This weekend is going to be fun, I'm going to be setting up a booth for Strong Arm Brands of lubricant and penetrating oil. This stuff is awesome, I use it on my motorcycles, guns and everything else that needs to be squeek free and protected from water and moisture.
The motorcycle swapmeet is in Ottumwa by the Iowa ABATE District 14 crew. I hear it's a pretty good swapmeet and we should see quite a few customers. I've been using the product for a few years now and I truely live by it... I've treated my leather coat with it, cleaned the rust off of the chrome parts of a 1974 Yamaha RD250 bike and everything on my 82 KZ1100 motorcycle.
I hope to be able to do more of these shows in the future, it's a foot in the door for doing the video production for motorcycle parts and accessories.
My other website is http://www.motorcyclepartsandaccessoriesvideos.com/ and that is where I do the video production of Motorcycle Parts and Accessories, product videos, promotional videos and branding videos.
Check it out if you get a chance, also find it on Facebook and make sure to LIKE it so if you have any friends interested, they may hire me too. I'll have some samples up soon too.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Shannon Appleby wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
AMA Awards Motorcyclist of the Year to its Most Harmful Opponent
Post By: Jeff Cobb on Thursday December 9 2010 As Motorcycle News,News
Taking notes from a liberal progressive organization, the ordinarily conservative American Motorcyclist Association has decided to export some good old passive aggression from its humble offices in Ohio back to California.
Specifically, the AMA has named Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as its Motorcyclist of the Year.
Why? Because he did more damage to the industry than any other person in 2010 by signing S.B. 435, an anti-noise law that is poorly crafted, discriminates against motorcyclists, will be difficult to enforce, and will hurt the already struggling industry.
Yes, he did damage, so he gets the annual prize. Makes sense, right?
AMA President and CEO Rob Dingman justified the award by saying, "the AMA Motorcyclist of the Year designation recognizes the person(s) who has had the most profound impact on the world of motorcycling, for better or worse, in the previous 12 months."
Strange criteria to bestow an ostensible honor you say?
The AMA says it modeled its award criteria on Time Magazine's Man of the Year, which at other times has awarded it to Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini.
Okay. We get that. Sort of.
But in Hitler's case, at least, when he was awarded MOTY in 1938, the U.S. was still trying to appease him, and we were not in open conflict with Germany. That same year, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain also issued his misbegotten prophecy that they will have "peace for our time."
But would Hitler have gotten the award in 1945 after he was seen for what he was?
Would the U.S now offer Osama bin Laden Man of the Year?
Any takers? Do any Americans want to nominate Osama bin Laden? After all, has anyone allegedly had more "profound impact" on our country?
How about we nominate the Taliban, and invite its leaders to a banquet dinner to present the award?
Actually, if this doesn't sound absurd enough, Time did consider making bin Laden its Person of the Year in 2001, but decided not to.
That his nomination could be taken seriously sounds pretty perverse to me.
Given that the AMA did cross that line and chose a man seen as most harmful to its cause makes me question the AMA's position, tactics, and forthrightness.
The AMA's award has only existed since 2008, so there's not a long case history of other villains getting the award. In fact Arnie is the first.
According to AMA rep Pete terHorst, "In 2008, the AMA recognized AMA Board Chairman Stan Simpson for helping turn the AMA around, and last year it was America's youth riders because they were/are the victims most impacted by the CPSIA or "lead law."
So clearly, the AMA understands the award can go to positive movers and shakers, and reserves the right to make political statements with its award. But last year it honored victims. This year it called attention to a perpetrator.
Very interesting.
Please don't take us wrong. We adamantly support the AMA, and its endorsement of the proposed SAE J2825 motorcycle sound test, of which terHorst says, "The SAE J2825 is the way to go (which the MIC underwrote) and AMA has been pushing it wherever we could, but it's an uphill struggle."
We do agree with the AMA that the Schwarzenegger has done a horrible disservice to the industry.
It's only noteworthy that Time Magazine's standard was seen as a model to emulate by the normally conservative AMA.
In the eyes of some, we fear this will be seen as an act of passive aggression of the highest order. It might even be seen as shrill.
There is little doubt, the AMA, which was over-ruled, and lost its battle at least for now, gave the award to shame Schwarzenegger.
Dingman ends his press release by saying, "We will continue to work with municipal governments and state legislatures to implement reasonable measures, such as the SAE J2825 standard, to address excessive motorcycle sound. But we now have the added burden of showing how California's new measure is not an effective solution, and we have Gov. Schwarzenegger to thank for that."
So they "thank" him by making him Motorcyclist of the Year.
But heh, what do we know? In today's climate the AMA's posturing may be effective.
But is it setting a solid example of taking the high road in this battle?
We are actually sorry to see the AMA in such a situation. According to Dingman in his editorial titled "Sitting on the sidelines is not an option," the AMA has only 245,000 members out of an estimated 20 million riders.
Is it any wonder it is having to resort to tactics like its latest MOTY award?
We would encourage more of you who've not joined already to do so and send donations to the AMA.
Clearly the motorcyclists of America have their proverbial back up against a political wall. The AMA is fighting as best it can. We understand that.
