-time is former supercross/motocross racer Osborne. A championship-proven rider with a versatile background, he will be joining the program to race the GNCC XC2 class and select US Sprint Enduro races aboard the 2023 Yamaha YZ250FX. Osborne was crowned the Pro Motocross 450MX Champion in 2020 and earned a pair of 250 titles in 2017 – the 250SX East Championship and 250MX Championship. He was also part of the U.S. World Trophy Team at the International Six Days Enduro in 2013 and 2014, and now looks to evolve his talents into the longer more demanding off-road formats.

Draper will be joining the team to compete in both the GNCC XC2 class and the National Enduro Series Pro 2 class. Making his GNCC debut in 2018, the New Zealander looks to keep building on his forward momentum and looks to fight up front aboard the 2023 Yamaha YZ250FX.

Returning to the AmPro Yamaha program is reigning GNCC WXC National Champion Archer who will also be piloting the 2023 Yamaha YZ250FX. In addition to defending her title in the GNCC series, the New Zealander will race select US Sprint Enduro rounds.

The team is also happy to announce their AmPro bLU cRU amateur support riders with Cooper Jones and Ryder Sigety returning with the squad and the addition of Mike Delosa and Simon Johnson.

In 2023, AmPro Yamaha’s primary focus will remain on the Grand National Cross Country Series and the National Enduro Series (NEPG), as well as GNCC University and select bLU cRU special events to support Yamaha riders honing their off-road skills. Russell, Osborne, Draper, and Archer, will also have a renewed focus on the US Sprint Enduro Series as their schedule permits. Additionally, they will be assisting in the development of our AmPro bLU cRU Amateur Team riders at GNCC, US Sprint, and JDay offroad events.

Donnie Luce – Amateur MX/ ATV / Off-Road Coordinator for YMUS

“Yamaha is pleased to continue our long association with Randy Hawkins and the entire AmPro Team. We are very excited about the team that we have assembled for our 25th season together. This association has produced numerous champions over the years while allowing us to further showcase our complete line of Yamaha Off-Road models, GYTR, and Yamalube products.”

Randy Hawkins – AmPro Yamaha Racing Team Owner

“This is going to be an exciting year for us. It’s time to get back to our roots and really show the world that Yamaha’s race machines are a step above the competition’s. We have the riders and team personnel, and we have the right equipment to win multiple championships in 2023.”

Ricky Russell – AmPro Yamaha Racing

“I couldn’t be more excited to be reunited with AMPRO Yamaha. Randy and all the guys here helped me start my GNCC racing career, so in a way, it feels like coming home and it’s good to be back. I finished off 2022 with a few Overall wins in GNCC and had career-best finishes in NEPG, so I’m very stoked to take that momentum into 2023 on the all-new YZ450F batting for championships!”

Zach Osborne – AmPro Yamaha Racing

“I’m super excited and grateful for this opportunity. My first conversation with Randy about joining his team and the off-road community dates all the way back to the end of 2007, so for this to come to fruition at a time when I was looking for a new opportunity is just super cool! I’m excited to get the season started in a few short months and I hope to make the team and our sponsors proud. I’ve been back to full-time training for about six weeks now and things are responding well heading into the holidays and my January training camp!”

Liam Draper – AmPro Yamaha Racing

“I’m super excited to be a part of AmPro Yamaha. It’s always been my dream to be on a factory team since I first came to the USA in 2018, and now it’s a reality! I’m super happy with the bike and I’m excited to be teammates with Ricky, Zach, and Rachael. Randy also brings such a vast knowledge of the sport and I’m excited to be under his leadership!”

Rachael Archer – AmPro Yamaha Racing

“2022 was epic! I was able to push through and get consistent podiums and six GNCC wins throughout the year and win the WXC championship! I’ve been working on this championship since I was 12, so to finally take the number-one plate at 20 years old is a pretty big achievement! I couldn’t have done it without the help of my awesome team at AmPro Yamaha, and I’m super excited to be chasing another championship or two again in 2023 with them!”

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LATEST FROM TMZ–Jay Leno released from the hospital

According to the TMZ website, comedian and car collector Jay Leno has been sent home from the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles where he was taken after being burned in a gasoline fire in his Burbank garage.

Leno was repairing a fuel line on his 1907 White steam car when gasoline, which is used to heat the car’s burner, splashed on his face and arm and then was ignited by a spark. A friend helped extinguish the flames, and Leno was taken to the hospital.

“The ex-late night host posed for a photo taken and posted by the Grossman Burn Center, where JL has been receiving treatment for the past nine days. In it, he seems to be in good spirits alongside the facility staff, but there’s noticeable scarring on his face and hands,” TMZ said. “In a statement, the burn center says Jay will receive follow-up care at their outpatient facility, this after receiving burns throughout his upper [body], including on his chest.”

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Hagerty Media

ROLAND SANDS DESIGN AND KRIEGA— Announce Product Collaboration Launch

Long Beach, California, USA / Deeside, UK:
Forging a path in the 2-wheel world is not a simple task. It takes commitment, creativity, relentless drive, a few great ideas and sometimes, a little luck. The crew at RSD & Kriega brands are no strangers to this process.

