Hey,
It’s that season already. Information flies at us hard and fast constantly. I was concerned about motorcycle sales and the economy, but questioned the notion of a constantly growing population yet decreased sales. A recent report indicates a sales drop of 1.4 percent, hardly enough to be concerned about. One new TV show or movie could have such an impact.
So relax, life is good, sorta. I know this terrorism attack is Paris is heavy on our minds. I appreciate the French President’s comment about dealing with the issue but supporting Freedom. Our guys need to get it. Think about it.
This may sound strange, but if we are fighting Terrorists, do we really need to pass more gun laws, regulate smoking, or bust someone for having a drink and driving home. We need Freedom, so we have something to fight for.
Let’s hit the news:
It’s true and now all that’s left is pollution and entire species of dead animals.
— Andrew
Manhattan, NY
FIRST WEEKEND GUN NUT REPORT— They’ll try to find anything against Freedom.
Since 2004, at least 10 Americans have been accidentlally shot by dogs. The latest canine shooting occurred in Indiana last week, when a woman left her loaded shotgun on the ground and her dog, Trigger, stood on it, blasting her in the left foot.
—Washington Post.com
–from The Week Magazine
VEGAS POLICE SUED– Bikers’ lawyer files civil rights suit against Vegas police
–KEN RITTER, ASSOCIATED
LAS VEGAS (AP) – A Nevada lawyer who represents motorcycle clubs has filed a federal civil rights, false arrest and negligence lawsuit against Las Vegas police after he was acquitted in March of a misdemeanor obstruction charge.
Stephen Stubbs alleges that a Las Vegas practice of harassing motorcycle club members led to his arrest in November 2013, and that being found not guilty by a local judge showed the arrest was improper.
Stubbs said he was prevented from representing a Bikers for Christ member who was being questioned by police about a traffic violation outside a motorcycle ministry meeting. Stubbs said Kevin Desmairas had a constitutional right to have an attorney present during questioning.
Desmairas also is a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed Wednesday by attorney Cal Potter. It seeks at least $75,000 in damages from the department and a police lieutenant, Yasenia Yatomi.
Officer Larry Hadfield said the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department doesn’t comment on litigation.
Yatomi didn’t immediately respond to a message left with Hadfield.
Stubbs is representing members of biker groups, including the Mongols, Vagos, Stray Cats and Bandidos in a federal civil rights complaint filed in June 2012 alleging harassment by Las Vegas and other area police. The lawsuit is pending in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas.
It was filed a day after a meeting of Mongols national leaders in Boulder City was monitored by hundreds of local and state police and federal agents.
Stubbs characterizes the bikers he represents as members of fraternal organizations of motorcycle enthusiasts, while state and federal law enforcement generally characterize the groups as outlaw criminal enterprises.
Stubbs was sentenced last month to 18 months of probation after pleading guilty in Las Vegas to unlawful notarization of a signature in a misdemeanor case alleging he submitted fraudulent guilty plea agreements for clients.
–from Rogue
BikernetBagger Supreme Editor In Charge
Lose-lose: As long as conferees stick with current funding levels, either bus or high-density transit systems are going to lose out. But it doesn’t have to be like that, the Amalgamated Transit Union says in a new letter it’s sending to congressional leaders. “ATU supports the preservation of the 5340 high density program and increasing dedicated bus capital funding nationwide to at least the levels in the House-passed bill,” the union writes. “If a six-year bill is passed, transit riders in some part of the country are going to be riding in unsafe buses or suffering through another round of fare increases and service cuts. This is a false choice.”
More bang, same bucks: Like the 40 transportation groups that sent a letter up to Capitol Hill earlier this week, the transit union is
pushing for negotiators to allocate the funding over a shorter period so annual levels would be higher than what’s been laid out in the House and
Senate proposals. “We urge you to take advantage of the last-minute funding in the House bill and spread it over a shorter duration so that
Americans’ transit needs can be met, no matter where they live,” the union advises.
