Hey,
Don’t forget to turn your clocks back. Is life nuts or what? You’re gonna love this. I’m 65 and looking for a date. Fortunately, I have lots of long-distance love supporting me from ex-wives and even a 25-year-old. I should be satisfied, but I’m still looking.
It’s sorta like riding a Hyabusa off a cliff. After I crashed a couple of times, I’m not sure I need to head down that road again, but the thrill keeps calling me. Ray, Toby, and I had a Bikernet manufacturing meeting last week at a coffee shop. I noticed two good-looking middle-aged blondes got up to leave. I made eye contact and was intrigued, then reality set in.
I could get to know one, and she could be a drug addict, have six kids who want to move in, have a drinking problem, not work, and want to spend my retirement savings, start fooling with another brother on the staff, kill my dog, can’t cook—Holy shit. I looked the other way and was glad my dogs don’t bite me, and are usually truly happy to see me.
Let’s hit the news:
RIGID FRAME RICHARD REPORTS FROM THE LONE STAR RALLY–Here is a few of some of the things I will be sending that way shortly. Need to pull the bagger back apart today, tried to get her running for the LSR which I did on Thursday night! Let her warm up for a couple minutes, then she started to make this horrible sound at the engine/primary! It was at that very moment I remembered WHY I took her down, something loose in the charging system. Rocker boxes were also leaking is why I pulled the motor out.
Which would have been very easy to fix those 3 months it was sitting on an engine stand on the table…DUMBASS!
I will send you a feature on Jonny Lang shortly. Here are some teaser shots.
Didn’t get to see “Our” girl, Friday her and Rick rode off when I was over at the seawall, yesterday on my first trip she was really busy, then she was gone again. The last two years they have split the rally up with part on the Strand and part on the seawall, but farther down from were the convention center is when you were here.
You notice I came across the bike that had the two welding tanks on it again, but finished this time, it was in the Pro Builders Show
You need to help me start a collection to get my knees fixed. I was really limited this weekend, but been a busy month as well! First the Day of the Drags, then the Harley drags, Jonny Lang and then LSR
–RFR
STROKERS DALLAS WEEKEND DEAL—while Rick and Lena ride around Galveston for the Lone Star Rally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL2Y3m9IfFU
Come on out and shop Strokers Dallas October Sales Event –offering HUGE savings on a selection of our used motorcycle inventory!
Rick is featuring two of our used Harley-Davidson Motorcycles – a 2009 HD Superglide and a 2006 H-D Wideglide.
Check out what Rick has to say about these two bikes and then come on in and check them out in person.
VELOCITY TAKES ON MORE LEGENDARY BIKE BUILDS WITH LONGER EPISODES IN AN ALL-NEW SEASON OF CAFÉ RACER–
— The Man Behind the Motorcycle, Mike Seate, Hosts Five All-New One Hour Episodes Premiering November 6 on Velocity –
Episode One, Premieres November 6 at 9:00 PM
Classified Moto out of Richmond, VA makes no apologies for the elevated perceptions that others have of their back yard business. John Ryland, a recently laid off Ad Man knows the ins and outs of marketing his start-up company and his sought after machines. Actress Katee Sackhoff of Battlestar Galactica and 24 found John’s story irresistible and commissioned Classified for a canyon carving Café Racer.
Jay Leno weighs in on Katee’s off-road Honda build. Alos in this episode: Bay Area builder Patrick Bell has dabbled in acting, photography, and music, but motorcycles are his true love. When Bell received a cold call from eccentric and eager finance manager Olaf Hoff to transform an ugly Moto Guzzi 850 T-3, complete with running boards for foot pegs, into a lean and light ton eating machine, he called Café Racer.
Bell keeps his anxious client in the dark throughout the build and then hands the bike over to Ben and Eric Bostrom for a top-secret, fast and picturesque runway test ride that would make Maverick and the Iceman jealous.
SUNDAY BAD JOKE LIBRARY NOW OPEN– An old man sitting on his front porch watching the sun rise. He sees the neighbor’s kid walk by carrying something big under his arm.
