It’s All Good and Packed with Info We are living in the absolute best of times. Let’s ride free forever. Never a dull moment, but it’s all a positive adventure. Even fixing stupid shit, is a positive endeavor and keeping me from thinking about building another motorcycle. There’s always something going on in Deadwood. If it has to do with whiskey, I’m in. Let’s hit it. –Bandit

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Interesting day in Paradise. I watched another movie by Ben Affleck and of course his character made a statement about how humans fucked with the planet. I know where this narrative comes from. It comes from extremist who want nothing less than pushing back the time clock to when we lived by a campfire, and then they would bitch about the fire.

This bothers me because of our kids and kids to come—they are being lied to. Humans have made mistakes, but in general they have helped people live longer and healthier lives, more comfortable with more energy to do the things they want and be able to work and make a living. So generally, man has made amazing strides. And some scientists believe that by using fossil fuels we have added much needed CO2 into the atmosphere when we needed it the most.

Most folks don’t realize that if we didn’t use oil, it would bubble out into the ocean and into streams and anywhere it could get out. Because we just didn’t let it set there, we now have clothes, gas for cooking, medicine, medical equipment, plastics for products, you name it. We are living in the absolute best of times. Let’s ride free forever.

But first, let’s hit the news.

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BLM NEWS–U.S. Bureau of Land Management Seeks Resource Advisory Council Members
Sixteen of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Resource Advisory Councils in the West have members whose terms are scheduled to expire soon. These RACs provide advice and recommendations to the BLM on land use planning and management of the National System of Public Lands within their geographic areas.

The AMA encourages qualified off-highway enthusiasts to apply for these vacancies to help ensure that the motorcyclists’ perspective is considered before recommendations are made to the BLM.

Prospective members may nominate themselves or others. Nominees must be residents of the state in which the RAC has jurisdiction. The BLM will evaluate nominees based on their education, training, experience and knowledge of the geographic area of the RAC. Nominees should demonstrate a commitment to collaborative resource decision-making.

As required, RAC membership must be balanced and representative of the various interests concerned with the management of the public lands. The rules governing RACs are found at 43 CFR subpart 1784. RACs include the following three membership categories:

Category A
Organized labor or non-timber forest product harvester groups
Developed outdoor recreation, off-highway-vehicle users or commercial recreation activities
Energy and mineral development interests or commercial or recreational fishing interests
Commercial timber industry
Hold federal grazing or other land use permits, or represent nonindustrial private forest land owners, within the area for which the committee is organized

Category B
Nationally recognized environmental organizations
Regionally or locally recognized environmental organizations
Dispersed recreational activities
Archaeological and historical interests
Nationally or regionally recognized wild horse and burro interest groups, wildlife or hunting organizations or watershed associations

Category C
Hold state elected office or their designee
Hold county or local elected office
American Indian tribes within or adjacent to committee area
School officials or teachers
Represent the affected public at large

The following must accompany all nominations:

-A completed RAC application, which can either be obtained through your local BLM office or online at: blm.gov/get-involved/resource-advisory-council.
-Letters of reference from represented interests or organizations
-Any other information that addresses the nominee’s qualifications

Simultaneous with this notice, BLM state offices will issue press releases providing additional information for submitting nominations. Before including any address, phone number, email address or other personal identifying information in the application, nominees should be aware this information may be made publicly available at any time. While the nominee can ask to withhold the personal identifying information from public review, the BLM cannot guarantee that it will be able to do so.

Deadline: Oct. 21.

Nominations and completed applications for RACs should be sent to the appropriate BLM offices:

Go to the AMA web site for more info and contacts. –Bandit

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THE INDUCED DEMAND THEORY–Editor’s Note: In Part 1, Chris detailed two major causes of induced demand and explained why the overall supply vs. demand effects are manageable. Here he takes on some of the arguments which cite induced demand as a rationale against increasing highway capacity.

Having established the relationship between new capacity, demand, and land use, there is yet more ground on which to challenge induced demand as a critique of adding new capacity.

One benefit of increasing capacity is that more people are able to get where they want to go, when they want to go there.

As documented in Part 1, not all new capacity is consumed after it is built. However, if we assume for the sake of argument that 100 percent of the new capacity is eventually used, and that in the long term, travel speeds return to pre-expansion baselines, more people are traveling at that slow speed.

Each freeway lane can typically carry up to around 1,200 vehicles per hour before it starts to exhibit congestion, and flow rates in heavy congestion tend to sit at over 2,000 vehicles per lane per hour. This means that even if all of the new capacity is absorbed by new trips, over 2,000 more people are served by the expanded road. This is a net social benefit which is independent of travel-time improvement.

The addition of freeway lane-miles tends to decrease traffic on parallel roads and increase traffic on perpendicular ones.

This relationship has been known since the Detroit and Chicago Area Transportation Studies (DATS and CATS) of the 1950s. It should also be obvious to anyone who lives in a region served by freeways. In those regions, the parallel surface streets tend to see a decrease in traffic volume, but the perpendicular streets which connect to freeway interchanges see an increase.

Therefore, a key benefit of adding lane capacity to one route is a proportionate decrease in traffic on a parallel route. This is the fundamental purpose of bypass roads: They carry through traffic on purpose-built roads, leaving parallel local streets to serve local traffic. In rural areas, these bypass roads have caused significant damage to local businesses and communities – one need only look at the decaying remnants of Route 66 as an example. But in urban and suburban areas, these freeway bypasses of local town centers provide significant benefits, as those town centers would be gridlocked without them.

Hayward, California is an excellent example of a city center plagued by the results of an unintentional gap in the freeway system, with its Foothill and Mission Boulevards becoming honorary freeways at rush hour, pushing locals out. There are many examples of the same outcome in other regions, especially in areas where expense, local opposition, or other factors created gaps in the originally planned freeway system.

The planning horizon for transportation projects are not infinite.

It is true that new freeway capacity cannot solve problems for which it was not designed. Most of our urban-area freeways were designed in the 1950s with a 30-year planning horizon, so we are now more than 40 years past the intended lifespans of the original freeway system. In that time, we have added 100 million Americans.

Additionally, in the 1950s, it was assumed that most families would only have a single worker. The mass introduction of women into the workplace alone practically doubled the 1950s-era predicted traffic volumes. The extra congestion generated by those new trips hardly seems like a bad tradeoff, nor is it an indictment of the concept of automobility. Quite the contrary.

As an aside, there is often an argument made that implementing high-speed rail along congested corridors will alleviate congestion on freeways. With few exceptions, this is simply false. By connecting a region more closely, trips will be induced between the cities via the exact mechanisms described in Part 1 of this e-newsletter. (Again, I would suggest this is a good thing – more people get to experience more places!) While a proportion of these trips will be served by high-speed rail, even more of the increase in demand will be picked up by other modes, including the personal car. High-speed rail has many of its own advantages, but it is not a direct substitute for freeway lane-miles.

Another study by Bignazzi and Figliozzi compares the environmental effects of capacity-based (adding lanes) and demand-based (reducing demand) strategies for improving congestion, and that ends up being a lecture unto itself about how certain strategies in certain places under certain conditions produce different results. But that is a topic for another day.

Induced demand is a real phenomenon which should be considered when adding capacity to any transportation network. I conclude with a paragraph from Cervero’s “Roads and Decision Making,” one of the articles cited in Part 1:

“Over the last several decades and in many corners of America, claims of induced demand have stopped highway projects in their tracks. This is wrong-headed. Highway investment decisions should be based on a full accounting of costs and benefits over the service life of a facility. Induced-demand studies have told us only that some benefits of new or expanded highways get eroded over time. This is important to know, for it gives us a handle on the numerator of the benefit/cost ratio. However, induced-demand studies say nothing about other benefits conferred by highways—e.g., increased economic productivity or satisfaction of one’s preference for suburban living.”

By Christopher M. DiPrima, NMA Board Member

–NMA

NEWS FROM THE KLOCK WERKS EMPIRE–iOmounts Under New Ownership
Klock Werks is proud to announce they have acquired iOmounts™. iOmounts™ is the most universal magnetic mounting system for smartphones, tablets, and other devices.

Brian Klock, President and Visionary, said “We have now acquired this company and are going to be pushing it harder than ever, because it works, it’s universal, it’s sleek, it’s innovative! This is not just for powersports! The patented iOmounts™ systems can be used on motorcycles, utv’s, cars, trucks, boats, really any vehicle, as well as in your home and office. We are so so excited about this new business adventure.”
The adaptor snaps to a magnetic “core,” which rotates in practically any direction. No clips, no cables, no hassle, just a simple magnet, infinite rotational adjustment, and a sleek modern design.

Crafted in solid steel, iOmounts™ is universally compatible with almost any device, making iOmounts™ the most functional and flexible line of tablet and phone stands on the market.

Visit our website for current iOmounts™ products at GETKLOCKED.COM.