TRANSIT MONEY– ‘BOTTOM-LINE’ BATTLE: Lawmakers from the Northeast, whose states benefit most from the high-density transit program, are making it clear to leaders on both sides of the aisle that their support hinges on conferees preventing that funding from being diverted to bus grants. “That’s really a bottom-line issue for me in terms of supporting the final bill,” Sen. Chris Murphy told MT on Thursday. “And I know Sen. [Barbara] Boxer understands how important that is to us.”
Pay-for letdown: Like the outside stakeholders, Murphy is also displeased with the overall funding levels the conferees are working with and disappointed that legislators are using limited pay-fors rather than coming up with a sustainable revenue stream to support national infrastructure investment. “To me, our transportation bill is two parts: It’s spending and revenue,” the senator said. “And just because you spend money for six years doesn’t mean you have fixed the problem,
especially when you’re cobbling together a bunch of small revenue sources that only last you two or three years.”
Personalizing the problem: Fresh out of his commuter complaint session up in Hartford, Murphy told us over the phone that he hopes his growing collection of transportation anecdotes from angry constituents will help change the way lawmakers pay for infrastructure projects.
“My hope is that a lot of these stories can drive the conversation to a bill that’s more sustainable and more long-term,” he said, noting that he has sent
hundreds of complaints from Connecticutians to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx “in part for the stories to be part of the record and part
of the ammunition he uses in making his case.” In discussions about transportation, Murphy said, it’s mostly been facts and figures. “I do think we need to personalize this for people.”
–Kirk Willard
MRF
JUST IN FROM CHOPPERTOWN–
We created a whole series of great bundles to save you a couple bucks on the best movies in our library. This week we got the Chopper Life Bundle – available on download and DVD. Choppertown: the Sinners, 6over, Two Wheel Terrors Vol 1, and Choppahead Vol 1. Now that’s a hit list! If you know someone just getting into bikes, this is the perfect set of movies to introduce them to the life. 🙂
Don’t forget we got the Greasy Hands Preachers available for instant download too, it’s amazing and well worth your time. Enjoy your Biker Movie Sunday gang!
NOTE: We’ve reinstated our “Build Your Own Bundle” plan so you can save every time you order. Choose ANY three DVDs or downloads (even discounted ones!) and you save 10%, any four save 15%, and any five take 20% off. Now you can stock up on DVDs for Xmas.
“Absolutely brilliant film guys. Beautifully shot and could not capture the essence more perfectly. Now when people question why I ride and build and tinker I can just point them to this film.”~Mat Anderson
–Zack and Scott
www.choppertown.com
REGARDING THE HIGHWAY BILL ABOVE–
House insiders say early to mid-next week, Senate says before recess so within 2-3 days of each other for a target, amazing they are that close, that would be awesome to get this behind us and done
“Both versions of the legislation would authorize highway and transit programs for six years, and both contain Senate-developed revenue provisions that are estimated to support those programs for at least three years.
That would make it the first legislation since 2005 to extend trust fund programs more than two years, even if Congress would still have to find a way to fund it past the first three.
But the House also approved an amendment that could shift another $40 billion to the Highway Trust Fund from a surplus capital account of the Federal Reserve System. That extra amount, along with other revenue provisions, would reportedly be enough to fund the entire bill for six years at House-prescribed levels, or five years at higher Senate levels.
The same amendment stripped out Senate-passed language to sharply reduce the dividend Fed pays member commercial banks on the money they deposit with the central bank. That provision had triggered a strong push by the banking industry to remove it from any final bill. But by tapping the Fed’s capital surplus instead, the House provision may add much more funding for the transportation bill.”
~ AASHTO Journal
BIKERNET STAFF COMMENT–
I saw that you and Ray are disabled vet’s.
You can add me to that list.
–Rogue
Supreme Commander
Bikernet Baggers
Thank you for your service, sir.–Bandit
BIKERNET UNIVERSITY FINANCIAL SEMINAR– Sometime this year, we taxpayers will again receive another ‘Economic Stimulus’ payment.
