Born To Ride Southeast #69, November 2018

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November Issue 69

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Features MotoAmerica-Winning Battles Tennessee Motorcycle & Music Revival Masters Bike Builders Show Bruce Dern Interview 1973 FNA BMW

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Columns

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Rob Brooks-Time Passages 28 Woman’s World-Brown Sugaa & Medusa 8 Christian Motorcycle Association 48

Departments Contents Page 2 Ride Safe, Ride-Total Stopping Distance 7 Born To Ride Events-www.BornToRide.com 42 Born To Ride Kids 48

Reports

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America Cares-Give to the Red Cross 4 SENA-30K Intercom Evaluation 22 Chuck Liddell Reads It! 34 Your GPS may be Spying on you 40 Is Your Fuel Tank Rusty? Craig Can Fix It! 45 Movie Review-Hell’s Bloody Devils 46

On The Cover The Movie Nation’s Fire, Exclusive Bruce Dern Interview with Ron Galletti

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If you need to stop for a hazard, realize that braking distance is only one part of stopping.

The three parts of total stopping distance are:

TOTAL STOPPING DISTANCE

1. Perception Distance 2. Reaction Distance 3. Braking Distance

Perception distance is how far you travel before you become aware of a hazard. You need full attention to know what is going on.

The higher your speed, the more distance you travel while you perceive situations.

Reaction distance is the distance traveled from the time you become aware of a hazard until you apply the brakes. Again, higher speed equals more distance traveled.

Braking distance is the distance you travel after applying the brakes. Higher speed equals more braking distance traveled while you are using the controls. If you are going 60mph, you are moving about 90 feet per second. How many seconds might it take to perceive, react and brake when acar pulls out on front of you.

How many feet will you travel? You can reduce risk by improving each part of total stopping distance. For perception, avoid being distracted and understand what is happening ahead. Do this by thinking What if?

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Women’s World Brown Sugaa and Medusa

Danni Benson started out riding on the back of her boyfriend’s bike. He tended to drink a bit and she realized that riding with him wasn’t safe. She learned to ride her own and bought a 1998 GSXR 600 sport bike. Later she traded it for a Ninja 600 sports bike and dumped the boyfriend.

She let a friend ride her bike and she was taking a short ride on his when the road suddenly ended, turning to gravel. With the combination of an unfamiliar bike, gravel and trying to turn quickly she crashed! It took a year to recover from her broken wrist, busted knee and scraped face. Although her home state of Indiana doesn’t require riders to wear a helmet she now does because of this accident.

It wasn’t long before Danni was itching for a new bike. Since she’s been riding for over ten years now she’s begun to enjoy longer rides and the open road more than the speed of a sport bike.

Without telling any of her friends she began shopping for a cruiser type bike.

When she came riding up on her new black Harley-Davidson Softail Slim with her dreadlocks blowing in the wind her friends were stunned! She named the bike Medusa because of the way her hair looks while riding and the way her friends seemed to turn to stone at of her on her new bike.

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the club where they are members, but she also enjoys riding with women’s groups that she connected with online.

One of the groups, Unique Queens inspired her biker name “Brown Sugaa.” She also sometimes rides with Divas United on Bikes and Black Girls Ride.

Earlier this year Danni and another woman rode from Indianapolis to Memphis where they met up with about 20 other women through the group Black Girls Ride (BGR). From there they road in an escorted ride lead by a Slingshot three-wheel motorcycle, all the way to New Orleans. The scariest part of this ride for Danni was crossing Lake Pontchartrain on the world’s longest bridge! For 8 miles of the 24-mile bridge, you can’t see land in any direction.

In NOLA they connected with approximately 200 BGR women who came in groups from other host cities to attend the Essence Festival. Not only were they able to enjoy the sisterhood of other black women motorcyclists but at the annual Essence Festival, known as the ‘party with a purpose,’ they shared a week of empowerment, educational seminars, entertainment, and an Essence Magazine photoshoot. A major highlight was the annual Black Women in Music event where they saw superstars such as Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu and Janet Jackson.

Through riding with various groups to events Danni “Brown Sugaa” and Medusa have connected with women across the country!

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The MotoAmerica motorcycle road racing season wrapped up at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama this past weekend, in two days marked by devastating crashes, fierce competition, the retiring of a legend, and the crowning of the 2018 champions. An epic weekend to end an epic season.

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in September, the MotoAmerica staff nonetheless predicted stiff competition across the two days of racing, with riders battling for the remaining points and podiums, and their drive to finish strong for their teams.

The predictions were spot-on.

Though 2017 Superbike champ Toni Elias lost the points war across the season to soon-to-be crowned 2018 champ Cameron Beaubier, Elias won the battles both days

on the track, winning both Superbike races to finish the season with nine wins, surpassing Beaubier’s eight on the year.

