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At 6:00 AM on Sunday, May 28th I woke up to a crisp radiant morning in the eye of a swirling cold snap. Just 100 miles south of bustling Indianapolis, it took just a few moments to make a seismic shift to a mental, full-on party mode. Under dire deadline pressure, I prepped for the run on my Sporty, to see the Greatest spectacle in Racing, the Indy 500.

As I readied to swing a leg over the narrow Le Pera seat, I realized the icy brisk morning might freeze my bejeezus off. I jammed back into the disheveled pad to grab my dusty Bandit’s 5-Ball Racing Leather Bedroll. It’s saved my ass more than once.

Bandit designed it with a Western bedroll motif in mind but made it far more functional. Might be blistering in the stadium once the sun blasted it’s shimmering ways into mid-day, so I tossed in a set of sandals, light threads and chow, open-finger gloves, a first aid kit and a tool kit. It comes with an exterior tool flap and a pocket for duct tape and bailing wire.

I slipped on my merino wool hoodie, 5-Ball Racing, thick leather Flat-Out vest and deer-skin Grifter gauntlet gloves. I loaded up the Bedroll, end-pockets with a brake rotor lock, aspirin, sun screen, the best cannabis products and a AAA card in case I got stoned and lost.

I used Velcro straps to secure the Leather Bedroll to the Ape hangers, but it also works well strapped over a rear fender, like behind a saddle in the old west. I could now ride comfortably on the run home with all my warm, outer gear stuffed into the Bedroll.

I love Bandit’s Leather Bedroll because it acts as a fairing. It cuts the wind by…. 50% say, and it makes a difference at 70-80mph. Plus the 7-inch diameter roll provides plenty of space and it looks good on the sled.

The bag features include:

• Tool flap and parts pocket
• Two zippered end pockets
• Shoulder Strap
• Hand carry strap

South of the city and blasting North on Interstate 65 into Indianapolis, time ran out. The 38th Street turn-off, backed up for miles prevented my entrance. I shifted gears, peeled to the next exit and found it deserted.

I snaked through the back streets and arrived at the rendezvous point in Speedway, Indiana, just in the nick of time, maybe.

I flash of orange distracted my dark shaded eyes and a harried, confused Robin flew into my single CNC machined aluminum headlight. The nacelle, razor sharp cleaved the bird in two, like slicing a mallard for dinner. Half of the bird splintered into the forks and the other half bounced off the pillow-soft Bedroll and popped out the other side of the bike.

I skidded to an abrupt stop at the next light. Thinking to myself, if this is any inclination of race day 2023, I’d better double-up on alcoholic drinks.

At this race, you’re allowed your own adult beverages, amazing. Once inside the track, I broke out the Fireball. We yelled a few chants, perhaps at the racers or at the sweet whiskey and took another shot. We survived the ride in, the crowds and the wild life. It was time to break up and head to our respective seats.

I popped a Delta 8 gummy. They’ve replaced alcohol for me and eliminated next morning hangovers. They are more mood enhancing than party time.

Out on the track, Josef Newgarden took the historic win. The last bit was wild. The annual race interrupted by three red flags in the closing 20 laps.

I got an adrenaline kick with only 7 laps to go. Racer Pato O’Ward made a daring move right in front of my grandstands, against last year’s race winner Marcus Ericsson. O’ Ward’s number 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet lost grip in the corner because Ericsson doesn’t give any room in the turns.

With a crash and deep-in-your-chest thud, O’Ward spun out, slamming into the turn 3 wall. But it didn’t stop there. Rookie, Agustin Canapino ran into the back of O’Ward’s car, sending the No. 78 over the top of O’Ward’s left rear tire.

Everyone walked away but O’Ward was in position to take the win for McLaren. What a shame.

After the race, I packed my shit and headed to the Sporty. Somewhere in town a girl waited. Fortunately, I packed for the amorous occasion with more gummies and well-wrapped bottle of Lost Soul Cabernet Sauvignon…

Hang on!

A Few Good Men needed for A Fistful of Dollars !
Editorial from Bikernet.com on online revenue and opportunities for your small business.