This is indeed a very exciting program, and I’ll explain it by using a Q & A format:
Q. What is an ‘Economic Stimulus’ payment ?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.
Q.Where will the government get this money ?
A. From taxpayers.
Q. So the government is giving me back my own money ?
A. Only a smidgen of it.
Q. What is the purpose of this payment ?
A. The plan is for you to use the money to purchase a ; high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.
Q. But isn’t that stimulating the economy of China?
A. Shut up.
Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the U.S. Economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:
* If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China or Sri Lanka .
* If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to the Arabs.
* If you purchase a computer, it will go to India , Taiwan or China.
* If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico , Honduras, and Guatemala.
* If you buy an efficient car, it will go to Japan or Korea.
* If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan
* If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.
Instead, keep the money in America by:
1) Spending it at yard sales, or
2) Going to ball games, or
3) Spending it on prostitutes, or
4) Beer or
5) Tattoos.
(These are the only American businesses still operating in the U.S. )
Conclusion:
Go to a ball game with a tattooed prostitute that you met at a yard sale and drink beer all day!
No need to thank me, I’m just glad I could be of help.
–Buckshot
NO FLAT TIRES WITH RHINO— Amazing, Bikernet video of the week, product of the month, and let’s ride.
–from Agent Zebra
BAD COP UPDATE FROM NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MOTORISTS– In August we recounted some driving stories that were just too absurd to be true (“Seriously? It’s Come to This?” NMA Newsletter #345). Alas, they were true, and the sad part is we’ve compiled enough stories for Part 2. So here goes.
New Haven, Connecticut, has been experiencing an uptick in vehicle break-ins lately. The thieves target unlocked cars and then swoop in to steal the valuables contained within. The only problem is that the thieves are actually New Haven police officers trying to teach vehicle owners a lesson about leaving valuables in their cars. The perps leave notes for the victims telling them what happened and where they can retrieve their property.
Police justify the break-ins under a caretaker provision in state law, but apparently nobody told them that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution trumps state law. Indeed, following that logic, police could enter unlocked homes and steal personal property, just to teach homeowners a lesson. Shhhhh! Let’s not give them any ideas.
A Pinellas County, Florida, deputy was disciplined last month for drunken misbehavior while attending a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) conference in Fort Lauderdale. Michael Szeliga packed a bottle of whiskey along with his luggage into his patrol car before driving to the conference with two other deputies.
The three were set to attend DUI enforcement training, and Szeliga was scheduled to receive a MADD award for making more than 100 DUI arrests. Szeliga reportedly skipped training and drank throughout the day. Upon observing his drunken condition at the awards banquet, Szeliga’s supervisor ordered him to forego the ceremony and go back to his room.
Montgomery County, Maryland, police officer Patrick Robinson put on his jeans, a hoodie and sunglasses and headed out to his street corner. His panhandler disguise was intended to catch distracted drivers. His cardboard sign read “I am a Montgomery County police officer looking for cell phone texting violations.” After spotting a likely target, Robinson would duck behind his sign and radio squad cars parked up ahead.
According to Robinson, police are sending a message: “Pay attention to what we’re doing, that way we can reduce accidents and save lives.” We wonder if Robinson has ever considered that by waving around a sign and generally making a nuisance of himself he may actually be the distraction.
Michigan driver John Felton was driving to a family function in Dayton, Ohio, recently when he was pulled over by police. Felton caught the whole exchange on video and was cited for turn signal violation. But when he asked why he was pulled over, the officer replied, “Because you made direct eye contact with me and held onto it when I was passing you.”
Could the fact that it was late at night and Felton, who is black, was driving a nice car have had something to do with it? Dayton police had little to say about the incident.
Larcenous cops in Connecticut, a drunken DUI enforcer in Florida, a hazardous homeless impersonator in Maryland and a questionable traffic stop in Ohio.
Instead of saying, “Seriously? It’s come to this?” maybe we should be saying, “Let’s be careful out here.”
–from Rogue
AUSTRALIAN CLUB REPORT– Bandidos set up chapter in Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory.
