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First Time
by Rhys

Got wind of a ’63 Triumph for sale. I went over to see it. It was a badly chopped Tiger with peanut tank, apes, and blanket for a seat. I had ridden an old Hadaka 50 before so thought I was cool. Kicked it over the megaphones rang…. I popped the clutch and immediately the front wheel lifted pushing me back and went flying down the street. I hung on for dear life until the front wheel came back to earth and the bike bucked and stalled.

Shaking a bit and sweating I walked the bike back to the owner and said….. I’ll take it.

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Long known as Harley-Davidson’s most reliable and approachable power plant, many moto-historians also say the Evo engine saved the MoCo. Its 16-year+ run followed the company’s buy-out by the “gang of 13” and it ushered in stability in those post-AMF days.

The years of the Evo engine dovetailed with massive production numbers, too, so there are plenty of Evo powerplants still around. When the industry boomed in the late ‘90s and early 2000’s, Evo-style engines ran thousands more “American other” machines made by companies such as S&S Cycle to power Big Dogs, American Iron Horses, and many more.

So where are all the Evos now? That’s what we want to know! Bring yours – factory or aftermarket – to enter the 3rd Annual Evo Entanglement Show, presented by S&S Cycle, at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip on Wednesday, August 9th. Besides an opportunity for awesome profiling, you could win an S&S V-111 engine, Paughco frame, tank & front end, and $1000 Baker certificate. And that’s just one of the prizes!

Want to meet Sons of Anarchy actor Rusty Coones? Enter the show FREE (online in advance or day of show) to be eligible for the first-ever Rusty Coones Illusion Cycles Award, selected and presented by Rusty himself. The award includes a custom-made, one-off trophy crafted by Paul Wideman at Bare Knuckle Performance PLUS a super slick Whiteknuckler knife compliments of Lowbrow Customs

Also meet Show Hero Paul Wideman of Bare Knuckle Performance and Artist Darren McKeag as they arrive on their Bare Knuckle Evo Custom Chops – the bikes they rode in from Missouri, bugs and all.

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This show gets a ton of support from major aftermarket companies. Prizes like $500 gift certificates are provided by: Drag Specialties, Saddlemen, Performance Machine, Burly Brand, Progressive Suspension, GMA, BDL, Fat Baggers, Avon Grips, Klotz, Cometic, Paul Yaffe’s Bagger Nation, NAMZ, Twin Power, Nelson Rigg, Memphis Shades, Chop Docs, Lowbrow, Biltwell, Blackout Industries, Twisted Tea and more. If it’s still more glory you seek, the Best in Show winner moves on to compete for top honors on the Buffalo Chip’s main stage Friday night in the Custom Series King (or Queen!) finals.

Classes include: Best in Show, Best Paint, Inaugural Rusty Coones Illusion Cycles Award, Chopper, Dyna/FXR, Custom Cruiser, Bagger, Survivor, Sportster. See you there.

Who: You!
What: Evo Entanglement Bike Show
When: Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023
Registration: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Judging: 2 p.m.
Awards: 3 p.m.
Where: Free-Access CrossRoads at the Buffalo Chip
Why: Celebrate Evos, meet Paul Wideman of Bare Knuckle Performance, and Jon Montgomery of S&S Cycle, win valuable prizes and 1st 100 registered get a FREE Mint Speed Shop Flannel
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FACTORY HARLEY-DAVIDSON RIDER KYLE WYMAN TOPS ALL-HARLEY KING OF THE BAGGERS PODIUM ON SUNDAY AT LAGUNA SECA

Vance & Hines/Harley-Davidson racer Hayden Gillim wins on Saturday

MILWAUKEE (July 10, 2023) – Harley-Davidson® Screamin’ Eagle® factory rider Kyle Wyman topped an all-Harley-Davidson podium on Sunday in the MotoAmerica Mission King of the Baggers race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in California. Wyman led from start to finish in the 8-lap race on the team’s race-prepared Harley-Davidson® Road Glide® motorcycle to claim his fifth win of the season. Vance & Hines/Mission Foods teammates James Rispoli and Hayden Gillim finished second and third on Harley-Davidson Road Glide motorcycles. With the win, Kyle Wyman preserved his championship points lead in the series.

“I really wanted to get a good start today to get out front and control the pace,” said Wyman. “I was feeling pressure from Rispoli in the second half of the race, and I know James would not hesitate to take his shot at a pass, so I made sure to not give him that opportunity. It’s really great to see Harley-Davidson lock up the podium today.”

Wyman opened the weekend by topping the first qualifying session on Friday with a new King of the Baggers track record lap of 1:28.586. On Saturday Wyman won the three-lap King of the Baggers Challenge race, besting second place Gillim by 1.462 seconds.

In the Saturday feature race, Wyman dogged race leader Tyler O’Hara on the Factory Indian motorcycle before passing for the lead in Turn 2 on lap 5. O’Hara passed Wyman back to take the lead on the last lap but crashed on the entrance to the last turn of the race. Wyman fell behind him and both riders slid off the track as Gillim, Rispoli, and Sacramento Mile/Roland Sands Indian rider Bobby Fong took advantage. O’Hara and Wyman both managed to pick up their bikes and cross the finish line, O’Hara in fourth place and Wyman in ninth place. Gillim finished first, 2.919 seconds ahead of Rispoli, with Fong in third place. Harley-Davidson Screamin’ Eagle factory rider Travis Wyman finished in seventh place on his Harley-Davidson Road Glide motorcycle.

On Sunday roles were reversed, as Kyle Wyman took the lead from the pole position with O’Hara chasing in second place, followed by Rispoli and Gillim. O’Hara fell off the pace on lap 4 and was passed by both Vance & Hines riders. Rispoli closed to within a fraction of a second on Wyman but never had an opportunity to attempt a pass. O’Hara finished fourth. Travis Wyman was sixth on the Factory Harley-Davidson® Road Glide®.

After eight of 14 races in the 2023 MotoAmerica Mission King of the Baggers series, Kyle Wyman leads the championship with 148 points, followed by Rispoli with 143 points, and Gillim with 130 points. O’Hara sits in fourth place with 107 points. Travis Wyman is in 10th place with 59 points.

The Mission King of the Baggers series features race-prepared American V-Twin touring motorcycles. Harley-Davidson® Factory Team Road Glide® motorcycles are powered by modified Screamin’ Eagle® Milwaukee-Eight® 131 Performance Crate Engines. The team bikes also feature upgraded suspension components, including Screamin’ Eagle/Öhlins Remote Reservoir Rear Shocks, plus competition exhaust, race tires and lightweight bodywork.

