It’s official. This is change-the-industry rock-the-valley kind of stuff. Like, one day the world is this way; and the next day it’s some other way. This is huge. Like game over man. It’ll be a return to the glory days, for sure. What am I referring too? Harley-Davidson has decided to give motorcycle fans [...]
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Super Ride Redux
Posted in 2010 Models, Advertising, Brand Loyalty, Dealer News, Earnings, Events, Harley-Davidson, Latest News, Motorcycle, tagged 2010, Dealer News, Demand Generation, H-D, Harley-Davidson, HD, marketing, Motorcycle, Sale, Super Ride, Super Ride 2010 on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tillamook Loggers Locate WWII Naval Aircraft
Posted in Age, Antique, Latest News, Life Lessons, Oregon, Veterans, tagged Archaeological Site, Archeologist Matthew Diederich, Ballistic Missiles, Bucholz Army Airfield, Curtiss Aircraft Corporation, Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, DNA Experts, DOD, Douglas-built SBD ‘Dauntless', Ground-based midcourse defense, Helldivers, JPAC, Kwaj, Kwajalein, Kwajalein Atoll, Loggers, Marshall Islands, Mellu Island, Missile Defense Agency, Naval Air Station Tillamook, Navy Region Northwest Public Affairs Officer, Ordinance, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, Oregon State Police (OSP), ORS 358.905-955, Pacific Ocean, Roi-Namur, Ronald Regan Missile Site, SB2C, SCUBA, Sean Hughes, SHPO, Sig Unander Jr., Squadron ZP-33, Star Wars, The Oregonian, Tillamook, Tillamook Sheriff Todd Anderson, Tillamook station, U.S. Navy, USS Bunker Hill, Western Test Range on March 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve written previously about the Kwajalein Atoll and what is known in military circles as the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Site. It’s part of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and is a premiere asset within the Department of Defense Major Range and Test Facility Base. I happen to know a little about “Kwaj” (aka: Kwajalein Island) [...]
Motorcycle Fees Paying For Passenger Rail System
Posted in Harley, Legislation, Motorcycle, Oregon, Politics, tagged American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Anti-Motorcycle Prejudice, ARRA, Crater Lake National Park, Custom License Plates, Fees, High Speed Rail Corridor, License Plate Surcharge, Motorcycle, Northwest Rail Corridor, Oregon, Oregon Cultural Trust, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Oregon Passenger Rail Program, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Pacific Northwest Rail Corridor, Passenger Rail System, Prejudice, Team Oregon Motorcycle Safety, Train on March 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In Oregon, when you purchase a custom motorcycle or Moped license plate for your ride the surcharge supports and benefits the Oregon passenger rail program. Huh? What’s the Passenger Rail Program you ask? It’s responsible for the planning and development of Oregon’s growing passenger rail service, including contracting for train and motorcoach service and supervising rail improvement projects [...]
Jobs, Motorcycles And Nostalgia
Posted in Age, Boomers, Life Lessons, Living Life, Motorcycle, Products, Vintage, tagged Apple, Apple CEO, Apple II, álgos, Bismarck, BMW, CEO, Charles O’Rear, Documentary, Etymologies, Film, Mike Markkula, Minnesota, Motorcycle, National Geographic, nóstos, North Dakota, Nostalgia, Reflective Nostalgia, Star-trek game, Steve Jobs, Store #30, Svetlana Boym, Team Electronics, Twin Cities, Wayne Wenzlaff, Welcome to Macintosh on March 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The word “nostalgia” is a compound from ancient Greek consisting of nóstos (”returning home”) and álgos (”ache”). Etymologies don’t get much more interesting than that if you’re into that sort of thing. In the late 1600’s a Swiss doctor identified nostalgia as a medical disease — a kind of hypochondria of the heart. And for [...]
Free And Easy Down The Road I Go
Posted in Advertising, Charitable Cause, Events, Harley-Davidson, Latest News, Motorcycle, Washington, tagged Blues Brothers, Celebrity Motorcycle Ride, Charity, Country Music Hall of Fame, Destination H-D, Dierks Bentley, Miles and Music, Motorcycle, Music, Nashville, Nationwide Insurance, Puyallup Fair, Seattle, Seattle Children's Hospital, Stand By Your Man, Tacoma, WA, XM Radio on March 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment it happened. Maybe it was the first time I saw that trucker crying in his beer while the Blues Brothers sang “Stand By Your Man,” but on occasion I like to run the dial through the XM country music channels and have a listen. And I don’t think [...]
“Green Nation” Busts On Saint Patrick’s Day
Posted in Events, 1 Percent, Laughlin, Legal, Harley, Motorcycle, Politics, Utah, Vagos, Outlaw Biker, tagged 1 Percent, 1%, 400 Police Officers, Arizona, ATF, AZ, AZ Gang and Immigration, Bullhead City, California, California Attorney General, Clubs, DA, drugs, Gang Task Force, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Green Nation, H-D, Harley, HD, Jerry Brown, Motorcycle, Nevada, OMC, OMG, One Percenter, Operation Everywhere, Organizations, Outlaws, Riverside County DA, Rod Pacheco, Utah, Vagos, Vagos MC on March 19, 2010 | 7 Comments »
If that’s not some irony… I logged on to the blog dashboard this morning to approve comments and noticed several hundred views of an article I posted back in 2008 on the California-based Vagos Motorcycle Club. As I made my way to the Google reader I learned that some 30+ members of the Vagos, also [...]
Jesse James “Blind Sides” Sandra Bullock
Posted in 2010 Models, Biker Babe, Cisco Burger, Jesse James, Life Lessons, Living Life, tagged Biggest Loser, Celeb, Cyril Huze, Harley, In Touch Magazine, Infidelities, Janine Lindemulder, Jesse James, Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, Miss Congeniality, NPD, Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side, Tiger Effect, WCC, West Coast Choppers on March 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Maybe a more appropriate headline is “The Biggest Loser: Jesse James?” West Coast Choppers CEO, Jesse G. James alleged infidelities surfaced this week. It took the news cycle off Health Care for about 5 minutes. But, could Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), “a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy” have [...]
Six Million Dollar Man
Posted in Dealer News, Harley, Harley Engines, Harley-Davidson, HOG, Latest News, Motorcycle, tagged $6.4M, Board, CEO, Compensation, Executive Bonus, Executive Pay, Harley, Harley-Davidson, HD, HOG, Jim Ziemer, Keith E. Wandell, Pay Package, Salary, Stock Value, World-Class Nonperformance on March 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
$6.4M to be exact. May 1st through the end of 2009 marked eight months on the job for Keith E. Wandell, the CEO of Harley-Davidson Inc., and for that privilege he was delivered a pay package valued at $6.4 million, according to the Associated Press. The company ended the fourth quarter with a loss [...]
A Right To Make Bad Choices
Posted in Latest News, Legal, Legislation, Living Life, Motorcycle, Politics, Safety, tagged American Heart Association, Bill A.10129, Bounty Hunter Lawsuits, Government Overregulation, Helmet Laws, Legal, Legislative ‘tards, Legislature, no salt in restaurant food, NY, Salt, Salt Ban, Sodium, Sodium Ban, Special Olympics, The Rut on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The American Heart Association encourages Americans to reduce their sodium intake and has advocated the reduction by food manufacturers. Now we have a bill introduced in the New York Legislature, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking. Need I say more? According to the bill, A. 10129 , it states in [...]
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