Hey,
In this harried world this is the week to give thanks and to think about your year and those who have helped out.
I piss and moan about the government and regulations, and I contend they don’t get the mantra, Freedom. But on the other hand America is wonderful, full of resources, friends, open roads and cool motorcycles. I should reword that. It’s not just America but the motorcycle community all over the world.
Bikers, builders, dirt bike riders and racers understand Freedom and love it. We work together, share resources, fight for freedom and struggle together. I want to thank all the Biker’s Rights members and leaders for keeping us in the game. I want to thank all the manufacturers for their efforts to share motorcycling with a younger audience.
I want to thank all our readers, all the creative builders out there, all the bike show promoters and all the custom parts manufactures who are struggling but doing what they love.
I had a meeting with Hugh King regarding another build-off series but with a twist. We are going to take a guy’s bike and alter it. No ground-ups to begin with. We are going to celebrate craftsmen all over the world. Thank you, and everyone for the love of two-wheeled freedom forever!
The Bikernet Weekly News is sponsored in part by companies who also dig Freedom including: Cycle Source Magazine, the MRF, Las Vegas Bikefest, Iron Trader News, ChopperTown and BorntoRide.com, Sturgis Museum.
TEXAS EVENT REPORT–
I’ll send you some contact sheets to see what might catch your eye on some MC stuff.
Isis Queen & the Barb Wire Dolls have to go to the music site first. Took a 4 day weekend, to hopefully move the Shovelhead closer to life, but NO, haven’t even made it to the barn!
–RFR
DOFFO WINERY COMES TO BIKERNET– Black Friday Cellar Sale
Friday, November 24
Join us on Friday, November 24th for a special Black Friday Cellar Sale at Doffo Winery. We have dug deep into the Doffo Library to find some perfectly-aged rarities ready to enjoy around the dinner table, or to give as gifts to the serious wine lovers in your life. This may be your only chance to get your hands on some of these low inventory wines before they’re gone forever.
Doors open at 5:00pm to the general public; Doffo Legacy members will be allowed early entry at 4:00pm.
Thanksgiving Weekend Tasting Room Hours
Thursday, November 23 | CLOSED
Friday, November 24 | 11:00am – 6:00pm
Satrday, November 25 | 10:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday, November 26 | 10:00am – 5:00pm
Monday, November 27 | 11:00a – 5:00pm
BIKERNET UNIVERSITY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT WORD OF THE DAY–
deontology [dee-on-tol-uh-jee]
1. ethics, especially that branch dealing with duty, moral obligation, and right action.
QUOTES
In deontology, the ethical theory whose most famous exponent was perhaps the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, I can be a good person by applying my reason to the discovery of moral behavior.
— Armond Boudreaux and Corey Latta, “The Dark Knight Returns: Why No Single Principle Is Sufficient,” Titans: How Superheroes Can Help Us Make Sense of a Polarized World, 2017
ORIGIN
Deontology, the study of moral obligation, derives from Greek déon (stem déont-), a neuter participle used as a noun, meaning “what is binding, necessary, right,” a derivative of the verb déein, deîn “to bind, tie, fetter.” The combining form -logy “science” is completely naturalized in English. Deontology was coined and published by the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) in 1826.
NEW FROM TRIUMPH– At the EICMA show in Milan, Triumph unveiled its updated 3-cylinder adventure bike lineup, which includes six Tiger 800 models and six Tiger 1200 models (the “Explorer” moniker has been dropped), all of which have been improved and refined. Both displacements are available in on-road-oriented XR and off-road-oriented XC versions, with different equipment levels distinguishing the XR, XRx, XRx Low Ride Height (LHR), XRT, XCx and XCA models.
–from Rider Magazine
QUICK, OPEN THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY— Flo
The only thing bad about retirement is that you never get a day off.
–from Rik Savenko
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WACO MISTRIAL– Here’s Why Bandido Jake Will Remain a Free Man
The first trial of Christopher Jacob Carrizal has come to an end. As an expert consultant to his defense, the MPP refrained from releasing anything related to the trial in an attempt to avoid any negative impact or potential conflicts of interest. But the trial is now over and it’s time to speak the truth.
Judge Matt Johnson declared a mistrial after two days of deliberations in which the jury was hopelessly deadlocked. The President of the Dallas chapter of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club was facing three separate charges relating to events that took place at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 17, 2015. Carrizal was charged with directing a criminal street gang and engaging in organized criminal activity, or conspiring to engage in criminal activity, as a member of a criminal street gang, resulting in 9 murders and 18 instances of aggravated assault.