Through the years both brands have become global leaders in their respective fields; RSD with iconic custom motorcycles, premium parts & apparel; and Kriega with industry defining backpack and luggage products; RSD & Kriega are known for premium quality, craftsmanship and performance.

Meet the ROAM Collection, a collaboration by RSD X Kriega. Forged by countless miles on the highway, trails, and canyon roads this new collection of rider bags and accessory products perfectly blend classic and modern materials, technical construction, and functionality.

The ROAM Collection features materials unique to each brand, and together allow for truly amazing product. Including RSD’s proprietary heavy duty waxed cotton & Kriega’s QUADLOC-Lite™ harness system. The ROAM collection was created to offer bag and accessory solutions to riders that appreciate design aesthetic and branding that are subdued, clean and timeless.

“We could not be more excited to partner with Kriega on this collaboration,” said the prez Roland Sands. “Mixing our premium waxed cotton material with their proven technical products and a slight twist on design language really makes for a unique, and amazing product. The team at Kriega has been rad to work with, and I could see additional products being added to the mix in the future.”

ROAM 34 BACKPACK

The Roland Sands Design X Kriega Roam 34 Backpack is constructed from RSD’s propriety wax cotton together with 1000D Cordura and combined with Kriega’s groundbreaking Quadloc-Lite harness, to create a marriage of classic style and unrivalled functionality.

Comprised of 3 sections: a waterproof roll-top 15″ laptop pocket, a 4-litre fold-down zip compartment packed with organizer pockets and a spacious main compartment with heavy-duty YKK® zip access, expandable from 22 to 30-litres when needed. Ideal for carrying a full-face helmet around town or loading with the weekly groceries. Additional features include a fleece-lined goggle/eyewear zip pocket, an optional waist strap with storage pockets, and Sissy bar attachment strap/s.

Available in 2 colour options: Black or Ranger.

FEATURES

• Waterproof 15″ laptop compartment
• Expandable main body (22-litres to 30-litres)
• Adjustable QUADLOC-Lite™ Harness
• ‘Soft-feel’ back panel for rider comfort
• Goggle/eyewear zip pocket (fleece-lined)
• 4-litre front compartment with organizer pockets
• Reflective panels on harness
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• Optional waist-strap with storage pockets
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• Harness pocket compatible
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When I retired in 2004 my wife and I moved to the Fort Myers, Fla., area. I thought it
would be the cat’s meow because I could ride my beloved Ultra year round. While this is a great biking state it has very dangerous obstacles I never considered before moving here: Cotton Tops, the elderly automobile drivers who also live in Florida.

Although most are safe, sensible drivers there are a bunch who don’t see (or care
to see) motorcyclists. After too many close calls with Cotton Tops that turned in front of me, pulled out without looking either way and generally made a nuisance of themselves, I installed the loudest air horn on my Ultra.

On my first ride with the horn, a little old lady who could barely see over the dashboard pulled in front of me from a stop light. I hit the horn and the old gal slammed on
her brakes to let me pass. Best 60 bucks I ever spent.

P.S. The hurricanes chased us back to Wisconsin.

— Jack Mrozinski, Mosinee, Wis.

BRAND New Bikernet Reader Comment!–Bandit’s Cantina Episode 100

https://www.bikernet.com/pages/Bandits_Cantina_Episode_100.aspx

I liked reading this episode. I also thought the choices of panel jokes were great! Keep up the good work and keep bucking the system.

After checking the best investments right now, I see that nickel (the stuff that is used for batteries) is one of them. Well, how will the earth fare if we over exploit the nickel that comes out of our ground?

The only real solution, in my opinion, is to try and balance fossil fuels with the extra nickel use for more and more batteries, etc. if that is possible. Also, not to go to extremes. Cut down on both a little individually and use with intelligence. We haven’t found the perfect answer yet but hopefully we can come closer.

My big green thing is to keep our trees from burning down at too rapid a rate and replacing them as soon as possible. All of this requires work and a genius to come along with a better idea.

–Ann Robinson
Long Beach, CA

Indian Scout Rogue by Hardnine Choppers revealed at EICMA

Danny Schneider brings his hard riding, performance style to the Scout Rogue
Distinctive paint scheme inspired by King of the Baggers winning Indian Challenger

Danny Schneider, the man behind Hardnine Choppers, revealed his latest custom build at EICMA, Milan alongside the new 2023 models from Indian Motorcycle. With its distinctive paint scheme inspired by the factory’s King of the Baggers racers, stripped back front end and performance parts, Danny’s Scout Rogue was an eye-catching addition to the Indian Scout lineup on the booth, drawing in visitors to take photos and discover the finer details.

As a former FMX star and award-winning vintage custom builder, Danny Schneider has a reputation for exciting, performance orientated customs and is no stranger to working with Indian Motorcycle. In fact, the build he credits as his best ever was his 1931 Indian Scout, the bike that started his love of Indian Motorcycle, a love that was cemented with the launch of the FTR, “ever since then, I’ve been hooked,” says Danny.

“My idea when I first saw the Scout Rogue, I actually liked it a lot, was performance racing – this is where I’m coming from – I really wanted to craft it to suit my hard riding style and we’ve done everything we can with performance parts. We started out with the Öhlins front forks and Öhlins rear shock, suspension is the most important thing for me coming from a motocross background.”