The Australian national president of the Bandidos MC, says the people or police of Darwin have nothing to fear about them setting up camp in the Top End.
Victorian-based Australian club leader Jason Addison, confirmed the club had set up a Darwin chapter in what police fear could upset the local biker “applecart” already crowded with Hells Angels and Rebels.
But Mr Addison said there would be “no dramas” with the existing clubs whom he had already held talks with.
Mr Addison officially opened the chapter this month, prompted by revelations in the Sunday Territorian newspaper the group had been scoping Darwin.
Police have long accused motorcycle clubs of running drugs into the NT, among a host of other ‘unsavoury behaviours”, but Mr Addison said his members were normal working men who liked to ride motorbikes.
“We are against drugs. It’s in our constitution about drugs. And for anybody to say that’s the reason we’re moving to town, it’s a load of shit, or else we would have been there 25 years ago,” he said.
“We are no trouble to the community at all. People don’t have to fear us in any way shape or form.”
It is a familiar line according to police, who have warned the public to be wary of dealing with anyone associated with the group and to report suspicious behaviour.
“The community needs to be aware OMCGs are not harmless motorcycle clubs — they are well-organised criminal gangs causing harm and disruption across our country,” said acting Superintendent of the drugs and organised crime division Clint Sims.
“Members of OMCGs wearing 1 per cent patches believe they can operate outside the law — they cannot.”
He said motorcycle clubs were being targeted nationwide and by multiple agencies under banner of Operation Morpheus, which would use “traditional and non-traditional law enforcement methods.”
This includes executing warrants on club houses, investigating tax and welfare payments, monitoring travel and business activities.
Mr Addison would not say how many patched members were in Darwin, but the NT News says there were fewer than 10 people identifying as Bandidos living in Darwin before the chapter opened.
Mr Addison said he would leave the decision as to whether there should be a clubhouse or not to the local chapter members.
Asked why to begin a new chapter in Darwin, he said: “It’s another capital city. We’ve got members who live up there who want to ride their motorcycles and still be part of the Bandido Nation.”
My husband, Carlos Orta was a great husband, friend and of course a great bike builder which a lot of people didn’t see it or didn’t want to see or acknowledge the Artist in him. He will always be missed for ever. A beautiful person, a great father, husband, Marine and worrier for ever. May he Rest In Peace. You will always be missed. Love you wife, son and daughter.
If you wish to contact me his wife regarding the bike it is up for sale.
— Ileana Orta
Homestead, FL
NRA GUN NUT REPORT–
Veterans Day is an important opportunity to formally reflect on the freedoms we cherish and those whose service has made them possible. However, as has often been pointed out, a few moments on designated holidays are not enough to properly recognize the men and women who have served in our armed forces. Showing our appreciation is one of the reasons why NRA is engaged year-round on issues that uniquely effect veterans and our current fighting men and women.
In recent years, NRA’s most visible advocacy on behalf of veterans has been the effort to remedy the egregious abuses by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Justice that have resulted in over 100,000 veterans being erroneously listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) as prohibited from possessing firearms.
The VA has a method for assigning a “fiduciary” to VA beneficiaries who might, for the sake of convenience or difficulty, need a little help managing their finances. The VA employees making this determination are not required to have evidence that the beneficiary is dangerous to himself or others. Further, once a VA employee determines that a beneficiary should be assigned a fiduciary, the burden falls upon the beneficiary to prove otherwise.
Federal law bars firearm possession by those who have been “adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution.” The VA insultingly contends that that the assignment of a fiduciary renders a beneficiary “adjudicated as a mental defective.” Having categorized the beneficiary in this manner, the VA forwards the beneficiary’s name to the FBI in order to be included among the convicted felons, drug users, and those dishonorably discharged, in NICS.
The VA and the DOJ do not care that there is no formal adjudication in this procedure, or that classifying these individuals as “mental defective” is inaccurate in any legitimate sense of the term. Admitting as much, the VA website makes clear “The determination that you are unable to manage your VA benefits does not affect your non-VA finances, or your right to vote or contract.” Not only does this practice offend the Second Amendment and the Fifth Amendment right to due process, it defies common sense, ignores statute, and is a smack in the face to those who have sacrificed so much for the liberties we all enjoy.