The Harley-Davidson® Screamin’ Eagle® factory team returns to action July 28-30 in the MotoAmerica Superbikes at Minnesota at Brainerd International Raceway near Brainerd, Minn.

MotoAmerica King of the Baggers Race Results – Laguna Seca Race 1

1. Hayden Gillim (H-D) Vance & Hines/Mission Foods/Harley-Davidson
2. James Rispoli (H-D) Vance & Hines/Mission Foods/Harley-Davidson
3. Bobby Fong (Ind) Sacramento Mile/SDI Racing/Roland Sands Design
4. Tyler O’Hara (Ind) Progressive/Mission Foods
5. Jake Lewis (H-D) Team Saddlemen
6. Cory West (H-D) Team Saddlemen
7. Travis Wyman (H-D) Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson
8. Jeremy McWilliams (Ind) Progressive/Mission Foods
9. Kyle Wyman (H-D) Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson
10. Kyle Ohnsorg (Ind) Roland Sands Design
11. Frankie Garcia (H-D) Team Saddlemen
12. Kole King (H-D) King Performance
13. Patricia Fernandez-West (H-D) Team Saddlemen
14. Danny Spina (H-D) Flex CBD

MotoAmerica King of the Baggers Race Results – Laguna Seca Race 2

1. Kyle Wyman (H-D) Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson
2. James Rispoli (H-D) Vance & Hines/Mission Foods/Harley-Davidson
3. Hayden Gillim (H-D) Vance & Hines/Mission Foods/Harley-Davidson
4. Tyler O’Hara (Ind) Progressive/Mission Foods
5. Jeremy McWilliams (Ind) Progressive/Mission Foods
6. Travis Wyman (H-D) Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson
7. Kyle Ohnsorg (Ind) Roland Sands Design
8. Jake Lewis (H-D) Team Saddlemen
9. Cory West (H-D) Team Saddlemen
10. Bobby Fong (Ind) Sacramento Mile/SDI Racing/Roland Sands
11. Frankie Garcia (H-D) Team Saddlemen
12. Kole King (H-D) King Performance
13. Patricia Fernandez-West (H-D) Team Saddlemen
14. Eric Stahl (H-D) Jiffy Tune Racing
15. Danny Spina (H-D) Flex CBD

Harley-Davidson invites you to enhance the 2023 MotoAmerica King of the Baggers season with some adrenaline pumping action. Check out, ‘Push the Limit,’ a film that shares the story of defending 2021 champion Kyle Wyman, teammate Travis Wyman and the Harley-Davidson Screamin’ Eagle race team’s 2022 championship pursuit. Watch it now on Harley-Davidson’s YouTube channel.

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I know what you’re saying, ”What’s you being a failed loser tv anomaly got to do with me thinking you know what the fuck you’re talking about even regarding bran muffins, forget about global meteorology?” Nothing. It has nothing to do with it. Why would you even make that association? Is this how you treat a guest into your computer?….. with rudeness and accusations and dredging up the past? I haven’t brought up that incident regarding you and the goat have I? Ok, then, I think we have a calming inside the room then. And that’s great.

Now then: this site devotes a good deal of time incorporating chemists and meteorologists and schooled analyzers into all things weather-related, and these articles involve a lot of charts and numbers and percentages and thermometers and graphics and data and figures and column and pie charts and flow charts and timelines and core samples and reports and nuts and bolts and washers, and maybe dryers…….I don’t talk about any of those things.

I talk about you putting down your beer, trying to get to your feet, going over to the window and looking out of it and seeing if you see anything different out there than you are used to seeing out there at this time of year. Twenty years ago Al Gore was telling you that what you SHOULD be seeing out your window today is charred bodies, no plants, sand dunes, skeletons, tumbleweeds, dead birds and a Martian landscape.

You don’t see that do you. You see what’s always been out there, just doing its thing and trees and birds and clouds and, basically, the weather. You don’t SEE climate change you just HEAR about it. From news hacks and political hacks. No one else sees ANYTHING that the news hacks and the political hacks are apparently seeing. Well, THEY’RE not seeing it either. They’re just SAYING they are. Because they’re…..you might want to sit back down for this……because they’re lying. Why are they lying? That’s a different topic. This topic is the climate change lie. The LIE part of climate change is that you’re the reason it’s happening. Who knows, the climate could actually be changing. Who gives a shit? Fuck the ozone layer is my attitude.

Now, the lie that you are responsible for the climate change you don’t actually SEE any evidence of is bolstered by not just the lie but by deceptive vocabulary. Or in other words the same thing detergent packages use to convince you they’re saying something they’re not. Like “50% FREE” on a new larger size of soap powder. If it was REALLY fifty percent free you could extract half the contents and walk out the store with it. But you would get arrested except in California. Because it’s not actually 50% free. You get fifty percent more at the same price that the previous size held. I’m keeping this simple because I know you want to get to the cheesecake that infiltrates this yarn. I don’t blame you.

I wrote a 60,000 + “dictionary” that translates political and news jargon for everything under the sun that these two lying imbecilic segments of our imbecilic society use relentlessly. Below are just the words and terminology they are using regarding YOU being the reason THEY are seeing “climate change.” Which none of us NORMAL people can see. You don’t need charts and graphs to see that climate is “changing” you just need ME to show you that if it IS changing…..YOU’RE not the reason. The words THEY’RE using are to drill it into your head that you actually ARE the reason. Trust me: you’re not that fucking awesome.

3: HEAT DOME (JOURNALIST/BUREAUCRAT DEFINITION)…… A sign of an impending “climate catastrophe.” (ACTUAL DEFINITION)…..High pressure system.

4: ARCTIC VORTEX (JOURNALIST/BUREAUCRAT DEFINITION) A sign of an impending “climate catastrophe.” (ACTUAL DEFINITION)……Low pressure system: upgraded by the media etc to bomb cyclone

4.1: BOMB CYCLONE (JOURNALIST/BUREAUCRAT DEFINITION)……A sign of an impending “climate catastrophe.” (ACTUAL DEFINITION)……Low pressure system. Used to augment arctic vortex which has been considered too uncatastrophic.

5-ATMOSPHERIC RIVER (JOURNALIST/BUREAUCRAT DEFINITION)…… A sign of an impending “climate catastrophe.” (ACTUAL DEFINITION)……Rain.

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. Along with “attribution science” – a new science also defined in this list, both expressions are waiting in the wings to be eventually used everyday by every political and journalist hack on anyone’s payroll to bolster the already-full dumpster bin of Kamala Harris Level word garbage.