Modifying the triple trees to accept the Öhlins front forks, the handlebar has been replaced with a 22mm higher ProTaper unit fitted with ProTaper soft grips and the Scout Rogue’s mini-fairing adapted to work with the new bar placement. The stripped back, racing feel is also enhanced by miniature turn signals and the removal of the front fender.

The racing look and spec continues with performance tracker wheels from Roland Sands Design allowing the use of twin OEM discs grabbed by dual Beringer calipers operated by a Beringer master cylinder/lever with Danny creating bespoke adapters and mounts for the wheels and the braking system. For performance gains during starts and gear changes, the clutch lever is also by Beringer with a Dynojet quickshifter ensuring the slickest of shifts and a one-off 2-into-1 exhaust by Jekill and Hyde ramping up the soundtrack.

“I’ve added some custom touches, by cutting down the primary cover to the minimum that’s still safe but making it lighter and giving it a more performance look and I’ve also added wider footpegs to suit my riding style. But, look closer and you’ll see the gold leaf applied to the iconic insignias on the engine and the gas cap, the gold stitching in the seat which all complement the awesome paint by Vince Customs.”

“I’ve been building bikes for about 10 or 12 years now. But I stopped for a while as I’d lost a bit of the passion. When it came to the Rogue, it just came back, the light just fired up again. Indian Motorcycle engineering is amazing, they think further than other brands. If you need to do something, it’s done super quick. This is what I love.”

“Now it’s just a case of setting up the bike, dialing in the suspension and going for a ride. Riding to me is everything. It’s absolute freedom.”

LIFE’S WORK WISDOM QUOTES:

“In life, hard-work keeps the mind pure and speaking truth keeps the heart pure.”

“Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit.” ~ Kamari aka Lyrikal

“Discouragement and dissatisfaction are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision” ~ Kamari aka Lyrikal

“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.” ~ Mother Teresa

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ~ Earl Nightingale

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“Nothing will work unless you do.” ~ Maya Angelou

“Our passion is our life’s output, our life’s purpose; be it a day’s work or a lifelong effort.” ~ Wayfarer

ELECTION UPDATE–2022 Mid-Term Elections

RPM Act The 2022 mid-term election has been an exciting and somewhat puzzling one for political prognosticators as votes are still being counted in many key U.S. House of Representatives races.

It is clear, however, that SEMA is well positioned for success during the next two years as a result of our support for lawmakers who have stood with the hobby. From grassroots advocacy through the SEMA Action Network to digital advertisements for our strongest allies to highlighting all the RPM Act cosponsors who were on the ballot this November, SEMA and automotive community did our part to help shape the 2022 elections.

Republicans have regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives. At present, Republicans have won 218 seats in the House, while Democrats won 210 seats in the mid-term elections. Seven races are still too close to call. Republicans will control at least 49 Senate seats in the next Congress, and Democrats will control at least 50 Senate seats. Democrats will lead the Senate in 2023–2024 regardless of the outcome of the December 6 runoff election in Georgia, since the vice president is the tie breaker vote in the Senate.

There were 110 RPM Act House co-sponsors up for re-election, and 15 RPM Act sponsors either ran for re-election to the Senate or competed for a Senate seat this year. The results have been overwhelmingly positive for lawmakers who have supported the bill.

Thirteen RPM Act sponsors won their Senate races while the Alaska race is still being decided. More than 100 RPM Act co-sponsors in the House were re-elected, three lost and two RPM Act cosponsors are up in their races where votes are still being counted.

A closely divided Congress in 2023–2024 increases the chances that the final month and a half of the current legislative session will be productive, as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have priorities that they will seek to have enacted before the end of the year.

Looking forward to next year, we are encouraged that the narrow margins in the House and Senate will prevent extreme policies that would be detrimental to the hobby (such as aggressive federal efforts to favor ZEVs over ICE vehicles, closing roads and trails for motorized recreation, etc.). One cautionary note regarding divided government is that it will encourage President Biden to rely on his executive powers to implement partisan policy changes, particularly from his environmental activist base. SEMA and the SEMA Action Network will be monitoring these efforts closely.

We are grateful to everyone who has supported SEMA’s advocacy efforts. We are making incredible strides to boost the industry’s political horsepower in Washington. To learn more and get involved, visit www.SEMASAN.com.

–SEMA

QUICK, OPEN THE BANDIT’S CANTINA BAD JOKE LIBRARY—

A Little 10-year-old girl was walking home, alone, from school one day, when a big man on a black motorcycle pulls up beside her.

After following along for a while, turns to her and asks, “Hey there little girl, do you want to go for a ride?”

“NO!” says the little girl again as she hurries down the street.

The motorcyclist pulls up beside the little girl again and says, “Okay kid, my last offer! I’ll give you 20 Bucks “and” a Big Bag of Candy if you will just hop on the back of my bike and we will go for a ride.”

Finally, the little girl stops and turns towards him and Screams Out… “Look Dad” “You’re the one who bought the Honda instead of the Harley… YOU RIDE IT!!”…….

–Steve Bauman
Register Librarian
Bandit’s Cantina Band Joke Library

NEWS FROM CHOPPERS MAG— You have to love the distinctive styles some artists are able to create. Styles that immediately make you go… oh yeah that’s that kat. This truly applies when talking about Matt Wilkins, aka @matt_sabbath.