In fact, Beaubier violently crashed out of race 1 on lap 14 of 21, while engaged in a three-way struggle for the lead with Elias and Josh Herrin. Race 2 saw Beaubier and Elias battle the entire race, in a veritable grudge match for victory, Elias only claiming the checkered by .333 of a second over the

Story: Rob Brooks, Photos: MotoAmerica 2018 champion. Again, Georgia’s own Josh Herrin rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Supersport saw a similar scenario between guaranteed 2018 champ JD Beach and Hayden Gillim, as Gillim, with no chance to catch Beach in the points, doggedly bit down on the lead in both races, and never gave them up. Gillim claimed the podium in both, relegating the soon-to-be-crowned Supersport champion to the number two

rung, followed by Valentin Debise, who is sure to be back chasing the championship next year.

Supersport also witnessed one of the most violent crashes of the season, when two mid-pack racers, Max Angles and Jordan Pence, tangled down the front stretch at full throttle. Both riders and bikes collided and careened at well over 100 mph, one down the track with other riders swerving and

If this show comes to a town near you, don’t miss it! More info: www.motoamerica.com

dodging, the other tumbling into the grass, bike flipping wildly by, narrowly missing the already injured rider.

In Junior Cup, the young Frenchman Alex Dumas added an exclamation point to the 2018 title he had already earned, claiming victories both days in sheer domination of the class. He was untouchable, from green light to checkered. Andrew Lee capped off his championship in Stock 1000 with another BORNTORIDE.COM | BTR 11

win, and Chris Parrish took the Twins Cup title by a mere 3 points over Jason Madama. *Of particular note- Roger Hayden, of the legendary Hayden racing family and younger brother of the late, great Nicky Hayden, retired at season’s end, after more than 20 years of fierce competition. With his retirement, a page turns in American motorcycle road racing history, with Roger being the last remaining of the immediate family who still competed professionally. He will be sorely missed.

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race weekends concluded one of the most memorable seasons for MotoAmerica. The Barber round saw 140 registered riders across all classes, a world road racing record in the last 15 years. With all the concerts, stunt demos (Tony Hawk Experience, Wall of Death, etc.), and kids activities at each race weekend, MotoAmerica has created an almost “country fair” carnival atmosphere, with something for everyone to experience and enjoy, as well as great racing.

MA president Wayne Rainey summed up the season- “This was our 4th year, and I

think we’ve come a long way. The sport was in pretty dire shape when we took it over, but support is growing, promotion is paying off, more manufacturers are coming on board, and some of the top World Superbike and MotoGP riders are inquiring about ‘finding a seat’ here to race, so we’re excited. Our fans have been great, lots of positive talk about the championship as a whole, so from where we started to where we are, it’s massive.”

The 2019 MotoAmerica season will kick off again at Road Atlanta and Born To Ride will be there.

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The Tennessee Motorcycles and Music Revival is a four-day event held at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch and is all about motorcycles, music, comradery and the outdoors.

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What a way to start the month of October than with a trip to the mountains of eastern Tennessee for the TENNESSEE MOTORCYCLES and MUSIC REVIVAL at the Loretta Lynn Ranch in Hurricane Mills. October 4th thru the 7th, I had the pleasure of attending this great and unique BTR 16 | BORNTORIDE.COM

event. What an awesome location this event was—southwest of Nashville with some great riding around the entire area.

There was RV and tent camping galore with lots of space on the beautiful grounds of the Ranch. The Motorcycle portion of the Revival offered all kinds of fun and

excitement from the BC Moto Invitational, Hillbilly Flat Track Racing, Rhett Rotten’s Wall of Death and all kinds of Biker related vendors. Harley-Davidson and Indian Motorcycles had their Demo trucks set up offering test rides on the new 2019 models.

Then there was the BC Moto Invitational,

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which featured over 40 Bike Builders from around the country and their incredible 2-wheeled rides set on display in a beautiful horse barn, with a custom bike in each and every stall. Walking through the barn and viewing these amazing machines and meeting the builders was certainly a

different way to look at a motorcycle buildoff, but yet very entertaining to say the least.

There were many other activities on the grounds to check out beside the Bike related ones, like the Loretta Lynn Western Town featuring a Country Store,

the Loretta Lynn Museum, Loretta’s original Tour Bus, the Art Gallery and Camp Store at Stagecoach Hill. There was even a gun range where you could shoot everything from Carbines, Shotguns, Belt-fed and Sub-machine guns! Plus, there were Specialty Food Trucks offering

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all different types of yummy menu choices and of course Cold Beer and full liquor bars to help wet your whistle throughout the entire event. As for the Music portion, there were so many talented musicians and groups to enjoy throughout the entire Revival on stage at the famous Loretta

Lynn Roadhouse. Bands like the Matt Poss Band, Stone Senate, Blackfoot Gypsies, True Villains to name a just few and singer-songwriters like Shelly Fairchild, Tim Montana, Donnie Reis and Loretta Lynn’s granddaughter Tayla Lynn.