Although a new trial setting has been scheduled for April 2018, there are many factors that could impact the decision for a retrial. Regardless, based on observing the trial firsthand, there is every reason to have hope that Jake Carrizal will remain a free man. Why? Because Jake chooses courage over cowardice. And that choice makes America a better place.
The State’s Case Against Carrizal
The state’s case rested largely on two text messages sent by Carrizal to other members of the Dallas chapter, and Dallas area support clubs, in the week preceding Twin Peaks. The first text asks for all members of the red and gold (that aren’t working) to attend the COC meeting at Twin Peaks and to leave their Ol’ Ladies at home. The second text simply suggested that everyone bring their tools. The prosecution contended that these texts were sufficient to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Fortunately for Jake, the red and gold nation, and the motorcycle club community at large, a jury of 12, all citizens of Waco, disagreed and refused to convict.
-Motorcycle Profiling Project
We will run this entire well-documented report in Special Reports next week.–Bandit
THE MOTORCYCLE INDUSTRY IS HALF OF WHAT IT WAS IN 2004-
Matt Levatich is between 44:00 to 1:04:48
The segment between the two speakers is very interesting too… Something we have been pushing for the past 15 years that both speakers says is a key to this industry, but both fail to have products in this market segment.
The future of the powersports industry lies with new riders, and how to develop these new riders is a tough yet intriguing challenge the industry must face together.
–Frank White
President
ATK Motorcycles
LIFESTYLE DEAL OF THE WEEK– 2017 Harley-Davidson Street Bob
The time-honored art of getting rid of everything that doesn’t matter.
The original bobber fanatics invented the style, and they had one rule: if it’s not essential, get rid of it. That’s the Street Bob®. 103 cubic inches of Harley-Davidson® V-Twin power. Solo seat. Chopped rear fender. Mini-apes. Blacked out fork lowers and triple clamps, blacked out engine finish with highlighted fins. Time to cut.
BOSS OF AMERICAN IRON MAGAZINE SPEAKS OUT– Buzz Kantor Post on Facebook
Can someone explain this to me. Almost all active street motorcycle riders are at least 35 or 40 years old. And the motorcycle industry is, rightfully, concerned about attracting younger riders.
Yet a growing number of advertisers in the motorcycle industry are spending their marketing funds in digital areas frequented by younger people but not in solid, well established motorcycle magazines like American Iron Magazine with proven audience reach and credibility.
Why ignore the core audience of active and engaged riders through print but put your marketing eggs in the digital basket preferred by millenials, who are less likely to ride a motorcycle than any other generation before them?
–Buzz Cantor
American Iron Magazine
That one’s easy Buzz. Digital advertising is much less expensive than traditional advertising and the feeling is that it’s more targeted. I don’t completely agree with that assessment, but that would be one of the reasons.
–AI Reader
Unfortunately, there is way more benefits to digital advertising. It comes with current, day-to-day, hour-to-hour content. More info can be shared, there are no space limitations. It’s non-stop and interactive. Plus you have a direct connection with the advertiser, and his or her products.
–Bandit
An ALL-NEW Michael Lichter Photography website dedicated to custom motorcycles and the biker culture is now available– After more than 20 years on-line, this is our first total website redesign. There are 100s of bike features and loads of events including lots of new content from the past few years.
New features include a search function, the ability to buy prints on-line (just in time for Christmas!), a “lightbox” to store images you like and plenty of ways to share photos.
New (and old) content is being added every week, so keep checking back as well.
Visit lichterphoto.com and tell us what you think!
–Michael Lichter
Officially Certified feature and event photographer
Bikernet.com
Easyriders Magazine
HANG ON! Civilization in 2017!!!
ð Our Phones – Wireless
ð Cooking – Fireless
ð Cars – Keyless
ð Food – Fatless
ð Tires -Tubeless
ð Youth – Jobless
ð Leaders – Shameless
ð Relationships – Meaningless
ð Attitudes – Careless
ð Babies – Fatherless
ð Feelings – Heartless
ð Education – Valueless
ð Children – Mannerless
We are-SPEECHLESS,
Government-is CLUELESS,
And our Politicians-are WORTHLESS!
I’m scared – Shitless!
–Rick Krost
U.S. Choppers
HARLEY-DAVIDSON HAS A NEW PROBLEM– It’s bad enough that Harley-Davidson is in the midst of a two-year slide in U.S. motorcycle sales, but it may have a new headache to contend with. India-based motorcycle maker Royal Enfield is introducing a new big motorcycle to the Indian market, a move that could lead to Harley-Davidson losing its dominance overseas. It could also create headaches here at home.