This is why NRA has worked with our friends in Congress to support the Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act, and more recently, the Mental Health and Safe Communities Act. This important legislation would halt VA’s practice of prohibiting beneficiaries merely assigned a fiduciary, and would create a legitimate procedure for those currently burdened by this status to appeal their prohibition. Under this legislation, a veteran would only be adjudicated as prohibited if they are found to be a danger to themselves or others, following a procedure in which the beneficiary has the opportunity to present evidence in their own defense.
NRA also recognizes that current and former members of our armed forces have overwhelmingly demonstrated that they have the competency and character sufficient to be trusted to provide for their own self-defense. Therefore, NRA has supported measures to make it easier for current and former military to exercise their Right-to-Carry.
In the case of veterans, NRA works to waive the typical training requirements often imposed on those seeking carry permits. As for current military, NRA has fought hazardous gun-free zone policies at military facilities. Most recently, following a heinous attack on two military installations in Chattanooga Tenn., NRA-ILA made clear that “Congress should pursue a legislative fix to ensure that our service men and women are allowed to defend themselves on U.S. soil.”
Other NRA efforts recognize the often transitory nature of military service, and the burdens this can place on gun ownership. NRA is constantly working to pass legislation that recognizes the unique strains placed on highly-mobile military families, and ensures that their right to purchase, possess, and carry firearms are respected no matter what state they are stationed in, or how temporary their assignment. Moreover, NRA has worked to enact important privacy provisions prohibiting the Secretary of Defense from collecting information “relating to the otherwise lawful acquisition, possession, ownership, carrying, or other use of a privately owned firearm, privately owned ammunition, or another privately owned weapon by a member of the Armed Forces or civilian employee of the Department of Defense.”
The efforts of our veterans and current servicemen and women afford us the opportunity to exercise the freedoms we enjoy. NRA’s continued legislative work to defend the rights of veterans and current service members here at home is the very least we can do to express our gratitude.
MOTORCYCLE CLUB TO BE PAID $16,500 for wrongful entry– NAMPA — A judge has ruled in favor of a Nampa motorcycle club in a lawsuit that claimed federal agents unlawfully sent SWAT officers into the club’s regular meeting and seized property.
U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill on Thursday ruled in favor of Nampa’s Brother Speed Motorcycle Club.
The lawsuit stemmed from an incident in which 12 of the motorcycle club members claimed numerous federal agents swarmed their club meeting, executing a federal search warrant on Aug. 28, 2013. The plaintiffs claimed the agents set of flash-bang grenades, rammed the door down and sent dozens of heavily armed SWAT team officers into the home.
The motorcycle club and its members will be paid a combined $16,500 by the U.S. government. Initially, county and city officials were cited in the original complaint, but once it was discovered the incident was federal, the local officials were dismissed from the case.
The plaintiffs involved were detained for up to three hours while officers removed their personal clothing and club memorabilia, according to the club’s legal representative Ferguson Durham Law Office.
The initial warrant the agents used was obtained from Magistrate Judge Candy Dale, which authorized the search of several locations, including the Brother Speed Motorcycle Club clubhouse in the 1400 block of Second Street North.
None of the plaintiffs was named in the search warrant.
The warrant was issued for the seizure of certain items, including controlled substances, paraphernalia for using, packaging, processing, weighing and distributing controlled substances, ledgers, police scanners, video cameras, computers and software, books, records, and photographs relating to the distribution of controlled substances, according to the club’s initial complaint.
Other items listed certain personal effects relating to the distribution of controlled substances, cash and records of income and expenditures of money relating to controlled substances, items of personal property that identify the ownership of the residences (not a clubhouse), outlaw motorcycle gang contraband and records relating to the ownership and management of the property where the drug trafficking was taking place, among other items.
No federal charges were brought against the club members, and the FBI has since returned club property. In resolving the case, the defendants admitted to no fault but agreed to have judgment entered against them and to pay the club and its members.