“Hey boy, whatcha got there?”
“Roll of chicken wire.”
“What you gonna do with that?”
“Gonna catch some chickens.”
“You damn fool! You can’t catch chickens with chicken wire!”
The boy just laughs and keeps walking. That evening at sunset, the boy comes walking by, dragging behind him the chicken wire
with about 30 chickens caught in it.
The next morning, the old
man is out watching the sun rise and he sees the boy walk by carrying something in his hand. “Hey boy, whatcha got there?”
“Roll of duct tape.”
“Whatcha gonna do with that?”
“Gonna catch me some ducks.”
“You damn fool! You can’t catch ducks with duct tape!”
The boy just laughs and keeps walking.
That night around sunset the boy walks by, trailing behind him the unrolled roll of duct tape with about 35 ducks caught in it.
The next morning, the old man sees the boy walking by carrying what looks like a long reed with something fuzzy on the end.
”Hey boy, whatcha got there?”
“It’s a pussy willow.”
“Wait up kid…I’ll get my hat.”
–from Geno
QUICK, ENTER THE WHEELS THROUGH TIME RAFFLE—It’s that time of year again!!! Almost a year has passed since Wheels Through Time gave away the beautiful 1932 Harley-Davidson Flathead to one lucky contestant, and the time is drawing near to make another person home the brand new winner of a 1939 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead Bobber.
The Wheels Through Time Annual Raffle is the museum’s largest fundraiser, and helps the museum to build new exhibits, improve current displays, and keep the museum up and running. This year’s machine is a beauty of a ’39 Knucklehead Bobber, carefully rebuilt in the WTT restoration shop.
Wrapped around a meticulously rebuilt 61 cubic inch Harley-Davidson OHV engine and four speed transmission, this Bobber is overflowing with character and Real School personality. The special Copper and Black paint scheme was laid down by Dills Paint Works, with striping by Mark Peters.
With to many details to list, this machine is set to be given away to its new owner on November 16th!
Ticket specials are 1 ticket for $10; 3 for $20; and 7 for $50 (which includes a free t-shirt and DVD). For more information, visit the museum’s website at www.WheelsThroughTime.com.
Get Your Tickets Today!!!
AUSTRALIAN CLUB PROBLEMS–Mid North Coast Harley owners alarmed by Queensland’s new anti-bikie laws.
Queensland’s controversial new anti-bikie laws have been slammed by mid north coast Harley-Davidson riders.
The Newman Government has banned club members from gathering in groups, and introduced harsh mandatory sentences to be served in a bikies-only prison.
The new laws have worried motorcycle club members in Coffs Harbour.
Harley Owners Group member, David Laarhoven said even though they’re Queensland-based laws, law-abiding club members in New South Wales should be concerned.
“I find them quite draconian, we’re certainly going back to the dark ages where you automatically, because you’re riding a motorcycle and you’ve got some leathers on, you will be pointed out as a motorcycle gang or an outlaw,” he said.
” And you’re guilty until proven innocent.”
Mr Laarhoven said most riders are completely law-abiding, but they’re all treated as criminals.
“If we were to ride into Queensland as the Harley Owners Group, and we’ve got our nice leather vests on with the Harley Eagle on the back, will we be pulled over if we’re on a charity ride? ” he asked
“Do we need to alert these authorities too, and how do they differentiate between us and other motorcycle clubs?”
THIS JUST IN, New Bikernet Reader Comment!–
WWI Trench Knife Kick Pedal
http://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=1993
FUCK HISTORY…
–Bob T Chop N Grind Racing
r.tron@verizon.net
Yucca Valley, CA
SPEAKING OF LAWS AND COPS–Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required for GPS Trackers
By Kim Zetter
The second of two GPS trackers found recently on the vehicle of a young man in California.
An appellate court has finally supplied an answer to an open question left dangling by the Supreme Court in 2012: Do law enforcement agencies need a probable-cause warrant to affix a GPS tracker to a target’s vehicle?
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals gave a resounding yes to that question today in a 2 to 1 decision.