All in all, the TENNESSEE

MOTORCYCLES and MUSIC REVIVAL 2018, offered something for everyone and I want to thank the promoters Carrie Repp and Buck Shaw for having me along for the Ride! For more info on next years event go to MotorcyclesandMusic.com Story and Photos by Everywhere Eddy

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SENA 30K INTERCOM PRODUCT EVALUATION

A new addition to the SENA product line is the 30K which recently came on the market. The big difference between it and the 20S/EVO is that it has improved networking, so the connection is not lost when a rider leaves a group. SENA calls this “adaptive mesh networking.”

This is supposed to solve the problem of communication dropouts when a member leaves the group and the difficulties of reconnecting when they rejoin.

Instead of Bluetooth, it uses its mesh networking system with each device acting as a node to receive and relay data.

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the information of other users, so the mesh does not need to be re-setup.

Also, there is a limitless amount of people that can listen to the group as a “guest,” they cannot speak but can listen in. Guest mode comes disabled and the primary needs to enable guest mode. The mesh networking system intercom can only be used by other 30K users. It is also still Bluetooth 4.1 compatible, able to connect up to three other SENA and non-SENA intercom systems.The 30K unit is weather resistant and looks a little sleeker than the 20S/EVO but with the same “jog dial” which is the easiest of all intercom systems to use, especially if you wear gloves. It has all the other 20S/EVO features, including built-in FM tuner, voice commands, noise filter, audio multitasking, and will work with any other Bluetooth intercom unit.

Battery life is now 13 hours with a

15-minute quick-charge feature to add four more hours of talk time.

SENA also has a Ride Connected smartphone app for iOS and Android which allows the rider to create a private group and communicate via the headset with up to 16 other people that can be anywhere in the world, as long as they have access to a mobile network. In addition, they have an app where you can set your intercom settings, a quick guide and user’s guide, which is handy when you forget how to pair intercoms and other instructions. SENA intercom units are firmware upgradable which keeps them from being obsolete.

The suggested retail price is $329 single/ $579 dual pack.

The SENA product line not only includes Bluetooth intercom, but they also have a variety of cameras, as well as an intercom with a built-in camera.

By Paul Murray Born To Ride Industry Report SENA 30K See the SENA product line at www.sena.com

TIME PASSAGES

Last month, my father did the unthinkable-he sold his motorcycle. It was a 2003 100-Year Anniversary Edition HarleyDavidson Heritage Softail Classic. Beautiful bike and he took immaculate care of it.

Best of all, he rode the heck out of it, often with my mother riding pillion. So to see it go was hard, to say the least. But it was time. He’d been struggling with ill health in recent years, especially 2018, and turned 79 years old over the summer. He quipped, “The older I’m getting, the heavier this bike is getting.” He asked me to help him sell it, and it went to a good home- a former H-D mechanic, getting back into riding, who has a great affection for Heritages. Very appropriate.

I was saddened myself, because not only was this the passing of an era for Mom and Dad, it was a sort of “time passage” for me as well. We had pounded out many roads and road trips together over the past 13 years or so, logged many miles, made many memories. Precious few, even in motorcycling, can say they’ve ridden much with their fathers (or mothers), but I can, and I’m thankful.

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it. He street raced, blasted through town with the baffles out, rode with a pack of rascals, preened on it for the gawking pretty girls, but kept his heart for one- My mom.

When Pop left for the Air Force, he sold the Triumph to a friend, who apparently wrapped it around a tree outside of town, barely living to tell the tale. No pictures remain of the bike. Pop rode Cushmans while spending a year on Okinawa, then returned home to marry my mom, settle into a career in the airline industry, and raise three crazy, “wild at heart” boys down in “God’s Country” here in the South. He left motorcycles behind for many years, even while supplying us kids with trail and dirt bikes.

I took up street riding in 1996, and by 2005 Pop caught the bug again too. We fixed up a 1982 Yamaha 550 together, and after test riding it some, Dad decided to jump back in, this time on a Harley. First buying a 2006 Super Glide, then swapping for the Heritage (more comfortable for Mom), they both went all-in, decking out in all the best H-D gear, adding a bike trailer and toy hauler to the collection also.

We rode all over the southeast together, and many of the famous routes down here- the Tail of the Dragon, Cherohala Skyway, a n d Blue Ridge Parkway, to name a few. I’ve cherished every mile, every hour, riding with him across these years.

He’s already experiencing “seller’s regret” understandably, grieving the steady passing of time, cursing the relentless marching of age. But it was time, they both acknowledge.

I guess I’m grieving too, selfishly, knowing our days of riding together are over. But I’m grateful to have ridden with them these years, and grateful my girls have inherited a love for riding, by the times they’ve shared with me on my bikes.

The guy who bought Dad’s Harley? He told me how excited he is to take his wife riding with him, and hopes his daughters will fall in love with riding as well, on the back of that Heritage. “One man’s sunset is another man’s dawn.”

Oh, Mom and Dad are talking about buying a golf cart now. A gas-powered one.

