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Well, I can say with an extremely with bells on and camera in hand. I high degree of certainty that you know that it is disappointing that his won’t hear any of the “new year, new show is not in DM like normal, but me” type of bullshit coming out of sometimes you just need to make my corner of the world this month. lemonade from lemons and do the Not that I am disparaging anyone that best you can with what you have to subscribes to that sort of thinking, but work with. Best that can be done is just saying it is not for me. I usually to still support the shows and swap try to make an effort to make the meets when they are happening and positive changes in my life as I go, to keep moving forward. Hope to see a some varying degree of effectiveness, whole batch of you in Sioux City! but when I do such, I do it along the way. I steer the boat in the direction of travel and let ‘er rip! In February it may be of interest to bikers to try to attend the Life is an ever-evolving series of challenges and triumphs, ABATE of Iowa Lobby Day on February 5th. There may or and both should be grasped for what they are and live, learn, may not be some very important things to talk about with love, and move along into another moment, hour, day, week, your lawmakers on that day. We all need to take an active month, and year. Don’t just think of 2025 as something in the part in our freedom, and it starts right here, so please make a distant future as it has seemed for so long, but as your next point to attend if you can. opportunity to make shit work on your own terms. Make it happen. Happy New Year to one and all, we wish you the best On March 2nd in Cedar Rapids, we will be hanging out with of luck and much success this year! Joe, Kim, and company for the Parts Girl Promotions Swap Meet. This is an awesome one-day event that brings in more As we are rolling into this new month and year, I am excited parts than you can shake a stick at, and it brings an amazing for the upcoming event, bike show, and swap meet season to crowd. start. Not a show or swap, but an annual gathering of likeminded souls shakes out this year on January 11th at Metro After that show, we will be going back west to Fremont, NE HD in Cedar Rapids. Their winter sucks party is happening, to join the Omaha Chapter of the AMCA for the 46th Annual and they usually have some cool stuff being rolled out for Antique Motorcycle Show and Swap Meet. This is the closest the 620 Foundation at this shindig that should not be missed. place in the Midwest to get antique motorcycles judged and is The theme for the party this year is “Peace, Love, and Winter quite an interesting thing to watch. That on top of some cool Sucks!” Hope to see ya there! ass folks and bad ass old iron, it is a great place to check out on March 22nd and 23rd. Thunder Roads Magazine of Iowa loves this time of year getting out and about to events and seeing old friends and Then we move on to cross the eastern river and go to Rock meeting new ones. The first slated show event is the Midwest Island, IL for the Parts Girl Promotions show there on April Cycle & Motorsports Motorcycle Show and Swap Meet. 6th. We always love to see our eastern Iowa peeps for this Tator is back this year in a different zip code and is dead set event and make it a couple day trip to try to catch more on making the show work in a place that welcomes bikes. people and cool stuff on that side of Iowa and beyond. The show is on the left side of the river in Sioux City, NE on January 25th and 26th. I know that TRMI will be there Also, on the 6th and 7th of April will be a Chopper Show at Mason City at the North Iowa Events Center. Bring in your choppers, old or new. Chew the fat, tell some stories of days gone by, talk about your builds, and just have fun with some awesome people. There very well may be a Gilmore sighting or two at this show, and the winner will get a custom best Kenzie is the inked-up beauty on the cover this Chopper Award presented by Charlie “Chopper” Gilmore month with her own scooter. She states “being himself. That alone is worth the price of admission! a wanderer, drawn to the road, I had a dream of
building a custom bike. My neighbor Jerry Boone an old mechanic with a love for Harleys offered me a place to work in his garage. “Ask me anything,” Jerry told me “Just don’t be afraid to mess up.” Months of asking questions, practicing to weld, changing handlebars four times, tightening back every nut and bolt. Jerry never mocked my mistakes, only stated my choice of mods looked like a two-blocker, meaning it looked good from two blocks away. It lived on the stand for so long we sometimes would put the fan on while I straddled the bike, and play Steppenwolf. Slowly though with his help, this custom Softail began to take shape, each part a small victory. I now hop gas station to gas station with a smile on my face the whole time.” She will be on hand at the Midwest show in Sioux City, NE the end of January to share her story about her build, help out with the tattoo contest, and sign some autographs! See you there!