LOWBROW NEWS–Choppers invade the Jersey Shore…

Cheap Thrills happened last weekend, and did not disappoint.
Brought to Seaside, NJ by Walter Gemeinhardt of Kickstart Cycle Supply (the man behind The Gypsy Run)…
Our own Mikey Arnold was there, and he did a stellar job capturing the vibe of this event in the newest Lowbrow video.

From the mini bike races to vintage motorcycles, swap meet and pool party, scope it out and add it to your ‘must-do’ list for next year!

JUST IN FROM THE BDL FACTORY–New stronger compound being used in BDL final drive belts.

BDL has taken another leap forward with their new collection of final drive belts. The latest belts are constructed using a X7N material and carbon chord. This advanced compound is stronger and more durable than the previous X3N currently used by other belt manufacturers and is now used in all BDL Gates belts from 1-1/2” wide down to 24mm wide belts.

You’ll find the latest belts and complete BDL line up at www.beltdrives.com. Contacts phone 714-693-1313 ext 227 or 232. BDL-sales.com

OPEN LETTER TO THE HARLEY-DAVIDSON FACTORY–

We will publish this (museum release) on our blog because it represents the museum. We can’t publish H-D stuff anymore. The Bikernet Board of Directors voted:

The factory can’t afford $145 a month to support a site that has worked for them for 25 years.

The factory doesn’t support the motorcycle aftermarket

The factory denies real science that refutes Climate Alarmism, which will ultimately destroy H-D and all internal combustion vehicles wrongly.

CO2 is not a pollutant and Harleys may have helped promote life on earth by increasing dangerously low CO2 levels over the last 100 years. Straight pipes forever.

All the best,

Keith R. Ball
President
Bikernet.com™
5-Ball Inc.

NEWS FROM THE WHITE FAMILY–Well, put the ‘16 RGU on a diet, removed the tour pak, 100lb cushy seat, Yaffe monkey bars, and installed the Low-profile touring shocks in the rear. Totally changed the way this bike rides and handles for the better and still looks killer… even better than before, in my opinion.

–The Humble One
The Twin Cam Fan

Classic Easyriders Complete Digital Magazine Collection Delivery Update–We are having a problem with our overseas delivery. Since our products are manufactured China and come into the Long Beach Port in California, there has been a major backup at the Long Beach Port in California were all the cargo freight ships come from Asia and unloaded at the Long Beach Port.

If you have seen the news about LB Port, you will know there is now a backup of almost 100 tanker ships waiting in the harbor to dock and unload their cargo. The ship that has our cargo has been in the harbor for over 2 weeks waiting to unload….so we do not have a delivery date at this moment.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/22/cargo-ships-traffic-jam-los-angeles-california

What GIT Corp will do is offer a free first printed issue of the new Classic Easyriders Magazine that will hit the newsstand on December 07, 2021. This would be a gift for your patience in this matter, as it is completely out of our control. Some of you may have already ordered a print subscription and receiving this issue, but this issue 555 will be a collector’s issue and having two is always better than one.

We can offer a full refund to those customers that are not willing to wait for a future delivery and free first issue 555.

If you are willing to wait, no response is necessary…..for a full refund, just write REFUND in your email response back.

We at GIT Corp. appreciate your patience and loyalty.

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Support Team

BIKERNET BATTERY TENDER INVESTIGATION—How to use battery tenders? We are on the hunt. A friend kept his bike on a tender all the time. But when he rode to his girl’s house and spent the night, the bike was dead in the morning.

So, what’s the proper way to use a tender. Many folks recommend keeping their bikes on tenders all the time. I don’t like leaving a bike on a tender overnight or for long periods. If something goes wrong with the battery, the tender or garage circuits, your garage could burn down and perhaps your house.

Jason Mook, the owner of Deadwood Custom Cycles recommends putting your bike on a charger or tender once a week, charge it and then unplug it. You may need to charge more often depending on how new your bikes is and the constantly operating electronics, like the clock or security system.

We are also looking into how to check your battery. Our ’69 Panhead just had an issue with a recently replaced battery. At fully charged, it worked to electric start the bike, but with the slightest draw, it quit. Jason replaced the battery, but the damn things are expensive to be replaced once a year.
Let us know your thoughts and experiences. I will also reach out to some of the manufactures.

–Bandit

INDIAN MEETS JACK DANIELS–In celebration of American craftsmanship, Indian Motorcycle and Jack Daniel’s will once again come together to unveil a bold, new collaboration. To debut the newest limited-edition motorcycle, the two iconic American brands are hosting a special event from the Jack Daniel’s Distillery in Lynchburg, TN. The can’t miss premiere event will not only debut the 2022 model, but will welcome a special performance from country musician Tim Montana.

The event will premiere on the Indian Motorcycle Facebook page on October 14 at 6:00PM PST//9:00PM EST.

As America’s first motorcycle company and America’s first registered distillery, each brand has become synonymous with American ingenuity and fine craftsmanship. Like each limited-edition motorcycle within the series, the 2022 model will draw inspiration from Jack Daniel’s legendary Tennessee whiskey and its high-touch distilling process. With meticulous attention to detail, this year’s model will feature a host of premium amenities and boast extraordinary details.

Following the launch, the 2022 limited-edition motorcycle will be available through Indian Motorcycle dealerships with the order window opening October 21, 2021. Additional information and specific details will be released at the time of launch.

CELEBRATING WOMEN RIDERS–Over the past several years there has been widespread growth in female-oriented activism. Would you take a solid stand in support of girls everywhere? Would you agree to travel on two-wheels across five continents, German Shepherd in tow, dedicating 18 months of your life to raising awareness and funds?

Jess Stone certainly would.

And she’s doing so in a way that creates an easier opportunity for others to support girls everywhere via a fundraiser campaign for Girl Up, so that you can help without having to be the one to traverse continents.

Stone is a former contributor to Rider, who detailed both what it was like to ride her motorcycle with her dog on board and how she and her husband designed the K9 Moto Cockpit that made it possible. She has since gone on to start Ruffly, “where she works with women artisans to make ethical outdoor dog gear that does good, goes everywhere, and looks amazing.”

NEWS FROM SEMA–Call Congress and Tell Your Lawmakers to Pass the RPM Act

Support for the bipartisan Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act (RPM Act), H.R. 3281 and S. 2736, continues to expand each day as members of Congress receive an outpouring of support for the bill from racers and the motorsports community. It’s clear the letters SAN members have sent are being noticed on Capitol Hill and are making a difference (109 members of the House and 18 Senators have cosponsored the RPM Act).

If you’ve already sent a letter to Congress about the RPM Act, please follow up by making a short call to their office to voice your support for the bill. SEMA has made it easy to call your elected officials by using the following link—phone numbers for your lawmakers’ offices and talking points are included:

The RPM Act must be enacted into law to guarantee your right to modify street cars, trucks, and motorcycles into dedicated race vehicles. It is imperative that lawmakers continue to be reminded of the importance of passing the RPM Act.

–SEMA

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HEARTLAND CLIMATE CONFERENCE–The CO2 Coalition will be well represented at the upcoming Heartland 14th International Conference on Climate Change in Las Vegas, October 15th to 17th. It is not too late to sign up. Below are 9 members that will be speaking:

Breakfast Keynote: Senior Fellow Dr. Patrick Michaels
Lunch Keynote: Coalition Chair Dr. William Happer
Dinner Keynote: Coalition Director Dr. Patrick Moore
Panel Speakers: Dr. Roy Spencer, Dr. Howard “Cork” Hayden, Gregg Goodnight, Gregory Wrightstone, Tom Sheahen

If you are attending, please stop by our booth and meet Patrick Moore, who will be selling and autographing his outstanding book Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom.

–CO2 Coalition.org

Every Fossil Fuel freedom organization such as SEMA, MRF, AMA, NCOM, bike clubs, auto clubs and Drag Racing associations should attend this conference. It could save us, our bikes, our sports and millions of indigenous folks all over the globe who need readily available transportation and energy. –Bandit

The 29th Annual Biketoberfest–
October 14-17, 2021

Biketoberfest celebrates a full-throttle lifestyle born on two wheels. Motorcycle enthusiasts come together during the four-day rally each year to enjoy beautiful Florida weather, live music, motorcycle racing at Daytona International Speedway, and miles of scenic rides along famous A1A, historic Main Street or the scenic Loop.

Come experience the Southeast’s best motorcycle rally featuring motorcycle shows, custom bike builds and hundreds of the industry’s top vendors throughout Daytona Beach. All roads lead to this rally.

Biketoberfest is a collection of activities that take place at venues and businesses in cities throughout Volusia County and beyond. Our local hotels, businesses, parks and beaches are open for visitors to enjoy the area’s beautiful October weather and scenic rides. We ask all our visitors who do decide to travel to please visit responsibly.

And don’t miss Willie’s Show and the Smoke Out Party.

2022 Rally Dates
The 81st Annual Daytona Bike Week is March 4-13, 2022. For information go to OfficialBikeWeek.com.
The 30th Anniversary of Biketoberfest® is October 13-16, 2022.