With the big, knobby tires. Maybe raised white lettering. And an engine he can tinker with- maybe squeeze a few more horses out of? This could get interesting. ...

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DERN COMES FROM A LONG LINE OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. HIS FATHER WAS A LAWYER WHO WORKED WITH ADLAI STEVENSON. HIS PATERNAL GRANDFATHER SERVED AS SECRETARY OF WAR IN PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT’S ADMINISTRATION. HIS MOTHER’S FAMILY OPERATED ONE OF CHICAGO’S TOP DEPARTMENT STORES. HIS MATERNAL GREAT UNCLE WAS POET ARCHIBALD MACLEISH. A REBELLIOUS SPIRIT AT AN EARLY AGE, HE WAS SENT TO BOARDING SCHOOL IN CONNECTICUT. HE EVENTUALLY CAME BACK HOME TO FINISH HIGH SCHOOL, WHERE HE EXCELLED ON THE TRACK TEAM, AND CONTINUED TO RUN COMPETITIVELY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. AFTER A COACH TRIED TO GET HIM TO SHAVE OFF HIS SIDEBURNS, DERN QUIT BOTH THE TEAM AND COLLEGE TO PURSUE HIS OTHER PASSION — ACTING. BORN IN 1936 IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, HE MADE HIS BROADWAY DEBUT IN 1958.

SOON AFTER, HE MOVED ON TO TELEVISION AND FILM. SOME OF HIS EARLY BIG-SCREEN PROJECTS INCLUDE THE WILD ANGELS (1966) AND THE CYCLE SAVAGES (1969). DERN EARNED AN ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION FOR HIS PERFORMANCE IN 1978’S COMING HOME. A TWO-TIME OSCAR NOMINEE HIS TREMENDOUS CAREER IS MADE UP OF PLAYING BOTH MODERN DAY HEROES AND LEGENDARY VILLAINS. THROUGH DECADES OF LAUDED PERFORMANCES, DERN HAS ACQUIRED THE REPUTATION OF BEING ONE OF THE MOST TALENTED AND PROLIFIC ACTORS OF HIS GENERATION. DERN HAS SEVERAL HIGH PROFILE INDEPENDENT PROJECTS APPEARING IN THE FILM ARENA, INCLUDING CHAPPAQUIDDICK (2017), WHERE HE PORTRAYS JOE KENNEDY, “THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON” AND “WHITE BOY RICK” OPPOSITE MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY (SONY PICTURES). HE ALSO STARS WITH JANE FONDA AND ROBERT REDFORD IN THE NETFLIX FILM “OUR SOULS AT NIGHT” (FALL 2017). DERN’S OTHER 2017/2018 TITLES INCLUDE “CLASS RANK,” “WARNING SHOT,” “ABILENE,” “THE LEARS,” “AMERICAN DRESSER” AND “NOSTALGIA.” HE APPEARED IN AN UNCREDITED ROLE IN WILD RIVER AS JACK ROPER, WHO IS SO UPSET WITH HIS FRIEND FOR HITTING A WOMAN THAT HE PUNCHES HIMSELF. HE PLAYED THE SAILOR IN A FEW FLASHBACKS WITH MARNIE’S MOTHER IN ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S MARNIE. DERN PLAYED A MURDEROUS RUSTLER IN CLINT EASTWOOD’S HANG ‘EM HIGH AND A GUNFIGHTER IN SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF!. HE ALSO PLAYED CATTLETHIEF ASA WATTS, WHO MURDERS JOHN WAYNE’S CHARACTER IN THE COWBOYS (1972). WAYNE WARNED DERN, “AMERICA WILL HATE YOU FOR THIS.” DERN REPLIED, “YEAH, BUT THEY’LL LOVE ME IN BERKELEY.” HAVING PLAYED A SERIES OF VILLAINS, THAT SAME YEAR HE PLAYED AGAINST TYPE AS A SENSITIVE ECOLGIST IN THE SCIENCE-FICTION FILM SILENT RUNNING. HE PLAYED A PSYCHOTIC GOODYEAR BLIMP PILOT WHO LAUNCHES A TERRORIST ATTACK AT THE SUPER BOWL IN BLACK SUNDAY. HE WON THE SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTOR AT THE 33RD BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON. IN 2013, DERN WON THE BEST ACTOR AWARD AT THE 2013 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL FOR ALEXANDER PAYNE’S NEBRASKA, AND WAS NOMINATED FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR. DERN HIS WIFE AND THEIR DAUGHTER LAURA RECEIVED ADJOINING STARS ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME ON NOVEMBER 1, 2010. MORE RECENTLY, HE HAD A RECURRING ROLE ON THE HIT TELEVISION SERIES BIG LOVE AND STARRED IN THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FILM NEBRASKA (2013), WHICH EARNED THE VETERAN ACTOR ANOTHER OSCAR NOMINATION IN 2014. WORKING WITH ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR QUENTIN TARANTINO IN DJANGO UNCHAINED AND THE HATEFUL 8 BROUGHT HIM BACK INTO THE SPOTLIGHT AS AN ICONIC HEADLINE ACTOR. NOW BRUCE DERN STARS IN NATION’S FIRE, A TALE OF FAMILY STRUGGLE, HARSH REALITY AND A ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF EMOTION.

