17.9.08
21.7.08
Dead Stoned Presidents Screw Bikers
ME
So you discriminate against motorcycles!! If I show up with my Toyota rusted oil dripping faimily van packed full of my entire redneck family of 14 inlaws and outlaws we get in for 10.00 but if my lovely payboy model girlfriend and I show up on my prize winning custom Harley Davidson we get niped for 10 bucks also? Don't seem very fair does it?
THEM
Thank you for submitting an email on July 18, 2008 concerning your visit toMount Rushmore National Memorial.The legislation that established Mount Rushmore National Memorial prohibitscharging an entrance fee at the Memorial. No fees had been charged at theMemorial prior to the summer of 1997 when a parking fee was established.This fee is charged to pay the cost of the construction and operation ofthe parking facility only. The new facility was necessary to accommodatethe increased length of stay due to the new facilities now available at theMemorial.We determined after much effort that a federal appropriation to build thefacility was not possible. Therefore, the National Park Service issued aconcession contract for the design, construction and operation of a parkingfacility. The concessionaire is allowed to collect a fee that will paythese costs. The concessionaire has set a standard rate of $10 for allpersonal vehicles. The concessionaire does not make special accommodationsfor various sizes of personal vehicles. In this method, we hope to keepour policies fair for everyone who visits the memorial.The parking concessionaire is also a non-profit organization, the MountRushmore National Memorial Society. Any income above expenses that mightarise from the parking revenues is returned to assist the memorial withoperations and maintenance.We do appreciate your interest in Mount Rushmore National Memorial and youtaking the time and initiative to learn more about the management of thememorial.-
So you discriminate against motorcycles!! If I show up with my Toyota rusted oil dripping faimily van packed full of my entire redneck family of 14 inlaws and outlaws we get in for 10.00 but if my lovely payboy model girlfriend and I show up on my prize winning custom Harley Davidson we get niped for 10 bucks also? Don't seem very fair does it?
THEM
Thank you for submitting an email on July 18, 2008 concerning your visit toMount Rushmore National Memorial.The legislation that established Mount Rushmore National Memorial prohibitscharging an entrance fee at the Memorial. No fees had been charged at theMemorial prior to the summer of 1997 when a parking fee was established.This fee is charged to pay the cost of the construction and operation ofthe parking facility only. The new facility was necessary to accommodatethe increased length of stay due to the new facilities now available at theMemorial.We determined after much effort that a federal appropriation to build thefacility was not possible. Therefore, the National Park Service issued aconcession contract for the design, construction and operation of a parkingfacility. The concessionaire is allowed to collect a fee that will paythese costs. The concessionaire has set a standard rate of $10 for allpersonal vehicles. The concessionaire does not make special accommodationsfor various sizes of personal vehicles. In this method, we hope to keepour policies fair for everyone who visits the memorial.The parking concessionaire is also a non-profit organization, the MountRushmore National Memorial Society. Any income above expenses that mightarise from the parking revenues is returned to assist the memorial withoperations and maintenance.We do appreciate your interest in Mount Rushmore National Memorial and youtaking the time and initiative to learn more about the management of thememorial.-
14.7.08
Victory scores huge
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Victory Motorcycle made a score with the help of their dealer, iconic customizer Arlen Ness.
The world's most recognizable biker Hells Angel's Oakland founder Ralph Sonny Barger after a half century of riding Harley Davidson motorcycles has switched to riding
a Victory motorcycle manufactured by watercraft and snowmobile maker Polaris Industry’s and supplied by Arlen Ness of Dublin California.
Sonny and his brothers wearing the Deaths head on their backs saved the Harley Davidson Motor Company by making their bad boy image and Harley’s synonymous one. Harley even named a recent model "Bad Boy".
The motor company owes Sonny so much which they won't admit, so Sonny finally dropped them for a newcomer to the scene, Victory.
A coup for Polaris, we'll see.
The world's most recognizable biker Hells Angel's Oakland founder Ralph Sonny Barger after a half century of riding Harley Davidson motorcycles has switched to riding
a Victory motorcycle manufactured by watercraft and snowmobile maker Polaris Industry’s and supplied by Arlen Ness of Dublin California.
