There is an excellent article by P.J. O’Rourke, titled “The End of Our Love Affair with Cars,” out Saturday in the Wall Street Journal Online Edition. In his inimitable style, O’Rourke takes us back to the heyday of the automobile and, painfully, recounts the torturous path to modern bankruptcy. The path paved with political correctness [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics of Riding'
The end of the American love affair with cars
June 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics of Riding
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U.S House votes to ban Americans from Public Lands
March 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics of Riding
The US House of Representatives unceremoniously approved H.R. 146: Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefield Protection Act last week. The eco-Nazi’s are ecstatic at all the new places they can put up “Do Not Enter” and “Keep Out” signs on 2.1 million acres of American public land.
Preserved for their use and their use only [...]
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Final vote on Omnibus Lands Bill tomorrow!
March 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics of Riding
As noted in the post below, the Senate is holding the final vote on H.R. 146: Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefield Protection Act, the vehicle used to sneak in the Omnibus Lands Bill of 2009 as a 1,300-page amendment, tomorrow.
This bill is very likely to pass, and summarily lock up 2.1 million acres [...]
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Senate votes to proceed with sneaky lands bill
March 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics of Riding
Yesterday the U.S. Senate voted to proceed with a back-door, sneak attack to lock up more than 2.1 million acres of Public Lands making it illegal for responsible Americans to use them. The vote was 73 Yeas, 21 Nays.
The vote was actually a vote on cloture – a way to see if the Senate is [...]
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Cobra president Sean Hilier on Rush Limbaugh
February 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Industry, Politics of Riding
Cobra Motorcycles president Sean Hilier was on the Rush Limbaugh program yesterday, to discuss the notorious Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) and its devastating effect on his company.
I didn’t hear the show but you can read the transcript here. According to Hillier, Cobra employs fewer than 50 people, but there are about [...]
Getting hosed
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Industry, Politics of Riding
We have written here before about what price fixing in the rubber market means to the motorcycle industry. The corporate corruption on the part of our beloved suppliers continues.
According to this Oligopoly Watch post “Getting hosed“, the EU competition commission recently issued $173 million in fines to six global corporations for conspiring to fix the [...]
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Metro Racing joins survey sponsors
December 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Politics of Riding
Metro Racing, the classic motogear supplier, has joined our list of AMA survey sponsors. Metro is providing one of their standard, long-sleeve jerseys in the size and logo of your choice — a $30 value — as an incentive for one lucky winner.
This brings our total sponsors to four. I’m very pleased at the interest [...]
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Motorcycle Accessory Shop sponsors survey
December 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics of Riding
Motorcycle Accessory Shop in Mesa, AZ has offered a nice package of 480 Racing accessories as an incentive for our AMA survey. The accessory package includes a gas cap vent, safety wire, and extruded safety wire washers — a $25 value. The package will be given away to one lucky winner after the survey closes. [...]
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Motorsport Publications LLC sponsors survey
December 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics of Riding
Chris Smith at Motorsport Publications, LLC has agreed to sponsor our How Do You Feel about the AMA? survey. Chris has generously offered a free, 1-year subscription to Classic Dirt Bike magazine ($50 value) to be given away to one lucky respondent after the survey closes.
You must use a valid name and e-mail address when [...]
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Thinking differently – the future is coming whether we like it or not
December 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Industry, Politics of Riding, Technology
This is only tangentially about motorcycles, and only in the sense that it points to how the world of the future will work. But it’s an important insight into our future. This NYTimes editorial by Thomas Friedman (author of “The World is Flat” and “The Lexus and the Olive Tree”) is about a new kind [...]
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