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Well, there is a list of things to keep you busy for the next few months until the weather breaks. Hope to see a ton of you out and about at these events! Don’t be afraid to stop by the booth and say hey! Be safe, Happy New Year! Vernon vernon@thunderroadsiowa.com Proud Editor/Owner Thunder Roads Magazine of Iowa Owner Thunder Guns and Thunder Guns West IMDA Board Member MRF Iowa Assistant State Rep COC Liaison NCOIR State of Iowa Representative
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Here we are, roaring full throttle into a new year! I think we probably all look ahead with the hope that maybe more good things will come our way this year than bad. Whether we’re talking about jobs, family relationships, health – we’re all ready for positive changes. If, like us, you missed a number of rallies and rides over the 2024 season due to various issues, you’re probably hoping to catch up with out-of-town friends at some of the chili feeds, dealership events, and swap meets over the winter. Another cold-weather option is to gather up some friends and head to one of Slider Gilmore’s presentations. Slider presents from the unique perspective of both a rider with 60+ years of experience behind him and of an EMT who has seen the end results of poor cycling skills, poor automobile driving skills, poor road maintenance, and just plain bad luck. The presentations include plenty of pictures and criminals. If God’s CSI team videos that will keep you awake and make you aware. He was to examine my life for does several classes, but a couple of them really stick out evidence of guilt in crimes in my mind. If I’m not mistaken, ‘Tar Snakes and Blue against God, they would be Haired Old Ladies’ deals with lowering your chances of looking for evidence that I disaster by learning to guard against dangers - both from was present at that crime. your own riding habits and from hazards thrown at you by They’d look for DNA, right? the road and by other motorists. ‘The Golden Hour’ deals And they would find plenty with the fact that most of us will see a bad accident at some of it. Except there’s a catch: point and shows steps we can take in that first hour to help the CSI team is mystified. improve the chance of survival for the person involved. There is blood covering the He covers accident scene management, how to help the crime scene and it’s full of accident victim avoid losing too much blood or going into DNA, but that DNA says shock, and how to prepare info that the ambulance crew will the blood is from the Son of need to get the injured person into medical care as soon as God, Jesus Christ. possible. I probably need to go to this class a couple times a year. I get it that head knowledge is a poor substitute for When Jesus died on the cross 2,000 years ago, he sacrificed experience, but if my little bit of head knowledge from this all his blood to cover all the crimes of anyone who class is the best thing that accident victim has going for confesses their sin and admits their need for God’s mercy. them, it’s better than nothing! Between Mark and me, we Knowing that we were guilty and would never be able to might know enough to keep someone alive until the real get off the hook on our own, he took the fall. Based on the help arrives. evidence of Jesus’s blood covering the scene, Jesus was judged guilty by God and executed. Executed for the sins Of course, remembering how Slider discussed different you and I committed. I finally realized that no matter how methods for slowing blood loss led my brain down a trail hard I tried to be “good enough,” I would never succeed, about blood in general and about newer discoveries about and I accepted Jesus’ sacrifice to pay for my sins. Have you blood in particular. I’m sure most of us are aware of the ever had a friend or brother pay a debt like that for you? fact that blood has long been used to prove the paternity of You are forever humbled and changed by their love. a child. And the DNA from the cheek swab that everyone turns in to Ancestry or 23andMe to find their family heritage The Bible lays out our problem and God’s solution this way. – that same DNA is in the blood, too. Another odd fact is Colossians 1:20 says, “And through Jesus, God reconciled that if you receive a blood transfusion, the donor’s DNA everything to himself. He made peace with everything in remains in your body for days afterward so if you take a heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the blood test, it will reveal both sets of DNA, as though two cross.” Romans 5:8 & 9 say, “But God shows his love for different people are present. And get this: scientists are us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. now suspecting that it’s not just our brain that carries a Since therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, sense of “self”, but also our blood. In the International much more shall we be saved . . .” Journal of Clinical Transfusion Medicine 2018:6, researchers discussed how they had long heard transfusion Slider’s classes show how to save lives till professional help recipients say they “felt different” after a transfusion and arrives. God’s word shows how to live forever forgiven. As were wondering if the DNA exchange was importing C.S. Lewis put it, “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. memories from the donors, similar to that phenomenon You have a body.” Take care of them both. seen in the recipients of organ transplants. The intricate workings of the human body are still such a mystery! Blessings – Karla Well, to humans they’re a mystery, but not to God. For instance, let’s look at one of the things the Bible says about blood. Envision the crime scene of our lives. Every one of us has broken God’s law in some way, so we are all 6 - TRMI JANUARY 2024
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not so USELESS RAMBLINGS
many books have been written about odd creatures lurking in our oceans and deep lakes? How many stories have Life Imitates Art… How been retold over campfires about legends such as Nessie the “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” - Oscar Wilde Quoted from Wikipedia, “The idea of life imitating art is a philosophical position or observation about how real behaviors or real events sometimes (or even commonly) resemble, or feel inspired by, works of fiction and art.” Lately, I have been forced to wonder whether life is imitating art or if art has been imitating life. Are all these odd things happening around the world because we have been writing books and making movies about these types of events throughout our history and we’ve somehow manifested them or are all the movies and books the result of the truth being leaked beforehand so that when the events happen, we aren’t as shocked by them because we had a warning?