Sonny and his brothers wearing the Deaths head on their backs saved the Harley Davidson Motor Company by making their bad boy image and Harley’s synonymous one. Harley even named a recent model "Bad Boy".
The motor company owes Sonny so much which they won't admit, so Sonny finally dropped them for a newcomer to the scene, Victory.
A coup for Polaris, we'll see.
8.7.08
Figures Don’t Lie….Liars can figure
One evening being bored I read the OFFICIAL DOT chart from the South Dakota Highway department on the attendance figures they come up with for Sturgis '07
Using their numbers for '07, they claim for the 7 days their total count was 461507 with a daily average of 65,930. Using these numbers as the gospel truth because SDDOT wouldn't lie? That means on an average rally day they counted 65 thousand vehicles entering Sturgis. We don't know if the same vehicle entered and was counted once or twenty times. For this story we'll assume each vehicle entered Sturgis once. We will also assume that the average visitor stayed 7 days and we agree that 461K vehicles enter Sturgis and were counted for the 7 days.
Now we will make the following assumption, that the daily average was of non-unique visitors and let’s say 5% are new unique daily or about 2500 X 7 is 17,500 plus the 65,000 equals about 82,500 as the total attendance at Sturgis 2007 instead of the 507,000 claimed by the promoters. The 507K figure represents visitor days which is 1 visitor for 1 day so if a visitor stays 7 days that is counted as 7 people. The number of unique visitors is much, much less.
A Unique Visitor is a person who comes to the rally and is counted once no matter how many times they roll over a mechanical counter which is repeat visitors and the lie that the rally perpetuates is the total number of repeats not unique.
Great Lawn: A Bubble of History BurstsBy JIM DWYER
Here is an official history of attendance at great public gatherings in Central Park: James Taylor played in Central Park’s Sheep Meadow in the summer of 1979, and officials announced that 250,000 people came. A year later, Elton John performed on the Great Lawn, and the authorities said he drew 300,000 people.. Then Simon and Garfunkel performed in September 1981, and city officials and organizers reported that 400,000 people had packed into the park. Ten years later, it was announced that Paul Simon drew 600,000. The biggest concert of all, it seems, was by Garth Brooks, on Aug. 7, 1997, at the North Meadow, with a reported attendance of 750,000 people.That march of history has come to a screeching halt.Ten days ago, Bon Jovi played on the Great Lawn, and the city’s official head count came to 48,538 people — a number tallied by parks workers with clickers at the entryways to the lawn. This total includes only the people admitted to the 13-acre oval that makes up the Great Lawn, and not any of those gathered in the walkways and swaths of ground to the east and west of the lawn.Still, the Bon Jovi crowd was a fraction of the colossal throngs that are part of the city’s collective mythic memory. If fewer than 50,000 people were able to fill the oval, how could a half million more people get anywhere near the Paul Simon concert held in the same space?The answer, city officials say, is that they didn’t.“You look out at the sea of people from the stage, and your mind tells you, ‘That’s what hundreds of thousands of people looks like,’ ” Adrian Benepe, the parks commissioner, said. “Now we know it’s 48,500.”This is the sound of the hot air balloon of history being popped. It is no accident. For the last four years, the city has been struggling to defend a decision to deny permits to two antiwar groups that sought to hold a rally of 75,000 people in Central Park around the time of the 2004 Republican National Convention.The city argued that the big crowds would damage the Great Lawn, which was restored in 1998 at a cost of $13 million. The groups argued that the city had permitted concerts and a papal Mass to be held on the lawn, and sued, claiming they had been excluded because of their political views.In January, the city settled the suit by paying $50,000 to the groups and an additional $500,000 in legal fees, and agreed to hire a panel of experts who would advise the commissioner on the use of the Great Lawn by crowds.