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Basically bikes. I started my career doing a lot of them, not my career but early in my career, I did about 11 biker films in five years, most for Roger Corman. We had a group of us, four or five of us, Jack Nicholson, myself, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Michael Parks. We would be the guys that would do the biker movies. There was a lot of acid and stuff in those movies, so they were kind of drive-in movies. Nobody’s ever made a really great motorcycle movie. Ours were kind of exploitation movies for drive-ins. That’s what they did. We’d make them for about $160,000 in 10 days. They’d make five or six million dollars in the drive-in.

Then, they made a company called American International Pictures AIP and Roger Corman.

What attracted me to this material was the dialogue and the care for relationships that weren’t working and were broken. From what you just saw

Bruce Dern Bio: www.imdb.com/name/nm0001136/bio, photo credit: www.ew.com

in there these people would carry on like that in front of a sevenyear-old little kid is disgusting, but I’ve had people in my life that have done such things. I’m sure a lot of other people have too. I like the fact that somebody wrote that down with a passion to get that on screen. People see it. I don’t know what Tom’s background is, but trust me, there is something going on there that was seen in this movie. It makes sense, and it works. The most interesting thing about it is, its audience oriented because there’s no age group that you see this movie except anyone between 10 and 80 or 90. (%#@*) I’m 80. It’s just because. ...

The bikes aren’t what the movie’s about. The movie’s about behavior, people, heart, courage, and this girl being out to go out there and get (%#@*) done. When I was 11-years-old, my mother said to me, “How come you never come home after school? Your track practice, ‘because I was a big runner,’ “is over by 4:30 or a quarter til 5:00. You’re never home until 6:15. What do you do?”

I didn’t have a good relationship with my mother. I said, ‘Well, I go out and do stuff. I have a friend. I go out and do stuff.’ “What

do you do that’s more important than coming home and being on time for things here.” In my house, you had to wear white gloves to dinner and dress in a suit for every dinner for 18 years from the time I was three years old. I said, ‘I’ll tell you what I do, mother. Me and my friend get (%#@*) up.’

That’s what I loved about whoever wrote this script because he may have waited until later in his life, but he’s saying, “Hey, folks, if you want to go these kinds of routes, this is what can happen.” It is people because their human spirit rose above it and, excuse the expression, but got sh**t done. You know what I mean? The whole thing that I say in the movie about one man, one horse, and this is what it is, it’s synonymous with the bikers.

The thing that’s neat about it is this is not a Western, but it is what the Westerns were about. This is a Western because it’s still on motorcycles, which is why people left east St. Louis every April and went 15 miles a day in a covered wagon or on a horse all the way to Sacramento and not for gold. This was even before gold.

They went because they knew the following phrase if you take

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the song that’s what this movie is about in the bike culture, “The bear went over the mountain. The bear went over the mountain, and what do you think he saw? What he saw was a chance for a bigger tapestry like the pioneers saw.” That’s why when these guys get on bikes with the old ladies on the back or not, they are doing something no one else is really doing. They’re getting out there.

They’re not risking their lives, but they’re risking finding what they really want to find.

It’s like in Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield when he says he wanted to just grab the brass ring. That’s all these folks want to do. They just don’t want to be hassled by people along the way and all the negativity about bikers and outlaw motorcycle gangs and everything else. All the bikers I was around, and I was around Sonny Barger and all the Hell’s Angels in Oakland and San Bernardino and everything else and the bonafide outlaw guys. On my jacket in this movie, it says one percent here. That’s because they’re the one percent of society that thinks they don’t belong or don’t fit. All they want you to do is just accept them. They want to be accepted. Everyone that I knew in the days, we were going in the 60s, were all Korean veterans. They were the most patriotic guys I ever knew. Their biggest day of the year was Memorial Day. Now, they don’t even celebrate it on Memorial Day, but all the bikers do. They wait until the 30th of May. That’s when they celebrate it because that’s when it is.

There’s a history here that in the movie makers and the crew and the productivity. I’m here one day, and I saw 20 days of work done in a day because everybody pulled their oar. It’s very rare to see. We’re talking wildcat crews. I don’t know where all you came from. I don’t think you’ve done 10 movies together, you know what BTR 32 | BORNTORIDE.COM

I mean? It’s a joy to see. It’s a light. There’s an energy here that’s really interesting, but the biggest thing is the story itself and the pictures that the story will show you because the man didn’t make a movie about bikers. He made a movie about people. As long as he stays that way, this kid will do big stuff. As long as people like you have faith in a kid like that, to hang in there with him. ... He’s got problems. He’s gotta learn about time constraints. He’s gotta learn about how he doesn’t have as much to spend as he thinks he does, but he molded a group of people together in a short period of time that works just like a team. I never heard anybody yell today. I never heard an argument. I never saw anything. It was just smooth.

