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Hey,

Today suddenly turned significant. The Prism gang reminded me that today marks the first day of the Harley 120th Homecoming.

Then I heard that we might have a meeting with Senator Mike Rounds regarding our resolution with the Motorcycle Riders Foundation regarding Scientific Transparency.

Let’s see how the day rolls out. Let’s hit the news.

The Bikernet Weekly News is sponsored in part by companies who also dig Freedom including: Cycle Source Magazine, the MRF, Iron Trader News, ChopperTown, BorntoRide.com and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum.

NEWS FROM THE PRISM GANG—

Our latest My Garage episode brings us to the Sunshine State where we visit Jim Root. Jim needs no introduction as a guitarist. With a legendary career with Slipknot and a best-selling signature guitar bearing his name, he’s solidified his place in music history.

Off Stage, he’s developed an affinity for high-horsepower vehicles. Alongside racks and racks of guitars, his garage is adorned with period-correct Mopars and a different Harley-Davidson for nearly every occasion.

Like his eclectic motorcycle collection, Jim’s guitars are set up in a way that suits his style and upsets purists. But, with a Grammy and multiple Platinum records on his shelf, it’s clear that Jim doesn’t need to follow convention.

Watch for the Prism Gang at the Homecoming this weekend.

BIKERNET RESEARCH TEAM FINDS ALBUM COVERS CONTAINING MOTORCYCLES

Brigitte Bardot

Janis Joplin

More to come:
John Fogerty
Meatloaf
SailCat
Grateful Dead
Diana Ross
James Brown
Judas Priest
Canned Heat
Bad Company
John Hammond

We will bring you the whole story in the very near future.

–Wayfarer
Editor, Bikernet Blog

HEARTLAND FREEDOM DINNER–Don’t Delay! Early Bird Discount
ENDS August 1, 2023

America needs John Stossel’s tireless voice for liberty now more than ever. The government has assumed vast new powers, spending is out of control, and individual liberty is in retreat.

John Stossel has exposed these excesses for decades on his way to winning 19 Emmy awards, five awards from the National Press Club, and a Peabody award.

You won’t want to miss John Stossel’s latest analysis and inside stories about the mainstream media at Heartland’s Benefit Dinner.

To purchase tickets, reserve tables, or learn more, go to Heartland’s benefit dinner webpage, call (312) 377-4000, or email think@heartland.org.

Show your support for Heartland and liberty by reserving your seat today.

“Sure, this isn’t motorcycle, but if you’re in the neighborhood, it could be very interesting. Heartland supports freedom, the truth, liberty and scientific transparency.” –Bandit

LEGENDS SUSPENSION IS READY–Hometown Rally 120th Anniversary

We are excited to see you, talk suspension, and have a good time! We will be located at House of Harley-Davidson during the Hometown Rally 120th Anniversary.
July 12th – 16th

For more information and location details please visit:
https://www.legendsuspensions.com/events/
OR
https://houseofharleydavidson.com/event/19817/harley-davidson-homecoming-rally

KNUCKLEHEAD OF THE WEEK—1942 FL

–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
Bikernet.com™

CALIFA GUN NUT REPORT—

Before the Legislature recesses on July 14th, policy committees in the Senate will hold more hearings on anti-gun bills, including Assembly Bill 28 for a gun tax and Assembly Bill 1587 for credit card companies to surveil gun owners.

Please go to the NRA website to read more about these anti-gun bills and to ask the committee members to OPPOSE them.

Take Action!

Yours in Freedom,
Ken Lan
Communications Coordinator
NRA-ILA

ANOTHER CALIFORNIA UPDATE–U.S. Senate Companion Bill Introduced to Stop California’s Car Ban

Encourage support from lawmakers on these proposals:

U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) introduced a SAN-supported bill, the “Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act” (S. 2090), to protect Americans’ right to choose the technology that powers their motor vehicles. S. 2090 includes the same text as the House bill (H.R. 1435) that U.S. Rep. John Joyce (R-PA) introduced in March. H.R. 1435 and S. 2090 respond to California’s plans to ban the sale of new gas- and diesel-powered cars and trucks in 2035 unless certain conditions are met. If passed into law, the legislation would prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from allowing California’s Zero Emissions Vehicle regulations that would ban the sale or use of new motor vehicles with internal combustion engines from taking effect.