13: CLIMATE-CAUSED WILDFIRES (BUREAUCRAT/JOURNALISM DEFINITION)……A reality (ACTUAL DEFINITION)……An agenda-driven fabrication to 1: promote Marxism and 2: to justify government-created shortages. Climate-caused wildfires are 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.

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 and the Zunis 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, via government and the “press,” as religious belief systems whether you ascribe to them or not. Incidentally, from an American Constitution standpoint, not that it matters, these notions, that “the environment” is conscious, 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, and usually the most unemployable 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 oversight by Chuck Schultz or journalistic oversight by The New York Times or ecological oversight by Greta Thunberg.

42: ATTRIBUTION SCIENCE (UNIVERSAL DEFINITION).……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 who created “the pandemic” and devoured by journalists and bureaucrats as further proof – to you the idiot – that their – the journalists’ and bureaucrats’ – 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, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand but not China, Persia, India, Indonesia and Japan – 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 in order to shunt the Industrial Revolution back to 50 million B.C. Now called BCE by the enemies of Jesus of Nazareth king of the Jews. 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 and eventually, probably, the galaxy.

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 now not 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 dump-page onto your head by “health advisors.” Whatever even in the fuck those are.

43: CLIMATE SCIENCE (BUREAUCRAT/JOURNALIST DEFINITION)……Proof that humans in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe are causing the atmosphere of the earth to heat up, soon to catastrophic levels. (ACTUAL DEFINITION)……The political left-wing progressive socialistic/Marxist, and now Islamic, via the UN, version of meteorology having as its scientific basis….. prophesy.

Its 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 fucking giraffe. (see greenhouse gas)

45: FOSSIL FUEL (BUREAUCRAT/JOURNALIST/CITIZENRY DEFINITION)……Oil, coal and methane. (ACTUAL DEFINITION)……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.

72: GAVIN NEWSOM JOURNALIST/BUREAUCRAT (DEFINITION)……The perfection of representational government in human form, Newsom being the most caring-for-others human being in history since Jesus of Nazareth king of the Jews.

(ACTUAL DEFINITION) The “governor” of California and the human embodiment of blithering, rictus-faced, imbecility and the poster boy for everything stupid that bureaucrats and journalists praise as essential for happiness.

Regarding his stupidity, for instance, Gavin Newsom is convinced that the air within the borders of California walls itself into a bent-rectangular column that is the exact shape of California, from ground level to the limits of the upper atmosphere. In other words, the air above the California terrestrial boundary lines….stays in place. It never moves beyond California. And that, via Newsom’s personal direction and commands and edicts, its temperature in the riveted-in-place stationary atmosphere (California’s) can be lowered, thus cooling the surface ground layer to where it can be safely trod upon.

Why California’s now-cooled air won’t drift out across the Pacific or drift over into Arizona is a question that no journalist will ever think to ask because journalists are duller intellectually than Karl Marx. To journalists and bureaucrats Gavin Newsom is an Apostle-level saint and the only entity in California who actually cares about people other than himself and therefore anyone who doesn’t revere him as a Savior is a selfish, antisocial “hater.” His every expression and facial contortion broadcasts “batshit” farther than Voyager’s present position in space from the earth. Making him, essentially, the perfect bureaucrat.

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, 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.

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, according to the Marxists, which are basically everyone at this point, 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 – a creation of Nature – must save Nature from itself by the humans ceasing to exist, for this is the moral thing to do. According to sociopathic, inept, “influencers.”

111: HUMAN-CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING (BUREAUCRAT/JOURNALIST DEFINITION) A fact and an existential threat. (ACTUAL DEFINITION)……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 hair spray or freon 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 claim to godhood. Via obedience to perverse idiots and hair-sniffers-of-children on the public payroll.

113: WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER…….The official government announcement via the “pandemic” and the climate “crisis” that this is officially now a Communist, not just a socialist, Country. The only thing missing at the end of this slogan is the word “comrade.”

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 (BUREAUCRAT/JOURNALIST DEFINITION)…… The proof that humans are raising the earth’s temperature. (ACTUAL DEFINITION)…… Not actually one of the sciences, but rather a prognostication announcement based on nothing.

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, to convince you that you – being assumed an idiot – are supposed to think that “climate science” is something that is “proof” that you personally “are causing the earth to heat up.” Climate science has the same claim to legitimacy as a science as does political science: none.

130: EXISTENTIAL THREAT (BUREAUCRAT/JOURNALIST DEFINITION)…..Everything that is functional or normal, either in existence or not, whether it is a threat or not, It doesn’t matter. The entire universe is an existential threat.

(ACTUAL DEFINITION) Any present-danger threat that’s actually in existence. As opposed to the ones bureaucrats and journalists claim are in existence: a list too long to put here. That something may be a threat does not mean it is likely. The sun is an existential threat: it COULD go nova. It IS one of the things that can go nova. So, it IS an existential threat. It’s just not imminent.

When a bureaucrat uses “existential threat,” it is calculated to lure you into assuming it’s happening now and can’t be stopped unless you IMMEDIATELY get in line with….(and THAT’S going to a long list.)

172: THE WEATHER CHANNEL (JOURNALIST/BUREAUCRAT DEFINITION)……A television channel nation-wide devoted to the daily weather and weather-related topics. (ACTUAL DEFINITION) A purchasing coup by NBC, noticing that the weather was getting more viewers than traffic news, sports and entertainment. It is now the propaganda arm of America for voicing the catastrophe-hoax of human activity endangering life on earth.

Embedded in its ads for itself is the assurance that it is “the most trusted” source for weather. The implication being apparently that “all the other sources for weather” – whatever they are since there is only one weather channel – are suspect. Which tells me the Weather Channel is the only source for weather that’s actually suspect.

In addition to all the weather “reporters” on other venues routinely speaking about global warming as though it’s an ongoing human tragedy caused by humans, the Weather Channel creates hours and hours of specialty programming focusing exclusively on weather as it is affected by humans. We now affect the weather. Not the other way around. Weather is helpless against our mighty onslaughts against it.

184: GREENHOUSE GAS (JOURNALIST/BUREAUCRAT DEFINITION)…… The destructive vapors of oil, coal and methane-use in machines and lungs. (ACTUAL DEFINITION)…….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.

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 “greenhouse gas” is proclaimed to be CO2. Even though CO2 is not a “greenhouse gas.” There is actually no such thing as a greenhouse gas. There is just CO2. CO2 is not a greenhouse gas. It’s just CO2. It’s never been…a greenhouse gas. It’s a CO2 gas. The expression “greenhouse gas” has also been selected via some random bureaucratic catastrophe-generator to be compiled into the New Weather Terminology of Death along 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 as you should be 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.