That is really rare.

If the folks get out and see this movie when it gets out and you gotta get it out there … and it will get out there. I don’t know who you go to, you show it to distributors. Any distributor would be nuts not to pick up a movie like this because this is money. I’m not saying it’s gonna win Oscars or anything like that, but it’s gonna get the folks’ attention and not just the folks that go to biker movies but people that want to know why we behave the way we do in times of crisis. That’s what this does. You have a little girl’s point of view, an older man’s point of view, a guy in prison’s point of view, and the community’s point of view. That’s really all I have to say, but that’s what you got here. You got lightning in a bottle. If you carry it on from here, you’re good. We are proud to announce Nation’s Fire is ready for your viewing. The VIP screening is underway. You, as members of our cast are invited to spend the evening with us as we host our red carpet premiere celebrating a biker lifestyle milestone and legacy of film in Florida. More details coming in next month’s Born to Ride. www.BornToRide.com

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t started with my girl’s dad having a stock ’73 Beamer collecting dust in his barn begging to be cut on. He didn’t want to give it up to surgery, but long story short, we struck a deal, paid him the cash, gutted the bike, eBayed what we didn’t need, and ended u p w i t h $ 1 3 0 p r o fi t . W e s t a r t e d out with a few basic ideas: leaf spring front end, board track

bars, drop seat chassis, down draft carburetors, and 23” front wheel. The engine was put in the frame jig, and we started bending tube around the motor. The shaft to chain drive was adapte d f r o m a n A T V d i ff e r e n t i a l w i t h a brake rotor on one side and sprocket extended on the other. The front end, rotor, fender strut, and bearing carrier were designed using CAD, then laser

cut with Scotty’s help. John cut up the stock tank and pieced it back together with Nate’s welding help. The bars were bent after being packed with sand, then welded by Nate and given back to John to put some shine on the stainless. We had a great time building and now riding the bike, but it still has some paint and polish to be done.

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Your GPS May be Spying on You

By Matt Danielson, The Motorcycle Law Group

Beware. Your GPS may be collecting evidence against you. More and more motorcyclists today are using GPS (Global Positioning Systems) to plan trips, get directions and keep track of miles traveled.

However, keep in mind that if you are in a motorcycle accident, you may be collecting evidence that could be used against you in both a criminal and civil trial.

Most GPS systems allow you to keep track of your speed. As such, they can be used as evidence in court. I have come across jurisdictions which, at the scene of an accident when speed is a question, will seize a crash victim’s GPS, get a search warrant, and download the information BTR 40 | BORNTORIDE.COM

pertaining to speed. Such action does more than subject the crash victim to a speeding ticket. It can, if the injured party was speeding, put their ability to collect damages for their injuries at risk. That means, if the party who injures you can show that you were in some way at fault in causing the accident, then depending on which state you were injured in, your claim can be reduced, or outright denied.

Keep in mind that I am in no way suggesting that you should not use a GPS on your motorcycle. I am merely suggesting that if you do, keep in mind that depending on the system and how you use it, you could be collecting evidence that could

eventually be used by a party that injures you to avoid paying for the injuries they caused.

If you have any further questions or comments concerning this article or any other matters concerning your rights as a motorcyclist, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Matt Danielson McGrath, Danielson, Sorrell & Fuller The Motorcycle Law Group

Matt Danielson is a partner at the Motorcycle Law Group, a personal injury law firm whose attorneys all ride motorcycles and represent clients in GA, VA, WV, NC and SC. He also serves as a lobbyist, adjunct professor and works with motorcycle rights organizations throughout the country.

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November 4 Timberlake, NC 9th Annual 8:30am, KSU 10am, $25 per rider Anderson, SC 12th Annual You and $5 per passenger. Veterans Person County Toy Run 11:30am November 3 are Not Forgotten Veteran Run The Homestead Steakhouse ride free. 678-521-7315 Kernersville, NC Dave Gieber 1pm. The Teufelshunde MC’s & Restaurant. Bring a new Memorial Poker Run 10am in Anderson is hosting a ride to unwrapped toy of a minimum November 10 Double D Burnout Saloon. benefit the Richard M. Campbell $10 value or a $10 donation.

Registration 10am-11:30am. KSU Veteran Nursing Home. Bikes will Loganville, GA 2nd Annual ABATE Chili Cookoff 9pm-5pm All proceeds will go directly to at 12pm. Unwrapped toy/10$ line up at 1pm and the parade singles or 15$ doubles all formation leaves at 2:30pm. All American Legion Post 233. Food, Santa’s Helpers of Person County fun, Kid Zone, and vendors on to distribute to the less fortunate proceeds go to Toys for Tots. bikes welcome, rain or shine. site to make this a festival. Joint children throughout the county.