Almost every week Bikernet.com gets hit with requests to publish articles supporting various products unrelated to motorcycling and motorcyclists. Some examples would be cannabis goods, or online gambling entities. They even offer to pay us a sum of $100 for publishing their articles on Bikernet.com and leaving it there forever with links to their businesses.

Of course, we could use additional income, but we don’t like the notion of offering up space on Bikernet.com for products or services that have nothing to do with motorcycling lifestyle. We would much rather have our industry be represented for the very same fee.

So, we want you all to know that we will be happy to make that same offer to the chopper world. We will publish your tech or new product or service related articles on Bikernet.com with your photos, links and banner for a flat fee of $100. This article will be promoted on our award-winning Blog, and our growing social-media empire, and it will be ultimately archived on Bikernet forever, always working for you.

We are online for people and businesses such as you since 1996 and we will make it worth your while. Additionally, we throw in our editorial expertise and clipart gallery for your articles for free.

There you have it. We would much rather cover your products than a suspicious gambling cartel phishing on our turf.

— Bandit & the Bikernet Crew

100 word fiction contest continues…. #100WFC

The Bad Deal All Around
by Rhys

Woke up on a warm sunny day for early spring. Prepared for a shop run to check on my ‘49 Pan project: Rigid frame with performance gussets and a Coffin tank mounted high, with brown ribbons over metalflake paint. A girder front end was on order. A wild departure from my first bike, an old rat Triumph Tiger with an Indian blanket for a seat.

The phone rang, bad news. Break-in at the shop, everything down to the paint compressor taken. The builder feared for his life, fled to the west coast. I guessed it was a deal gone bad, perhaps drugs.

The comforting, warm, spring day suddenly turned cloudy and dark.

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Men. And when I say men, I mean real men; not the man bun and panty wearing, pole smoking, Prius driving crowd. Men, are historically, by nature, Conservative. Capitalists, anti abortion, anti gay, pro religion, pro common sense. Men think with their brains. Women think with their emotions and hormones. Almost ALL stupid liberal things, have women at the base of them. America rocked on just fine through the 50’s…  Then birth control and the Gloria Steinems and the Ruth Ginsbergs and the Hillary Clintons showed up, and we have been a clusterfuck of social adjustments ever since. For the same reason there has never been a 2,500 member 70 year old women’s MC… there has been nothing but drama in politics ever since the vaginas showed up, because women are petty bleeding heart idiots who suck at leadership. 

 If women were never allowed a political voice, there would be no such thing as pride month. You sure as fuck ain’t gonna see a  bunch of Hells Angels and truckers and farmers posting rainbows and going to drag shows….  At least not until their wives nag them to the point of doing it to shut them up. Case in point, I would bet my Harley it wasn’t the men in the MRF who decided to hire drag queens to perform at Meeting of the Minds. I mean, even brain dead Budweiser thought it would be a good idea to make Harley-Davidson beer cans in an attempt to counteract the Dylan Mulvaney mess. But, to appease the ol’ ladies… men, even bikers, are feigning tolerance until it becomes the normal. The same way Christians are laying down when it comes to the tonsil jockeys stealing the rainbow that has historically represented God’s promise to Noah. 

 There are reasons i think women are stupid about gay men. They have been brainwashed by people who know how to pull the apron strings that connect to their ovaries. 

First, they were taught to fear penises. Gay men won’t try to fuck them. They can flirt and cajole and talk nasty and date them without jeopardizing, usually, the men they do fuck who are paying most of the bills. That first tampon string connects straight to their sense of safety. 
 
Then, the gay men no longer look like Rock Hudson, and other gay men from back when your sexuality was kept discreet. These days they all wear little ponytails and pink and rainbows.. and children’s clothes are made in the same fashion.. so it triggers those uteruses to want to protect and breastfeed the poor wittle picked on girly boys.

All this mess about drag library time and child friendly drag shows, they always claim they aren’t really grooming the children. By and large, they are kinda telling the truth about that. They are brainwashing the children, and grooming the adults. I can’t tell you how many people I know who used to be Christian Conservatives who were staunchly against all of it, but now are all wishy washy, and say ‘It’s okay because someone in my family is one.’ Well, that isn’t true. What is right or wrong isn’t decided because of what your family is doing. The ones who aren’t pedophiles are actually using passive aggressive forced acceptance by exploiting a family’s love for the kids that are being taught to be drag queens. They know you love your kid so much you will accept them even if they grow up to be an axe murderer.. and they are using that to further their agenda.