GOOGLE BULLIED BY ENVIRONMENTALIST GROUPS–Google to block ads from appearing next to content denying climate change
YouTube said it would remove false claims that vaccines cause autism, cancer or infertility

Alphabet Inc.’s Google will no longer allow digital ads bought on its platform to appear next to online content that denies climate change, a ban that will also apply to YouTube, the company’s giant online-video service.

The ban applies to “content that contradicts the well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change,” Google, the world’s largest digital-ad company by revenue, said in a blog post Thursday. It also applies to any content denying that human activity or greenhouse gas emissions contribute to climate change.

Google’s move aims to cut off a major source of income for providers of climate-change misinformation. Google’s $147 billion in ad revenue comes from selling ad space in its own products, such as YouTube, as well as from brokering ad sales on thousands of sites across the web.

A spokesman for Google said the company would use a “combination of automated tools and human review” to enforce its policy.

Google is the leading provider of tools used in the many steps of purchasing and selling online ads—whether they are meant to run on Google’s own platforms or sites around the web. Google is expected to take 29% of global digital-ad spending in 2021, according to research firm eMarketer.

For several years, Google has prohibited advertising on certain content that is deemed misleading to the public or unattractive to advertisers, including civic disinformation, disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic and some content featuring minors.

Critics have said Google’s enforcement has been lax and ineffective at restraining the spread of disinformation.

By Patience Haggin Wall Street Journal

Unfortunately for Google Climate Doom is misinformation. Oops. –Bandit

INDIAN MOTORCYCLE RACING SECURES FIFTH CONSECUTIVE
AMERICAN FLAT TRACK MANUFACTURER’S CHAMPIONSHIP–Indian Motorcycle Wrecking Crew Rider Jared Mees Wins Seventh Career Grand National Championship;

Indian Motorcycle Racing, presented by Progressive Motorcycle Insurance, earned its fifth consecutive American Flat Track (AFT) Manufacturer’s Championship, while its Wrecking Crew factory rider, Jared Mees, secured his seventh career Grand National Championship following the conclusion of the 2021 AFT season. In addition, Indian Motorcycle privateer Davis Fisher finished the 2021 season by reaching the top of the Charlotte Half-Mile podium – earning his first career AFT SuperTwins victory.

Entering the 2021 AFT SuperTwins finale, Mees lead fellow Indian Motorcycle Wrecking Crew rider, and two-time defending champion, Briar Bauman by a mere four points. Following a complete red flag restart in the Main, it was Bauman who established himself with the early lead, while Mees ran comfortably in second. Though after hitting a wet section on the track, Bauman’s bike clipped a hay bale and sent him over his bars.

With nowhere to go, Indian Motorcycle privateer Sammy Halbert crashed into Bauman’s bike and went flying into the air. Halbert was taken to a nearby hospital via ambulance, while Bauman joined the restart on his back-up bike, but eventually decided he was physically unable to compete and pulled out of the race – ultimately crowning Mees as the 2021 SuperTwins champion.

“First and foremost, we wish Sammy and Briar a speedy recovery. It’s an unfortunate way to end the season, but we know these guys are warriors and will be back stronger than ever,” said Gary Gray, Vice President Racing, Service & Technology. “We also want send a huge congratulations to Davis Fisher and his team, as they put in incredible work and truly deserve this victory. We also cannot say enough about Jared Mees – a true competitor in every sense of the word. Congrats on number seven, Jared.”

The 2021 championship could perhaps be Mees’ finest performance, as he battled through adversity following mid-season knee surgery. Costing him critical points in the season standings, Mees continued to train hard and ended the season by winning five of the last seven races. With 60 career wins, seven championships, and multiple records, Mees is now just two championships from reach his career goal to meet Scottie Parker’s record of nine championships.

For more information on Indian Motorcycle Racing, visit IndianMotorcycle.com and follow along on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

ROCK ON!-– 545 days! I was 17 & in Germany when Slowhand came out, I knew of Eric prior of course. Not bad for standing on a 12” folding stool vertically, (need a place to rest a monopod) at the other end of the Toyota Center.

RFR – WTF Run A Muck!

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT–Gratitude
If the only prayer in your entire life is “Thank You” that would suffice. Meister Eckhart
I used to cry because I had no shoes until I saw a man with no feet

Namaste’

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thank You
–Yale
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Yale Custom Motorcycles

AMA ALERT–Help Exempt Motorcycles from NYC Congestion Tolling!
Riders Against Congestion and the American Motorcyclist Association need your help! We believe motorcyclists should be exempt from any proposed congestion tolling in New York City.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has released its Central Business District Tolling Program, and it’s time for us to act. There will be a series of 10 regional public hearings and the MTA must hear from motorcyclists ASAP!

The Traffic Mobility Review Board, controlled by the MTA, will soon set toll rates and decide who, if any, will be exempt from congestion-based tolling. This is a crucial moment for us to advocate for a 100% exemption from congestion pricing for our fuel efficient, congestion reducing vehicles. Our goal will be to have as many motorcyclists as we can muster speaking at every single hearing.

Sign-up to participate in public meetings 

These hearings will be virtual, via Zoom, which will mean easy access for all. If you’re unable to speak at a hearing, you can submit written comments on the MTA website.

You’ll receive a confirmation via email once you register to speak at a hearing. While each hearing is each geared towards affected regions, you can participate in any hearing that fits your schedule. In an effort to ensure we have motorcyclists participating at every virtual meeting, please send an e-mail to grassroots@ama-cycle.org to let us know what meeting you are slated to participate in.

Speak from your heart and your personal experiences but, above all, please be polite and respectful. Here’s a brief synopsis of key talking points:

Our vehicles demonstrably reduce traffic congestion.
Motorcycles are impressively fuel efficient.
Our vehicles are lightweight, which reduces wear on roads and infrastructure.
Two-wheeled vehicles take up a small fraction of the space of an auto when parked.
Virtually every municipality around the world where Congestion Pricing has been imposed has exempted motorcycles from congestion pricing charges.

Now is the time for all motorcyclists to act! No one else can do this for us. NYC will be the first in the US to implement Congestion Pricing. City planners around the country are watching closely as they prepare their own congestion mitigation strategies. Let’s make sure we get this right the first time.

Riders Against Congestion and the AMA will be happy to provide more detailed information, links to supportive studies and any other supporting information to help you make your point. And please remember to let us know if you’ve signed up to speak at a hearing.

–AMA

BIKERNET UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CENTER–This just in: worms could perhaps maybe according to reports be the cause of climate change. Yeah: this is all real. This ain’t a con. I wonder if the worms are gonna haffta stop using air conditioners.

–Dr. J.J. Solari
Senior Consultant
Bikernet University

QUICK, OPEN THE BANDIT’S CANTINA BAD JOKE LIBRARY–
A woman takes a lover home during the day, while her husband is at work.
Her 9-year-old son comes home unexpectedly, sees them, and hides in the bedroom closet. Then the woman’s husband also comes home. She puts her lover in the closet, not realizing that the little boy is in there already.
The little boy says, ‘Dark in here.’
The man says, ‘Yes, it is.’
Boy – ‘I have a golf ball.’
Man – ‘That’s nice.’
Boy – ‘Want to buy it?’
Man – ‘No, thanks.’
Boy – ‘My dad’s outside.’
Man – ‘OK, how much?’
Boy – ‘$250’

A few weeks later, it happens again that the boy and the lover are in the closet together.
Boy – ‘Dark in here.’
Man – ‘Yes, it is.’
Boy – ‘I have a sand wedge.
The lover, remembering the last time, asks the boy, ‘How much?’
Boy – ‘$750’
Man – ‘Sold.’

A few days later, the boy’s father says to the boy, ‘Grab your sand wedge and golf ball, let’s go outside and have some short game practice.’
The boy says, ‘I can’t. I sold my ball and sand wedge.’
The father says, ‘What?! How much did you sell them for?’
Boy – ‘$1,000.’
The father says, ‘That’s terrible to overcharge your friends like that. That is far more than those two things cost. I’m going to take you to church and make you confess.’
They go to the church, and the father makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and he closes the door.
The boy says, ‘Dark in here.’
The priest says, ‘Don’t start that shit with me again. You’re in my closet now.’

–Genevieve Geyser and El Waggs

CANNONBALL THANKS–A Huge Thank You to all Victoria TX Sponsors and Supporters for having the Vision to support the Motorcycle Cannonball as they raced from the Canadian Border through Victoria TX to the Mexico Border in the Toughest Endurance Race on Earth.

The size of Victoria TX crowd and their friendliness was simply amazing according to the Motorcycle Cannonball Race Promoter, Racers and Race Teams.

Please know that Joan and I are truly humbled and appreciative of everyone’s support, tireless help and commitment. It is simply not possible to list all whom came from Oklahoma, from all over Texas including Dallas, Houston, Austin, The Valley and from all over our local region just to help us make this event happen and “Show True Texas Hospitality” to all these fine Vintage Motorcycle People from all over the world that raced these incredible vintage machines.