We think the AMA's ploy ought to serve not only as a wake-up call to politicians (who don't care), but to you who are motorcyclists who say you do care!
We all need to unite more than ever, because there are more politicians than the former Terminator who'd like to terminate your rights as a rider.
What do you think? Did the AMA make the right move with its MotY selection? Please leave a comment or discuss it at this forum thread.
Living the life of the UNEMPLOYED
Ok, so back in August, I was fired from my job. Of course, this came as no suprise to me, they had slowly been giving my job duties out to other people where I was down to just doing the video shooting and editing. Well, I went after unemployment... That was my first mistake. The company fought it and I won, the first time. Then they were given the chance to appeal it, and they won. But not until after I had gotten a few months of unemployment benefits. $4,087.00 to be exact. Since they won the battle, I now have to pay all of that back. Now, since I don't have a job, I have to pay back the UNEMPLOYMENT benefits that I did receive. THIS SUCKS!
Anyway, about living while unemployed. You might think, Great, plenty of time to go fishin, work in the garage, get stuff done around the house...... You would think that. But some people end up getting into a slump of depression, you don't feel like waking up, you feel like a loser, you aren't bringing any money into the house and above all that, if you do take some time to go fishing, after looking for a job that day, then your wife busts down on you for doing it. It's like "Your not working, you cannot be going fishing." I don't know how people can go for months or especially Years without having a job. I think it sucks. You sit around on the couch, get fat, lazy, out of shape and above all else, there is still a ton of stuff to do around the house but you just can't get your ass off the computer, facebook, youtube, tv, Xbox etc to go and do anything.
Well, I know this first hand. There are a million and one things around this house I planned on doing while I had the time off. I was going to clean the garage... Well. I did that but got into another project while doing that and it ended up even worse. I was going to really insulate the house by filling in some of the cracks in the basement, attic, seal the windows, doors etc. Never got around to that cause I had to update my status and see what everyone else was up to.
I did however take time to work on my website, updated my social status like every 15 minutes or so and I even did some voluteer work by building a new website for http://www.campwyoming.net/.
My wife said the other day, "I thought you were gonna take like a month off to find a job, it's been 5 months." I was shocked, where had the time gone? What had I done in all that time?
I looked back on it and really, I spent a majority of that time on the computer. I was on facebook, youtube and email most of my day. I didn't get jack diddly done. Even when it was really nice, I only went riding my bike a few times.. I could have gotten thousands of miles in on my bike, I could have done Temp work, I could have done that household work like laundry, dishes, vacuum and much more, but I didn't.
So, here's my resolution. Until I find a job, I'm going to set a timer and limit myself to 30 minutes online a day, give or take an hour for work stuff. I should be able to write a blog, update my status, see what is going on in the world, check the weather, look for a job and go over my schedule in that amount of time.
I resolve to help keep the house picked up, help with laundry and get some much needed things done. I'm going to start by picking up the house before the wife gets home today, then start going through things on the porch to get rid of for a garage sale in the spring. I've got really cool stuff and I don't know why anyone wouldn't give a few bucks for it.
So, off I go, on my new adventure of being a housewife.....
Until I get a job of course......
Mikuni HSR48 Performance Carburetor For Big American V-Twins
Factory or custom built, "High Tech Wonder Bikes" have increased displacement requiring the highest air flow possible, highly accurate fuel metering, and precision throttle response.Following the popular HSR42 & HSR45 carburetors for stock and mildly modified Harley-Davidson and other V-Twins, Mikuni is now offering the HSR48 Flat Side Carburetor, a must have for highly tuned big American Big Twin motors.
This smooth-bore carburetor offers the highest air flow, a new extended main jet and larger fuel valve to assure ample fuel supply. It has` all the same features and big performance gains as all other HSR carburetors and is designed with an 8-roller bearing flat throttle slide assembly that allows an unobstructed venturi at full throttle to flow more air, while it mixes fuel more precisely at all throttle settings. Mikuni's roller bearing throttle slide offers smoother throttle control and allows the use of a lighter throttle return spring for reduced throttle effort. The Mikuni adjustable accelerator pump provides instant throttle response in any riding or performance application. A high capacity float bowl prevents fuel starvation even under full throttle . The new HSR48 comes complete with rubber mounting flange, choke cable, remote idle adjuster and additional jetting. For more information, contact your local dealer or visi Mikuni Power.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Submitting blogs by email
I now have a way to submit my blogs directly from my email.
This is cool because now I can actually paste text into the email and publish it to this blog.
You can set this up in your settings/email/ and select post immediately.
But don't forget that email address.
FREE INDIAN LARRY STICKERS
Bobby Seeger Jr. at Indian Larry Motorcycles is giving away FREE Indian Larry stickers.
Here are the instructions.
Send a self addressed envelopoe with a stamp to:
Indian Larry Motorcycles
400 Union Ave.
Brooklyn, NY. 11211
FREE STICKERS with your return postage it will go back to where ever you live.
Enjoy.
Here are the instructions.
Send a self addressed envelopoe with a stamp to:
Indian Larry Motorcycles
400 Union Ave.
Brooklyn, NY. 11211
FREE STICKERS with your return postage it will go back to where ever you live.
Enjoy.
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