Tonight’s PitPass Radio featured Dan Kleen, president of NOHVCC – the National Off-Highway Vehicle Conservation Council. Dan did a good job of explaining some of the organization’s functions. Specifically, he was on to discuss a legislative victory in Iowa that got the State to return ATV fees that the legislature had confiscated for the past [...]
Entries from April 29th, 2008
Dan Kleen, President of NOHVCC on PitPass Radio
April 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics of Riding
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Washington State Gov Vetoes New Trail Ban
April 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics of Riding
According to this press release from the AMA Washington State governor Christine Gregoire vetoed a portion of the state’s annual budget that included a last-minute rider to ban all new ORV trail construction until 2009.
The AMA today praised Washington State Gov. Christine Gregoire’s line-item veto of a measure that would have banned all construction of [...]
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Another Cool Trailer Conversion and More Diamond Don’s Pics
April 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Two cool links today. First is another nice trailer conversion site I found while researching some RV awnings. I don’t know the owner’s name, but he’s done some really nice stuff inside his 7′x14′ tandem axle trailer. I especially this idea for a flip-out table that attaches to the E-Track cargo strips along the wall. [...]
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I’m a neophyte camper but here’s a few tricks anyone can use.
April 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Vintage
I’m not much of a camper. In fact, I haven’t camped at all since about 1982 or so. I’m just not into it, at least not as a lifestyle thing. My compulsion about hygiene and taking showers kinda keeps me in hotel rooms.
But with gas prices climbing to European levels, and the mileage in my [...]
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Wearing the Leatt
April 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Safety
As noted the other day, I spent last weekend at the Diamond Don’s Riverport AHRMA national. What a mudfest! I’d like to say that I had a great race and finished in the top three in my class, but that was not to be. I was running well in the first moto of Sportsman 250 [...]
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Diamond Don’s Report
April 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Vintage
Just a brief update since I haven’t posted here in a while. I just got back from a week-long trip to Texas where, with a good deal of help from Texan John Putkey, I race-prepped my CZ 250 – the Mean Lady – and competed in my first VMX since 2006. I had a great [...]
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