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Don Boose, Jr.
Members of ABATE of Kansas, and surely other ABATEs, often feel that we spend most of our time during legislative sessions fighting to keep bills from being passed. While it's true that it's always been a struggle keeping usually well-meaning, but often misguided laws off our bodies and our rides, we frequently forget that such would-be laws get voted out only by the grace of the legislators who listen to we, the great unwashed. Also not all legislation is kryptonite to bikers, and it's people . . . [More]
Pride Goes Before a Fall
Brian Allen
I'm hesitant to tell this story as it may sound like I am a boastful name dropper. But be patient, it is all true and I get my comeuppance in the end. A couple years ago I built my first Bobber, a e66 BSA Thunderbolt. The paint wasn't even dry when I entered it in The Smoke Out bike show in North Carolina. Unbelievably it won a feature story in The Horse Back Street Chopper magazine! I was so proud, the buttons damn near popped off my fly. Soon after I heard of a benefit rally . . . [More]
Geeks Wear Black, Too. (Special Edition: Get a What?!)
dystar
Brothers and Sisters, I have need of your attention. FRIENDS! The Truth must be heard! Long have you suffered, and long did I suffer with you. Now is the time to lay down your burdens, and feel the powers of healing revitalize our souls. It's time, Brothers and Sisters, to get a Mac. Now I hear your murmurs of doubt, so let me testify, my beloved geeks, of my journey to rid myself of my Microsoft Daemons. When Vista came out, I explored it as the future of my own PC, my Maxine, whom I . . . [More]