Lawmakers Must Hear from You Right Away!

Use the following website link for an overview and lawmaker contact.

NEWS FROM COMPETITION DISTRIBUTING—Historic Fuel Tanks Now In Stock!

Fuel Tank J & JD Harley Davidson 1918-1924
Harley Davidson Fuel Tanks 1918-1924 J & JD model Fuel Tanks

Fuel Tank J & JD Harley Davidson 1925-1929
Harley Davidson Fuel Tanks 1925-1929 J & JD model Fuel Tanks

Fuel Tank Peashooter Harley Davidson 1927-1930
Harley Davidson Fuel Tanks 1927-1930 Peashooter Fuel Tanks

–Competition Distributing

DIRECT FROM THE CLIMATE DEPOT—

“First, they came for your energy, then your meat, gas cars, dishwashers, gas stoves and furnaces, flights, pizzas & now…YOUR ICE CUBES!

Stop the climate madness. Stop Net Zero goals. Stop food, ice, and meat restrictions. Stop gas-powered car bans. Stop pizza oven restrictions. The climate change agenda targets every aspect of your life and will take no prisoners in a relentless effort to Sovietize every aspect of American life.

The USA was an aberration in human history when it came to individual rights and economic freedom. But the climate agenda is set to revert the USA back to the norms of history — submission to our overlords.

–Climate Depot’s Marc Morano

See Economist Milton Friedman in 1999: “Free societies of the kind we’ve been lucky enough to experience for the last 100, 150 years — are a very rare exception in human history. Most people, most of history…have lived in tyranny and misery.”

I watched a documentary series about life on earth 10-15 thousand years ago, when man first started building pyramids on Malta and South America. The narrator focused on how old and how well-built they were. He’s trying to rewrite history, but he missed one item.

Pyramids weren’t built by union workers. They were built by slaves.

–Bandit

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY–

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

— Wayfarer

New NASH Product– The “Straight Up” Handlebars

The Straight Up bars designed with a similar feel and look to the Smart Gimps but with one slight but important tweak, no inward curve towards the bottom of the bar. From the bottom bend the Straight Ups, do just that, go straight up, all the way to the top grip bends.

Grab a pair in Chrome, Copper or Powder Black!

GRAB A PAIR TODAY

NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM HISTORY LESSON—1951 SUN BEAM S7.

During its development the Sunbeam S7 was plagued with vibration and misguided engineering approaches. Yet today the Sunbeam S7 seems a handsome heavyweight machine distinguished by shaft drive, an overhead camshaft engine, “balloon tires,” rounded fenders and its Mist Green, silver or black paint.

In the course of being a manufacturer of high quality bicycles, Sunbeam’s founder, John Marston was also a Japanner, one skilled at applying black lacquer to bicycle or motorcycle parts, baking them for a hard and shiny finish such as was used on Henry Ford’s Model T. At the age of 76 he branched out into motorcycle manufacture. Most of his early Sunbeams used engines sourced from MAG or J.A.P. and some big-bore Sunbeams were prime for sidecar use. With the Sunbeam name being sold to BSA in 1943, the end of the original Marston/Sunbeam line came about.

The S7 design was the work of independent designer Erling Poppe who based it around the BMW R75 since BMW manufacturing rights were given to BSA as part of the War Reparations. The double-cradle frame with plunger rear suspension and a telescopic fork resemble the BMW, but the engine unit was completely new. At 487cc, the engine was a parallel twin turned around so that the crankshaft ran in line with the frame.

The first S7’s were produced just after World War II, 1949 and incorporated some 30 patented design features. But the worm gear final drive was fragile, and the fix was to lessen stress by decreasing engine output! The in-line twin vibrated calling for rubber engine mounting, which called for a flexible exhaust pipe connection. Shifts in focus of the mother company, BSA, sidelined the Sunbeam brand for good in 1956. In concept the S7 and the later S8 were good designs you could see working today. But they needed further engineering work. When you visit the National Motorcycle Museum before it closes September 4, you can study the Sunbeam, and also several BMWs for comparison.