–Steve and Joan Klein, Victoria TX
Motorcycle Cannonball Hosts & Supporters
SierraMadreMotorcycleCompany.com
SteveKlein.com

NINO SUPPORTS THE STURGIS MOTORCYCLE HALL OF FAME–Frank Zubieta, Nino925 owner and designer, has had a life-long passion for creating superior lifestyle jewelry that spans from the edgy biker and ink culture to the more refined and growing custom design market.

An artist craftsman at heart, Zubieta specializes in turning the abstract into imaginative, quality jewelry and accessories that stand the test of time. For over 20 years, Nino925 has specialized in creating superior, handcrafted custom jewelry in .925 sterling silver, yellow gold, white gold, and platinum. Every piece is handcrafted and designed in the heart of the Los Angeles jewelry district.

Nino925 has gained worldwide exposure among those looking for unique jewelry that helps express their individuality – whether you are a biker, rocker, ink addict, weekend rider…you name it, you’re just a few clicks away from finding that perfect piece. Nino925 designs are currently being worn by rock stars, celebrities, bike builders.

All pieces come with a satisfaction guarantee. Nino925 also fulfills requests for original designs for specialty retailers, private label, and motion pictures. All pieces are designed to last for many years of enjoyment and wear. For additional information or to request a custom design, call us at 1-877-Nino925 or email us at sales@nino925.com.

Here are a few pics of John Shope’s rings/he was inducted in 2015 but ordered his a few weeks ago. His and Nick’s from Trask Performance are in 14k white gold and diamonds. I also make them in Platinum and silver 925.

Pricing will depend on what metal and if accented with diamonds. I could be reach at 877-Nino925 or email at. frank@nino925.com, Instagram at Nino925jewelry and FB at Nino925jewelry.

HANG ON–Nevada lithium mine, key to ‘Green’ energy, opposed by Greens

The mine would be “the most advanced lithium project in the U.S., and will become a major domestic supplier of refined lithium products, with enough supply of lithium materials for 400,000 electric vehicles a year for another quarter of a century,” ioneer executive chairman James Calaway said. …

But standing in its way is the Tiehm’s buckwheat, a flowering plant whose entire habitat is a 10-acre stretch of land located right where the new lithium mine would be operating. Responding to a 2019 petition submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) on June 3 proposed protecting the Tiehm’s buckwheat under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The FWS will undertake a 12-month review to determine whether the buckwheat will be listed as threatened or endangered.

–Climate Depot

NASH MOTORCYCLES GOES FOR THE GOLD–Order yours now to make sure that you get one before Jason tells Instagram and they sell out.
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Jason says this is the best color so far. He has Gold Bronze fever.
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DIRECT FROM THE DOOMSDAY COALITION–California will soon ban the sale of new gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers, a move aimed at curbing emissions from a category of small engines on pace to produce more pollution each year than passenger vehicles.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Saturday that orders state regulators to ban the sale of new gas-powered equipment using small off-road engines, a broad category that includes generators, lawn equipment and pressure washers.

The California Air Resources Board has already started working on a rule to do this, a lengthy process scheduled to conclude early next year. But the law Newsom signed on Saturday removes any doubt, ordering the agency to apply the new rule by Jan. 1, 2024, or as soon as regulators determine is “feasible,” whichever date is later.

“Gov. Newsom signing (this law) really sets a strong course to not only his commitment to transitioning to zero emissions but also to cleaner air and healthier lungs,” said Will Barrett, director of clean air advocacy for the American Lung Association in California.

The law, authored by Democratic Assemblyman Marc Berman, is part of an aggressive strategy to reduce pollution in the nation’s most populous state. California is the only state with the authority to regulate air quality this way, part of an exception carved out in federal law in the 1970s. While other states can’t enact their own regulations, they can choose to follow California’s lead.

Comment by Joe Barlow on Bikernet Facebook Page for this:
“Dumbest shit yet. I’m still trying to imagine an electric generator.”

https://blog.bikernet.com/banned-chainsaws-golf-carts-lawn-mowers-more/

OLD SCHOOL RULES REVIEW— Old School Rules, “great fucking article. maybe the best ever, anywhere.
I could go on. So, I’m readin’ this shit and payin’ attention, sorta goin’ on this slow scrolling-ride and I’m thinkin’, ” I would never have wanted to live like that then. But I sure want to live like that now.”

I mean….based on what I just read….I think I’m ready. Poor Cecily if I ever get another chopper. ‘Cause at the same time I’ll get an XP 100……and nobody might never see me again. Except asleep in some arroyo in the Mojave.

–J.J. SOLARI

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LIFESTYLE CYCLES DEAL OF THE WEEK–2017 Harley-Davidson FLSTN – Softail Deluxe for $18,995.00

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Maryland Gains Office of Outdoor Recreation–East Coast off-roaders may be benefiting from Maryland’s new Office of Outdoor Recreation within the state’s department of natural resources.

Maryland became the 18th state to create an OREC, following Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Virginia, and Wisconsin, all of which launched their own in 2019.

“One of our state’s hallmarks is the stewardship of our lands and waters by the Marylanders who love them,” said Maryland Governor Larry Hogan. “Today we are honoring this partnership for the outdoors while assuring that it continues to grow with the establishment of Maryland’s first Office of Outdoor Recreation.”

Hogan also announced that J. Daryl Anthony would serve as the office’s first executive director. Anthony has 35 years of experience with the DNR, most recently as assistant secretary for land resources. He joined the DNR in 1983 as a park ranger and also served as a regional manager for the Maryland Park Service. Anthony will work with the Maryland Department of Commerce, other agencies, and various stakeholders to implement recommendations from the Maryland Outdoor Recreation Economic Commission.

–MIC

The first episode is almost completed. The first one is always the toughest. We are open for stories.

–Bandit

BIKETOBERFEST ACTION–Daytona Beach, FL – Builders Showcase indoor show are Robison’s Motorcycle Shop. Its guaranteed you will see some awesome antiques, bobbers and choppers!

VINTAGE RIDES NEWS: NEPAL AND SOUTH AFRICA OPEN THEIR BORDERS–
What do these two destinations have in common? Well, they both promise exciting faraway adventures and have recently reopened their borders to visitors!

South Africa boasts superb coastal roads, the breathtaking Western Cape and its stunning beaches, and excellent tracks through passes and canyons and across vast wilderness and arid lands. This country is home to rich history, world famous vineyards and the legendary Cape of Good Hope.

Whereas Nepal combines epic scenery, the highest peaks in the world, rocky tracks and moonscapes. Roads wind between tea fields and rice terraces with the lush Terai jungle and the snow-capped Annapurnas as the backdrop.

These two fantastically different countries both make for an amazing adventure and are OPEN FOR VISITORS*
* Only fully vaccinated travellers, please check your government’s official travel advice before booking

Bikernet University Management Lesson–
A woman in hot air balloon realized she is lost…

She reduced altitude & shouted to a man below: “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend to meet him an hour ago but I don’t know where I am.”

Man below replied: “You are in a hot air balloon 30 feet above the ground. You are at 41 degree North latitude & 59 degree West longitude.”

Lady: “You must be an Engineer.”

Man: “How do you know?”

Lady: “Everything you told me is technically correct but useless & the fact is I’m still lost.”

Man: “You must be in Top Management.”

Lady: “Ya. How do you know?”

Man: “You don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You made a promise, which you’ve no idea how to keep & you expect people beneath you to solve your problems..!!”

–Wayfarer
Certified librarian

Legislation ensures motorcyclists have a voice on infrastructure issues
The Motorcyclist Advisory Council Reauthorization Act, H.R. 2141 and S. 1853, is bipartisan legislation introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.), Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.), Don Young (R-Alaska), Julia Brownley (D-Calif.), Troy Balderson (R-Ohio), and Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) and in the Senate by Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Tammy Baldwin (D-Ill.), and Angus King (I-Maine) will reauthorize the Motorcyclist Advisory Council (MAC) for six years and expand membership on the council to include more motorcyclist voices and transportation officials.

The MAC serves as the only official forum for the motorcycling community to have an open dialogue with the U.S. Department of Transportation to discuss concerns about infrastructure design, issues with intelligent transportation systems, and other areas of safety affecting motorcyclists on the road.

The last iteration of the MAC was co-chaired by AMA Director of Government Relations Michael Sayre, and was disbanded after their formal recommendations where submitted to the Federal Highway Administration in early 2020. You can read those recommendations here.

H.R. 2141 and S. 1853 takes the lessons learned from the last iteration of the MAC and will create a more effective and diverse council that will issue three rounds of recommendations over six years.