Being an artist myself, I appreciate someone like this. He has honed his style and skill set to develop a style that is instantly recognizable. Matt has been creating art for bikers, bands and country western stars for a few years now. He is also a member of the artist collective known as the Mystical Freaks.

–The Chopper Mag Staff

DO YOU NEED A 2023 HARLEY-DAVIDSON CALENDAR–Harley-Davidson 2023 offers 16 months of iconic motorcycles from the world’s most iconic motorcycle manufacturer.

Created in cooperation with Harley-Davidson, this 17″ x 12″ latest edition of Motorbooks’ top-selling calendar includes bikes spanning Harley-Davidson’s history from classics to today’s top machines.

Harley-Davidson 2023 features stunning portraits commissioned specifically for this calendar and photographed by talented photographer David Blattel as well as historic images from the Harley-Davidson archives.

The calendar features a convenient page that shows the months of September, October, November, and December 2022 followed by individual pages for the months of 2023. Included with the calendar is a stunning 17″ × 12″ frame-ready print.

–Quarto Knows
100 Cummings Center, Suite 265D
Beverly, MN 01915

NEWS FROM THE MASTER OF LIGHT— Artist David Uhl – Days of Uhlness

Reminder that a minimum $500 purchase qualifies you to win a David Uhl original painting. Scroll down to for more information.

“Indigenous”
** 15 x 11.25 paper framed – normally $850 and Rare, this one is $500.

Please email me or call me at 303-913-4840 with any questions, or to place your order. Thanks for your time! Don’t go to the website for the best deals.

–Greg Rhodes
International Sales Director
David Uhl Fine Art
Uhl Studios
303-913-4840

A LETTER FROM THE DIME BAG FOUNDER–I’ve appreciated your support throughout this year and wish you and yours a happy holiday.

Finished your Ride Free Forever timecover buckles that I braze soldered mild steel handmade in house.

Also, a long line of legendary chopper friends are putting their orders in for a DimeBag Leather Travelers Timecover.

This weeks Timed feature goes to Ray ILanes at Copper Top Garage in Ormond Beach Florida. Ray specializes in building custom choppers. Dimebag Leather is certified seat maker for all his custom choppers.

He is opening up a shop with storefront around the corner of a world famous tattoo shop in Ormond Beach FL.

All the best
–Adam Croft

NMA NEWSLETTER–Taking the Politics Out of Speed Limit Setting

All traffic is local, and nothing gets people riled up more than speed limits. The 85th percentile has been the standard for measuring speed limits for years. Due to pressure from groups such as Vision Zero and Complete Streets, this standard of measuring speed is losing ground in states such as California, Oregon, and Massachusetts, and even on a federal level. But it’s still the standard in many places around the country.

The 85th percentile is “the speed at or below which 85 percent of all vehicles are observed to travel under free-flowing conditions past a monitored point.”

In the past, traffic engineers employed the 85th percentile by observing traffic on the ground using a radar gun on the part of the road that needed a survey. More recently, traffic engineers have used pneumatic road tubes stretched across a roadway, which according to the US Office of Highway Policy Information, can measure the following:

How many drivers use the road every day?

The direction the vehicle travels and during what time of day

What class of vehicle (car, tractor-trailer) uses the road

The speed at which drivers are traveling

The data collection process can be labor-intensive, expensive, and doesn’t always return the most accurate results. Using GPS solves this problem.

For the past ten years, TomTom, a consumer navigation company, has been mapping the world using GPS. We also recently learned that along with navigation, the company has been putting together speed profile calculations. Utilizing street data from a company like TomTom, traffic engineers can take the political rhetoric out of speed limit determinations.

What is GPS? First developed for the US military at the beginning of the space race, civilians have had access to GPS since 1989. Onboard vehicle navigation systems use 24 satellites that orbit the Earth twice daily to calculate routes, find local addresses, and monitor road conditions. This navigational technology offers users PNT (positioning, navigation, and timing) services.

The New Hampshire Union Leader recently interviewed state traffic engineer William Lambert to discuss a data system his department bought recently from TomTom. Within a month of purchase, Lambert already ran 30 traffic reports to determine the speeds vehicles traveled on targeted roads in the state.

In the past, the process would have taken much longer. Lambert says he can now analyze the TomTom speed profile calculations data on his computer to see how traffic behaves along a targeted route. He added, “I’m trying to use this data to make sure that speed limits are credible for the character and conditions of the roads across the state.”

For Lambert, reducing a speed limit due to a “wishful thinking value’ usually doesn’t work. He added, “We find that traffic is not going any slower because we want them to.”

Lambert says that target speed is the answer and the lowest crash rate occurs at the 85th percentile of measured traffic speed. He’s right when he said in the interview that ensuring speed limits on particular roadways are ‘credible’ will make all roads safer. Otherwise, drivers will ignore posted speed limits. “If some speed limits are credible and others aren’t, and people disrespect them in places where they’re not, then they can disrespect them in other places and go too fast.”

Using this kind of aggregated digital data will help traffic engineers do their job by setting safe speed limits at the 85th percentile and taking the arbitrariness of setting speeds out of the equation.

We all want safer roads, and this kind of technology can certainly help make that happen with real-time traffic data.