This fine Sunbeam will be among hundreds of motorcycles and thousands of pieces of memorabilia offered in the John Parham Estate Collection Mecum Auction at the National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa, September 6 – 9, 2023. Watch for information on the Mecum Auctions website, Mecum.com For schedule information or to register as a bidder for this and all Mecum events, visit Mecum.com, or call (262) 275-5050 for more information.

US Utilities Lobby Congress to Keep Gas Stoves Legal—

American gas utilities are lobbying support for bills to keep gas stoves operational, as the Biden administration recommends their elimination for climate change purposes.

Natural gas companies are gathering their political allies in Congress to ward off any attempts that gas stove use be curtailed, according to federal records.

Gas utility companies fear that gas stove bans are the start of a broader phaseout of natural gas, as climate change activists aim to electrify more of the energy system.

Leftist climate change activists are now going after natural gas consumption after destroying the U.S. coal industry under the Biden administration.

Biden Admin Ponders Ban On Gas Stoves
About 69 percent of Americans said they are against a government ban on gas stoves, according to a June poll conducted by the Harvard Center for American Political Studies and Harris.

The controversy exploded in January after the White House said it was mulling a nationwide ban on gas stoves, citing a report linking its use to asthma and other health risks.

A top official at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) suggested that a national ban on gas stoves could curb air pollution, but that statement was denied by the agency’s head.

It was also later revealed that the agency had been considering a ban on gas stoves for months.

The backlash grew even further after the Department of Energy introduced new regulations in February that would impose harsher energy efficiency standards on new gas stove models by 2027.

However, the Energy Department insisted that it had no plans to ban gas stoves, calling the accusations “absurd.”

Gas stoves account for less than 1 percent of natural gas consumption in the United States, and more than 47 million, or 38 percent of households, cook with gas, according to the Energy Information Administration.

–Brian Jung
Epoch Times

TRIKES OF THE WEEK—From Kotaka Kiyotaka

–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
Bikernet.com™

LIFESTYLE CYCLES DEAL OF THE WEEK–2017 Harley-Davidson FLSTC – Heritage Softail Classic

https://www.lifestylecycles.com/default.asp?page=xPreOwnedInventoryDetail&id=14074992&p=2&s=Year&d=D&fr=xPreOwnedInventory

Comfort as modern as this morning’s news and the power from our High Output Twin Cam 103B™ engine, but the look still blazes straight from this machine’s authentic dresser past.

This is too good to consign to history.

The Heritage Softail® Classic is rich with the nostalgia of days gone by, but the hidden suspension gives you the authentic look of a hardtail without the bone-shaking ride. You get the comfort of standard cruise control and a low center of gravity, plus standard ABS, and a High Output Twin Cam 103B™ engine. We maintained the classic look and re-invented the ride.

Location: Anaheim, California
Condition: Pre-Owned
Stock Number: 13892
Year: 2017
Make: Harley-Davidson®
Model: FLSTC – Heritage Softail® Classic
Family: Softail®
VIN: 1HD1BWV18HB022927
Color: RED
Engine: Air-cooled, High Output Twin Cam 103B™
Mileage:19,172

EDITORIAL OF THE WEEK–
Over the past half decade, there has been a growing trend signaling a shift in the perceived and accepted role of science. It is not uncommon to see slogans and mottos such as “the science is settled” and “believe in science.”

Statements like this present two major problems: first, science is determined to be final and indisputable; second, it is accompanied by a value or moral judgment. For example, scientific studies indicate that wearing a helmet can reduce head injury by 48%, serious head injury by 60%, traumatic brain injury by 53%, [and] face injury by 23%.”

While it takes little effort to align with science on such a matter, I intend to demonstrate that an application of the first behavior is contradictory to the foundation of science and the second lies entirely outside its purview.

To establish common ground, we begin by reviewing the merits and fundamentals of the scientific method. First, an observation is made, followed by a question regarding the observation. A hypothesis is then formed that could potentially answer the question. A prediction about future results based on the hypothesis is then tested via experiments.