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Smoky Mountain Toy Run 10am Kearfott Corp. The Smoky Mountain Toy Run is a policeescorted motorcycle parade to collect toys and money for Eblen Charities Saint Nicholas Project who then distributes them to needy families in our area during the Christmas season.

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www.BornToRide.com/events beach crawl, Roadkill Scavenger rides, motorcycle auction. 727-527-9672 November 17 Augusta, GA 1st Annual Patriot Guard Riders of the CSRA “Ride For Wreaths” 9am Timms H-D. Supporting the Wreaths Across America mission at the Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Milledgeville. Visit our Fb page.

November 17 Conyers, GA Benefit Ride for Fire Fighter Jeff Chambers 8:30am Falcons Fury Harley-Davidson. Benefit Ride with food & live music KSU 10:30am, $20 rider - $5 passenger. 770-9797999 November 17 Dawsonville, GA 1st Annual Blue Ridge Motorcycle Rodeo 8am Atlanta Motorsports Park. Compete as an expert or novice and test your motorcycle riding skills. Cash for top finishers. Event to benefit Ride for Kids. Participation fee $50, other attendees $5 donation. 404-252-4107 November 17 Tifton, GA Joker MC Annual Toy Ride 10:30am Chili’s. Police Escorted ride, $10 donation. (All proceeds will go towards sponsoring needy families for Christmas) Donations & Toys will be dropped off at Roundtree Community Center. Food & beverages, door prizes and raffles and more. 912-381-3785 November 17 Durham, NC 27th Annual Salvation Army Toy Run 10am Raging Bull Harley-Davidson. Join us for this escorted ride through Durham to deliver toys to the Salvation army.

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November 18 Goldsboro, NC Wayne County Motorcycle Riders 30th Annual Toy Run. One New Toy per Rider. After Party at the Howling Moon Saloon with music, food, 50/50 and more. All Toys and Proceeds benefit Wayne Uplift Domestic Violence Program, Girls & Boys Club of Wayne County and Local Families in need. 919750-4862 November 18 Greenville, SC Toys for Tots 11am Greenville H-D. Annual Toys for Tots Toy Run to begin at Heritage Park in Simpsonville SC and end at H-D of Greenville. Registration a new, unwrapped toy or $10.

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then return to the H-D shop for Savannah Toy Run 9am food, music, raffles, and good Savannah H-D. Live times. Visit our Fb page entertainment and the biggest, baddest Christmas Parade November 24 in Georgia! There will also Dawsonville, GA Ride for Ofelia be lunch, door prizes and Torres 9am. GA Racing Hall of 50/50; $20 donation or Fame. All funds will go directly new unwrapped toy of equal to the family to help pay for value.912-441-7586 funeral cost. Ofelia Torres is a wife, a mother to 4 children, December 8 and an amazing grandmother to her 4 grandchildren. Lunch Athens, GA Empty Stocking will be served at the end of the Ride 10am-1pm Cycle World of Athens. Come help make ride. Visit our Fb page. sure that the kids and families get to enjoy this Christmas.

November 24 Remembering the Reason Gaston, SC Chosen for The Season and showing Brotherhood MC 2nd Annual Toy Run 10:30am Tommy T’s. the community that the biker Everyone is welcome to donate community can make an impact a toy by car drop off if you in hopes to encourage others cannot be in the Run. Visit our too! This event is presented Fb page. by: Wingmen MC NEGA and Ring of Fire RC. All donations November 25 and toys will go the Winder Fire Anderson, SC 38th Annual Department Empty Stocking Anderson Toy Parade 11am-5pm Charity. CycleWorldAthens Watson Village. Please bring an unwrapped toy for a 10-year- December 15 old or younger and join us in Athens, GA Free Pictures w/ helping a kid have Christmas that otherwise wouldn’t. Visit our Biker Santa at Cycle World of Athens 11am-3pm. Kids of all Fb page. ages are invited to come meet BIKER SANTA and sit on his December 1 lap and get FREE PICTURE Athens, GA Salvation Army Toy Run 10am Cycle World of on a complimentary 2019 Cycle Athens. Bring a toy to ride and World of Athens calendar, help Santa be able to get toys emailed directly to you to print to all the kids in our local area! and share with friends and CycleWorldAthens.com family! Also, please join us to “Remember The Reason For December 1 The Season” and consider Conyers, GA Toys for Tots helping us put smiles on kids’ 12pm-3pm Falcons Fury faces on CHRISTmas morning H-D. Live music, free food/ by donating a unwrapped toy beverages all for a great cause. under the Empty Stocking tree Please bring a toy to donate. on display at Cycle World of Visit our Fb page Athens. Please share and encourage others to donate.