“Today’s decision is a victory for all Americans because it ensures that the police cannot use powerful tracking technology without court supervision and a good reason to believe it will turn up evidence of wrongdoing,” said ACLU attorney Catherine Crump in a statement. “These protections are important because where people go reveals a great deal about them, from who their friends are, where they visit the doctor and where they choose to worship.”
It’s the first appeals court ruling in the wake of United States v. Jones, a Supreme Court case involving a convicted drug dealer. In that case, the Supreme Court justices ruled in January 2012 that law enforcement’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle constituted a search under the Fourth Amendment.
The justices declined to rule at the time, however, on whether such a search was unreasonable and therefore required a warrant.
A number of court cases in the wake of Jones have grappled with the question of GPS trackers, but all of these cases have involved the use of GPS trackers prior to the Supreme Court decision. In these cases, the courts had to decide whether evidence obtained through the use of GPS trackers was still admissible in light of the Supreme Court decision.
Several courts around the country have ruled that the evidence gathered prior to the Supreme Court ruling can be submitted in court because investigators were acting in good faith at the time, relying on what were then binding rulings in several U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal that authorized the use of warrantless GPS trackers for surveillance.
Circuit courts in the 7th (covering Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana), 8th (covering Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota) and 9th (covering Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, the Mariana Islands, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington) all ruled prior to the Supreme Court case that warrantless GPS tracking was legal.
Although the Third Circuit Court, where the current case was heard, did not have such a ruling in place prior to the Supreme Court decision, the government argued that investigators in this most recent case were operating under good faith based on prior rulings in these other districts.
The appellate judges rejected this argument, however, and ruled that the “good faith” exception did not apply.
The appellate case, U.S. vs. Harry Katzin, Michael Katzin and Mark Louis Katzin, Sr., involves a string of pharmacy burglaries committed in Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey in 2009 and 2010.
The crimes occurred mostly at Rite-Aid pharmacies, where the thieves cut external phone lines to disable the alarm systems. Harry Katzin was an electrician who, along with his two brothers, became targets of the investigation. They had criminal histories and were seen by police on a few occasions lurking outside Rite Aids prior to the lines being cut at the stores.
The police knew that Harry Katzin regularly parked his van on a particular street in Philadelphia so one early morning in December, after consulting with the United States Attorney’s office, but without obtaining a warrant, the FBI affixed a “slap-on” GPS tracker to the exterior of Katzin’s van. Using the device, investigators were able to map a trail directly connecting Katzin’s movements to a Rite Aid store. When they discovered that the store had been burglarized shortly afterward, police pulled over Katzin’s van and discovered all three brothers inside as well as merchandise from the store inside the van, including pill bottles and Rite Aid storage bins.
The brothers filed a motion to suppress the evidence. The government argued that a warrant was not required for the tracker and that the search of the car was based on reasonable suspicion. The government also argued that if officers were required to obtain a warrant and have probable cause prior to executing a GPS search, “officers could not use GPS devices to gather information to establish probable cause, which is often the most productive use of such devices.”
The justices said the government’s statement “wags the dog rather vigorously,” noting that the primary reason for a search cannot be to generate evidence for law enforcement purposes. They also noted that “Generally speaking, a warrantless search is not rendered reasonable merely because probable cause existed that would have justified the issuance of a warrant.”
The justices also rejected the government’s argument that obtaining a warrant would impede the ability of law enforcement to investigate crimes.
“Consequently, we hold that — absent some highly specific circumstances not present in this case — the police cannot justify a warrantless GPS search with reasonable suspicion alone,” the justices wrote.
WASHINGTON DC:
–from Rogue
MORE ON THE E-15 TESTING BILL–
In case you are new and not up to speed H.R. 875 is the bill to require a “Comprehensive” and “Independent” study of E-15 which is what should have been done back in 2005.
The link to this bill is https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr875
The AMA and the MRF have both picked up on us filing the resolutions and have put the word out. The more states to follow your lead the better to get this job done The Poker Run Bill is still being looked at by the speakers office and decisions have not been made as the Budget, Pensions, Gay Marriage are all on the list of problems above us.