Analysis of the results of the experiments are utilized to confirm or reject the hypothesis. If the results seem to demonstrate that the hypothesis is correct, then confidence begins to build in the predictive power of the hypothesis and its ability to describe the real world.

If the results seem to demonstrate that the hypothesis is incorrect, then the scientific method loops back on itself and the hypothesis is challenged, refined, modified, or discarded. The process is rigorous, thorough, and exacting. It is also deeply empirical, meaning it relies on information from the real world; it can only extract data from things that have already happened. In its most basic form, this process is what constitutes “science” as commonly referred to in media and conversation.

With common ground established, the first major problem can be addressed. It is, ironically, anti-science to ever declare that science is settled. There are a few characteristics of the scientific method that substantiate this claim. Since the scientific method is based on empirical data in relation to a hypothesis, it is reliant on the senses and perceived experiences. This means it is wholly dependent on the past. Science cannot properly predict the future; it can only model what has happened and make a reasonable projection about what could happen. Scientific law hangs on statistical probability.

In addition, since man is not omniscient, the future will forever remain unknown. As man continues to explore the physical world, there always exists the possibility that enough data will accumulate to falsify, or at least cast into doubt, a well-established scientific conclusion.

Because of these conditions, statements declaring the science to be settled are altogether unscientific: they reject the core principles and practices of the scientific method and the nature of human experience.

Such conditions expose the ridiculousness of any insinuation that science is settled. Strictly speaking, science is unable to ever be settled. Imagine the carnage if scientists around the world had retired their lab coats and accepted the alleged “clinical proof” that certain cigarettes were not actually harmful or medically superior to other brands. Fortunately, continued use of the scientific method has built a compelling counterargument that cigarettes are in fact very detrimental to the body.

The second major problem may have more perilous implications when thoroughly examined. In the preceding discussion, it is clearly shown that science is only able to approach statistical truth based on empirical evidence. Science is, however, utterly unable to tell us what is right or wrong.

There is nothing naturally occurring within the scientific method that empowers it to make value judgments or moral decisions. It cannot tell us what is good, bad, better, or worse. In essence, science is never able to say “should” or “must.”

To return to our previous example, science may conclude that wearing a helmet prevents head injuries in motorbike accidents, but it is powerless to dictate that motorists should wear helmets. To do so is to make a value judgment that can only be made by individuals.

Wearing a helmet is only prescriptive if the individual motorist values the possibility of preventing a cracked skull more than riding freely in the wind. Knowing the risks and being informed by science, most motorists would likely choose to wear a helmet, but science is unable to tell them that is the choice of highest value, since individuals have different, and differing, value systems. In regards to science, what is right is dependent on the precise ends desired by individual actors and their values.

As Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises stated, “There is no use in arguing about the adequacy of ethical precepts…. Ultimate ends are chosen by the individual’s judgments of value. They cannot be determined by scientific inquiry and logical reasoning.”

Allowing science to make universal value judgments also enables it to define morality. An example of this can be found in the debates surrounding abortion law. Science can tell us when a heartbeat begins, how developed a baby is in the first, second, and third trimester, and even the sex of the baby. But again, it is absolutely powerless to tell us whether it is or is not moral to abort the baby. Such an evaluation would rest on the value judgments and moral code of the individual.

The issue, then, with slogans like “believe in science” is the tendency to conflate science with morality and value. When science is wielded to make laws, it is most often done with a moral code attached. It has been shown that science is not able to do this, so the only way science can be used to make law is for someone, some real person or persons somewhere, to draw a moral conclusion based on the science. This personal, individual moral conclusion is then applied wholesale upon all that the law will reach. It is for this reason that science should never be used as a justification in any government action to enforce moral systems.

Doing so results in the morals and values of the few being imposed upon the many. But it is only individuals who can make decisions about what they will do in regard to any scientific consensus. F.A. Hayek put this neatly when he said that “individuals should be allowed … to follow their own values and preferences rather than somebody else’s.”

The results of any scientific study require interpretation, and any interpretation is necessarily subjective. The interpretation of results may go on to inform value judgments and moral codes. But if science moves into a space where its conclusions can never be challenged and it also determines morality, then it suddenly ceases to exhibit characteristics of science and has assumed characteristics of religion.