A royal lineage
It’s possible you’ve never heard of Royal Enfield, or associated it only with the famed rifle of the British army, but it is today the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer located in the world’s biggest motorcycle market. It has a largely negligible presence in the U.S., and its bikes typically have small engines compared to the big bore bikes Harley produces, but it was founded in 1901, giving it a lineage older than Harley-Davidson (and as old as Indian Motorcycle), and now it looks like it wants to take on Harley-Davidson wherever it does business.
Earlier this month, Royal Enfield introduced in India its first big twin-engine motorcycle — two of them, actually — the Interceptor INT 650 and the Continental GT 650, bikes that will compete head-to-head with Harley’s Street 750.
Right now, India only accounts for around 2% of Harley-Davidson’s total sales, but it owns 60% of the big bike market there and a local player with a vastly larger distribution network could create problems.
A vastly larger rival
Royal Enfield is owned by Indian car manufacturer Eicher Motors and completely owns the mid-size 250 cc to 750 cc bike market with a 95% share. In fiscal 2017, which ended last March, it sold some 666,000 motorcycles, but wants to produce some 950,000 next year.
To put that in context, Harley-Davidson sold 260,000 bikes last year and is expected to sell at most 250,000 units worldwide this year. In fact, Royal Enfield’s sales are equivalent to the global sales of Harley-Davidson, KTM, BMW, Triumph, and Ducati — combined.
According to reports, the new Enfield motorcycles will be priced at around 300,000 rupees (about $4,600) versus the 500,000 rupees a Street 750 goes for. While that alone would make it a competitive alternative, Enfield has about 700 dealerships in India whereas Harley has just 30, meaning it would take very few Enfield sales at each of the dealerships to outstrip Harley sales.
Battle on 2 fronts
Soon, Royal Enfield may also make a play for the U.S. market. The dealer situation here is the reverse, with Harley-Davidson having around 700 dealerships and Enfield having just a few dozen in the U.S. and Canada. That said, Enfield’s bikes could strike a chord with the emerging domestic motorcycle buyer.
It’s a well-publicized fact Harley-Davidson’s core customer has become something of a dying breed. The middle-aged male just isn’t buying the same number of bikes as he used to. Instead, young, urban riders, many of whom are women, are the key demographic to motorcycle growth. Although the Street 750 (and the 500) are targeted toward this new rider, Enfield’s strength here is in the 500cc bike and at an attractive price point. Now it is introducing its new Himalayan 410cc bike aimed at those who want to ride trails and dirt tracks.
Harley-Davidson has said it wants to cultivate young riders, and it wants to bring 2 million new riders to the Harley brand, but now with Royal Enfield entering the market, it seems to make it more imperative that the iconic bike maker move soon.
The U.S. heavyweight motorcycle market has been declining for several years now. As the industry leader, Harley-Davidson has felt the impact most. With the Indian market set to explode even further over the next few years, Harley may have a committed competitor in more places than just at home.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/harley-davidson-has-a-new-problem-to-worry-about/ar-BBFqvch?li=BBnb7Kz
–from Rogue
Grand Marshall Editor
Bikernet Baggers
Results from the J&P Cycles Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show, Long Beach Edition.
For pictures, results and additional bike show details at Long Beach click here.
FreeStyle Winner
FreeStyle
1st Place – #300 – Ryan McQuiston 45 Magnum, a 1941 Harley-Davidson Flathead 45″
2nd Place – #675 – Sosa Christian, Space Traveler
MOD Harley Winner
MOD Harley Winners
1st Place – #425 – Tom Day, 1976 Triumph built by David Bird – Hand built from the ground up, custom paint with leaf pattern, hand made oil bag, Cole Foster fuel tank
2nd Place – #1275 Taber Nash – KOKO, Nash Motorcycle Company – KOKO is an extreme build that includes an open primary, a gas thank that includes gas and oil, custom tins, springer frontend
RETRO WINNER
MOD Retro Winners
1st Place – #175 – Dale Crawford of Motone named Mahakala, a 2006 Triumph Hardtail Bobber
CUSTOM STREET WINNER
MOD Custom Winners
1st Place – #100 Doug Ide of Ide Innovations with Rising Sun, a 2009 Roadking – The paint is just fantastic, Candy apple red with marblizer, Frame raked for the 1-off 30″ wheel, handbuilt headlight nacelle, sliding saddlebag lids – front and rear air ride
2nd Place – #1250 – Samual Kao of JSK Moto Co. with Project Cobalt Storm, a 1997 XL1200 Sportster – The team from JSK Moto took a minimalistic approach. Paint by Air Runner Custom Paint
$70,000 National Championship
First and second position in each class have qualified for the $70,000 National Championship Show in Chicago.