I talked with staff while writing this and was told to stop by the office next week for an up date. The final 3 days of the fall session are Nov. 5,6,&7th. Our legislative friends will be reaching out to you for help getting petitions signed for getting on the primary ballet. A good place to get signatures will be your own meetings. Call the legislators campaign office and get those petitions from them. Your help is needed by them and their help is needed by us.
–Bob
Correction: FYI: Both the House and Senate resolutions to support Congressional Bill H.R. 875 now have a bill number.The House version, HR 524 Sponsored by Representatives Kay Hatcher (50th) and Co-sponsored by Tom Morrison (54th) and the Senate version, SR 634 Sponsored by Senators Mike Jacobs (36th) and Chief Co-sponsor by Linda Holmes (42nd) These bills need to be assigned committees which should be done the week of Nov 5th.
They will most likely go to the Agriculture Committees in each chamber but no guarantees. As soon as I find out which committee they get I will let you know so calls can be made for supporting them.
These are identical bills in language but each is separate from the other so if one makes it and the other fails at least Congress know that there is division on this subject in the #2 corn state. In case you are new and not up to speed H.R. 875 is the bill to require a “Comprehensive” and “Independent” study of E-15 which is what should have been done back in 2005.
The link to this bill is https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr875
The AMA and the MRF have both picked up on us filing the resolutions and have put the word out. The more states to follow your lead the better to get this job done?The Poker Run Bill is still being looked at by the speakers office and decisions have not been made as the Budget, Pensions, Gay Marriage are all on the list of problems above us. I talked with staff while writing this and was told to stop by the office next week for an up date.
–from Rogue
[page break]
NEW MOTORCYCLE SAFETY EFFORT–
My name is Hailey and I am contacting you in regards to motorcycle safety. A couple years ago, I lost a close friend when she was hit by a distracted driver. I’m hoping to expand motorcycle safety awareness, to prevent this tragic loss from happening to other motorcycle enthusiasts.
I would appreciate it you offered our new motorcycle site as a resource for fellow bikers. I personally update our motorcycle website, and my topics range from picking the right bike to taking your first steps after a motorcycle accident. Please, give me an e-mail back and let me know what you think!
Hailey M. Daniels
Hailey@AfteraMotorcycleAccident.com
Find me on the @OpenRoad of your Twitter feed
AUSTRALIAN Motorcyclists asked to give police notice of their rides–Queensland Police want motorcycle riders to give them a call before heading out on the roads, to avoid law-abiding citizens being “harassed” by police.
The proposal was discussed at a private meeting between Queensland Police Minister Jack Dempsey, senior police and rider groups including the Australian Motorcycle Council, which represents recreational riders and outlaw motorcycle clubs.
Authorities and the council spent more than an hour thrashing out issues surrounding the government’s draconian ant-biker laws at Parliament House on Thursday.
On Friday, Opposition police spokesman Bill Byrne received 10,000 signatures on a petition from motorcyclists complaining about harassment by police engaged in policing declared motorcycle clubs.
AMC spokeswoman Eva Cripps said there had been a “huge escalation” of recreational riders being pulled over and unnecessarily searched by police in the last three weeks.
“Police say they know who the [outlaw club] members are, yet they find it difficult to identify them because they don’t wear their colours any more. The only option is to pull over all riders,” she said.
Ms Cripps said the council was fundamentally against the idea of riders needing to inform police before heading out in groups, but said fed-up clubs were likely to support the scheme.
“The clubs will let the police know what they’re doing to stop the harassment… We’re quite concerned about the fact that people riding a legal form of transport have to report into police to stop themselves being harassed,” she said.
Predictability, Dempsey, said the meeting between authorities and the AMC was productive.
He said the finer points of the notification scheme were yet to be worked out, but flagged the possibility of clubs being able to use the internet to register rides with police.
“I think there is going to be a greater interaction and greater understanding of legal motorcycle groups and associate clubs in the future,” Dempsey said.