Then, they have gayed up Jesus with all the love everybody hippie crap, and wrapped him in a pretty rainbow bow. So , all these fickle minded women have been subliminally taught to connect goodness and holiness to effiminate men due to the vastly incorrect stereotype of Christ, and the intentional subliminal connection made by the use of the rainbow.
 
Then, women have all been fed this whole adopt don’t shop, humans don’t own animals, furbaby bullshit.. and ‘Lizzo is beautiful’ bullshit, and all the other woke bullshit…  until their tiny little female brains have been filled with faux acceptance of whatever the fuck creeps out of the woodwork. 

And finally, there is an inborn curiosity in women so powerful that they spy on emails, cell phones, and any other resource they can find to get in a man’s head. So, they also secretly think they are gonna find out secret shit about men that gives them control; from what they are thinking to how to suck cock better. Women just constantly are trying to find out what men are doing. They mistakenly think they will learn how to delve into men’s mindset, by befriending all these cocksuckers. 
 
I know this will piss off a lot of people. But I don’t care. Literally since Eve ate that apple, ever since Lot’s wife became the Morton salt girl… women have been vulnerable to sneaky shit that eventually turns men’s paradise into a wicked, wicked world…. and as we know, history always repeats itself.
 
–The Wicked Bitch

Gettysburg Bike Week 2023 Celebrates All Things Motorcycle with Thrilling Events, Non-Stop Activities, and Live Music by Night Ranger and Ace Frehley, This July 6th -9th

Gettysburg,PA (June 10th, 2023) Get ready for the rumble of engines and the roar of excitement as Gettysburg Bike Week returns for its annual celebration of motorcycle culture. From July 6th through July 9th, 2023 motorcycle enthusiasts from across the country will gather in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for an action-packed event filled with Live Music, Bikes Shows, Tattoo Contest, and much more!

Gettysburg Bike Week is a premier motorcycle rally that has become a must-attend event for bikers and motorcycle enthusiasts. With its scenic location and rich historical significance, Gettysburg provides the perfect backdrop for a four-day celebration of all things motorcycle-related.

The event kicks off at the Allstar Event Complex with non-stop action throughout the weekend. Attendees can explore a vast vendor area offering a wide array of motorcycle parts, accessories, and apparel; along with enjoying delicious food from local vendors and engaging with fellow motorcycle enthusiasts. This event also features the always-anticipated Antique Bike Show, The Third Annual Jeremy Plank Memorial Ride, and The Moto Motion Stunt Show. There is something for everyone at the Gettysburg Bike Week 2023 and new for this year is additional asphalt parking and vendor areas!

One of the highlights of Gettysburg Bike Week is the live music lineup! “We just keep rolling,” says GBW event coordinator Kelly Shue. “We’re always trying to top the year before, and we’re giving it a run with this years Friday and Saturday headliners: Night Ranger and Ace Frehley!”

Gettysburg Bike Week goers can look forward to Friday night’s musical main event as one of the most famous lead guitarists in the world, Ace Frehley, who played for one of the most successful rock bands in history, will come out and rock on stage! As a self-taught musician, Ace Frehley became known to the world over as the lead guitar player for mega rock band KISS, but he’s also enjoyed a storied solo career and released albums on his own that have gone platinum.

One of the premier arena rock bands of the ’80s, Night Ranger, has for decades delivered hit after hit and enthralled thousands with their live shows around the world and will perform on the main stage Saturday night! The band will bring its energetic brand of glam rock to the Gettysburg Bike Week Main Stage as Saturday night headliners, playing a mix of new tunes and classics like “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” and “Sister Christian.”

There is always something happening at Gettysburg Bike Week, ensuring non-stop excitement throughout the event. We are thrilled to welcome motorcycle enthusiasts from all over the country to Gettysburg Bike Week 2023. Attendees can kick back, relax, and enjoy the sounds of talented musicians while soaking up the vibrant atmosphere. More live music acts are in the works and will be announced as they’re booked.