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Loch Ness Monster? How many movies have been written about alien encounters on the ocean floor? Who among you have seen The Abyss, Leviathan, DeepStar Six, The Evil Below, or Lords of the Deep?
You’ve been watching movies about alien encounters your entire life. You know about Area 51 and the Roswell New Mexico incident. You know just enough to spark your interest and keep the stories alive in the depths of your mind. I’ve lived my entire life with the entertainment industry using the possibility of alien life to scare people. While most of the audience would just blow it off as make believe, but still wonder if Area 51 really does have dead aliens and wrecked spaceships. However, within the past 6 to 8 years, the government has been declassifying UFO sighting information from the FAA and our military records. During the first part of November 2024, Congress heard
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journalist, Serge Monast, in the 1990’s. His theory suggests that a complex strategy was developed by the Pentagon and NASA to establish a new world order through the manipulation of religious beliefs and supernatural events. First, they would dismantle the world’s major religions (strange, that does seem to be happening). Second, they would create a global spectacle with 3D holograms of deities (or maybe One conspiracy theory I saw recently was alien spaceship sightings around the world). that the alien life living in the ocean is tired of Third would involve massive telepathic hiding from us and they were forcing our world governments to prepare humanity for their reveal. While I’m communication making people believe they are in direct not convinced that is a valid viewpoint, I am not so conceited contact with a god. And the last phase would be a simulation of an alien invasion. That might be more 3D holograms in to believe that humans are the only intelligent (and in this the sky with real ground explosions or maybe it would be context I’m using this term very loosely) beings out there. real crafts our military acquired, but the following chaos would result in the people accepting a new world order so We must also consider all the books, movies, and television that the government would protect them. Critics and experts series that have been written about global pandemics. The dismiss Monast’s theory as unfounded and criticize the lack Walking Dead, Outbreak, Contagion, 12 Monkeys, and 28 of concrete evidence to support it. Days Later, just to name a few. These were all about some sort of virus or disease that was released upon the world Interestingly enough, in late 1996, Monast was arrested, causing complete chaos and how people would navigate the however I couldn’t find any charges for why; he allegedly post-apocalyptic world. had a heart attack and died in his cell that night. Throughout human history we’ve encountered hundreds Then we have stories or movies about computers becoming of epidemics and pandemics, such as Spanish Flu, Plague self-aware like in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Terminator, of Justinian, Black Death, HIV/AIDS, Antonine Plague, iRobot, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Virtuosity, and Singularity. Smallpox, Hong Kong Flu, Persian Plague, and myriad of others. Please bring to the world stage, our next contestant… Every one of these movies has the machines turning against COVID-19. The jury is still out, for some of you, on whether human beings after their programming advances and it this was a naturally occurring disease or if it was created in a decides that we are a threat to its existence. lab; it’s also still a question, if it was created in a lab, was it Today we have many of the founders and creators of A.I. an accidental release from the lab or was it intentional. I’m coming forward being against the very thing they spent their sure we all have our own thoughts about those questions lives working on; they are warning that there are instances and I’m hoping that someday we’ll all know the truth… where the programming is now out of their control as it has kind of like that JFK assassination and how we’ve just advanced far beyond the original program. Does this sound a recently been told that it was a CIA op. I did notice that the government had been warning about Monkeypox for a while bit familiar? and even tried some scare tactics that we would see another I am left questioning whether all of the conspiracy theories world pandemic very soon, however that rhetoric seems to just made for mostly good entertainment or if the mostly have died down a bit since the alien stories have been more good entertainment was the slow leaking of truth behind prevalent. the conspiracy theories. Have we been incrementally conditioned to accept what will soon be uncovered or A show of hands, please, who has heard of Project Blue Beam? This has been a very entertaining rabbit hole to climb revealed? into. Of course, this has been labeled as a conspiracy theory. Was Oscar Wilde right? Who knows. Maybe we’ll soon Project Blue Beam seems to be the brainchild of a Canadian be seeing AI powered, self-aware, robotic aliens come up from the depths of the ocean to spread the latest pandemic, Octopox. testimony about UFOs. For more than two hours, Congress heard from witnesses about UFO sightings, discussing the level of transparency they should have, discussed creating a civilian reporting system, and even suggested that the military has spent decades recovering the crafts to bolster its own technology.