“These aren’t the people that we are targeting. We are targeting the criminal gangs and thugs, and we make no apologies. We’re going hard, we’re going fast, and we’re going to go further than ever before in relation to getting rid of these parasites on the streets of Queensland.”
Deputy Queensland Police Commissioner Brett Pointing, the head of the state-wide Operation Resolve, said most officers had a “limited knowledge” of legitimate motorcycle groups.
“One of the strategies club members have used is to de-identify themselves straight away and that’s meant we’ve had to undertake many interceptions throughout Queensland,” he said.
BIKERNET UNIVERSITY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT DESCRIPTIVE WORD OF THE DAY–vexatious vek-SEY-shuhs, adjective:
1. causing vexation; troublesome; annoying: a vexatious situation.
2. Law. (of legal actions) instituted without sufficient grounds and serving only to cause annoyance to the defendant.
3. disorderly; confused; troubled.
The courts of law would never be so constantly crowded with petty, vexatious and disgraceful suits, were it not for the herds of pettifogging lawyers that infest them.
Thus the most vexatious and violent disputes would often arise between the fishermen, were there not some written or unwritten, universal, undisputed law applicable to all cases.
Vexatious entered English from the Latin word vexare which meant “to shake, jolt, harass, annoy.”
GOOD NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA–Just a quick update from Harry’s Oldstyle Bikeshow in Queensland Australia.
Had a great show about 500 to 600 visitors , what is a lot for how much population we have and the problems we got here at the moment . As I heared the Cops had a roadblock on the way in. They only checked Motorbikes no Cars and had a Helicopter above the show watching us.
Maybe it helped that we had different Television stations there waiting to film what happens when innocent Taxpayers on Motorbikes get together for a weekend of fun so we didnt get more harassment.
Big thanks to everyone who was there. I’ll sent you the full story when I get all the Photos , but for now I just wanna sit down with a cold drink and relax
–Harry
Harry’s Custom Bikework
Australia
NEW FROM BIKER’S CHOICE–FEULING SUPER SCAVENGER OIL PUMP FOR TWIN POWER—Anytime you open a Twin Cam, you need to consider an oil pump upgrade.
• Increased scavenge-to-pressure volume ratio creating the ultimate oil pump for Twin
Cam engines
• Manufactured using the same 7075 billet material and specs as the FEULING
Race Series oil pumps feature a thinner pressure housing resulting in an increased
ratio for the scavenge side of the oil pump
• Test results show a decrease in cylinder head temperatures and an increased amount
of oil removed from engine crankcase and camchest, eliminating power robbing wet
sumping and oil carry over
Pressure Volume
• 18% more than 99-06 factory oil pump
• 10% more than 07-13 factory oil pump
• 1% more than SE oil pump
Scavenge Volume
• 60% more than 99-06 factory oil pump
• 38% more than 07-13 factory oil pump
• 9% more than SE oil pump
Application P/N
Fits 99-06 (except 2006 Dyna) Mfg/N 7059
49-5995
Fits 07-13 (including 2006 Dyna) Mfg/N 7069
49-5996
AUSTRALIAN Anti-biker laws sicken civil liberties– There is something unhealthy in the legislative air. In Queensland, a renewed effort has commenced against the motorcycle clubs that have plagued the law and order landscape of several states.. .writes Binoy Kampmark
Recently, the Queensland parliament passed three bills that would effectively classify 26 motorcycle clubs as ‘criminal organizations’. The implications of this designation are extensive and extend beyond the sunshine state. ‘Bikie’ members are prohibited from assembling. They will be a provision of a special ‘bikie jail’ termed colloquially a ‘clubhouse’ for convicted members. The terms of incarceration may also be mandatory; and there will be job bans. Special treatment will be meted out.
The Queensland Police Minister Jack Dempsey explained his rationale before parliament, citing that customary hearth and home image of security and protection. ‘People need to know when they go to bed at night and the darkness of the evening comes over, that they can sleep safely in their beds.’
The flipside of such protective romanticism is that of arbitrariness. This was reflected in the views of Queensland Premier Campbell Newman who said, ‘Frankly I don’t care how these people go to jail.’ Premature adjudication is a dangerous tendency in any process, but notably in one where legal fairness is considered the norm.