EnerSys (NYSE:ENS), the global leader in stored energy solutions for industrial applications and the manufacturer of ODYSSEY batteries, will soon add three of the most popular sizes for powersports vehicles to the Company’s premium ODYSSEY battery portfolio. An official premiere of the new models is set to take place in ODYSSEY battery booth no. A1838 at the 2022 Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX) from November 1 – 3, 2022 at The Venetian Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The three models, ODS-AGM14 (Group size BTX14), ODS-AGM20L (Group size BTX20L) and ODS-AGM30L (Group size BTX30L), are ideal solutions for a variety of popular vehicle models including Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Polaris All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), and can also be used in other powersports vehicles, including snowmobiles and Personal Watercraft (PWC) applications.

Upon launch, all three models will feature a drop-in fit, so no accessories will be needed for proper installation, and will represent the first in these group sizes to be available with proprietary Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) technology.

“The models we use in our existing portfolio of ODYSSEY batteries are suitable for the powersports applications, but they require the installer to use additional hardware to secure the fit,” said Dave McMullen, Senior Director of Marketing, Transportation & Specialty at EnerSys. “With this upcoming launch, we will now have ODYSSEY Powersport battery drop-in fitments for the three most popular group sizes for powersports vehicles and the first to be available with our advanced TPPL technology.”

Proprietary TPPL technology in ODYSSEY batteries uses pure lead plates that can be made thinner than those in conventional flooded lead acid batteries, so more plates fit into the same size footprint to provide greater surface area.

This enables more electrochemical reactions with the electrolyte to produce more power than conventional batteries of comparable size. The results include engine cranking pulses that are significantly higher than that of equally sized conventional lead acid batteries.

ODYSSEY batteries also feature Absorbed Glass Mat (AGM) construction, which packs the plates tightly in absorbent fiberglass separators that hold the electrolyte and make the batteries virtually maintenance-free.

The rugged AGM construction and non-spillable design of ODYSSEY batteries also protect against high-impact shock and mechanical vibration to help provide longer service life. Backed by an industry-leading warranty, they come with the required Cold Cranking Amps (CCA) to fit the needs of each application.

For more information on EnerSys and its full line of products, systems, and support, visit www.enersys.com.

To follow the latest ODYSSEY battery news, visit our website at www.odysseybattery.com.

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WEEKLY LESSON FROM BIKERNET UNIVERSITY SCIENCE DEPARTMENT—

184: GREENHOUSE GAS…….Two words assembled together in such a way as to put it into your head via relentless repetition by infinite human parrots including suddenly-genius first-graders, that earth is a man-made greenhouse, not a 4-billion-year-old mammoth amalgam of the entire periodic table.

The earth is not a green house. Nor is it a Popsicle. The expression “greenhouse gas” has one function: to put the idea of rising earth temperature into your head and associate it with you using an air conditioner or hair spray because your personal conveniences are killing others less fortunate.

That’s right, it’s just more fucking Marxism. The expression “greenhouse gasses” has been selected solely for the bizarre imagery that the phrase conjures: that the earth is not a successfully-self-operating monster of life-out-of dirt, winding and wending its way through a galaxy of a billion stars and a trillion planets, no, it’s fucking a greenhouse: a big glass building with its already hot, wet, humid essence being further compromised by your car which is turning the earth into more of a place for lizards and spiders and plants that eat animals than it already is, and you are at fault because of your selfish need for “modern conveniences” while others die.

The expression “greenhouse gas” has also been selected via some random bureaucratic catastrophe-generator to be associated with the sudden newly-appearing mysterious version of meteorology called “climate science.” Meaning “the science you created and made necessary for us to investigate so that you don’t kill everybody.” Climate science. Greenhouse effect. Greenhouse gasses. Global warming.

Attribution science. Gray swan climate event, Hotter. And hotter. Wetter. Droughtier. It’s a fucking mess. Do you care??? No. You have electricity. So, YOU don’t care. (You’ll notice there is a worldwide sudden electricity problem in all the white countries.) You won’t stop stop using your air conditioner? We’ll shut off the power. You won’t stop driving your gas and diesel vehicles? We’ll outlaw oil. You’ll use our mandatory electricity vehicles. Which don’t work. We don’t care.

We need you dead before you realize you don’t actually need us. Eventually there will be something called “terrain science” that will explain why walking on the ground rather than just lying six feet beneath it is causing warts on the moon. Just like all the other things declared out of nowhere, claimed as fact and always suspiciously designed to handcuff human life, human happiness, human progress and discourage more cool stuff and to keep people glued to one spot.

Ya know, like Covid-19 successfully did.

–J.J. Solari
Senior Scientist
Bikernet University

ANOTHER QUOTE OF THE WEEK–Here is another quote from lyrics of a song.

“Takes more than combat gear to make a man… Takes more than a license for a gun… Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can… A gentleman will walk but never run” — Sting

(from the song ‘An Englishman in New York’)

–Wayfarer

And we will throw in special gifts with each order.

–Bandit

Glad to see Wimmer Coolers still around. I had two on the Little Red Rigid. They worked great and they’re actually hooked up correctly on mine!