(ACTUAL 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. Humans who are convinced they can affect or alter Nature are normally called “insane people.”

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 atmosphere.

(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 than 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.

228: FOSSIL FUEL (cont) (BUREAUCRAT/JOURNALISM DEFINITION)……Oil, coal and methane. (ACTUAL DEFINITION) ignitable carbon atoms that were never alive inside an animal or plant.

233: CARBON FOOTPRINT (JOURNALIST/BUREAUCRAT DEFINITION)…… “A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide and methane) that are generated by our actions. The average carbon footprint for a person in the United States is 16 tons, one of the highest rates in the world. Globally, the average carbon footprint is closer to 4 tons. To have the best chance of avoiding a 2? rise in global temperatures, the average global carbon footprint per year needs to drop to under 2 tons by 2050. Lowering individual carbon footprints from 16 tons to 2 tons doesn’t happen overnight! By making small changes to our actions, like eating less meat, taking fewer connecting flights and line drying our clothes, we can start making a big difference.”_____The Nature Conservancy

235: EXISTENTIAL THREAT (cont) (BUREAUCRAT/JOURNALIST DEFINITION)……Everything. (ACTUAL DEFINITION)…..A politically rampant utterance made primarily by liberals to declare something that isn’t an actual threat a threat. It’s a political lie in other words. The word “existential” is used to give it the cachet of “philosophy” since “Existentialism” – capital E – was hip at one time, a philosophical “outlook” on things rather than an actual philosophical system, that was a defeatist psychological go-to spirit of dealing with, basically, everything.

240:ATMOSPHERIC RIVER (cont) BUREAUCRAT /JOURNALIST DEFINITION……A terrifying and ominous new anomaly of global climate creating heretofore unprecedented chaos and woe caused by human-sourced co2 emissions.

 

Graham Sykes had a passion for speed for most of his life. He has been associated with motorsports since 1979 and turns 60 years old in 2023. Even his wife is involved in the engineering efforts of this engineer.

Sykes has created a steam-powered monster named ‘Force of Nature’ which clocked a 3.878-second, 163.8 mph standing start run on a 1/8 mile. This was at Elvington Speed Week in May 2023.

This is officially a new world record for a steam-powered motorcycle. It reached an exit speed of 163.8 miles per hour.

For racing this unique creation, water is heated using hydrogenated vegetable oil, keeping the pursuit of speed as environmentally friendly as possible. The granddad rider was zooming at 180mph while doing this, but that wasn’t part of this record-breaking achievement. It may not be surprising that he was riding his own ‘force’.

Certified by the UK and ITA governing body for UK and European Land Speed Records this machine was a journey that was 10 years in the making. Sykes had already set a British national speed record in 2015 for a three-wheeled vehicle. That V8-powered three-wheeler had a top speed of 180.3 mph with an average speed of 171.4 mph on quarter mile.

With 9 grand-kids, Sykes wanted to aim for a ‘Force of Nature’ that was environmentally friendly. He has no intention to stop the pursuit of speed and action. His next goal is to surpass the milestone of 200 mph on a standing 1/8-mile run.

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I’ve seen the term “suicide shifter” used in describing a plain old ordinary tank shift. I’ve also heard people referring to a stock rocker clutch as a suicide clutch. Simple ignorance allows that term to be used incorrectly. There is no such thing as a “suicide shifter.” Nobody has ever died because of using “hand shift.” There is however such a thing as a “Suicide Clutch.”

The term suicide clutch came into being when choppers were born. I’ll tell ya why. Back in the good old days, a long time before foot shift was standard equipment, tank shift with foot operated -clutch was original equipment on Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

Let’s use the Harley-Davidson motorcycle of the 1950s as an example. The foot clutch was of the rocker type, meaning it could be “rocked” to the disengaged position, and it would stay in that position until the rider nudged it with his or her foot in the opposite direction.

Harley-Davidson motorcycles were “heel down” disengaged, Indian motocycles (no R is the way Indian Motocycle Company spelled it) operated with toe down disengaged motion. The rider could and would control the RATE of engagement with his or her foot.

In other words, the clutch was not totally spring loaded like the clutch in a car. Clutch pedal engagement is/was determined by foot position. If the rider slid his foot off the clutch pedal while it was in the disengaged position it would stay disengaged.

The stock/standard rocker clutch did have a spring that would pull the pedal towards the engaged position only after the clutch was “rocked” out of the disengaged position. Safety first for this style clutch. Early Chopper builders modified the rocker clutch so it would not, and could not stay “rocked out” in the disengaged position. This allowed for much faster clutch action. It also meant that the rider had to maintain constant foot pressure on the clutch to keep it disengaged unless he was in neutral.

NO big deal! BUT!….. Many early chopper builders/riders/outlaw bikers also decided to remove the front brake. This was done not only for cosmetic reasons, but also because removing the front brake also lightened the motorcycle quite a bit.

If you look at most old chopper photos from the 1950s and 1960s, even through the 1970s, many times you’ll see custom bikes or choppers with a clean, lean looking front-fork that has no front brake. This is when the suicide name caught on. That shift lever looks like it is connected to a ratchet-top doesn’t it? It is not. It is being used as a clutch pedal, a slippery one.

A motorcycle rider while riding steep hills such as found in the city of San Francisco was subject to traffic lights like all the other traffic. If that rider was riding a chopper equipped with no front brake, hand shift (jockey shift or tank-shift) and a clutch that was modified to act as a spring loaded clutch, that rider could not easily stop and start at traffic lights located at streets located at the top of a hill.

If the rider stopped at light on a steep hill using the right foot on the brake, the transmission would need to be neutral (remember the clutch could NOT be rocked into a disengaged position and stay there). The right foot would be holding the brake engaged the left foot would be on the ground with the left leg holding the bike upright.

It took speed and coordination to quickly put the right foot down to hold the bike up, then the left foot to push the clutch pedal down, the left hand would slam the tranny into first gear, and the rider could then let the clutch out and go. This sequence of events was virtually impossible to do on a steep hill, so riders took to running the yellow or early red traffic lights rather than attempting a stop on the hill. More than a few were killed running the light. And that, my friends is how the suicide clutch got his name. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!