Political commentator Malcolm Farr, himself a motorbike rider, termed such measures and rationales ‘utter tosh’. It was a ‘bogeyman story’ to tell the frightened kids. It was irrational. And more to the point, such laws were dangerous to everyone. Farr is careful not to excuse bad behaviour on the part of the clubs. They are, for much of their part, ‘frauds’, ‘thugs’ and ‘grubs’.
The medicine, however, is bound to kill that frail patient known as civil liberties. How to sort the wheat from the chaff in policing a special group of law- or non-law-abiding citizens? In Farr’s words, ‘these laws will be applied to others who wouldn’t know a bikie from a brickie’.
What is being touted here is a police state response, rather than a measured, legal program. Broad brush strokes in legal responses tend to be disastrous. Selective punishment of groups, assaults on the assembly of individuals, and selective prisons are not expressions of sober policing but marauding heavy-handedness. In 2009, Moira Rayner, in a survey of the NSW government’s attempt to rush through extreme bikie laws, noted that it was ‘never a good idea to make law on the run’.
And we’ve seen it all before. In 1994, the New South Wales parliament enacted the Community Protection Act with a specific intent of permitting the NSW Supreme Court to order the continued detention of Gregory Wayne Kable, a prisoner slated for release. He had been deemed a threat to the public after being convicted for manslaughter for killing his wife. The High Court found in 1996 that the law was unconstitutional, citing that the Court had been vested with non-judicial powers offensive to Chapter III of the Constitution. The saga has persisted.
Thus began a string of decisions from the High Court finding organized crime control laws as incompatible with the State judicial process. Some cases such as South Australia v Totani and Wainohu v New South Wales found against them. Others, such as the Gypsy Joker’s Motorcycle Club Inc case, found the laws compatible. The result has been unsatisfactory, giving us, in the words of Cheryl Saunders, a ‘messy jurisprudence’.
The Kable principle remains as confusing as ever as to where the boundary lies in granting state courts powers excessive powers of crime control over specified groups. The High Court justices are reluctant to speak with one voice on the subject. It says much about the muddle-headed thinking on the subject of civil rights in this country. The states have profited in this climate of obtuseness. A legislative lottery has sprung up with attempts, like Newman’s, to pass laws that push the bar in terms of how groups can be targeted as dangerous to the community.
In Victoria, laws have been drafted to be consistent with the High Court interpretation, though remain on the shelf because evidence is required in a court to demonstrate that a group is a criminal organization. This, at least, is an inbuilt restriction. The Queensland laws, if they pass muster in any legal challenge, have no such limit. They will be bliss for the police state advocates. First came the bikies — then came everyone else.
Dr Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.
It’s nuts to call any group special and attempt to pass laws against them. This world has gone crazy. In the US they gave up on the RICO act years ago. Now they have a stronger card, Terrorism. If you blink twice you could be called a terrorist and jailed forever. I don’t get it. We are willing to throw all of our liberties, freedoms, rights, or democratic rule out the window for perceived safety. What the hell? If a guy robs a bank arrest him and take care of business, done deal. It’s not about whether he’s tall, short, in a club, a gang, a religion, a sect, whatever. –Bandit
BIKERNET UNIVERSITY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT TRIBUTE TO BANDIT’S DAD—My dad had a saying about insects. He said, “Ah, that’s one of those bright yellow bugs with the black poka-dots that you can’t see. The English department came up with a words for it: animalcule an-uh-MAL-kyool, noun:
1. a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
2. Archaic. a tiny animal, as a mouse or fly.
But man contemplates the universe as an animalcule would an elephant.
He has absolutely no idea of the prodigious personage that I am, and of the microscopic animalcule that he is in comparison.
Animalcule comes directly from the Neo-Latin word animalculum meaning “a small animal.”