“It’s the single location in Manhattan that can function as an appropriate site for mass activity, either political rallies or concerts,” said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a lawyer for the Partnership for Civil Justice, which brought the legal challenge to the city’s decision not to issue a permit. “They want to end that as a venue for mass political actions. It’s an historic location, where hundreds of thousands of people gathered.”Mr. Benepe said that was not true, and that the precise counts show that the old numbers simply were in the realm of fantasy. “The truth is that those historical crowds, you couldn’t accommodate that many people if you crammed them into every open space in Central Park — Great Lawn, North Meadow, Sheep Meadow,” he said.Of the 13 acres on the Great Lawn, only 10 can be used by an audience, with the rest of the space reserved for the stage and for aisles. Each acre has 43,560 square feet, and based on standard space allocations of five to seven square feet per person, could accommodate somewhere in the vicinity of 6,000 and 8,000 people. Of course, on the lawn, many people spread out on blankets. Just outside the lawn oval are five or six more acres of space, with poor lines of sight but within earshot.“Capacity was not the issue when they denied the permit,” Ms. Verheyden-Hilliard said. “It was the content of the speech.”The Bon Jovi concert had big commercial backing that was linked to last week’s All-Star Game.“You still have Major League Baseball and Bank of America using the lawn for events that work with their advertising,” she said.How, by the way, did anyone figure that 300,000 people came to hear Elton John or 750,000 for Garth Brooks?“You would get in a room with the producer, with a police official, and a person from parks, and someone would say, ‘What does it look like to you?’” said Doug Blonsky, a former city parks administrator who is now the president of the Central Park Conservancy. “The producer would say, ‘I need it to be higher than the last one.’ That’s the kind of science that went into it.”
Using their numbers for '07, they claim for the 7 days their total count was 461507 with a daily average of 65,930. Using these numbers as the gospel truth because SDDOT wouldn't lie? That means on an average rally day they counted 65 thousand vehicles entering Sturgis. We don't know if the same vehicle entered and was counted once or twenty times. For this story we'll assume each vehicle entered Sturgis once. We will also assume that the average visitor stayed 7 days and we agree that 461K vehicles enter Sturgis and were counted for the 7 days.
Now we will make the following assumption, that the daily average was of non-unique visitors and let’s say 5% are new unique daily or about 2500 X 7 is 17,500 plus the 65,000 equals about 82,500 as the total attendance at Sturgis 2007 instead of the 507,000 claimed by the promoters. The 507K figure represents visitor days which is 1 visitor for 1 day so if a visitor stays 7 days that is counted as 7 people. The number of unique visitors is much, much less.
A Unique Visitor is a person who comes to the rally and is counted once no matter how many times they roll over a mechanical counter which is repeat visitors and the lie that the rally perpetuates is the total number of repeats not unique.
Great Lawn: A Bubble of History BurstsBy JIM DWYER
Here is an official history of attendance at great public gatherings in Central Park: James Taylor played in Central Park’s Sheep Meadow in the summer of 1979, and officials announced that 250,000 people came. A year later, Elton John performed on the Great Lawn, and the authorities said he drew 300,000 people.. Then Simon and Garfunkel performed in September 1981, and city officials and organizers reported that 400,000 people had packed into the park. Ten years later, it was announced that Paul Simon drew 600,000. The biggest concert of all, it seems, was by Garth Brooks, on Aug. 7, 1997, at the North Meadow, with a reported attendance of 750,000 people.That march of history has come to a screeching halt.Ten days ago, Bon Jovi played on the Great Lawn, and the city’s official head count came to 48,538 people — a number tallied by parks workers with clickers at the entryways to the lawn. This total includes only the people admitted to the 13-acre oval that makes up the Great Lawn, and not any of those gathered in the walkways and swaths of ground to the east and west of the lawn.Still, the Bon Jovi crowd was a fraction of the colossal throngs that are part of the city’s collective mythic memory. If fewer than 50,000 people were able to fill the oval, how could a half million more people get anywhere near the Paul Simon concert held in the same space?The answer, city officials say, is that they didn’t.“You look out at the sea of people from the stage, and your mind tells you, ‘That’s what hundreds of thousands of people looks like,’ ” Adrian Benepe, the parks commissioner, said. “Now we know it’s 48,500.”This is the sound of the hot air balloon of history being popped. It is no accident. For the last four years, the city has been struggling to defend a decision to deny permits to two antiwar groups that sought to hold a rally of 75,000 people in Central Park around the time of the 2004 Republican National Convention.The city argued that the big crowds would damage the Great Lawn, which was restored in 1998 at a cost of $13 million. The groups argued that the city had permitted concerts and a papal Mass to be held on the lawn, and sued, claiming they had been excluded because of their political views.In January, the city settled the suit by paying $50,000 to the groups and an additional $500,000 in legal fees, and agreed to hire a panel of experts who would advise the commissioner on the use of the Great Lawn by crowds.