Enough riders were killed for other riders (and the cops) to consider it suicide to ride a motorcycle equipped as described. But then again, all the macho guys went straight to the suicide set-up, for macho reasons alone. Back in the good old days real bikers shunned the wearing of leather. Back then, only sissies wore leather. Also, if a jockey-top is mounted rather than a ratchet-top (four speed transmission only) when hand shifting, blazingly fast power shifts can be made, and wheelies will happen. It’s more fun than a high speed chase!

I rode a rigid frame Panhead for years with a foot-operated clutch, jockey shift (jockey top transmission), and no front brake. I purchased the motorcycle so equipped and once I got familiar with it, I saw no reason to change. I also always wore a heavy leather jacket; I like my skin too much, I guess.

When myself and friends rode up to San Francisco to cruise the Haight Ashbury and North Beach districts, the guys that had motorcycles equipped with front brakes rode behind the guys without front brakes, and held them in place on the steep hills at traffic lights by putting their front wheel against mine and others’ rear wheels.

–Buck Lovell
Chief of the Lost Dog Riders MC
Lovell Photography & Design
B.L.A.B.B. (Buck Lovell’s American Biker Blog)
bucklovell@gmail.com / bucklovellsblog@gmail.com
Sturgis, SD 57785
(605) 490 2991

by Buck Lovell

Suicide Clutch….the Real Story

And he is sticking with it

I’ve seen the term “suicide shifter” used in describing a plain old ordinary tank shift. I’ve also heard people referring to a stock rocker clutch as a suicide clutch. Simple ignorance allows that term to be used incorrectly. There is no such thing as a “suicide shifter.” Nobody has ever died because of using “hand shift.” There is however such a thing as a “Suicide Clutch.”

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This is an interesting one as you will see. The motorcycle rights world is waking up and getting together to fight for our rights to ride against the Alarmists untruths.

Life is a game of words. From the time when we were kids and bullies called other kids names from fat to whatever. We remember as young bikers being called biker trash and worse. Now, it has to do with environment. Either you’re a die-hard environmentalist or you’re destroying the planet, a denier. Bullshit.

Unfortunately, the Doomsday proponents are wrong on every account and that forces them to be even more ardent and terrified. The rest of the public sat around drinking beer, while suspecting the radicals were wrong but not knowing for sure. Well, now it’s time to get educated and involved. Let’s hit the news.

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INTERVIEW WITH KEN DEGRAAF BY CLINTEL—

What would climate policy ideally look like in your view?

It would be decoupled from CO2. Climate is an existential threat—it threatens our very existence. We live our lives protecting ourselves from the elements. It takes energy to do anything, especially to stay alive.

–Clintel

Ken is a representative in the Colorado General Assembly. “In the 2023 General Assembly, I presented a bill to revoke CO2 as a pollutant.”

I wrote to Ken regarding our resolution. — Bandit

Hey Ken,

I just read your interview with Clintel, amazing. What happened to your revoke CO2 as a pollutant bill?

I’ve been trying to put a resolution before congress to force the truth. I’m just an old biker who escaped California to Sturgis, SD three years ago. I’ve always been a freedom fighter for motorcyclists.

Here’s my resolution. I felt if Climate doom could be smashed, perhaps freedom and truth would shine again.

Here’s his response:

Thanks Keith! I’ve spent some time up in Sturgis. My wife did an internship there and my FIL helped with starting a new church.

The bill was expectedly, unfortunately quashed in the ideological filter they call “committee,” but I was able to put the verbiage into some proposed amendments for other bills that at least made the Dems squirm a bit.

I agree with your resolution, but I was generous in my assessment of science literacy in the political arena. The main issue is that they don’t want to know the truth because the truth doesn’t give them the moral authority to confront an existential threat. An “existential threat” is one that threatens your very existence, so their “solutions” can encompass the totality of your existence.

I stand by my assertion that “there is no problem the government cannot make worse with a “solution.”” Because if the “problem” they’re solving isn’t real, the “solution”’for it will be a real problem.

One issue with your resolution, although I agree with the sentiment, is that laws based on untruths are inherently unjust, but not meaningless. Laws based on untruths are the foundation of tyrannies and invariably create great misery whether they’re meant to or not.

Per our Declaration of Independence, “governments are instituted among men (to secure these Rights) deriving their just power from the consent of the governed.” It’s a very tightly prescribed box within which government can govern without lapsing into tyranny.

Getting people to get on board is the crucial part of your resolution. Maybe you need a booth at the bike rally for “Bikers against climate B$.” You know the greeniacs & carbonistas hate Hogs (I’ve not driven one, but in a prior life I flew them). We need the populous to understand that they are coming after every aspect of our lives to be put under their control, and the virtue-preening Care’ns (“I care more than you do”) will justify their tyranny by baseless compassion.

–Ken

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You always continue to amaze me, when I read one of your stories. You hit the nail on the head in the storylines. I guess it always help when you live the true biker lifestyle. Great read. I hope I can write like you guys and gals eventually. Take care brother.

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EPA Proposal a De Facto Ban on Gasoline–Powered Cars and Trucks

WASHINGTON, July 5, 2023 — The American Petroleum Institute (API) today urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse course on its proposal for new tailpipe emissions standards for light-duty and medium-duty vehicles, which amount to a de facto ban on vehicles using gasoline and other liquid fuels that would drastically reduce American families’ freedom to choose a car or truck that best fits their needs and budget.

“We share the goal of reducing emissions across the transportation sector while ensuring continued reliability and affordability options for millions of Americans,” API President and CEO Mike Sommers said. “We support technology-neutral federal policies that drive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions in the transportation sector, but this proposal seriously misses the mark. While not an explicit ban on internal combustion engines, this proposal is a de facto ban that will eliminate competition, distort the market, and restrict consumer choice, while being potentially more costly to taxpayers. API will keep all options on the table to protect American families and businesses if the agency moves forward with this ban.”

In comments submitted to the EPA, API outlined major concerns with several aspects of the proposed rule, including its heavy reliance on electric vehicles to achieve compliance.

While battery technology has improved in recent years, the proposed rule ignores the significant infrastructure, consumer acceptance, and supply chain challenges that remain. In addition, EPA’s narrow focus on a singular technology risks undermining U.S. energy security by forcing a greater reliance on foreign sources for raw materials and critical minerals.

API highlighted better ways to accomplish the agency’s goal of reducing emissions while preserving consumer choice in accessing affordable and reliable transportation options.

“EPA has largely ignored fuel and vehicle-based options that could better accomplish the agency’s objectives to expeditiously achieve greater transportation sector-related emission reductions from the entire vehicle fleet (both new and in-use) at lower cost,” Sommers said. “Meaningful carbon emission reductions are achievable sooner, and potentially at lower cost, via the use of proven and available technology in liquid fuels.”