ENTER YOUR BIKE TODAY
ENTER ANY OF THE SHOWS & QUALIFY FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP WITH A 1st + 2nd
QUESTIONS – Call me direct – 919-450-5060
– Jeff Najar, Biker Pros Partner
WHY ULTIMATE BUILDER
Benefits:
A large enthusiast crowd
Outstanding social media push
Great sponsors & prizes
Builder Interviews
Meet the media
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We have four paying classes including:
FreeStyle
MOD Harley
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WHEN YOU ENTER YOU RECEIVE
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LATEST FROM SADDLEMEN SEATS– Introducing the new Saddlemen Step Up LS
Now Available for select new 2018 Softails from Harley Davidson.
Saddlemen’s new Step Up LS for 2018 Harley Davidson Softails was created specifically for a single purpose: create a saddle that keeps the rider in position and on the saddle under nearly all dynamic conditions.
A specially designed lumbar support provides the ergonomics to keep the rider locked into place without comprising control or comfort for rider or passenger.
The Step-Up LS uses Saddlemen’s proprietary High Impact UltraFOAM™. Years of research and development has led to Saddlemen’s UltraFOAM™ formulated to create a perfect balance of rigidity and rider compliance; both required for control and enhancing comfort. This process creates encapsulated cell structures with an element-resistant self-skinning foam that seals against moisture and the elements to enhance durability.
Combined with Saddlemen’s exclusive GEL-Core™ Technology, the time spent comfortably riding increases dramatically. Gel-Core™ is engineered to dampen, divert, and deflect energy to create a smooth, therapeutic ride. High Impact Ultra Foam and GelCore are co-molded to reduces engine vibration by up to 50%, and direct impact forces by up to 92 %.
Why does Saddlemen™ use these innovative but costly materials and manufacturing process? Simple – to add hours and hours of comfortable riding time to every ride!
The Step Up LS™ is not only provides comfort, control and confidence, it presents a unique style that enhances the motorcycle, adding an edgy, aggressive look.
The seat is covered with a retro style lattice stitch to infuse old school looks with a modern day twist and is available in black or brown.
All Saddlemen™ seats are designed, tested, and built exclusively in the USA. American made quality and craftsmanship is something we take very seriously since 1987 at the Long Beach, California manufacturing facility.
Every detail, every stitch, and every step of the process from raw materials to the final product has been carefully considered and inspected to insure that Saddlemen’s™ standards for quality, craftsmanship and comfort are continuously upheld. Every rider can actually feel and experience the Quality, Craftsmanship, and Comfort built into every saddle
Saddlemen remains America’s first choice when upgrading a motorcycle seat; Saddlemen recognizes that every different body, and every bike, is built a little different and that sometimes even the best motorcycle seat may not meet everyone’s comfort expectations. Unlike other seat companies, Saddlemen will help make it right. If for some reason a customer is not completely satisfied with their new seat just call 800-397-7709 and a friendly Product Specialist will gladly assist.
Features include:
Available with black or brown covers
UltraFOAM™ High Impact Formula engineered to create a perfect balance of rigidity and user compliance utilizing an element-resistant self-skinning process protecting against the elements and contamination for enhanced durability and comfort.
Designed with exclusive ergonomics to keep the rider locked into place for the highest level of control available in an aftermarket Harley-Davidson® seat.
The unique Co-Molding manufacturing process is the largest advancement in motorcycle Control and comfort since the introduction of suspension.
Stylish retro style lattice stitch infuses old school looks with a modern day twist; show bike styling.
Designed and made in the U.S.A.
GelCore™ Technology featuring driver and passenger SaddleGel™ to reduce tailbone pressure for increased circulation and comfort.
Driver 13.75” length x 10.25” wide x 6.25 Lumbar Height
Passenger 13.75” Length x 7” wide x 29” overall length
Saddlemen seats are available at most local motorcycle shops served through Drag Specialties, a leading distributor of accessories and parts for Harley Davidson® motorcycles. Call Saddlemen at 800-397-7709 or visit http://www.saddlemen.com/ . Prices: $459.00 in black or $485.00 in brown
Key features
Fitment: Harley-Davidson
Models: Deluxe FLDE, Softail Slim FLSL, Street Bob FXBB, Heritage Classic FLHC/FLHCS
Year: 2018
Seat: Step Up LS
Part Number: 818-30-172 Black Cover with Black Stitching
818-30-172BR Brown Cover with Black Stitching
Saddlemen
17801 So Susana Rd
Compton, CA 90221
www.saddlemen.com
sales@saddlemen.com
800-397-7709
EDITOR ESCAPES TO CUBA— Final note from Bikernet Trikes Editor:
Enjoy Cuba. Write a Rum Diary. Sing a ballad. Drive Fast and Furious. Tell the Hotel manager you are Jack Nicholson from Hollywood. Vote in an election. Ask for cigars. Collect fees from natives for being photographed. Draw motorcycle sketches graffiti on the public walls. Pay for a performer’s drink. Stay up till dawn. Don’t act your age. Let there be a REVOLUTION in your Soul.