“It’s the single location in Manhattan that can function as an appropriate site for mass activity, either political rallies or concerts,” said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a lawyer for the Partnership for Civil Justice, which brought the legal challenge to the city’s decision not to issue a permit. “They want to end that as a venue for mass political actions. It’s an historic location, where hundreds of thousands of people gathered.”Mr. Benepe said that was not true, and that the precise counts show that the old numbers simply were in the realm of fantasy. “The truth is that those historical crowds, you couldn’t accommodate that many people if you crammed them into every open space in Central Park — Great Lawn, North Meadow, Sheep Meadow,” he said.Of the 13 acres on the Great Lawn, only 10 can be used by an audience, with the rest of the space reserved for the stage and for aisles. Each acre has 43,560 square feet, and based on standard space allocations of five to seven square feet per person, could accommodate somewhere in the vicinity of 6,000 and 8,000 people. Of course, on the lawn, many people spread out on blankets. Just outside the lawn oval are five or six more acres of space, with poor lines of sight but within earshot.“Capacity was not the issue when they denied the permit,” Ms. Verheyden-Hilliard said. “It was the content of the speech.”The Bon Jovi concert had big commercial backing that was linked to last week’s All-Star Game.“You still have Major League Baseball and Bank of America using the lawn for events that work with their advertising,” she said.How, by the way, did anyone figure that 300,000 people came to hear Elton John or 750,000 for Garth Brooks?“You would get in a room with the producer, with a police official, and a person from parks, and someone would say, ‘What does it look like to you?’” said Doug Blonsky, a former city parks administrator who is now the president of the Central Park Conservancy. “The producer would say, ‘I need it to be higher than the last one.’ That’s the kind of science that went into it.”
A BIKER FRIENDLY INSURANCE COMPANY???
Bikers Friend? NOT!
Over priced Insurance
I had bought myself a new to me vehicle and I needed to get insurance so I went on line to a company that advertises how great they are.
I punched in the required information and shortly their quote came back of $360 for liability only for 6 months. Being careful and curious I punch the same info into another company’s application and low and behold in a few minutes their rate came back $350 for liability, comprehensive and collision for 12 months.
Screw the bike friendly insurance company before they screw you.The names of the insurance companies are not used to protect my ass.FYI the biker friendly one is seen at rallies and the other is an old company that probably insured your grandfather’s car
Over priced Insurance
I had bought myself a new to me vehicle and I needed to get insurance so I went on line to a company that advertises how great they are.
I punched in the required information and shortly their quote came back of $360 for liability only for 6 months. Being careful and curious I punch the same info into another company’s application and low and behold in a few minutes their rate came back $350 for liability, comprehensive and collision for 12 months.
Screw the bike friendly insurance company before they screw you.The names of the insurance companies are not used to protect my ass.FYI the biker friendly one is seen at rallies and the other is an old company that probably insured your grandfather’s car
7.7.08
The End of the Hollister Run?
Hollister is no longer a motorcycle run per se, being corrupted by various private and governmental entities. It's nobody’s fault and yet it's a bunch of stupid moves by many people that turned the celebration of the Birthplace of the American Biker from a motorcycle event into a common street fair.
Sitting in the local Starbucks a couple of citizens were lamenting over the setup. They were unhappy that the bikes were not parking on San Benito Street and one said the run lost its meaning and as far as for vendors it was like going to the flea market.
In fact I overheard a worker manning a C of C t-shirt stand telling a customer in a suit that they wanted the event to be a community event rather than a biker event.
The local bikers think the promoter is a joke.
The city spent taxpayer’s money to print t-shirts for the C of C. Over 300 grand. The city passed a municipal ordinance restricting what vendors could sell.