Yes, they look cleaner the other way, but not how the manufacturer lists to use them. Take it from someone who traveled across Germany in the ‘70s, as post after post kept blowing up newly installed Cummins engines, even got a letter of Commendation somewhere. None of mine ever exploded, that was then. Man, I miss that bike!!

Then I came upon the Keiti throttle stop when I was doing 130 mile a day Willis shuffle! Worked sorta, but not the products fault. About the only thing I didn’t change on the previously used to carry golf clubs ‘07 Dyna were the Lowbrow Custom grips, which happen to be tapered at the ends. So, the Keiti would lose its grip.

Think I’m going to put regular old factory grips on the Dyna, so I can use it on my Willis runs. (I may have shared the stop before?)

Finally, this screwdriver, I got it for free many, many, many years ago.

–RFR

“That’s the Snap-On screwdriver I’ve been missing for a decade…” –Bandit

MORE FROM THE SEMA ACTION NETWORK— FTC Seeks Comments to Combat Fake Reviews and Other Deceptive Endorsements

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks public comment on the potential harms stemming from deceptive or unfair review and endorsement practices used by businesses.

“Companies should know by now that fake reviews are illegal, but this scourge persists,” said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “We’re exploring whether a rule that would trigger stiff civil penalties for violators would make the market fairer for consumers and honest businesses.”

The FTC is asking for comments regarding the pervasiveness and potential harms to consumers and competition cause by fake reviews, paid reviews, fake review websites and similar practices.

If you are aware of competitors engaging in these practices that harm your business, contact Caroline Fletcher at carolinef@sema.org to be incorporated into SEMA’s comments.

–By Washington, D.C., Staff
SEMA

BANDIT’S CANTINA BAD JOKE LIBRARY IS STILL OPEN—

A man goes to a marriage counselor, worried about his wife’s temper.

The counselor asks, “What’s the problem?

The man says, “I don’t know what to do. Every day my wife loses her temper for no reason. It scares me.”

The Counselor says, “I have a cure for that. When it seems, your wife is getting angry, take a double shot of Jack Daniel’s bourbon and swish it in your mouth. Swish and swish, but don’t swallow it until she either leaves the room or calms down.”

Two weeks later, he goes back to the counselor, looking fresh and reborn. He tells the counselor, “That was a brilliant idea. Every time my wife started to get angry, I swished the Jack Daniels and she would start to calm down. It was amazing! What is it about Jack Daniels that makes it work like that?”

The counselor said, “The Jack Daniel’s does nothing. Keeping your mouth shut is the trick.”

–El Waggs
Certified Librarian
Bandit’s Cantina Bad Joke Library

QUICK, New Bikernet Reader Comment!–
SPIRIT OF THANKSGIVING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for November 24, 2022

Click Here to read Spirit of Thanksgiving News Article

Just got back from a visit to Maine. Burrrr. Hey regarding that CO2 pic. That would make a cool sticker.

–Rhys
S. Daytona, FL

“I will check it out.” –Bandit

This 61c.i. Knucklehead powerhouse sports a 4-speed transmission, bobbed fenders, and Flanders accessory risers and bars, flaunting its authentic period-modified look and feel.

On November 19th, we gave away the 2022 Raffle Bike, the 1937 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead. The winner was Ed Shequen of Motley, Minnesota! Second prize of ten thousand dollars went to Randy Cooper of Quinton, Alabama, and third prize of five thousand dollars went to Randy Farabee of Gilbert, Arizona. We want to thank everyone who supported Dale’s Wheels Through Time through our 2022 Annual Raffle! Your support is what fuels “The Museum That Runs!”

HOLIDAYS FROM THE MASTER OF LIGHT—

Artist David Uhl is running another daily promotion, but we can’t keep up. Give Greg a call if you’re interested.

Hoping that everyone in the States had a great Thanksgiving holiday!

From the Holiday Steampunk series, we have three pieces for sale.

“Holiday Alchemist” (above)
** Image size 16 x 20, this framed piece is $900

“Holiday Prodigy”
** Image size 16 x 20, this framed piece is $900

“Holiday Saboteur”
** Image size 16 x 20, this framed piece is priced at $900.

Please email me or call me at 303-913-4840 with any questions, or to place your order. Thanks for your time!

Greg Rhodes
International Sales Director
David Uhl Fine Art
303-913-4840

2013 Harley-Davidson FLTRXSE2 – CVO Road Glide Custom FOR ONLY $19,995.00

SEE IT HERE: https://www.lifestylecycles.com/default.asp?page=xPreOwnedInventoryDetail&id=13004442

2013 Roman gold Harley-Davidson SCREAMING EAGLE ROAD GLIDE FLTRXSE2 with only 24,865.00 miles!

This bike is a super clean fully custom CVO Road Glide and some of the features/Add-ons on this bike are:

* 110c.i. Screaming Eagle motor with a 6-Speed trans.
* 19 inch Black apes all Blacked out with hand guards
* Black braided cables
* Rockford fosgate radio
* Speaker lids and leg warmers with speakers
* P/M wheels
* P/M air cleaner
* Super trap exhaust
* Flush mount tail and running lights and license plate
* Color matched fork cans

This bike is only $19,995.00

Plus, license, $85.00 documentation fee, and local sales tax. NO HIDDEN FEES like some dealers. And we have no reconditioning or prep fees.