Brother Speed was founded in Boise in 1969 by a group of men with a common passion for riding American-made motorcycles and now has several chapters, according to its attorney. The Nampa/Caldwell chapter members are primarily tradesmen, including a pipe fitter, a tile setter, an electrician, a plumber, and others. Four are retired.
“This was never about money,” said chapter president Daniel Bugli in a news release from his attorney’s office. “It was about standing up for our rights as citizens and members of this community. Law enforcement officers shouldn’t be able to run roughshod over people’s rights based on speculation and assumptions.”
“These were regular guys minding their own business that night,” said the club’s attorney Craig Durham, of Ferguson Durham. “They were not a threat, and there was no call for the use of terrifying, military-style tactics to serve a simple search warrant.”
While no federal charges were ever brought forward, two of the club members were charged by the Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney. Durham said he does not believe those individuals would ever have been charged by the county if the agents did not enter the home.
A plaintiff in the case, Lynn Lee, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia and was sentenced to one-and-a-half years of unsupervised probation.
Michael Snider was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm. That case is still pending.
–Ruth Brown
Idaho Press Tribune
BIKERNET UNIVERSITY ON SEXUAL PREFERANCE– Gay women tend to be exclusively sexually attracted to women, while straight women are more likely to be aroused by both sexes, a study says.
Researchers asked 345 women about their sexual preferences and compared these with their arousal levels when shown videos of attractive men and women.
They found 28% of straight women were mostly aroused by their preferred sex, compared with 68% of gay women.
The University of Essex study concluded that no woman is “totally straight”.
Study findings ‘amazing’
The new study, led by Dr Gerulf Rieger from the University of Essex and published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, measured the arousal of women using eye tracking devices and direct measures of physiological sexual response.
Previous studies had already suggested that straight women were aroused by both sexes when tested, but researchers had never looked at whether the same was true for gay women.
Dr Rieger said the study’s conclusion that women who identified as being completely gay were much more aroused by their preferred sex was “amazing”.
He said their sexual arousal patterns were much more similar to men, whose responses tend to very accurately mirror their stated sexual preferences.
Dr Rieger said: “In the past we thought it was true of all women that they were aroused by both sexes. The fact that it appears this is not the case is amazing.”
Dr Rieger said it was not known why gay women were more often only aroused by their preferred sex, but he believes it may be to do with the amount of testosterone female babies receive in the womb.
It was possible, he said, that women who experienced testosterone early in pregnancy had sexual behaviours that were more similar to men, but this has not yet been proven. He said tests showed similar behaviours occurring in monkeys.
Dr Rieger said the wider conclusions of the study was that, while the majority of women identified as straight: “Our research shows that, when it comes to what turns them on they are usually bisexual or gay, but never totally straight”.
However, he added the research did not necessarily mean women were repressing their true sexual preferences, but that their sexualities were simply more complex than men’s.
“When it comes to straight women and sexual arousal there is such a disconnect between what a woman tells me and what her body does.
“It suggests that it’s a different world for women when it comes to their sexualities.”
–from Rogue
NC Bikers, NC Biker Rights, NC Freedom Rides, Patriots Day Rally
1st Annual East Coast Helmet Law Protest!
When: Last Sunday of Myrtle Beach Bike Week, every year:
Location: South of the Border, I-95 and US 301/501 Dillon, SC near the NC Border.
On your way back from Myrtle Beach Bike Week, enjoy a freedom ride in protest of mandatory motorcycle helmet laws! Of course, you CAN wear a helmet. This protest is for the riders right to decide! This ride is not organized, or sponsored, by anyone except other bikers.
It is absolutely crucial that you ride sober, responsibly, and safely.
Suggested Minimum Age: 21,
Suggested minimum riding experience: 3 years.
Begin lining up at 10am. Ride briefing at 10:45. Kickstands up at 11am.