–American Petroleum Institute

HERO-HARLEY LAUNCH–
Incredible Pricing. HeroMotoCorp announces launch of the first bike X440 under the Hero-Harley tie-up.

India and Hero MotoCorp celebrated 4th of July with the launch of Harley-Davidson X440. Freedom on the road becomes reachable to the masses with an incredible ex-showroom price.

This incredibly competitive price was a big surprise for many. The H-D X440 co-developed & co-designed by Hero MotoCorp through technical support by Harley-Davidson is priced at INR 229,000 ex-showroom (approximately USD 2,790 only, before taxes, insurance, etc)

The top variant is priced at INR 269,000 (approx. USD 3,280). Yup, those are the numbers.

The bike will be sold across 25 Harley-India showrooms and 300 select Hero showrooms in India.

This is gonna tempt many people because of the brand name and pricing. There are Royal Enfields everywhere you look and one might want this ride to look distinct on the road and make a statement.

Visit Harley-DavidsonX440.com the official website of the motorcycle, where you can see all the bike details.

‘Book Now’ page will allow you to get into the detailed booking process. Here, you must select your state and city, followed by the variant and colour you would like to buy. Choose the nearest dealer and pay INR 5000 to book the bike. This amount is fully refundable in case there’s any cancellation. Once this process is finished, you will get a booking number. The deliveries are going to commence in October.

Triumph’s joint development with Bajaj would have to price competitively with this if it wants to challenge Harley-Davidson which remains the top overseas manufacturer in two-wheeler segment in terms of number of units sold annually. This is the first time a Harley-Davidson branded two-wheeler has been manufactured in India.

Meanwhile, I don’t believe it would affect the sales of the various, globally released models of Harley-Davidson which are also sold in India through Hero MotoCorp partnership. A person who desires a Fat Boy or Nightster, won’t suddenly settle for an X440. Big V-Twin remains a separate identity on and off the road.

PINSTRIPER OF THE WEEK–Chiko’s Pinstriping.

–Sam Burns
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK–
“Remember, life is always uncertain. Everything dead is certain, life is always uncertain. Everything dead is solid, fixed – its nature cannot be changed; everything alive is moving, changing – a flow, a liquid thing, flexible, able to move in any direction. The more you become certain, the more you will miss life. And those who know, know life is God. If you miss life, you miss God “
– Osho

Wait, hold it right there, Mr. Osho. If you believe in God, dead is not fixed, right?

Even in death we never stop. Even after our carbon molecules form another planet billions of years from now, we’re still on the move.

–Ming Ball
Director of Philosophy
Pillar Peak, SD

 

Bajaj Auto-Triumph launch Speed 400 bike at ex-showroom price of INR 233,000

Bajaj Auto on July 5 launched the Speed 400 in collaboration with British motorcycle giant Triumph for the Indian market at an ex-showroom price of INR 233K. The introductory price will be applicable for the first 10,000 customers, Bajaj Auto-Triumph announced at the launch event.

Bajaj-Triumph Targets Sales of Nearly 50K Mid-Sized Bikes in Global Markets This Year

The online pre-booking for the Speed 400 started last month after its premiere in London. The online pre-booking had a fully refundable payment window of INR 2,000.

The bike was unveiled after Hero Motocorp launched X 440 in partnership with Harley Davidson and the deliveries are likely to begin this month.

The motorcycle designed and manufactured in United Kingdom’s Hinckley comes with a two-year unlimited mileage warranty and a 16,000 km service interval.

It features a new TR-series engine that has a fuel-injected, liquid-cooled single-cylinder unit with a cubic capacity of 398.15.

The engine has the capacity to churn out 39.5 bhp of power at 8,000 rpm, along with a peak torque output of 37.5 Npm at 6,500 rpm. It will have a 6-speed gearbox with a slip-and-assist clutch.

It will come in three distinct colours – Carnival Red with Phantom Black, Capsian Blue with Storm Grey, and Phantom Black with Storm Grey.

Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/autos/news/in-pics-bajaj-auto-triumph-launches-speed-400-bike-at-ex-showroom-price-of-rs-2-33-lakh/ss-AA1dvOA8

CALIFA ALERT–Help Stop Speed Ticketing Cameras in California

Sign the petition to stop speed cameras in California. Assembly Bill 645 by Assemblymember Laura Friedman (Glendale/Los Angeles) would allow the use of speed ticketing cameras in LA and five other cities.

If this bill becomes law, eventually the entire state will be overrun with ticketing cameras issuing hundreds of millions of dollars in tickets to unsuspecting motorists. This is the fifth or sixth iteration of this bill which we have previously scrapped.

Unfortunately, this year it has a much better chance of passing. It already passed the Assembly and is currently being heard in the Senate. Just a few more votes will be taken before it goes to the Governor.

We need your voice to tell California legislators – NO speed cameras in California!

SIGN THE PETITION

AB-645 would authorize up to 125 ticketing cameras in LA for a “pilot program.” Under LA’s reviled red light camera program, the city deployed cameras at 60 locations and issued over 60,000 tickets per year. With 125 speed cameras, the number of tickets that will be issued in LA alone would number in the hundreds of thousands, and fines would total in the millions.

How bad could it be? In the city of Baltimore, residents were issued 432,836 speed camera tickets from 144 cameras in 2021. In the city of Chicago, which deploys about 160-speed cameras, residents were issued 2.81 million citations in 2021. That’s one ticket every 12 seconds and more automated tickets in one year than there are residents in the entire city, costing residents $89 million.

In addition to the fines and add-on penalties, drivers are often subjected to an average 21% increase in insurance rates when these tickets are issued.

The bill allows the cities to keep 100% of the revenue as long as they use the money to install the government’s desired roadway obstacles to driving, like road diets and bike lanes.

AB-645 makes the vehicle owner responsible for the ticket and only provides a photo of the vehicle license plate. The ticket will be heard in an “administrative hearing,” much like parking tickets, with no due process and little to no ability to fight the ticket.

The ticket would be prima facie evidence of the violation, meaning you are assumed to be guilty and must prove your innocence. The burden of proof would fall on the defendant, not the city, to prove their case.

Most all legal rights afforded to defendants in traffic court would be eliminated including your right to face your accuser, right to discovery, right to subpoena witnesses, etc. The standard of proof would be “preponderance of the evidence” (more likely than not) rather than the higher standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt” which is currently used in traffic court.

