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. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics of Riding'
Motorcycle Accessory Shop sponsors survey
December 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics of Riding
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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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Buying a US Congressman is one of the best investments you can make
December 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics of Riding
Ok, ok. Call me a cynic. I was watching the new TNT show “Leverage” tonight and there is a scene where some defense contractor is talking about buying Congressmen. He says, paraphrased, “You can get a US Congressman elected for $50,000 to $100,000. But once you get them in the re-election rate is over 90%. [...]
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How do you feel about the AMA?
December 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics of Riding, Vintage
Last night I got an email from Tony Wenck, producer of Pit Pass Radio, to let me know they’re interviewing AMA CEO Rob Dingman on tomorrow night’s show. Tony asked if I had any questions I wanted him to ask.
It’s short notice, but one of the things I want to do is gauge the feelings [...]
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2008 Moto Guzzi Classics Piemonte Tour
December 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics of Riding, Vintage
Vintage Moto Guzzi aficionado Patrick Hayes of Fremont, CA has posted an awesome photo essay of his 2008 Piemonte Tour on a classic Guzzi Falcone. The photos of the Italian countryside are beautiful, and the Guzzi collections are stunning. I am envious.
I realize Europe has had 10x the number of years as the US to [...]
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More stupid government intervention – 100% tariff on Euro bikes
December 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics of Riding
Here’s your government at work, again. This time the morons in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative — the bureaucratic jackasses responsible for trying to globally mandate ridiculous, user-hostile, US Copyright laws written for the benefit of Disney and Hollywood — are trying to use small- and mid-displacement European motorcycles as a bargaining chip [...]
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Short interview with 2x World Champ Heinz Kinigadner
December 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics of Riding, Safety
Here’s a short interview with Heinz Kinigadner over at MotocrossMX1.com. After his son was paralyzed in a racing accident in 2003, Kinigadner partnered with Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz to form the Wings for Life foundation.
Wings for Life is the dedicated to funding pure research in the area of spinal cord injuries and is one [...]
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2008 AMA Congress remains ineffectual according to participant
November 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Industry, Politics of Riding
There is a very disturbing letter in the upcoming (November 26, 2008, Issue #47) edition of Cycle News from AMA member Jerry Fouts. Jerry is the ATV Congressman for District 36 and attended the 2008 Congress.
I have long wondered just how effective the AMA Congress really is at effecting change in the organization. Here’s what [...]
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Omnibus Land Act of 2008 – your government at work
November 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics of Riding
Whatever else you may think about the recent election, one thing is certainly going to change — public policy about the public’s right to use public lands. Specifically, our right to ride and responsibly use public trails and land will be under even greater assault.
The latest major assault on our rights as American off-road enthusiasts [...]
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