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French toast…you know the drill. But they also offer a build your own omelet option, as well as homemade breakfast burritos. e prices on the menu were really reasonable, which was great to see when everything you buy right now seems to cost a fortune!
106 Broadway Street Carson, IA 51525 (712) 310-3103 Monday – ursday 2:00 PM - 9:00 PM Friday 2:00 PM - 2:00 AM Saturday 1:30 PM - 2:00 AM Sunday 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM Vernon and I are always looking for a place to grab breakfast in our area, and for some reason they seem to few and far between. I don’t know about you, but I am open to eating breakfast any time of day…it’s not just a morning meal in my opinion. We were out and about one day running errands and ran across information for the Bar’N And Grill in Carson, Iowa. I did a little digging and discovered that they not only offer lunch specials, dinners, and a fully loaded salad bar, but they are open on Sunday mornings for breakfast! I quickly invited Brad and Stacey to ride along and try it out for ourselves.
I ordered biscuits and gravy. I opted for 1 biscuit, and my plate arrived with one tender, aky biscuit covered in creamy sausage gravy, accompanied by a perfectly scrambled egg. Stacey ordered a breakfast burrito. Her plate arrived with a large tortilla wrapped around a generous portion of scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, bacon, diced green peppers and onions, and cheddar cheese all piping hot and tightly wrapped for convenient consumption. Brad requested the Pile, and it was clearly an excellent choice. Brad’s Pile consisted of 2 lightly scrambled eggs topped with a generous portion of crispy hashbrowns, and a juicy sausage patty, all covered in sausage gravy. Vernon decided to order the option with the most items so he could get a wider sampling of the menu. He chose the 2 eggs, hashbrowns, English muffin (or toast), choice of bacon or sausage, and pancake meal. Vernon chose a sausage patty, but added on bacon as well and he requested his eggs be cooked over medium. When his food arrived, we didn’t really know what to think. e bacon was crisp and delicious, the eggs were nicely fried, but that pancake…I have never seen such a huge pancake. It was bigger than the plate and incredibly uffy. It was easily more than enough on its own to feed a person for breakfast. Maybe even 2 people. AJ was a good sport and laughed at all our shenanigans, kept our cups full, and didn’t seem annoyed by Stacey’s talking at all. e Bar’N And Grill in Carson was a great stop for breakfast, and the lunch and dinner menus look pretty damn good as well. We will be back to try them both before long, and you should too. When you stop, be sure to tell them under Roads Magazine of Iowa sent you!
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A husband and wife were driving through Louisiana. a while and she’s really hot. I As they approached Natchitoches, they started arguing want the condoms because about the pronunciation of the town. They argued back I think tonight’s the night. and forth, then they stopped for lunch. At the counter, We’re having dinner with the husband asked the blonde waitress, “Before we her parents and then we’re order, could you please settle an argument for us? Would going out. Once she’s had me, you please pronounce where we are very slowly?” She she’ll want me all the time, leaned over the counter and said, “Burrr-gerrr Kiiing.” so you’d better give me the 12 pack!” The young man makes Why does Snoop Dogg use an umbrella? F his purchase and leaves. Later o-Drizzle. that evening, he sits down to dinner with his girlfriend and her parents. A little girl is serving her father tea while her mother is He asks if he may give the blessing and out shopping. The mother comes home and the father they agree. He begins the prayer but says, “Watch this!” The little girl goes and serves the continues praying for several mother tea. The mother responds, “Did it ever occur to minutes. The girl leans over you that the only place she can reach to get water is the and says, “You never told me toilet?” that you were such a religious person.” He leans over to her and Teacher: How much is a gram? says, “You never told me that your Tyronne: Uhmm, depends on what you need. father is a pharmacist.” A child asked his father, “How were people born?” So, Little Johnny likes to gamble. One day, his father said, “Adam and Eve made babies, then their his dad gets a new job, so his family has to move to a babies became adults and made babies, and so on.” new city. Johnny’s dad thinks, “I’ll get a head start on The child