BRAND New Bikernet Reader Comment! —Meet Andie Gaskins from Fast Andie Racing
http://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=11351
Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
–Rhonda Boyers
rkboyers9223@gmail.com
Poplar Bluff, MT
LIFESTYLE DEAL OF THE HALLOWEEN WEEKEND—2005 Deluxe just $11.995.00
Lots of mods: Accessories: 16″ chubby ape hangers, “stiletto” front axle caps, chrome lower fork sliders, chrome fork cover tins, smoked LED turn signals front and rear, chrome and rubber grips, chrome hand controls, chrome levers, chrome switch housings, chrome switches, “Willie G” skull floorboards, shift peg, brake pedal pad, highway pegs, passenger pegs, and derby cover, paint matched dash insert, high flow air cleaner with K&N cone filter, fishtail exhaust, braided cables, lines and spark plug wires, laydown license plate
Engine: 88ci
Transmission: 5 Speed
Fuel System: Fuel Injection
Queensland police under threat of armed reprisals from the Mongols?
In an attempt to generate further anti-biker media hysteria coupled with an expanded budget for more toys, Queensland police and their union claim they are under threat of armed reprisals from the Mongols.
Playing his role in the transparent farce, Police Commissioner Ian Stewart says he’s regained his qualification to carry and operate a Glock pistol.
Queensland Police Union President Ian Leavers ‘revealed’ the development as he again called for new bullet proof vests for officers, and semi-automatic weapons.
Leavers said if the threat was great enough for the Commissioner to be retrained in the use of a handgun, frontline police must be protected.
“Obviously there is a risk out there or the Commissioner wouldn’t have got retrained and he wouldn’t be instructing all his senior executive and very senior police to now be trained,” said Leavers.
“That already occurs in other states but obviously there is a heightened risk and I’m just asking the Commissioner to protect the employees of the Queensland Police Service.”
He said body armour the “weight of a singlet” was available for police and was currently used in Victoria.
Mr Leavers also called for semi-automatic weapons removed from police stations in the southeast in the last 12-months because of budgetary constraints (police stealing) to be returned.
“I know on the southside of Brisbane they have available one Remington R4 which is locked away in a safe and hidden away so no one can use it,” he said.
“It just doesn’t make sense.”
The charade started after police claimed they’ve been told a ‘notorious bikie gang’ will kill them rather than be arrested and face the Newman Government’s tough new laws.
The so called secret warning was allegedly distributed to the state’s 11,000 police on Thursday night.
The ‘protected correspondence’ sent to police revealed authorities had obtained ‘credible evidence’ that the Mongols motorcycle club will take any steps necessary to evade capture, up to killing police.
The correspondence says the Mongols, which recently patched over the Australia wide Finks motorcycle club, are taking the action to bypass new Government laws which could leave members facing up to 25 years’ jail.
They have also been advised that declared motorcycle clubs may have serious weaponry and concealed firearms.
In a statement, the Queensland Police Service said it could not elaborate on the ‘intelligence’.
“Unfortunately this is a continuation of the propaganda – and there’s no other word for it.
“That’s what we’ve seen since this hyped up anti-biker legislations been kicked off by this government two weeks ago.”
IT’S AMAZING—Here in the United States we just had a blast at Biketoberfest. The Love Ride just saw major stars promoting the longest running motorcycle charity effort in the country. This weekend thousands will ride into Texas to the Lone Star Rally. Next week thousands of wrenching/customizing enthusiasts will roll to the SEMA show in Las Vegas.
The key to my feeble way of thinking is more freedom, not less. We need to encourage freedom, not stifle it.
There must be a way. In the meantime I’ll look for a redhead who will rock my world, work along side me, and not run off. Is it possible to find someone? According to Dr. Feng, it is. He opens his massive Chinese Astrology books and can tell me the birthday of the woman I can live with forever. I just need to find her. Unfortunately, no woman in history was born on that day.
.jpg)
Get this: We went to dinner on the docks last night. The Commodore of the club fell in love six months ago with a cute blonde. Two months ago he got married. She seemed cool and worked alongside of him every Saturday night, until they married. As soon as he slipped on the ring she quit coming to the dock for dinner. Within another month they broke up. Holy shit!
Let’s go for a ride!
–Bandit