When conveniently married to power, an exaltation of science to this status can have disastrous effects, as evidenced by the acts committed by the Third Reich and other totalitarian regimes.

“Science cannot lie, for it’s always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true,” Hitler famously asserted.

The further scientists drift from the scientific method to tell people what they should do, the more they undermine science and increase the potential to restrict choice, destroy human liberty, and harm real people.

It should always be remembered that while science can tell us that a phone will carry our voices through the air, it will never be able to tell us what should be said.

–Mike Roberts
Mike Roberts is a process engineer at Intel with a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering and a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering. He is also a life-long advocate of free markets and free ideas.

www.fee.org

CHOPPER OF THE WEEK FOR SALE–

I spoke with Carlton (Marina owner). He said the seller spent about $80,000 assembling this bike. He said the tires and wheels alone were $10,000 apiece. This is more or less a collector’s piece or eye candy as you have suggested.

$29,000 OBO

CALL: 703-494-6611 LOCATED at Prince William Marina 12849 Gordon Blvd, Woodbridge, VA. This is a SPECIALTY ASSEMBLED CHOPPER that has been award winning in bike shows. It has a Softail frame with Dakota Digital gauges. The shocks are located underneath the bike. It has a S&S show polished diamond cut 124 cu. in. motor. It has a 6-speed Baker transmission. Priced to sell!

Teresa Allen
Prince William Marine Sales, Inc.
12849 Gordon Blvd.
Woodbridge, VA 22192
703-494-6611
www.pwmarina.com

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover — H. Jackson Brown Jr

STURGIS BUFFALO CHIP— Evo Entanglement Bike Show Sponsored by Bikernet.com

Three years in a row of the best prize package at the Rally!

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 14” 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.

Not enough? How about this:

The first 100 people to register for the show – and it’s free to register – get a FREE, Limited Edition Mint Speed Shop Flannel! Mark your size in your registration and pick it up at the show when you register at the QR code or https://www.buffalochip.com/bike_shows/evo-entanglement-bike-show-presented-by-ss-cycle/

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.

VINTAGE INDIANS OF THE WEEK—

–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
Bikernet.com™

NEWS FROM HEMMINGS AUCTION–2008 Blendzilla #2 With Electric Start

Looking to rev up your next party to nearly 10,000 rpm? The seller is offering—at no reserve—the perfect “vehicle” for the job, a little screaming machine known as Blendzilla #2. (Blendzilla #4 recently sold on this platform.) The seller bought this unique party machine from its builder, Howard Laramy of Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Apparently, Howard has been building these fun magnets for a few decades, modifying a blender to work with a two-stroke engine normally found powering a pocket bike. The seller then modified it to use electric start with a 12v battery.

The metal container holds 64 ounces of your favorite concoction. Mounted on an aluminum table that measures 13 inches square, this mega funster stands just 13.75-in. tall, or 20.75-in with the legs extended.

The seller refers to the hyper drink maker as “the Formula One of all party blenders.” (The Schumacher SC1343 battery tender for the electric starter has no connection to seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher, but it’s a fun and functional touch.) Perhaps he meant Grand Prix motorcycle racing since, to operate the machine, you grab a motorcycle handlebar and twist Blendzilla’s throttle as you would open up a bike.

“It starts easily, runs well, and is easy to maintain,” the seller states. He includes a video showing operation. As he does not use the hyper-blender anymore, it’s ready for its next party animal.

POWERTRAIN
The 49-cc engine was made in China and uses a 25:1 fuel-oil mix that’s no longer allowed for emissions reasons. “Since the majority of available fuel mixes are 50:1, I always add a bit of castor oil to the fuel I purchase from a retailer,” the seller explains. “It’s better for the engine, and the castor oil smoke smells absolutely delicious!” He reports recent work including new fuel lines, the new battery tender, and a general clean-up.