California’s speed trap law protections are eliminated with camera-issued tickets.
AB-645 specifically authorizes the cameras to be used on roadways designated as a “safety corridor” where previous legislation now allows cities to reduce the speed limit by up to 12 mph below the operating speed of the roadway as measured by the 85th percentile of vehicle speeds.

AB-645 allows ticketing starting at 11 mph over the speed limit, so drivers traveling below the operational speed of the road based on how it was designed will be subject to ticketing. This alone will result in up to 90% of drivers passing the cameras being cited, resulting in hundreds of thousands of tickets and millions of dollars in fines issued.

AB-645 allows the use of speed cameras for millions of dollars in fines to times when children are going to and leaving school. The cameras would be allowed to run 24/7 including weekends and late nights, ticketing drivers when no one is around.

The bill is opposed by law enforcement groups (PORAC), union groups (Teamsters), motorist groups, motorcycle groups, independent truckers, and many social justice groups (ACLU, etc.). The fact that so many different groups that are barely on speaking terms with each other oppose this bill should tell you how toxic it is.

–NMA

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Overview

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It is the perfect seat to take advantage of Biker Gel.

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A-TYPICAL NCOM CONVENTION–

It wasn’t a typical NCOM Convention.

Held over Father’s Day weekend June 16-18, 2023 in Phoenix-Tempe, the 38th annual started off as per normal, with an NCOM Board of Directors Meeting that instilled new board member Dale Peterson of ABATE of Minnesota for Region IV (IL IN MI MN OH WI), as well as confirming Jad SOS MC as Confederation of Clubs Liaison.

Like in the past, following the Opening Ceremonies and an orientation was the AIM Attorney Conference spotlighting legal issues faced by riders, and then the NCOM Legislative Task Force Meeting focused on political efforts relevant to legislation nationwide.

As done for decades, attendees then broke into several Special Meetings according to an array of outreach sectors, such as Women in Motorcycling, Clean and Sober Roundtable, Veterans Affairs and Christian Unity, but importantly included another unlisted pow-wow session amongst leadership of the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM) and the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) among others determined to put past differences aside and embark on a new beginning of cooperation and mutual support for the Betterment of Biking.

“Seeing all the motorcycle rights groups, clubs and individual bikers coming together to learn and fight for their lifestyles is inspirational. But the understanding and commitment by leaders of NCOM and MRF and some members of the NCOC to communicate and work together is monumental,” observed NCOM Executive Director Joseph “Joey” Lester, son of AIM/NCOM Founder attorney Richard M. Lester.

Later that Friday, when the agreement was announced during the Confederation of Clubs patch holders meeting, the news was welcomed by a rousing round of applause.

Kirk “Hardtail” Willard, longtime President and Chairman of the Board of the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) had this to say. “During the inception of the national motorcyclists rights movement, the MRF and NCOM frequently worked together, and while various board members and liaisons from the two organizations have maintained solid working relationships the organizations had not.

Fast forward, the MRF accepted the invitation from Joey Lester and Charlie Boone to attend this year’s NCOM Convention in Tempe, AZ.

With the profiling of motorcyclists continuing to be an issue, our lifestyle under threat from multiple entities, and frankly motorcycling as we know it today under the real possibility of extinction, there is not a more important time for our organizations to forge a working relationship once again.

I am encouraged by this initial meeting and NCOM Leadership has our commitment we will look forward and find ways to work more closely together into the future.”

Although the remainder of the NCOM Convention’s agenda was informative but predictable, with regional meetings, educational seminars and presentations catering to bikers rights activists engaged in legal and/or legislative battles back home, spirits were high throughout the rest of the weekend as plans were laid for mutual support of our common goals and interests.

“We wanted to make it perfectly clear to all of the attendees this weekend that NCOM and MRF will be working hand in hand to show strength and unity in the ongoing fight for motorcyclists rights,” pledged NCOM Chairman Charlie Boone, adding that several NCOM board members will reciprocate by attending the MRF’s upcoming Meeting of the Minds, September 20-24 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (more info at www.MRF.org) to further the alliance.

Wrapping up the predictably productive conference, ending things on an even higher note, NCOM presented ABATE of Ohio with the Silver Spoke Award for Government, recognizing their successful legislative agenda to protect rider training, and awarded the Silver Spoke Award for Media to Bill Bish, NCOM Public Relations Liaison, for producing the NCOM Biker Newsbytes monthly news column. NCOM’s highest honor, the Ron Roloff Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Bob Tibor of ABATE and COC of North Dakota / Glen Ullin MC.

Next year, the NCOM Convention returns to Mother’s Day Weekend, May 10-11, 2024 at a location TBD (info coming to www.ON-A-BIKE.com), with a whole new perspective!

BABES IN THE DIRT 8–
Our annual Babes in the Dirt 8 is back and better than ever. If you have always wanted to learn how to ride a dirt bike or if you’ve been sending it for years, this event is for you!

It’s the best place to meet like-minded riders, try out brand new gear, and the entire 2024 Husqvarna line up of off-road machines with their dedicated lead & follow trail rides! For those new, there are free “new to moto” classes by Husqvarna as well with bike included!

So much more for this now 18+ ladies private event in our favorite OHV, Hungry Valley that hosts thousands of miles of trails all clearly marked.

“Z900RS – The legend is back!”
The T-shirt for the riders and fans of the Kawasaki retro bike

The Kawasaki Z1 is undoubtedly one of the motorcycles that made history. Today, more than 50 years after its debut, the Japanese big bike from 1972 is one of the most sought-after classics and fetches many times its new price in top condition. On the Z900RS, Kawasaki employed numerous styling elements of the epochal motorbike and created a new global bestseller.

The Z900.us online shop usually specializes in exclusive accessories for the riders of the classic Z models. In response to frequent customer requests, there is also an extravagant T-shirt for the current generation: “Z900RS – THE LEGEND IS BACK!“ is the motto of the extra-large white print on the front, complemented by a stylized illustration of the current model. By the way, the illustration is not based on an everyday bike, but on a customized Z900RS version with a four-in-four exhaust and spoke wheels which comes even closer to the original from the Seventies.

The high-quality shirt is available from 27.50 euros in various colors and in sizes S to 3XL. They are available exclusively online at www.Z900.us.

BILTWELL RIDES COLORADO—

On Friday, September 1, we’ll be hosting the official kick-off party at the La Plata County Fairgrounds: bike show, tire toss, tug-o-war, arm wrestling, and live music by Paige Overton and The Rhyolite Sound!

The Flat Track Races are always a good time and SOLD OUT last year, so be sure to get your tickets soon! Interested in racing? Register.