This bike has passed Lifestyle Cycles rigorous 92-point safety/mechanical/structural inspection.

This motorcycle has not been refurbished and does not come with any warranty expressed or implied! EXTENDED WARRANTIES are available!

Fill out an online application today. We have EZ FINANCING

Lifestyle Cycles is located at 1510 State College Blvd, Anaheim,CA 92806. Open 7 days a week.

NOT LOCAL? WE HAVE SHIPPING AVAILABLE! Call today (714) 490-0155.

We are California’s pre-owned Harley Mega-Store with over 200 Pre-Owned Harley-Davidsons in stock!

There will eventually be a reckoning of the insane postulate that burning fuel changes the temperature of the planet.

Small minds create small myopic ideas, Those silly ideas catch-on with the millions of other small minds around the world.

Then we get complete rubbish being spouted by the masses and goaded on by the people who can make their gains from perpetuating those lies.

Such an idea is that Climate Change is caused by man-made influences.

IT’S NOT!

–Ray Russell
Senior Investigator
Bikernet Outpost

 

THE HERO HARLEY IS COMING—

First HeroMotoCorp and Harley-Davidson co-developed motorcycle likely to hit market in two years

India’s largest two-wheeler maker, which has leadership in the budget bike segment (100-110cc), is looking to drive in models to bring in volumes and enhance profitability in the 160cc and above space.

–Wayfarer
Editor
Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page

ANOTHER New Bikernet Reader Comment!–
SPIRIT OF THANKSGIVING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for November 24, 2022

Click Here to Read the Spirit of Thanskgiving News Article

Love the poem, “Oil of Love”

–Mutha
Long Beach, CA

Bringing together “motorcycling legends, enthusiasts and industry leaders from across the country,” AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame inducted six new members for 2022 at its annual Induction Ceremony.

Members of the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Class of 2022 include Kenny Coolbeth, Greg Hancock, Effie Hotchkiss, Sandy Kosman, Ben Spies and James Stewart.

“Every year, with the exception of 2020, it’s been our privilege to honor motorcycling’s most accomplished and significant people in a very special AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame induction celebration,” AMA President and CEO Rob Dingman said when addressing the audience.

“But it’s more than just a great banquet and ceremony to honor the incredible inductees who’ve contributed so much to our sport – it’s also a chance for us to come together in the interest of preserving motorcycle history for future generations.”

Those gathered also honored the memories of AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famers who have recently passed away: Wes Cooley, Ed Fisher, Bobby Hill, Loretta Lynn and Preston Petty.

Left to Right: Alec Dare (representing Ben Spies), Nadia DeSimone (daughter of Sandy Kosman), Craig Dove (great-grandson of Effie Hotchkiss), Greg Hancock, Kenny Coolbeth and James Stewart.

Kenny Coolbeth
Born in 1977, Coolbeth began his professional flat track career in 1994. He raced to his first AMA Grand National win at the Columbus Half-Mile in 2002. He won his first AMA Grand National Championship in 2006 while riding for the factory Harley-Davidson team and followed that up with two additional championships in 2007 and 2008.

Throughout his successful career, Coolbeth raced to 37 AMA Grand National wins, putting him sixth on the all-time win list, along with 108 AMA Grand National podiums.

Coolbeth retired from professional flat track racing at the end of the 2018 season while still competitive in the sport. He continues to give back to the sport and now works as a rider coach and setup tech for the Turner Honda Racing team – “I was just a kid who knew how to ride motorcycles. I never dreamed I’d be in the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame, it’s an amazing honor to be here.”

Greg Hancock
Born in 1970, Hancock began racing in Junior Speedway competition at age 9. At age 15, he won the Junior Speedway National Championship, his first of many titles. Soon he began competing across Europe, and in 1997 won the FIM World Speedway Championship.

Through the 1990s, Hancock also won the FIM World Pairs Championship and claimed three FIM World Team Cup Championships. He went on to win his second FIM World Speedway Championship in 2011, winning it again in 2014 and 2016.

Throughout his nearly four-decade career, Hancock became one of the most decorated motorcycle racers of all time, earning four FIM Speedway World Championships, three FIM World Team Cup titles, as well as eight AMA U.S. National Speedway Championships.

Effie Hotchkiss
Born in 1889, Effie Hotchkiss began riding at age 16. She began working on Wall Street in the banking industry but got tired of the job’s monotony. Using the inheritance her father left her, she purchased a 1915 Harley-Davidson 3-speed twin and a Rogers sidecar for her mother Avis and their luggage.

The two set off on their adventure on May 2, 1915, riding all the way to San Francisco, then started back towards their home in Brooklyn, N.Y., in late August. Hotchkiss became the first woman recorded to complete a transcontinental motorcycle ride, covering 9,000 miles over five months.

Hotchkiss quickly became a female icon for her endeavor and was celebrated in the very first issue of Harley-Davidson’s ‘The Enthusiast’ and countless newspapers across the country.

Effie Hotchkiss’ great-grandson attended the ceremony as her closest living relative and commented: “Thanks to the AMA for inducting my great-grandmother into the Hall of Fame. Today is the best day of my life.”