Starting requires pushing a small primer bubble, sliding a choke lever, and pushing the starter button. “Twist the right handlebar to throttle it up and it will start promptly,” the seller says. “Let it warm up before cranking it up. It idles at about 2,500-3,000 rpm.” The seller affirms there are no leaks or weeps, just the sighs of disappointed party guests if you run out of fuel.

The centrifugal clutch engages the blender drive. The seller strongly suggests holding the blender lid down. “Otherwise at high rpm, it will fly off and spray everyone with what’s inside. It’s funny when it does that, but only for about a second.”

He also suggests draining residual fuel when finished then throttling it up to let it run dry. “The carburetor does better when you let the engine run dry before putting it away.”

EXTERIOR
The seller reports storing the Blendzilla indoors when not in use. He reports some wear on the metal surfaces, some scratches on the tabletop, and minor rust on the legs. Should car show judges get nitpicky, try bribing them with a drink.

https://www.hemmings.com/auction/2008-other-other-fl-682070

RETURN FROM ALASKA—

All ya’ll – the attached pic is from Glacier National Park on Going to the Sun road. If you’ve never done that ride, it is highly recommended! This was my second time, and I already want to go back.

My wife, Sherry, my buddy Mike and I are in Buffalo, Wyoming tonight. Tomorrow evening we’ll be home. It has been an AWESOME trip riding to Alaska and back. One for the books!

8000 miles, unbelievable scenery, challenging riding… and great memories. I LOVE RIDING MOTORCYCLES!!!

–Mark Buckner
MRF

KIPLING QUOTES–

“Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.” ~ Rudyard Kipling

“I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.” ~ Rudyard Kipling

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” ~ Rudyard Kipling

“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.” ~ Rudyard Kipling

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” ~ Rudyard Kipling

“He who faces no calamity gains no courage.” ~ Rudyard Kipling

“If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.” ~ Rudyard Kipling

“Believe the best of everybody.” ~ Rudyard Kipling

OKAY—So, life is nuts. Just ran into a new book ‘The Grip of Culture’, subtitled ‘The social psychology of climate change catastrophism’, is now published by Andy West. The topic seems to be heating up, but I fail to see any action or leadership supporting the truth. Don’t ever give in, I can’t.

In the meantime, I’m trying to get us registered for the BMST. I spoke to Drew Gatewood and then Delvene Manning. All is going to be sorted out.

I’ve made more progress on the trike with additional toe-in recommended by Dennis Manning and bolted down the seat. The trailer is labeled and our logos changed to South Dakota. Just two more items on the list plus the registration.

My VL, XA, FL Knucklehead project isn’t going to make it for the rally. The primary drive I choose from Cycle Tech has issues. Nothing seems to line up. I think it’s the transmission configuration and Billy from Cycle Tech or Tech Cycle has been most helpful.

Irish Rich and I worked on rear chain alignment. I had three PBI sprockets with varying offsets. We ended up reversing the deep sprocket and I was forced to machine it, exciting shit.

I also ordered shims and longer mounting studs for the bottom of the trans from McMaster Carr. They should be here today.

Since luscious fruit is available, here’s my breakfast. I can make it quick and return to work with a cup of coffee.

Catherine Palmer reminded me of our 5-Ball trophies and shot glasses, which were hand blown in San Pedro.

That’s Gearhead, the famous Bikernet fiction writer in the Chowderbarge in Wilmington having some delicious Chowder, natch.

Paul Davis sent me this shot of Joe Giovanni who was a leader in the women’s motorcycle movement and unfortunately passed too early. Great shot.

Hey,

Today suddenly turned significant. The Prism gang reminded me that today marks the first day of the Harley 120th Homecoming.

In the meantime, I’m trying to get us registered for the BMST. I spoke to Drew Gatewood and then Delvene Manning. All is going to be sorted out. My VL, XA, FL Knucklehead project isn’t going to make it for the rally.

Catherine Palmer reminded me of our 5-Ball trophies and shot glasses, which were hand blown in San Pedro.

Don’t forget to join your local motorcycle rights group and continue to Ride Free Forever!

–Bandit

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100 word fiction contest continues…. #100WFC

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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Then email us your 100 word limit fiction to the editor wayfarer@bikernet.com

Three years in a row of the best prize package at the Rally!

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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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
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