And, of course, no rally would be complete without great riding, and Gettysburg has some of the best. Whether riders want to see historic battlegrounds or just hit the road for a great cruise, hundreds of miles of the best riding in the East surrounds Gettysburg. In addition to fantastic solo riding, Gettysburg Bike Week 2023 also features awesome group rides.

Tickets for Gettysburg Bike Week’s 23rd Anniversary Rally can be purchased here.

New and returning riders can find updates, schedules of events, lodging information, passes, and anything they ever needed to know about Eastern Pennsylvania’s definitive motorcycle rally Gettysburg Bike Week by visiting https://www.gettysburgbikeweek.com/. Follow GBW Twitter: @GburgBikeWk.

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Hunter Thompson once wrote a novel called Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Journalists love it: it’s a litany of stupidity and ignorance and behavior asking for a fist in the face. Journalists can totally relate.

Why Las Vegas is dragged into it at all is an insight into Hunter’s brain: Las Vegas bases its existence and success on the premise that life is fun. Fun for Thompson was being annoying to people.

Thompson was allowed to be an annoying presence with the Hells Angels for a while because Sonny Barger, an unappreciated mega genius in understanding others and knowing how to surround himself with people just as sharp as he was, saw that Thompson was useful: a depressed moron with a Jack Kerouac destiny who would make the Hells Angels part of a best seller.

Hunter Thompson did not present the Hells Angels as glowing role models for others to emulate. That was fine with the Hells Angels. They don’t want to be role models. They want to be left alone. They did beat him up but not because of anything he wrote. He interfered with a domestic dispute.

I’m guessing he laid hands on a Hells Angel. If there are other Hells Angels around and you do this, they beat you up first and then decide if you had it coming later. If you didn’t have it coming….you still got beat up. Maybe you’ll get an apology! But you still got beat up. And you will again if you do whatever you did again. You get beat up….you have a sit-down later.

Unlike how the Mafia operates: there’s a sit down first. THEN you get beat up if it doesn’t go well. We’re looking at two different ways of doing things. Getting back to Las Vegas, only Hunter Thompson would drag the most upbeat place on earth into his idiotic well-written shit-show of useless, pointless, drug-addled homeless-level idea of how to spend your time there.

NATURALLY it was hailed as a brilliant analysis of normal American life by the “critics.” “Literary Criticism” is a category of Failed Novelist who goes into journalism after he realizes writing fiction that’s INTERESTING is hard. Much easier to become a “news” writer where you can interject bits of fiction into something someone else did or said.

–J.J. Solari

 

100 word fiction contest continues…. #100WFC

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Lane Splitting for Life
by Bandit

She called during rush hour in Phoenix. Hot enough to melt asphalt, Mudd straddled his Dyna and slid into traffic.

Had to get to his pregnant girl on time. Only one thing to do, twist his throttle to the stops. Lane splitting still wasn’t legal.

Mudd didn’t care, as he tore between frustrated, honking drivers. Taking out a sideview mirror, he nearly went down. Police sirens blared. Angry motorists cut him off. An accident ahead stopped all movement. He kept his throttle pegged as he darted onto the Highway winding into Scottsdale. He squinted against the glare, braked, screamed, screeched but made it in the nick of time.

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2023 Royal Enfield Hunter 350 Review

$3,999 for a good-looking, thoroughly modern motorcycle with ABS, fuel injection, and a bulletproof engine is a steal no matter how you slice it.

My toxic trait—or, well, one of the many at any rate—is that when I buy a product I expect a level of quality in that product commensurate with its price. As you can imagine, in this day and age I spend a lot of my time disappointed. What if I told you, however, that I recently rode a bike with one of the best cost-to-value ratios I think I’ve ever ridden? In fact, probably one of the best cost-to-value ratios on the market today. What if I then told you that it was a Royal Enfield—specifically Enfield’s new Hunter 350? Well, I did and it was and I’m here to tell you all about it.

Read the full review for 2023 model of Hunter 350 by clicking here.