Take action now: Let’s ensure the U.S. DOT continues to hear from the motorcycling community!
Compose First Message

Officials who did not sponsor/co-sponsor the bill H.R. 2141 (U.S.-117th Congress (2021-2022))

Sponsors of the bill H.R. 2141 (U.S.-117th Congress (2021-2022))
Sponsors of the bill S. 1853 (U.S.-117th Congress (2021-2022))
Co-sponsors of the bill H.R. 2141 (U.S.-117th Congress (2021-2022))

Officials who did not sponsor/co-sponsor the bill S. 1853 (U.S.-117th Congress (2021-2022)

–AMA

DIRECT FROM THE BIKERNET ARCHIVES–Stray Kat
Minimalist Chopper From Master Huze
–by Renegade

This feature was published on Bikernet in 2010. With his nothing-was-left-untouched wizardry, Cyril Huze will go any length to make those few chopper parts look even more minimalist. In a competitive chopper world one of Cyril’s signatures is detail. He takes the time, and whatever talent needed in addition to his own to form each component into some form of an art object.

HANG ON!–This is what is called the “if you’re good” carrot in child psychology. Which is what your “representatives” think you are: children.

If you do what you’re told MAYBE you can have Thanksgiving. EVEN THOUGH you will be hurting the Muslims’ and the other enemies of Christianity’s feelings. But we’ll see! Now clean your room.

–J.J.

MOTORCYCLE INDUSTRY NEWS FROM INDIA–While Kawasaki announced that all their motorcycles will be Electric in Developed Nations such as in Europe and North America by 2035 – the other Japanese major brand Honda is reported to launch an Electric Scooter in India next year.

It’s not surprising since many new small startup Indian companies with no automotive history have not only offered Electric Motorcycles and Scooters for sale in India but have also seen incredible growth in sales numbers.

Some may think sales growing from 20 units per month to 600 units after three months is nothing – but it shows investors the demand from customers. Percentage is also a significant number for new brands / companies entering any market.

Electric Scooters are especially having many new companies with huge sales because they are almost exclusively used for commuting within the city or within their neighborhoods.

Booking opens and closes in 10 minutes on their website as if it was a Cyber Monday deals or Amazon Prime Day – even though no Discounts or Freebies are offered by any small Electric Two-wheeler Company.

So, Honda’s decision to start with an Electric Scooter is a predictable market strategy. The Honda Activa scooter has been the highest selling Scooter every year in India for decades.

If they want to retain that unsurpassable lead, they had to offer an Electric Scooter. Activa is their “bread-and-butter” in India market.

All Two-wheelers have always had lot more sales than cars by customers here because:
– it consumes lot less fuel,
– is a whole lot more affordable to purchase (for some even a loan is not required),
– those who want to travel daily for work don’t need more than a pillion seat
– finding a parking spot is easier and parking charges for two-wheelers are a lot less
– maintenance expenses, cost of parts, repair costs, insurance policy charges, all cost less than any car
– for occasional family travel, there are many options including Taxis, Uber, tourist vehicles for hire, public transport Buses or Trains, etc.
– Last-mile Delivery to customers for the booming e-commerce websites in India including Amazon and restaurant food deliveries, for example Domino’s pizza, courier from DHL or FedEx etc are all dependent on two-wheelers.

No wonder – India has the world’s largest sales of two-wheelers with China being second highest in sales.

Honda set to enter electric two-wheeler segment in next Financial Year

Competition is set to heat up in India’s electric vehicle segment with Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) looking at launching an electric scooter next financial year to take on former partner Hero MotoCorp and the other two-wheeler companies of India, Bajaj Auto, TVS Motor and SoftBank-backed Ola Electric.

HMSI, the country’s second largest two-wheeler maker, declined to specify details of the product planned for the Indian market. People in the know of its plans said the company is in the process of testing electric scooter BENLY e, developed by Japanese parent Honda Motor, at the Automotive Research Association of India.

Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/renewables/honda-motorcycle-scooter-india-set-to-enter-electric-two-wheeler-segment-in-the-next-fy/articleshow/86946969.cms

Kawasaki Set to Electrify Its Entire Range in Developed Markets by 2035

While motorcycles make up just a small bit of Kawasaki’s core business, they operate as stalking horses to market its large machine production facilities and products.

Kawasaki sold 380,000 motorcycles last year, despite a global market share of roughly 1%, as per Nikkei Asia.

Read Article at: https://blog.bikernet.com/kawasaki-set-to-electrify-its-entire-range-in-developed-markets-by-2035/

–Wayfarer
Lead Correspondent
Bikernet International News Desk

BIKERNET MEDIA ANALYSIS–studies vs “big new” studies: a “study” is basically an announcement that something that may or may not be true……… may or may not be true.
A “big new” study, especially from Oxford, and then reported by a hack at Axios is an announcement that something that may or may not be true…..now may or may not be true in upper-case letters.

–J.J. Solari
Media Analysist
Bikernet.com

KEEPING THE BANDIT’S CANTINA BAD JOKE LIBRARY OPEN DURING TOUGH TIMES–A guy stuck his head into a barbershop and asked,

‘How long before I can get a haircut?

The barber looked around the shop full of

customers and said, ‘About 2 hours.’ The guy left.

A few days later, the same guy stuck his head in

the door and asked, ‘How long before I can get a haircut?’

The barber looked around at the shop and said,

‘About 3 hours.’ The guy left. A week later, the same

guy stuck his head in the shop and asked,

‘How long before I can get a haircut? The barber looked

around the shop and said, ‘About an hour and a half.

The guy left. The barber turned to his friend and said,

‘Hey, Bob, do me a favor, follow him and see where he goes.

He keeps asking how long he has to wait for a haircut,

but he never comes back.’ A little while later, Bob

returned to the shop, laughing hysterically. The barber

asked, ‘So, where does he go when he leaves?’

Bob looked up, wiped the tears from his eyes and said,

‘Your house!!!

–Rik Savenko

EASYRIDERS UPDATE–
So, the Launch and Shipping Date changed from 15-August to 30-September and Now it is Unknown Date – as the ships are all lined up at California port.

Classic Easyriders Website however continues to list the product as “Pre-Sale for launch and ship date 30-Sep-2021”

https://classiceasyriders.com/shop/ols/products/classic-easyriders-complete-digital-magazine-collection

I think those who were disappointed with the new owner’s direction with Easyriders magazine had some hope when another magazine titled Classic Easyriders with print subscription and original team was announced.

Let’s see if the print magazine scheduled for December 2021 launch goes as announced.

Additionally, a Digital Only Subscription for the new issues to be launched December 2021 is now listed for sale on their website. All the same content of new print issues will be available for $30 for 12 issues which is $2.5 per issue.

That’s half the print magazine subscription price of $60 for 12 issues but the print subscribers already get Free Digital Copies included in that $60 price.

https://classiceasyriders.com/shop/ols/products/1-2-or-3-year-digital-only-subscription-classic-easyriders-magazine-50-off-print-subscription

–Wayfarer
Supreme Editorial Director
Bikernet Blog™

NEWS FROM THE MASTER OF LIGHT— Many of these are offered at great prices. I’m also including a few display pieces from the studio here that are in great shape.

Please review the offerings below and let me know if you’d like to add any of these to your collection. You can click on the images to see all specifics on our website.

Steampunk Collection

“The Diva”
18×24, sold out at $5,000 – this one is $3,000.
24×32 hand-embellished priced at $5,500.

“Steampunk Seduction”
24×32 hand-embellished $6,000.

“The Saboteur”
24×32 hand-embellished $5,500.

QUICK, New Bikernet Reader Comment!–GETTING A GRIP BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for October 7, 2021

https://www.bikernet.com/pages/GETTING_A_GRIP_BIKERNET_WEEKLY_NEWS_for_October_7_2021.aspx

Hub Center steer has been around a long, long time. You should contact John Reed who built a hub center steer bagger back in the 90’s. I got to ride it and can tell you first hand he knows what the hell he’s doing. You could turn the thing around in a closet. Typical John, he built it to prove he could then parked it. I don’t think a dozen people ever saw it.
I need to talk him out of it.

— Dangerous Dan
San Jose, CA

Ocasio Whoretez is what is known as a communist. Most American bureaucrats are communists. Marx declared “monopolies” as capitalistic strangleholds on “the people.” Government is the actual monopolistic stranglehold on the people.

She’s also a liar: Facebook, whatever you think of it, is not a threat to “democracy.” It’s actually a better version of democracy than the “press.” Because it’s just individuals communicating with other individuals. Of their own choosing. It’s also private property. Something no communist understands because they usually live by looting and looters are convinced what they are taking is really theirs. At least once they get their hands on it.

Thieves are low-level sociopaths, basically. Which is what Whorecasio is. As are all bureaucrats, not to be picking on the Whore-ster.

–J.J. Solari
Professor of Politics
Bikernet University

Hang On—This week Laban, of Legendary Electric, installed a 220 outlet in my packed garage so the MIG welder will be operational. Perfect.

Never a dull moment, but it’s all a positive adventure. Even fixing stupid shit, is a positive endeavor and keeping me from thinking about building another motorcycle.

Let’s hit it. Ride and fast and free forever.

–Bandit

One thing I remember the most is we “rode” our bikes not ride them. We lived the life. Rode hard and fast and built our own bikes to be different.

There were no 60-Grand off-the-shelf bikes. It was the commonality of brothers, and trust was earned. Help was there when needed. If you needed a part, it was a given, but you better use or return it for someone else.