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One day Joe editor (whom works as a janitor at night) walks into the cutting room at the studio. Joe sweeps the floor, and all the little pieces of film are handed over to Adamson with a roll of Scotch tape on the side. Adamson gets drunk, and assembles all the little pieces into what you are reading about now. Since it’s my duty, I will try my best to sum this mess up. …Originally, Hell’s Bloody Devils was produced under the titles The Fakers and Operation M as a straightforward espionage action piece (circa 1967). When film distributors balked at the finished product, Al Adamson and co-producer Samuel Sherman added the biker subplot, and gave the product a more exploitive title. Shorn of the motorcycle gang footage, the film was also released as Smashing the Crime Syndicate. …

In this masterpiece of miss-fitting frames, actor Mark Adams plays an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce nearly perfect counterfeit $20 bills. The plates were made in Germany during World War II, and were discovered by a radical right-wing group hoping to restore the Nazi Party to power. This version of the movie was released in 1970, so the group was referred to as the “New Nazis” which later became, (as you probably know) the Neo-Nazi movement. The American gangsters are in cahoots with a group of wealthy American Neo-Nazis led by fugitive war criminal Count Von Delberg. This is where it gets weird. The Count allegedly recruited a vicious motorcycle gang, the Bloody Devils, to do his dirty work. The movie ends when the count, his daughter, and one of his cronies blow up in a tiny helicopter sans the bike gang. You never actually see the ‘bikers’ in this film do anything but beat up some travelers, do some drugs, and make-out with some hippie looking girls that were hitch-hiking. Like I said, it ain’t really a biker piece! The one cross-over character Carol Bechtol, the girl in the really cool ’69 mustang Al Adamson. That name pretty much says it all. He is the fastback, is the only slim continuity stretched between the Bad Spy creator of a handful of “Biker exploitation” pieces that run from Film and the Biker Exploitation Film. … Outstanding parts of the bad to worse, and this one is probably at the very bottom of the movie? Only one comes to mind. The real Col. Harland Sanders worst. The plot is simple enough but the incoherency presented appears when Mark dines with his girlfriend at a local Kentucky in this film was explained after doing some extensive research.

Fried Chicken. Col. Sanders says something along the line of Does this plot look too familiar to you? How about the score for “ain’t that the best chicken you ever ate?” I still like KFC, and the the opening of the movie? The theme song Fakers ran in this, and few brief scenes when the actors were actually riding were played a few other versions of the movie. That’s an old Nelson Riddle by members of the Hessians MC, and there were a few boobies tune that sounds like it was sung by Ertha Kitt! (Actually it was displayed (YAAAAY!) so I will give this flick one star, and half a Debbie Stuart.) This movie, if you want to call it that, really has chicken leg. If for some reason you wake up really sober one day nothing to do with bikers, bike gangs, or any other two wheeled and want to become confused and irrational without using drugs or devices— except perhaps a rolling trash receptacle. It may be the alcohol, go get this movie. It’s available on DVD and runs for 92 hardest to follow of any of the gazillion films that I have watched never ending minutes. and reviewed in my career. I assume that what happened was: THE PHANTOM MOVIE REVIEW

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Christian Motorcyclists Association discovered some paths through the woods, would stand up and say, “Hey everyone, follow me!” Most often when a person offers to lead a ride whether on the road or in the woods, he is familiar with the route because he has ridden it before. That’s not always true, however. For example, I remember the time I’ll never forget when I was on the back of an enduro bike and hanging on for dear life, I yelled to my friend asking him where the trail was. He responded, “There is no trail, we are making one!” That’s an exciting Road Captain leading an exciting ride!

There is One who is the ultimate Road Captain, He who has experienced every possible roadblock, challenge, or hazard in life. There is nothing He hasn’t experienced, no problem He does not understand, no pain or temptation He hasn’t lived through. His name is Jesus. In the Bible, in Matthew 4:19, Jesus said, “Come follow me”. He wants to lead His people, He wants to show everyone the way, and help people overcome the obstacles and roadblocks in life. Being that He is the Son of God, He has felt every emotion or frustration that any man could ever go through. Simply put, He understands!

Best of all, He is calling to each and every one of us to follow Him. The Bible shows us that He will lead us through the valleys of life as well as the mountaintops of joy, Jesus is always there! With a Road Captain like that, we have no need to worry! When He calls out to you to “Come follow me,” you can trust Him all the way!

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One of the great joys of riding with a group is the sense of camaraderie and great sense of freedom on the ride.

This is in part due to having a seasoned volunteer that is willing to serve as the Road Captain, one who stands up and says, “Follow Me!” When you ride with an individual serving as a Road Captain, your route has been planned, reviewed, and in some cases, already ridden in order to make sure that there are no roadblocks along the way. No matter how good one’s mapping software may be, or how accurate the Road Captain’s GPS may be, there are always last-minute challenges that can create the opportunity for change and adaptation. Sometimes the Ride Captain may tire or his bike may develop a mechanical problem and a volunteer will step up, saying, “Follow me!”

I remember when I was in school that a few friends would get together and go for a ride in the woods. There were no roads, lots of hazards to jump over or bouncy trails to rattle our kidneys, but what a great time we had. Once an area was explored, there was always one individual that, having BTR 48 | BORNTORIDE.COM