Best wishes,
–UD
Most Generous and Zen Editor
Bikernet Trikes
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DAV WANTS YOUR SUPPORT–
Your past support has been immeasurable to our American heroes. And, your support is even more important around the holidays, as this can be a very trying time for our veterans.
I want to share a special message from our good friend, LeAnn Rimes, who is reserving a seat at her Thanksgiving table for a special veteran. Please read her message and join our #reservedforahero campaign.
With gratitude,
J. Marc Burgess
DAV National Adjutant/CEO
I’m a lifetime member of the DAV, but they haven’t helped my VA efforts much, although a very good friend is a DAV commander in California. He’s tried.
I’m still waiting patiently for my appeal to move forward. I did three tours in Vietnam on a heavy cruiser. On one tour we sent 85,000 5-inch and 8-inch rounds into the mainland.–Bandit
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Addiction is a nasty thing. Often we feel helpless as a loved one’s life spirals out of control. We are there offering moral and financial help, put food on their plate and roof over their head. It seems like it is never enough. Our own careers hurt, our social lives hurt as we do everything we can to help the person with addiction. The reasoning is that we don’t want the guilt that we didn’t do absolutely everything, that if we had only tried harder, loved them more that we would have been able to save them. We’ve all consoled friends standing over graves as they proclaimed if only they had done more, maybe we’ve been there ourselves mourning our own loss, wonder what we could have done.
The truth is that there is nothing we can do, because we are not the addiction, we’re not the one dealing with the addiction. There is a point break where we are no longer helping, sympathizing but rather enabling, facilitating. It is only the person dealing with the addiction that can decide that they’ve had enough. Only they can decide that they are willing to do the hard work, life time of work to kick addiction and no amount of hoping and prayers by us can change that. They have to decide to get better or to die because of the addiction.
It is something that I had to deal with my brother. A life time alcoholic with mental issues he has no intentions of changing his life. Sure he’ll put in his time in rehab to satisfy the courts but once out he is drinking again, even before he made it home. It was overwhelming destructive force in my life. It reached a point where several years ago I had to sever all ties with him, to leave him to die on his own.
It is something that I have to now deal with my daughter. Addicted to meth, alcohol and pretty much anything else to get her high she has no intentions of changing. To her there is nothing wrong with her life, that most nearly thirty year olds live the same way as her. And she is right; she has surrounded herself with groups of friends who are living that way, bouncing from couch to couch, staying and partying at whoever got their parents or welfare to spring for a place to stay for a month or two before they are evicted for spending all their money on drugs. She said she was going back to school but when the student loan cheque arrived it was all spent on drugs. When she was arrested for shoplifting she convinced them that she had turned a new leaf and had gotten a job. She was fired when she didn’t show up because she went partying. Because she doesn’t want to change we are left in the conundrum. We can “do everything we can” which means letting her move in and watch as she slowly steals and pawns our belongings to support her habit while we keep praying and believing that she will be better tomorrow as she slowly kills herself. The sad truth is the woman asleep in my basement is not our daughter, not the bright eyed happy girl who had a bright future in front of her. She is just some who is using her name.
-bad Uncle Monkey
TOY RUNS… REMEMBER: You can drop off new, unwrapped toys at Lifestyle Cycles from now through December 15th. Just look for the Toy Box in our Apparel Department or ask one of Santa’s Helpers (any Lifestyle Cycles employee).
–Lifestyle Cycles
NEWS FROM THE DRAG STRIP–
Top Fuel champ John Force’s daughter, Courtney. (also a top fuel champ!) I need to spend more time at the drag strip!
–Buckshot
HAVE A TERRIFIC HOLIDAY— It’s never dull around here. I’m thinking about next year hard. The Assalt Torpedo is the major goal. It needs to be on the Salt next August.
We maybe working a deal on our 5-Ball Leather Line. I would like to finish my screenplay and we are going to reprint my second book Outlaw Justice. That’s all. How’s that?
Oh, and what about this internet television series hosted by Nick and the Bikernet Headquarters.
Next week we may bring you a new girl of Bikernet, the Bill Bish NCOM report, more on the Mistrial, oh hell the content never stops coming.
Have a helluva holiday and ride Free Forever,
–Bandit 