Be advised that there are mandatory helmet laws in most of the states north of South Carolina, and there is a high likelihood of being pulled over and ticketed. If you are ticketed, it is up to you to decide whether to help the states by paying the fines and court costs, or become a freedom fighter by arguing it in court.
–from Rogue
Great……………….outstanding for Barnett….they make great products for the industry……………….
— Bob Bakker
bobbakker@wishesdesired.com
Gold Canyon, AZ
BAKKER MOTORSPORTS
VEGAS COPS COMMENT–
The following was sent to me in reference to the article of the lawyer suing the cops in Vegas
Stubbs, hmm..let’s see… Yes, that name is familiar. Stubbs was interviewed regarding the incident in Waco, and is the lawyer for many who were arrested. I put a Waco video of the interview on the front page of bikersmag. I thought his practice is in Texas, but I guess he takes Nevada cases also.
Re; Waco, There’s nothing like a few silenced rifles and a few take-downs by the cops to get some bikers fighting each other. Personally, I think cops took the first shots, but they’ll cover it up just like they are claiming they didn’t fire indiscriminately into crowds with their silenced rifles.
Re: this Nevada crap, I hope you all know that if you have a Microsoft Windows product from Windows 7 to Windows 10, you have probably agreed to totally relinquish all your rights to privacy, and have lost all rights to suit for invasion of privacy. They can monitor your personal emails, browsing, your personal files, and other things. I’ve switched over to Linux for my email. I should probably also start using Tor and CGI browsers, …again. It’s not that I am doing anything wrong,… it is just that I still value privacy, and have a right to it.
If we have lost all our rights, woe is us.
–from Rogue
Flathead Power Knucklehead Engine Alive Once More Through S&S
Does S&S have any plans to bring out a flathead style engine. I have only seen two or three in my lifetime (I’m 63) and I want to build one more bike. I have been thinking about a shovel but on your website there was a caption under a photo about next they would be building flatheads. these new guys would be lost.
I MISS KICKSTARTERS!
–Tom Howell
Virginia Beach, VA3
S&S does not have any plans to offer a flathead or sidevalve engine any time in the near future. However, there are some reliable companies, producing high quality aftermarket parts for flatties. That’s a good thing because if you plan to build a bike and ride it, you’re way better off financially and mechanically with good new repro parts.
This may fall under the urban legend category. Back when S&S purchased the Flathead Power name, designs, and designs, some old timers at the V-Twin Expo told us a story. One reason there are so few flathead engines and parts around today had to do with the fact that the flywheels in the UL motors were 4-9/16-inch stroke, and they would fit in Knuckle, Pan, and Shovel cases. The stroke of an FL Knuckle or Pan was only 3-31/32-inch, so UL flywheels were used to build strokers.
The amazing part is that these old dudes told us that guys would just take a sledge hammer to the cases and bust them up to get the flywheels out. What was left was just thrown away. ARRRRGH! When you think of what those parts would be worth today!
–Bruce Tessmer
Marketing Projects Coordinator
S&S® Cycle, Inc.
Email bruce@sscycle.com
Damn, and to think I put a set of 80-inch wheels in my ’66 Shovelhead.–Bandit
BIKERNET MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH ALERT— If you undergo an operation, there is a good chance your doctors will make a mistake. A new study suggests that about half of all surgery patients are victims of medication errors or adverse drug reactions. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found that at least one drug-related incident or error took place in 124 of 277 operations observed at the highly respected medical center. That error rate is likely to be similar at other U.S. hospitals, researchers said.
And I’m about to go to the VA for an operation—Bandit
–from the Week Magazine.
HANG ON— Big week coming up with the Long Beach Show.
We are scrambling to complete a new logo for the 20th Anniversary of Bikernet for next year. George is making adjustments.
Tomorrow morning I will launch the next episode of the Paughco Bagger rebuild story as a tribute to Krash Kranzler. I rewrote the third chapter and the 4th with the help of Steve Massicotte, from Paughco, it’s ready to rock. Kirk Taylor, the master, is going to paint the Paughco FLH or is that FLT?
Hang on, next week will be non-stop.
Ride Free Forever,
–Bandit