then went to his mother, asked her the same Johnny’s gambling.” He calls the teacher and says, “My question and she told him, “We were monkeys then son Johnny will be starting your class tomorrow, but he we evolved to become like we are now.” The child ran likes to gamble, so you’ll have to keep an eye on him.” back to his father and said, “You lied to me!” His father The teacher says, “Okay,” because she can handle it. replied, “No, your mom was talking about her side of The next day, Johnny walks into class and hands the the family.” teacher an apple and says, “Hi, my name is Johnny.” She says, “Yes, I know who you are.” Johnny smiles and One day Jimmy got home early from school and his mom says, “I bet you $10 you’ve got a mole on your butt.” asked, “Why are you home so early?” He answered, The teacher thinks that she will break his little gambling “Because I was the only one that answered a question in problem, so she takes him up on the bet. She pulls her my class.” She said, “Wow, my son is a genius. What was pants down, shows him her butt, and there is no mole. the question?” Jimmy replied, “The question was ‘Who That afternoon, Johnny goes home and tells his dad that threw the trash can at the principal’s head?’” he lost $10 to the teacher and explains why. His dad calls the teacher and says, “Johnny said that he bet you that There are five cows on a farm, one mamma cow and four you had a mole on your butt and he lost.” The teacher baby calves. The first baby walks up to the mom and says, “Yeah, and I think I broke his gambling problem.” asks, “Momma, why is my name Rose?” The mommy Johnny’s dad laughs and says, “No you didn’t, he bet cow replies, “Well honey, a rose petal fell on your head me $100 this morning that he’d see your ass before the when you were born.” The next calf comes up and asks, day was over.” “Momma, why is my name Lily?” The mother replies, “Because honey, a lily petal fell on your head when A husband got his mother-in-law a cemetery plot for you were born.” The third baby comes up and asks, Christmas. It came with a coffin, tomb stone, the works. “Momma, why is my name Daisy?” The momma cow Next Christmas comes by and the husband gets her again replies” Well, when you were born a daisy petal nothing. When the mother-in-law asks, “Why didn’t fell on your head.” The final baby walks over and says, you get me a gift?” the husband says, “You haven’t used “Duh huh guh nuh!” The momma cow says, “Shut up, the one I got you last year!” Cinderblock.” An Amish husband, wife and son travel to the city on Little Susie, a six-year-old, complained, “Mother, I’ve vacation. They visit a shopping mall and while the got a stomachache.” “That’s because your stomach is mother is shopping, the father and son are standing in empty,” the mother replied. “You would feel better if awe in front of an elevator (having no idea what it is). As you had something in it.” That afternoon, her father they watch, an elderly lady walks into the strange silver came complaining that he had a severe headache all day. doors and the doors close. The father and son watch Susie perked up, “That’s because it’s empty,” she said. as the numbers go up, and then back down. 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“Murphy, why is it them deep sea divers said “DUNDUNUNUNUN, BATMAN!” So, the boy always sit on the side of the boat with wrote that down. The next day, the boy went to school them air tanks on their backs, and fall and the teacher said “So what are the words?” The boy backwards out of the boat?” Murphy said “Shut up!” The teacher, shocked, calmly said “ Do thinks for a minute then says, “That’s you want to go to the principal’s office?” The boy said easy. It’s ‘cos if they fell forwards, “Hell yeah!” So, at the principal’s office, the principal they’d still be in the friggin boat!” said “What do you think you deserve in this situation?” The boy said “Lollipop lollipop!” The principal yelled A husband and wife have four boys. The “Who do you think you are?!” And the boy said “ odd part of it is that the older three have red DUNUNUNUNU, BATMAN!” hair, light skin, and are tall, while the youngest son has black hair, dark eyes, and is short. The A married couple, Harry and Esther, are out shopping father eventually takes ill and is lying on his one morning when Esther says, “Darling, it’s my deathbed when he turns to his wife and says, mother’s birthday tomorrow. What shall we buy for “Honey, before I die, be completely honest her? She said she would like something electric.” Harry with me. Is our youngest son my child?” The replies, “How about a chair?” wife replies, “I swear on everything that’s holy that he is