When in the fast lane we owned it, it was our style. Looked out for each other, you always knew there was backup between each other.

Riding was for the miles, the more miles we rode the better. Be it a short putt during the week or that weekend ride to nowhere. Pulling in to a local bar we always took it over the beer and woman, bartenders knew if there was to be no trouble beer was the answer.

We had nicknames like, Attitude Fred, Dirty Rich, Racist Roger, Monk, Percy the Professor, Big John, Uncle Dave, Jungle Head, Gentlemen Jim, Hippy John, Mute Ron, Mexican Mike, Pig Pen, Jaws, Bandit, Dago Mike, Tiny, Danny M, Cowboy, Preacher, Angle Mark, Pop, Tonto, Airhead, Wing Nut Frank, Hangmen Mark (RIP), Little Mike, Big Steve, Sportster Danny, Knucklehead Red, China Don, Lug Nut Louie, White Truck, and so many more, I can’t remember.

For years, I did not even know their real names– that didn’t matter. We had something in common, our bikes and riding.

We had no cares but the next ride to nowhere just the ride. Out running the cops was no big deal, some got caught, some got away, but we all lived to tell about it.

Packing a chick was always a pain, got to the point we didn’t need to pack, with all the women out there, there was no AIDS or all these weird diseases out there now. We didn’t care, pussy was pussy, and it was out there. I can even remember coming back from a run late on a Sunday, Two of us. We picked up two babes on the Freeway.

Haulin’ Ass Home that’s a story in itself.

Bikes were short and low, Ape Hangers, Drag Bars, Broomstick, Z-Bars and Flanders Risers. Had to have a Jockey shift or you were a pussy as some would say.

Each bike had its owner’s personality. We didn’t have to look at magazines or internet to get ideas. Stock front ends, VL Front end, or a stock H-D Springer were the best at the time. For us a long front end with pullback handlebars was a joke. They had no control in the traffic. Had to be functional.

Chrome! Who cares just more to clean, took away from the ride. A can of 49-cent flat black was the answer. You needed to kickstart your bike in the first or second kick or you were left holding the bag.

Yes, we kickstarted our bike’s. When the sound of an Electric start bike was in the air, it meant parts. Back then it was survival, parts were parts, but bad Karma always came with it, so that stopped. Making your own part for your bike was part of the personality you put into the machine.

Cool was taking parts from the ‘30s, ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s and making them work on your bike. Having all glass lenses, not plastic was cool. Everything was American made no foreign crap. Flatheads, Knuckleheads, Panheads and Shovelheads. God and Harley-Davidson said no to clones.

Another 100 years Harley will still be here. Going to Sturgis once a year behind a Motorhome does not mean you lived the life. No need to go to the local H-D dealer to change our oil. Up sweep pipes, Shotguns, Drag pipes or a Dick Allan 2 in-to-one collector. Ape Hangers over your head, drag racing with a Jockey Shift, one pair of Levies (which we called originals) we wore for years, when they were falling apart, we found a Hippy chick to stitch them back together.

Horseshoe taps on our engineer boots was not for the noise but to keep vehicles off our ass, put your boot on the pavement and throw a fury of sparks in the air like a Big Rig just exploded or throw a ball bearing in the air and it would hit the windshield like a 357 magnum.

Not to take 3 days to clean your bike for a Run but to make sure everything was tight, tuned and had fresh oil. If she leaked some oil you didn’t run to the H-D dealer, just meant she was alive. The bitch just left her mark on the pavement showing she was there.

Didn’t like to be told what to do, had enough of that in the military, most of us were Vietnam Era Vets and still had partners dying in Vietnam. The open road was our home, our life. Live the Life and We be Cool… That’s my opinion. Opinions are like assholes, and everyone has one. And that’s that, and I hope you don’t like it…

No Breakdowns, always made sure everything was good to go; you didn’t want to come home in a truck, because the harassment was crazy, always left ready for anything.

The ride lasted for years; it was the life we had.
Things sure have changed; the technology today in the bike industry is amazing, but what else? Hang on.

I knew some guys back then who were ahead of the times like Dick Allan (RIP) and Bob George (RIP). They did things that changed a lot for the industry.
What gets me is reading some of the Bike Mags. You see some bikes that took years to build. Years can’t image that, look at time you lost riding. Oh well, to each his own.

Well, I could go on for a few more days. Didn’t want to bore you with the good old days.
Everyone says their generation was great, but ours was the Best, The Bikes, The Road, The Women and Most of all The Freedom…Enough Said……………

 

JOHNNY LEWIS FOURTH, BTR FLAT TRACK WRAPS UP AT CHARLOTTE HALF MILE

Royal Enfield caps off a successful season of American Flat Track racing with Moto Anatomy X and BUILD. TRAIN. RACE.

Milwaukee, WI (Tuesday, October 12, 2021) – The final round of the American Flat Track Championship was more than a season ender for Moto Anatomy X Powered by Royal Enfield. For Johnny Lewis, it was a milestone in a year of growth, development, and historic race results for Royal Enfield in what was a landmark season for the Twins FT race machine. Lewis sailed to another top-five finish at the Charlotte Half Mile at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina, taking fourth in the Production Twins main event.

Lewis’ sixth top-five finish of the season is a testament to not only his race craft, but to the steady progress he and the Moto Anatomy X team have made with the Twins FT. “It’s crazy to think what we have accomplished in this last year–a prestigious win at the Lima Half Mile and six top-five finishes overall,” said Lewis. “To end the season with a fourth at Charlotte Motor Speedway showed that we have been able to develop the Royal Enfield Twins FT into a competitive production-based race bike.”

“Since day one we’ve had so many people step up in so many ways. I don’t like hearing no, or I can’t. If you can’t, I will. But in my group of people we didn’t ever say we can’t. We pushed until the end. We had amazing support throughout the season from Lloyd Brothers Motorsports, Woody Kyle, Wes Hanes and S&S Cycle. We were able to develop each week thanks to Kent Ford, Lowery Racing, Web Cam, Cometic Gaskets, Scott Saunders and Wiseco. I can’t thank them all enough.”

Visit https://www.americanflattrack.com/results/default for detailed results.

Royal Enfield BUILD. TRAIN. RACE.

The Charlotte Half Mile was slated to be the fourth and final round of the Royal Enfield BUILD. TRAIN. RACE (BTR). Mother Nature had other ideas, however, and rainy weather forced race promoters to postpone Friday’s schedule to Saturday. The BTR women had other commitments, and unfortunately travel logistics did not allow for everyone to alter their schedules, resulting in the cancelation of the final BTR exhibition of the 2021 American Flat Track season.

“This is obviously not the ending we were hoping for, but this is a reality of racing,” said Breeann Poland, Marketing and Communications Lead – Royal Enfield Americas. “There are elements beyond our control and we have to roll with the punches. This marks the end of the American Flat Track BTR championship, but look for the women to be racing various events throughout the winter.

“I can’t express how proud I am of all the women in this program—watching them all push themselves both on and off the track and grow as racers, and as people. They are truly testament to the success of the Build. Train. Race. program and we are more excited than ever to reach to even bigger heights in 2022!”

The Royal Enfield BTR Road Racing program is already looking toward an expanded platform with American Flat Track next season. An announcement on the 2022 Royal Enfield BUILD. TRAIN. RACE. USA Flat Track program, including details on the application period, is coming soon. Find more information at https://buildtrainrace.com/.

About Royal Enfield: The oldest motorcycle company in continuous production in the world, Royal Enfield made its first motorcycle in 1901.
For more information on Royal Enfield North America, visit www.RoyalEnfield.com/us/en/, www.Instagram.com/RoyalEnfield_NA, www.Facebook.com/RoyalEnfieldNorthAmerica.

Yoshimura Sert Motul Wins the FIM Endurance World Championship Title, the World’s Foremost Series of Endurance Motorcycle Races, on Bridgestone Tires

• Bridgestone is proud to celebrate YOSHIMURA SERT MOTUL’s FIM Endurance World Championship title.
• After a dominant season, YOSHIMURA SERT MOTUL became the second team to win the title on Bridgestone tires since 2018.
• Since 2017, Bridgestone has supplied tires for teams competing in the FIM Endurance World Championship.

Tokyo (October 10, 2021) ― Bridgestone Corporation (Bridgestone) today announced that YOSHIMURA SERT MOTUL won the FIM*1 Endurance World Championship (EWC) title, the world’s foremost series of endurance motorcycle races, on Bridgestone tires. YOSHIMURA SERT MOTUL is the second team to win EWC title on Bridgestone tires since 2018.

Since 2017, Bridgestone has supplied tires for teams competing in the EWC. As one of three teams on Bridgestone tires, YOSHIMURA SERT MOTUL earned first place in two 24-hour races this season. Going into the year’s final race, 6 Hours of Most in the Czech Republic (October 9), the team held the overall points lead and maintained the lead with third-place finish – earning the 2021 EWC title outright.