Just down the road, Sky Ute Casino Resort in Ignacio is bringing the action! The Casino will host The Brawl stunt competition, Jeremy “Twitch” Stenberg Freestyle MX Jump Shows, live music, vendors, demo trucks, AND they’ll be giving away TWO Harley-Davidson motorcycles!

DA JUDGE’S RULING–Judge Delivers Major Blow to Biden Admin in Social Media Censorship Case

A federal judge has made a historic ruling by partially granting an injunction that blocks various Biden administration officials and government agencies like the Justice Department and the FBI from working with big tech firms to censor posts on social media.

The injunction came in response to a censorship-by-proxy lawsuit brought by attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who have accused Biden administration officials and various government agencies of pressuring social media companies to suspend accounts or take down posts.

The judge, Terry A. Doughty, wrote in the July 4 judgment (pdf) that various government agencies, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are prohibited from taking a range of actions with regards to social media companies.

Specifically, the agencies and their staff members are prohibited from meeting or contacting by phone, email, text message or “engaging in any communication of any kind with social-media companies urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner for removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech,” per the injunction.

–See the whole tamale on Epoch Times

IMPORTANT, NEW BIKERNET READER COMMENT–AN UNINTENTIONAL PILGRIMAGE

What an amazing Journey!!! Yes I would love to do it again every Year!! I was around some of the most beautiful people I have ever met. It was my first time in that part of the south, I fell in love!!???? Thank You Rogue hope to see You on our next journey!!!

–Tena Cunningham
Fulton, NY

CELEBRATE DICE MAGAZINE’S 100TH—

Dark Arts Coffee x DicE. We had a blast yesterday in London celebrating Issue 100 of the magazine.

Ford recalling certain 2019-20 Fusion PHEVs, warns drivers not to charge vehicles

The cars are being recalled for loss of power and fire risks.

Source:
https://www.autonews.com/regulation-safety/ford-motor-recalling-certain-2019-20-fusion-phevs

Porsche said to rethink plan to ditch Macan ICE sales in U.S. by mid-decade

Porsche told dealers it expects U.S. sales to hit 80,000 next year. Porsche is rethinking a plan to ditch combustion engine Macan sales in its second-largest market.

Source:
https://www.autonews.com/future-product/porsche-macan-may-not-go-all-ev-us-mid-decade-after-all

Wayfarer’s Note:
The EV believer generation is going to be divided into two categories: a generation of scoundrels (who lied to their fellow citizens) and a generation of fools (who believe whatever anyone in a position of authority dictates to them). Electric Vehicles and the infrastructure, energy source, parts and recycling they need are all clearly in their nascent stage.

I think Bill Gates made the right bet with his TerraPower company implementing the latest nuclear tech based on the research he sponsored.

https://www.terrapower.com/our-work/natriumpower/

–Wayfarer
Editor
Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page

WISDOM QUOTES–

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.” ~ Aristotle

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” ~ George Addair

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” ~ Andre Gide

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” — John Cage

“If a man knows more than others he becomes lonely.” ~ Carl Jung

“Everyone wants the key to happiness, but no one questions who locked up happiness.”

“To fly to new heights, you need to give up the ground you stand on.” ~ Ujjwal Dey

“Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams.”

— Wayfarer

BIKERNET BUILDER OF THE WEEK—

Max Lam is the sales manager and product development consultant at Pro-stretch Trims International. He lives in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong and is from Beijing, China.

Pierre Guy is From Himeji, Hyogo

–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
Bikernet.com™

IS IT HOT TODAY?– Hotter Than the Fourth of July!

It was widely reported recently that July 4th, 2023 was the hottest day in Earth’s recorded history.

Paulo Ceppi, a climate scientist at London’s Grantham Institute stated: “It hasn’t been this warm since at least 125,000 years ago, which was the previous interglacial.” And, of course, it was reported that it was our fault due to our “sins of emission.”

This didn’t meet the smell test for the scientists at the CO2 Coalition. We know that previous warm periods were warmer than our modern temperatures. For example, during the Roman Warm Period there was citrus being grown in the north of England and barley was grown by Vikings on Greenland 1,000 years ago. Why aren’t they grown there now? It’s quite simple: Lower modern temperatures.

So, here at the CO2 Coalition, we did what scientists are trained to do:
We looked at the available data. Our Science and Research Associate Byron Soepyan reviewed temperature data from the US Historical Climatology Network and found that both the number of weather stations reporting temperature over 100 degrees F and the Maximum Average Temperature for July 4th were slightly declining since the record began in 1895 – not increasing – as Ceppi claimed.

A QUICK NOTE—We are all in this together, whether we like it or not. Hundreds of companies make money off us grubby bikers, but are they giving back or supporting the industry?

Ask the guys at S&S, Lowbrow, Biltwell, you name it, if they are doing anything to keep us riding free.

The movement to stop the ban on internal combustion engines is growing but needs industry support.

Join the MRF

BIKERNET MOVIE OF THE WEEK–RUSSIAN MAFIA Vs ONE NOBODY

I got to watch “Nobody” (2021) about an ex-military special forces guy trying to live a regular life as a family man, working as an accountant of all things.

The movie is made by the guys who made John Wick but is really a lot better than John Wick because of the actors and storyline. There is a basic entertaining pulp fiction plot here unlike the Wick sequels.

It stars the actor from Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad — Bob Odenkirk and the really old & wild Cristopher Lloyd (the Doc who invents time-travelling DeLorean in Back To The Future).

Bob plays the role of a pacifist suburban office-nerd like a pro…. until rich Russian baddies come across him at a bad time when he is in a bad place. It’s a lot more than an action movie.

Have a peek on YouTube : https://youtu.be/wZti8QKBWPo

Meanwhile, the “future” wasn’t too bright for DeLorean. At present, apparently, it’s an Electric Vehicle car company based out of Texas. Visit: https://delorean.com/

Wayfarer
Editor:Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page

Freddie Cuba is building a magnificent shop and was able to bring his classic truck over. He’s headed to Sturgis Rally shortly. It will be his 51st year.

I tested my copper oil bag the other day with gasoline and it held tight. I need to clean it thoroughly. Howard Knight has my seat pan, and I’ll bet I will be at powder coating when the rally rolls around.

I received notice of the rally Saddlemen party. Need to make a list. The food is fine in the Black Hills. Above is dinner from the Redhead the other night. Magnificent.

I just received Willie’s new book about his history with the family, factory, industry and bikerdom. Can’t wait, and I will write a review shortly.