your son.” With that, the Have you heard the story of the magic sandwich? husband passes away. The wife then mutters, Never mind, it’s just a bunch of bologna. “Thank God he didn’t ask about the other three.” Son: “Dad, there is someone at the door to collect donations for a community swimming pool.” Father: A mom and a son come home from the grocery “Okay, give him a glass of water.” store. The boy immediately empties out a box of animal crackers and the mom asks him why. The boy says, “You An old, blind biker accidentally stumbles into an all-girl should not eat it if the seal is broken, so I’m looking for biker bar, completely unaware of his surroundings. After the seal.” feeling his way to the bar, he takes a seat and orders a shot of Jack Daniels. As he settles in, he suddenly yells Three brothers wanted to give their blind mom a out, “Hey, anyone here wanna hear a blonde joke?” birthday gift. The first got her a big beautiful house. The The room goes dead silent. From beside him, a deep, second got her a brand-new luxury vehicle with a driver. authoritative voice calmly responds, “Before you go any The third got her a talking parrot to keep her company. further, I think you should know a few things.” When they all got together, they wanted to know which The voice continues: gift she liked best. She said they were all great, but she 1. “The bartender is a blonde woman with a baseball thanked her third son because she liked the chicken bat.” dinner best. 2. “The bouncer is also a blonde woman.” 3. “I’m a blonde, 6-foot-tall, 175-pound black belt in A teacher asks, “What’s the difference between a karate.” problem and a challenge?” A student responds, “3 boys 4. “The woman sitting next to me is a blonde professional + 1 girl = problem. 1 boy + 3 girls = challenge.” weightlifter.” 5. “And the lady on your other side is a blonde A hillbilly family’s only son saves up money to go to professional wrestler.” college. After about three years, he comes back home. The room stays silent as the biker pauses to process They are sitting around the dinner table, when the dad what he just heard. After a moment, he chuckles softly says, ‘’Well son, you done gone to college, so you must be and says, “You know what? Forget it. I don’t feel like perty smart. Why don’t you speak some math fer’ us?’’ explaining the joke five times.” ‘’Ok, Pa.’’ The son then says, ‘’Pi R squared.’’ After a moment, the dad says, ‘’Why son, they ain’t teached ya People think New Years is a life changing event. If your nothin’! Pie are round, cornbread are square.’’ life sucked last year, it’s probably still going to suck tomorrow. Little Johnny’s new baby brother is screaming up a storm. He asks his mom, “Where’d we get him?” His May all your troubles last as long as your New Years mother replies, “He came from Heaven, Johnny.” resolutions. Johnny says, “Wow! I can see why they threw him out!” I heard Donald Trump wants to Make New Years Eve A boy went home from school. His homework was to put Great Again. down the things his family said. So, he goes to his mother who was talking on the phone. The boy asked “Mum, There have been many times in 2024, when I have can you help me do my homework? 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Dirty Gurl is an Antique Motersickel, a 1937 Indian Chief to be specific. To the best of my understanding, Native American ‘Indian’ Chiefs were rarely of the female gender. Every Indian Chief Motocycle I’ve owned, and I’ve owned a few, were ALL referenced in the male gender. Regardless of color, they were/are ALL males. The first Chief I owned was metallic purple in color. I did not paint him, and I did not pick that color for him. That’s the way he looked when he was ridden/delivered from Kansas to my home in September or October of 1982. He was a cantankerous beast and my life in those days was such a train wreck that I do not recall ever giving him a name. He was purple and he was cantankerous. Hell, if someone painted me purple, I’d damn sure be cantankerous, too! (To be clear, I was somewhat cantankerous then and to a slightly less degree, I am still a bit onerous today.)
I must have done something quite right way back then, as I had Blacky up and running on Father’s Day of 1986. He barked on the first kick and fired up and ran on the second kick! He is my brother of Steel and my Forever Life Partner. The most important people in my life (Nikki, Carol, Paddy) are clear in understanding that Blacky WILL be running and WILL be leaking motor/transmission/ primary oil on my freshly covered grave. Hopefully, I can squeeze a few thousand more miles out of him and get that book done before that time comes...