“I am very pleased and honored to win the championship in the first year of participation as YOSHIMURA SERT MOTUL by using Bridgestone tires,” said Yohei Kato, Team Director of YOSHIMURA SERT MOTUL. “We vowed to fight in this Endurance World Championship on behalf of the Suzuki Factory Team, and this season has proved to be a dream come true by winning two of the world’s most famous 24-hour races, namely, the 24 Heures of Le Mans and the Bol d’Or.The whole team has been respecting each other in the spirit of “One for all, all for one”, and we will keep working together to improve the Suzuki GSX-R1000R into an even better package. Thank you to all the sponsors, partners and fans who warmly supported the YOSHIMURA SERT MOTUL this year. We pledge to attract everyone to an even better championship next year and YOSHIMURA SERT MOTUL will go all out to defend its title.”

“I would like to congratulate all of the members of YOSHIMURA SERT MOTUL on their EWC title,” said Masato Banno, Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, Global CTO (Global Chief Technology Officer), Bridgestone Corporation. “YOSHIMURA SERT MOTUL won both the Le Mans and Bol d’Or 24-hour endurance races, two of the toughest races in the series and showed why they deserved to be champion. Bridgestone is very proud to have contributed to their series championship in our first year as a team partner by supplying highly durable tires. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to the many motorsports fans who supported us and to all the teams who worked so hard and cooperated in tire development. We will continue to refine our technology and support motorsports from the ground up through the development and supply of high-performance tires.”

The Bridgestone Group is implementing its Mid Term Business Plan (2021 – 2023)*2, which aims to realize its vision to provide social value and customer value as a sustainable solutions company toward 2050. To further enhance, the development of Dan-Totsu (the clear and absolute leader) products in the tire business, which is its core business, the group will continue to improve its technologies through motorsports, requiring maximum performances of tires. As an active member supporting the advancement of mobility society, the Bridgestone Group will continue to contribute to the automotive industry and motorsports culture by engaging in a wide range of motorsports with sustainability.

FIM stands for Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme

About Bridgestone Corporation: Bridgestone is a global leader in tires and rubber building on its expertise to provide solutions for safe and sustainable mobility. Headquartered in Tokyo, the company employs approximately 140,000 people globally and conducts business in more than 150 countries and territories worldwide. Bridgestone offers a diverse product portfolio of premium tires and advanced solutions backed by innovative technologies, improving the way people around the world move, live, work and play.

Bonhams Motorcycles Says Buongiorno Italia with Debut Sale at Moto Dei Miti

FIRST MOTORCYCLE SALE IN ITALY 1-3 APRIL 2022 AT WORLD-RENOWNED MUSEUM OF GENESIO BEVILACQUA

2011 ALTHEA WORLD SUPERBIKE AND SUPERSTOCK CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING MOTORCYCLES ARE EARLY HIGHLIGHTS

Bonhams is proud to announce its first motorcycle sale in Italy – in the world-renowned Moto dei Miti museum, created by paddock great Genesio Bevilacqua, founder of the Althea Racing team, which will be staged on 1-3 April 2022.

The weekend sale is the result of a new partnership with Genesio, which will see his museum, located in Civita Castellana (on the outskirts of Rome) provide a fitting venue for the 100-plus collectors’ motorcycles to be offered.

Telling the story of the evolution of motorcycle racing over the past 50 years, the museum represents Genesio’s own racing experience – as amateur rider and professional team manager – and his passion for two-wheeled sport and culture, featuring some of the most important sports and competition motorcycles of the modern era.

Genesio became General Manager in 2007 of the start-up Althea Racing Team, which picked up trophies in the World Superbike and Supersport series, winning both world championship titles in 2011, with Carlos Checa and Davide Giugliano respectively riding to victory. In 2016, with BMW as partner, Althea again won the World Superstock Championship, with Raffaele Da Rosa in the saddle.

The ex-Carlos Checa, 2011 World Superbike Championship-winning Ducati 1198 F11 estimate for sale is €110,000 – 130,000

Genesio will offer 27 machines from his collection for sale in the debut auction, including the two 2011 World Champion motorcycles: Carlos Checa’s Ducati 1198 RS and Davide Giugliano’s Ducati 1198 F12 and one of Raffaele De Rosa’s victorious BMW S 1000 RRs from 2016.

All motorcycles in the collection are ‘on the button’ and ready to race, having been maintained in the museum’s dedicated workshop, by technicians with years of experience in the paddock, and have recently ridden by Genesio and other riders.

Ben Walker, Global Head of Bonhams Motorcycles, said: “We are really excited to be hosting our debut sale in Italy – arguably THE land of motorcycles – and to have the ‘man who defeated giants’ as our new partner.

“”Genesio’s spectacular private museum will provide a stunning backdrop for the sale, and we are delighted that it will be open to the public for the preview and the auction itself.”

Genesio Bevilacqua, General Manager Althea Racing Team, said: “I am happy and proud to partner with Bonhams to bring to Italy their first auction dedicated to motorcycles and to the history of motorcycles, in which Italy has always played a vital role.

“Moto dei Miti is, without a doubt, the best location to hold this great event. Bonhams’ heritage and professionalism will attract the attention of international collectors and will play an important part in growing the collectors’ market for the motorcycles of the last 50 years”.

Further important collectors’ motorcycles and collections are currently being invited for consignment to this new sale.

Contact: ukmotorcycles@bonhams.com for further details.

from https://mrf.org/

Chainsaws, Golf Carts, Lawn Mowers… What’s Next?

Over the weekend, California Governor Gavin Newson signed a bill into law banning the sale of all off-road, gas-powered engines, including generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers, chainsaws, weed trimmers, and even golf carts. Under the new law, these machines must be zero-emissions, meaning they will have to be either battery-powered or plug-in.

This law is particularly concerning because of the status California holds within the national economy. The population and market size that California commands often forces manufacturers to react by changing products nationwide, to conform to California standards. Additionally, states with like-minded legislatures often follow with similar laws and regulations of their own.

The Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) is concerned that this action by California, will begin a cascading effect that will eventually result in the demise of the internal combustion engine and the fuel supply tied to it. During the legislative agenda setting meeting, held at the 2021 Meeting of the Minds, in Atlanta, Georgia this very issue was debated. Working with our state partners, the MRF is currently evaluating how best to address these concerns.

The final 2022 MRF Legislative Agenda will be made public in an upcoming American Biker Journal.

To read more on the bill click here.

About Motorcycle Riders Foundation: The Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) provides leadership at the federal level for states’ motorcyclists’ rights organizations as well as motorcycle clubs and individual riders. Visit the Website https://mrf.org/

The inaugural Race of Gentlemen was held in 2012 on the beach in Asbury Park, NJ, just days before Hurricane Sandy made landfall.

New Jersey has a storied tradition of beach racing, including an epic 1-mile beach race in Cape May during the summer of 1905.

The exhibition featured the likes of Henry Ford, Louis Chevrolet and speed record holder Walter Christie. At the time, the Cape May beach was deemed the “finest racing beach” in the world.

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Editor’s Note: J.J. has a friend who attended a Trump rally recently. Here is her report direct from the action with intro by J.J.:

I fancy myself a bit of a wordsmith. But Amy White has me and damn near everyone else beat all to hell. I refer to her as Calamity Jane. She calls herself The Wicked Bitch. But if she decides you’re an alright sort she’ll risk her life to pull you off the tracks from an oncoming train and then yell at you for an hour for being so stupid.

She is so biker even the bad boys say yes ma’am and no ma’am to her: whether or not she’s ever knocked them out. Which she is quite capable of doing. She was not born a Yankee, she is a daughter of the South but if you diss the flag in her presence…..you will be removed from her presence, and not by her pals. She will handle it herself.

This synopsis of the Saturday Trump rally in Des Moines is what you will NEVER read from the sewer system that calls itself American Journalism today. What you will now read about what that harridan waddling cuckolded pants-suited harpy Hillary Clinton calls The Deplorables……well let me put it this way: if what Any White is about to make you stand up and cheer for are deplorables…….let’s make the best of it.

–J.J. Solari

How are ya’ll? Today, I am laying out my fall leather jacket, that sleek European style one with the purple butterflies that I wore to your house, and my Gold Star Wives for Trump t-shirt that I had specially printed for this occasion. I rolled out and dusted off my Michael Kors black leather gloves that go with my hand embroidered jacket… and smiled to myself that I can wear them because I want to, because they are fucking expensive and badass… since covid has made gloves fashionable again.

I am debating jeans and my high dollar cowboy boots, and my Ivanka Trump purse or leather pants and my purple coach boots and one of my purple coach bags… the Gold Star Wives colors are purple and gold… of course. Since Bob died, I feel the same way about these colors as bikers feel about theirs. I sometimes wonder if he supplied me with all this supple purple leather, because he knew he was dying of Agent Orange diseases, and he knew me THAT well… knew I would wear these colors for him. Property of the United States Army, I reckon.

My new t-shirt gives me a pretty good chance at a seat directly behind him…. If that happens, and I wind up on tv, I am intentionally wearing thousands of dollars of gear. Kiss my capitalist ass, CNN. Not all Trumpers are poor white trash… or some, like me, not poor white trash any longer.