Unless some local enthusiasts start a rebellion, Hollister is fucked as a viable motorcycle event. Both the City Manager and his ass sucking buddy Chief of Police have to be removed by the taxpayer’s representatives, the city council. In plain English, "Fire the no good fucks".
Sitting in the local Starbucks a couple of citizens were lamenting over the setup. They were unhappy that the bikes were not parking on San Benito Street and one said the run lost its meaning and as far as for vendors it was like going to the flea market.
In fact I overheard a worker manning a C of C t-shirt stand telling a customer in a suit that they wanted the event to be a community event rather than a biker event.
The local bikers think the promoter is a joke.
The city spent taxpayer’s money to print t-shirts for the C of C. Over 300 grand. The city passed a municipal ordinance restricting what vendors could sell.
Unless some local enthusiasts start a rebellion, Hollister is fucked as a viable motorcycle event. Both the City Manager and his ass sucking buddy Chief of Police have to be removed by the taxpayer’s representatives, the city council. In plain English, "Fire the no good fucks".
5.7.08
Hollister '08
In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome."
Hunter S. Thompson
Hollister'08 urbanmoto
When Barney Peterson posed the infamous picture on July 4th '47 he assisted in the birth of the modern American biker in Hollister California.
If it wasn't for the perceived riot by bikers Harley Davidson would have gone the way of the Indian Motocycle, Excelsior-Henderson and other American made motorcycles. Sturgis, Daytona, Laconia wouldn't exist except in the history books, and the motorcycle industry, well who knows?
Whether or not they're wanted, bikers will return to Hollister like the birds to Capistrano every year welcome or not. We don' need no stinkin event with peddlers selling everything from time shares to T-shirts. Just cold beer and hot women will do thank you.
It was an idiot move to change the date from a 3 day 4th July weekend to a 2 day weekend with the approval of the both elected and paid city idiots who should be impeached, fired and replaced. Run as a partnership between Horsepower Production, City of Hollister and the Chamber of Horrors it ruined a perfectly good biker event turning it into just another street fair that isn't as good as the North Beach or Haight Street Fairs held in San Francisco the previous month. Hey how about a biker party in San Francisco? To bad we can't move Hollister. If things keep up the way they are going we could probably have an "In Memory of Hollister" event.
On the same weekend there are biker events in Los Banos a little to the East just on the other side of the Interstate.
And more importantly a major vintage motorcycle auction, show, and ride are being held in beautiful Monterey home to Cannery Row, Laguna Seca, and Pebble Beach just over the hill to the West.
If the celebration of the "Birthplace of the American Biker" is to continue some drastic changes must be made.
Hunter S. Thompson
Hollister'08 urbanmoto
When Barney Peterson posed the infamous picture on July 4th '47 he assisted in the birth of the modern American biker in Hollister California.
If it wasn't for the perceived riot by bikers Harley Davidson would have gone the way of the Indian Motocycle, Excelsior-Henderson and other American made motorcycles. Sturgis, Daytona, Laconia wouldn't exist except in the history books, and the motorcycle industry, well who knows?
Whether or not they're wanted, bikers will return to Hollister like the birds to Capistrano every year welcome or not. We don' need no stinkin event with peddlers selling everything from time shares to T-shirts. Just cold beer and hot women will do thank you.
It was an idiot move to change the date from a 3 day 4th July weekend to a 2 day weekend with the approval of the both elected and paid city idiots who should be impeached, fired and replaced. Run as a partnership between Horsepower Production, City of Hollister and the Chamber of Horrors it ruined a perfectly good biker event turning it into just another street fair that isn't as good as the North Beach or Haight Street Fairs held in San Francisco the previous month. Hey how about a biker party in San Francisco? To bad we can't move Hollister. If things keep up the way they are going we could probably have an "In Memory of Hollister" event.
On the same weekend there are biker events in Los Banos a little to the East just on the other side of the Interstate.
And more importantly a major vintage motorcycle auction, show, and ride are being held in beautiful Monterey home to Cannery Row, Laguna Seca, and Pebble Beach just over the hill to the West.
If the celebration of the "Birthplace of the American Biker" is to continue some drastic changes must be made.
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