When ‘Purple’ (my first ‘48 Chief) would misbehave and piss me off, I would threaten him to be traded in on a Honda Gold Wing, or if he got WAY out of line, I’d threaten him with being traded in for an H-D! Many were the times when I would be straddling the saddle, trying like hell to kick him into life, when I would call him “swine” or “piggy”, both derogatory monikers for the dreaded H-D. Those were back in the days when sex was safe, and motorcycles were dangerous. Shortly after, sex could kill you and every yuppie (dentist, lawyer, real estate agent, etc.) was on a waiting list to get their Brand-Spanking-New H-D from their local H-D Boutique. ‘Purple’ and I stayed together for a few short years and then “Whitey” arrived in my life just a little more than a year he was sold in order to help keep my Man-Parts out of the after Blacky. I wheeled and dealt my way into a motorProverbial Wringer. As I stated earlier, my life in those days less, transmission-less, primary drive-less, headlight-less/ was a real train wreck. taillight-less, speedometer-less/ammeter-less/ignition switch-less rolling 1940 Indian Chief chassis in a Wisconsin “Blacky” was next. I could write a book about Blacky, and town in April of 1987. We stuffed the roller in the trunk of one day, I probably will... Or at least a few chapters in that a 1973 Olds Ninety-Eight and hauled that beautiful Pile book will be dedicated to Blacky and all the crazy shit he back to South Dakota, but not before showing him off to the and I did together... local Scooter People in downtown EC. The local fellas were amazed that I had been able to pry that machine out of the Blacky came home in a peach basket, a couple milk crates, gentleman who had been sitting on it for decades. and a five-gallon pail. His frame was decent, and it was tossed into the bed of the old pickup along with the parts After more than six years of researching, scrounging, containers. That was in January of 1986. I was living in the hunting, painting, plating and building the Beautiful Beast, I city at that time, and the Pile that was to become Blacky first fired him up in July of 1993. He was fun to look at and was located less than five blocks from my home! (Thanks, fun to ride. He was also a real PITA (Pain in The Ass) to get and RIP, Boomer!) Having built a couple H-D “45” models sorted! It seemed like FOREVER before I cared to ride him from basket cases to good-looking runners, I was already a much further than I cared to push him home! Eventually, Member in Good Standing of the Amateur Builder Society. we got ‘there’, that special place where you knew he would (Thanks to Ole and countless others!) I knew just what to take you there and get you home and look good doing it! do, only this time, I would need to work my way into the Indian Motocycle World. Whitey and I made many trips around South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, 24 - TRMI JANUARY 2024
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Wyoming and Montana. We probably made it to other with an abundance of great people God has put in my life. states, but those are the ones I’m absolutely certain we rode. Together, these people, in working with me, have forged Life-Long Friendships. With some of these people, it has Selling him a few years ago just seemed to be the right thing been more ‘involved’ than with others. to do. He was tired, in a few thousand pieces, but 100% complete. He now resides with another Worthy Caretaker in Enter The Beaver.... Central Minnesota. (Glen, you are THE MAN!) Selling him afforded me the luxury of re-engineering, re-building, and “The Story of Dirty Gurl” (Part Two) to follow in next hiring a crew to tear off multiple layers of asphalt and cedar month’s issue of “Thunder Roads Magazine of Iowa.” shingles, then re-roofing the whole damn house! I have Don’t miss it! learned that having and riding Antique Motersickels is much more fun than having money rotting away in some bank! Thanks to Bill Wilson and the HP. Until next month, Of course, there were and are many, many other Alice motersickels and tons of motersickel parts that have passed through the doors of Casa de` Alice. Some have been Guests for but a few weeks; others decades in the process. I have a ‘39 Indian Chief that has been patiently waiting for me for nearly four decades. He started his life with me as a bare-ass frame and an H-D VL springer front end stuffed up the neck-hole. My intentions with him were to build a SICK chopper! Ape-hangers. Sissy bar. Indian Four fuel tanks. A hand-crafted rear fender/oil tank. As the years went by, I had scrounged up all the parts of my dreams except for the rear fender/oil tank. Meanwhile, Life continued to happen. The VL springer got traded for a Nineteen-Thirties Indian Chief/Four leaf spring front end. A guy out East learned of my 1935 threaded gas cap Indian Four tanks and offered me STUPID dollars so he could own them. A pair of new repop ‘39 Chief fenders landed in my lap. Some more creative swapping earned a new re-pop ‘39 Chief chain guard and a pair of re-pop ‘39 Chief fuel/oil tanks. Before I knew it, my Dream Bike was being pre-born as a Handsome Period Modified Mild Custom. I had planned to name him “Sig” due to the bare front end, ape-hangers and other Minimalistic Build Features. Now, due to all the cool and proper bits and pieces, as well as some custom parts, I’ll probably be forced to call him Sigmund. Or maybe Mr. Freud. Or Simply Freud. Hell, I may just call him “Sig” because the whole damn story is so good! (And, NO, Vernon, “Sig” is NOT FOR SALE!) Throughout the last 45 years or so, I have been blessed
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F%$#ing January... Nope, this time, sadly, my first of the new year column is going to be a little different, a departure from what I normally write about. Just because the subject matter is different, it doesn’t mean I don’t hold true to my end of the year, start of the year belief. The plan or course of action that I 100% believe if you want to have a better year than the year before you must do. No, it’s not about cutting carbs, going all protein, hitting the gym all the time. You do you and let’s be honest, those types of things last about a week, maybe two at the most. New Year New You crap doesn’t work, and I don’t have time to go down the rabbit hole to state why time and time again people will just fail miserably with that mindset kicking off January.