Sandy Kosman
Born in 1941, Sandy Kosman had both the mind and vision of a genius. As a self-trained designer of high-performance chassis and wheels for customized road, off-road and drag racing motorcycles, Kosman was a builder of champions as well as a highly successful entrepreneur.

In 1965, at age 24, Kosman started Kosman Specialties, building lightweight motorcycle gas tanks in his basement. The business thrived, and he moved into a building in San Francisco, expanding his products and services over time.

Through his 30-plus years in business, most drag racing bikes, many flat track bikes and a few AMA Superbike race teams adopted Kosman products, including American Honda, Vance & Hines, Performance Machine and others. Despite no formal training, Kosman and his company became a household name in racing and performance circles.

“It’s not been that long since we lost my father,” Kosman’s daughter Nadia DeSimone said, “but I know what being inducted into the Hall of Fame would have meant to him. Tonight feels like my last moment with him, and this means so much to my entire family.”

Ben Spies
Ben Spies, one of the greatest American road racers in the sport’s history, won five national titles and raced to 44 national wins during his career. Born in 1984, he came of age during the dominance of six-time AMA Superbike Champion Mat Mladin, unseating the champ in his prime in 2006. In 2007, he defended the title in one of the tightest AMA Superbike Championship battles ever.

Spies’ AMA National Championships include the 2006, ’07 and ’08 AMA Superbike titles, the 2007 AMA Superstock title, and the 2003 AMA Formula Xtreme title.

In 2009, Spies joined the Yamaha Italia team in World Superbike competition. His rookie year proved exceptional, and he won the 2009 World Superbike title. Racing MotoGP full time in 2019, his performance earned him Rookie of the Year. He retired from professional racing in 2013.

James Stewart
Born in 1985, Stewart displayed potential early, winning his first national amateur championship at age 7. Before age 16, he claimed seven AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships.

Going pro in 2002, he won the AMA 125 MX title later that year while riding for Kawasaki, becoming the first black man to win a title in the sport. Stewart won the 2007 AMA Supercross Championship, claiming a second in 2009.

Incredibly, Stewart won all 24 motos of the 2008 Pro Motocross series – a perfect season – securing the 450 Class National Championship.

Stewart’s professional racing career ended in 2016 after tallying 50 AMA Supercross premier class wins and 48 AMA Pro Motocross national wins, cementing him as one of the greatest motocross racers of all time.

“I want to thank the AMA…this is such an honor,” Stewart said in an emotional acceptance speech. “I was never the cool kid, I wanted to ride motorcycles. But now, when you say my name, it’s Hall of Famer James Stewart. Out of all the things I accomplished in my career, this is the best part. This is like winning the ultimate championship. It’s amazing!”

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HEADING INTO THE WINTER SEASON—A constant Sturgis Vintage rider said the other day, “I’m ready for Spring.”

He rides right up until the first snow. I remember a guy I wrote a story about who worked at the factory all his life and rode every day. When it snowed in Milwaukee, he bolted up a sidecar and kept going. I know a Hamster brother in California who surfs every first day of the year. We just keep going and doing what we love till the end.

I found out yesterday that Louie Falcigno passed away. I was just writing about him in my first report on my winter VL, XA, FL, S&S Knuckled build. He had a distinct style about his bikes and this bike would give him a nod I hope…

I’m working on an article about the last traditional Sportster built at the factory. It’s turning into an interesting piece. And as you know, Sportsters were always in a transformative process from the K-model to my first XLCH is ’69, when they first added electric starters. You name it, it changed with the times. Hang on for the story.

We are also working on another Tank article with photos from Markus Cuff. This time it will cover the paint aspects from style to paint materials, pearls, candies and metalflake. Hang on.

I got frustrated with my shop. I bought shit I had stashed in unorganized boxes and milk crates. We tore into everything and sorted like mad. It’s better…

Next on the Winter build project I need to have a discussion with the Paughco or the Black Bike Wheel team. I need all the ground clearance I can muster. Like handlebars, it seems easy until you discuss all the options available.

Atomic Bob blew me away with his illustration of the VL, XA, FL project.

Hang on for the next round of reports.

In the meantime have a terrific holiday season and think about riding free into all the sunsets forever…

–Bandit

THIS WEEK IN THE NEWS:

* is there another Easy Rider Movie in the works?
* Advertisements and Pop-ups on free content websites
* TMZ & Jay Leno
* Roland Sands new baggage solution
* Loud pipes and its Road Test
* Custom Indian Scout Rogue
* Wisdom Quotes
* SEMA & the mid-term elections
* Harley-Davdson Calendar
* new David Uhl artwork
* Hal Robinson cartoons
*** AND SO MUCH MORE COOL EASYREADING STUFF

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by K. Randall Ball with Illustrations from George Fleming, Atomic Bob, Hal Robinson Dick Allen

Joey Bunch woke with a start. He rode an old ’69 Sportster XLCH with a magneto. It took him a few minutes of kicking to get it started on the cool morning. But then he blazed through the back streets of Venice, California, just west of downtown Los Angeles toward the designated meeting spot.

Through one trash strewn alley after another he darted, making his way to the freeway. A confused kid, he watched his neighborhood deteriorate as more illegals, homeless and drug addicts filled the streets.

He didn’t dare leave his vintage Sportster in full view of street traffic. It would be ripped-off in a hot second.

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