I am considering heading to the fairgrounds tonight and sleeping in my car. They are expecting tens of thousands of people… and folks are already lining up. I am jittery with excitement. It’s a feeling that is a combination of what it feels like to be going to see my Daddy and going to see a lover; like going to church and going to war. I guess that’s what patriotism feels like.

The old biker, the old journalist, in me, is loving it… the thrill of heading to a protest once again feels much like what I think I remember sex was like. Almost breathless, anticipating. The Confederate blood in my veins is boiling and my soul wide awake and pacing at the thought of possible confrontation, basking in the energy of fear and excitement as I prepare my particular style of uniform for battle, and hide my .45 in the console of my Trump adorned car.

The atmosphere at a Trump rally, is indescribable. Tomorrow, it will feel like I stepped out of an amalgam of various horror films and right into the America I was born to inherit. Clean, happy, friendly people will gather like a huge family reunion, an endless sea of red capped humanity… fresh Iowa fall air that smells like hay and wind and corndogs… old people holding hands and children laughing and Lee Greenwood singing over a loudspeaker.

They are televising a famous Iowa football game for the crowd on giant movie screens and opening the fair concession stands… all that will be missing is a meter maid on a blue 45 trike and a man in a white suit and bow tie to pump gas. All of those thousands of people just shining with hope and love and fucking America… secure in the knowledge that by the end of the night, we will all have laughed together, cried together, and stood in awe together, at the feet of our patriarch, our Tony Soprano… our Ronald Reagan, our Teddy Roosevelt, our Eisenhower… our hero.

All those liberals call us a cult and say Trump is our Jesus… nah, he is our Moses… leading us as best he can through a wasteland of bullshit as we try to figure out how to get our country back on track with the good Lord.

NOBODY who has never been to a Trump rally, realizes what it takes to go to a Trump rally. If you don’t get there early, several hours early… you don’t get in. At this one, I arrived 9 hours early and the main area gate closed in front of me…. The only reason I got in is my shirt, and me saying loudly to secret servicemen, I AM DEAF… I AM DEAF.. to get took to the handicapped section that still had seating.

You stand in a crush of people for several hours and walk for miles till the secret service opens the metal detectors. You can’t bring so much as a cracker or drink of water in. No chair, no umbrella, no food, no coolers, no containers… nothing but yourself and a tiny bag.

Inside, there is about a half mile line to potty or buy a corn dog or bottle of water, and only a few hundred get chairs or bleachers.. the vast majority is gonna stand about 12 hours straight in direct sun or rain… no shade, ever… with very little chance of a drink or food…. That’s even if you can get thru the crowd to a concession stand.

Once you get patted down by multiple secret service officers, you are not allowed to go out and back in.. you know once you are in, you won’t be going back out to your car or to eat until you leave. The gates opened at 2. Trump didn’t speak till 8. And then it’s always a 2-3 hour speech, and all of us, KNOW this is what we are heading into and do it gleefully, just for a chance to stand on the same fairgrounds as him.

Knowing this, think about tens of thousands of old folks on walkers, that Vet I sat with, the children and the nuns. It’s fucking unreal.

And I’ll tell you something else. Twice, I left my seat. Once to pee, in a porta potty, soon as I got seated. And about 6, I went to a particularly dense area of crowd at the edge of my area and squatted and snuck half a camel.

Both times, I left my one of a kind hand tooled jacket and one of my coach bags with a Michael Kors wallet under my seat. You just can. Twice, people around me lost their cellphones and a watch elsewhere on the grounds. Both items were returned within an hour, by strangers who found them. It’s like, all wickedness, all nefariousness, is left at your car.

Children run and play unsupervised; people take their shoes off and walk around in socks and feet… everyone talks to everyone. Everyone takes rest breaks sitting or squatting and offers everyone else a hand to help them off the ground. Teenagers let little old ladies have their places in line or help them walk, sometimes for an hour or two, just holding their arm while they chat with their friends. Nobody pushes or shoves and very few cut in line, and I am talking thousands and thousands of people forming ONE line to be screened by the SS for HOURS…

Some people DO bring things like chairs and tripods and umbrellas and leave them at the gate and just get them when they leave. I don’t know if it’s all the cops and secret service, or what, but you KNOW you and your shit is safe.

Nobody is a stranger. Nobody is making fun of anything… everyone is hugging and holding hands and sharing stories with tears streaming down their faces, when you tell your story. Everyone in line around you listens politely and hugs you when you are done. My particular job in the MAGA family waiting lines is, because I TOWER over almost everyone, people all day hand me their phones to hold over my head and take panoramic photos of the crowds.

I probably held $50,000 worth of phones yesterday of people I never seen before and never will again. The richer people buy big pans of food at the concession stands and bring them to the bleachers and just hand them out to the poor people. People take off hats and pins and trinkets and give them to each other. Its somewhere between Christmas and Woodstock.

All this shit about us being TERRORISTS? LMAO.. nah… we are a tableau of the good.. the best… in every single one of us. We are the GREAT part, of America.

Yes, there were black rapper types with gold teeth, pinup girls, beauty queens in tiaras, Spanish boys with tattoos on their throats, soccer moms… A homeless vet, RVers, teachers, an Elvis impersonator and weight lifters. This is what irritates me about the media claiming it’s white pride rallies. It’s the opposite of that. You hear a constant droning chatter of accents and languages. It’s a family reunion of the human race.

–The Wicked Bitch

This rally was never mentioned in the news. You know what’s mentioned in the news? “Trump lost weight because now that he’s out of office, he no longer has access to the white house kitchen. Presstitutes in journalism are destroying the planet: not cars. –J.J.

by Todd Halterman from https://www.autoevolution.com

Hans Schifferle, the film critic and essayist, died at the age of 63 in April of this year, and during the 1980’s he cut an imposing figure. Schifferle walked the streets clad in leather and often arrived on one of his motorcycles.

Hans Schifferle moved through the world in an unpretentious way and loved films and actors like Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Schifferle spent his days writing, talking smack in the foyer of the Munich Film Museum, or tipping a drink on the stairs of the workshop cinema.

Schifferle, born in 1957 in Munich, spent a good stretch of his career writing the Süddeutsche Zeitung and for fan and trade magazines like Steadycam. He also penned innumerable articles for books and catalogs and, like so many cinéphiles of his generation, he found inspiration from the writings of Frieda Grafe.

As a ticket-taker at the Munich Film Museum, Schifferle tore off the stubs before he attended screenings himself. And if you had the pleasure of drinking a dark beer with him and listening as he raved about films, you began to understand cinema as a school of life.

He was a child of privilege and lived in an apartment which also served as a salon of sorts. His means also allowed him to collect some of the most interesting and fantastic motorcycles in history. And his obsession with motorcycles allowed him to put together a superb collection.

One of those bikes was a Ducati 750SS, a version of the bike Paul Smart rode to his famous victory at Imola in 1972. That machine put the esthetically beautiful and speedy Ducati v-twin on the map. During that race, Smart defeated a long list of the hottest machines of the day, from the Triumph Tridents to the works 750 MV Agusta of Giacomo Agostini.

The 750SS received near universal praise from the motorcycling press. Cycle magazine said the “bike that stands at the farthest reaches of the sporting world – the definitive factory-built café racer.” Today, the 750SS is regarded as a true landmark model and is one of the most sought-after of all Ducatis.

Hans Schifferle bought this Ducati 750SS in June 2002 from the Turin-based collector, Genni Carelli. It is believed that Mario Sassi had restored the machine.

His collection also included a 1941 Indian 1,279cc Four though it’s said Schifferle never had the chance to ride it.

His MV Agusta 750 GT, yet another ultra-rare machine, was distinguished by its white and bronze color scheme and, just 50 were sold as a result of an astronomically high initial price tag. Schifferle’s bike of one of the most sought-after MV roadsters, and his original example remains one of the very few which remain unmodified.

The critic also owned an Egli-Vincent was distinguished by Egli’s trademark large tube spine type frame.

His 1955 Vincent 998CC Black Knight is a matching-numbers exemple, and is one of 200 enclosed series-D twin models built by Vincent. Schifferle’s model is thought to be one of the earliest Egli frames manufactured for the Slater Brothers. His friend and mechanic Helmut Lichtenberg completely rebuilt it, and it features a ‘fishtail’ silencer, a Campagnolo front disc brake; alloy wheels; and a Smiths 150mph speedometer.

And Schifferle owned yet another American classic, a 1956 Harley Davidson KH, which represents Harley Davidson’s last ‘flat-head model. The 55ci KH featured an upgraded engine and modified frame (for better handling) compared with the model K roadster on which it was based.

Schifferle and his wife, Gudrun, traveled extensively around Europe in search of components to restore and maintain his stable of machines. Along with his friend and former Grand Prix racer Lichtenberg, Schifferle enjoyed visiting the leading auto events at Imola, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Nuremberg, and various other events to locate rare parts for his restorations.