friends, we still would be close, and I would be interested in their daily lives. I am not. I have my own shit to worry about in life, why would I concern myself with their lives when I haven’t seen nor talked to them in decades? And yea, I mean decades. I graduated a long ass…Long Ass time ago and I really don’t have any connections with them or my school. I am friends with one classmate that I talk to on the reg, a couple of more I have run into over the years, but it is safe to say, there isn’t a close connection to my educational past. Out of sight out of mind really. Then, I got a space book message about a teacher that died, I will just call her Debra, that was her first name, out of respect to her friends and colleagues, we will leave it at that. She was one of very few teachers that I remember or at least gave me the direction I needed. I am going to fall on my sword here just a little bit, make a confession if you will, brace yourself, as sometimes honestly hurts to admit publicly…When I was a young man, I was a bit of a smart ass.
January, not the worse of the months, Okay, I was a big-time smart ass. I was a classic “above that is called February, and there is no changing that. No, average intelligence, below average achiever.” January is when you should start setting your goals, in writing, then figuring out how you can make those goals School wasn’t for me. It wasn’t challenging or demanding. happen. They don’t need to be massively huge goals. “This If I was interested, I was involved, if I didn’t care or year I am going to take a submarine to the bottom of the couldn’t see a long-term gain, screw it, I was checked out. A ocean and see the wreckage of the Titanic.” Or this is the great student, when I wanted to be, most of the time, I just year I climb Mt. Everest” Both places are littered with dead didn’t care and pushed back. people that used to have that same dream! But, hey…you do you baby! Not saying that was the correct path, I should have been more open maybe, maybe I could have learned some things. I do believe in goal setting, like every other successful I don’t really think about it too much, because you just company around, every successful person, every team, can’t live in the past, you must always move forward. I just group, organization, if they are a road plan for success, it wasn’t good at following all the rules. started with goal planning. There, like much of life, there were exceptions to that path. I was going to dive into that again this year, mostly because Creative writing was one of them. I seemed to have a good it is important in every aspect of your life. I don’t care if imagination and the vocabulary to crudely put stories down you are self-employed, work for a company, or run one… on paper and Deb caught on to that at an early age. you goal plan. Same for your family, what is your goal for your family this year! Adventure related? Does it involve Deb was a hippy. Sometimes she didn’t shave her arm pits riding somewhere, doing a trip, rebuilding part of your which, kind of grossed me out and we know this because property, it all demands goal planning to be completed. she always wore hippy dresses, sometimes no bra (as a high school boy pre-internet, this was clear spank bank material!) That all changed on a cold Monday afternoon via a post She had a great personality that just flowed around her in a from a classmate about a teacher that had passed. Way too carefree, curious nature and she always seemed to be happy young, I don’t even know the cause of death, but reading in life. Even when I would piss her off by being a smart between the lines, it sounds like a something bad. And ass, or just generally a young punk dumbass, even then she maybe it’s best I don’t know the reason behind her passing, would be almost smiling while dealing with me. She had but out of the blue it hit me in a special spot. an amazing grace, and I was always a fan of her and loved her classes. She was the only teacher that I had every year Let me set this up for you a little bit. I don’t really have for high school, and it was all because she did inspire me, anything to do with my High School. I have never attended pushed me, guided me, and let a very active brain find the a class reunion and I don’t see that ever happening actually. path it was meant to go down. I am not friends with pretty much all of my classmates, I hope they have a good life, but I really don’t think about I learned from a very wise man when I was a young dip shit them all that much, you see, if we were supposed to be 30 - TRMI JANUARY 2024
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that if you do pay attention and keep your mind open you can find guidance when you are not looking for it. Have a curious mind, feed that curious mind, learn from asking questions, learn by listening. Nobody ever got smarter while they were talking, and maybe because that message was beat into me so many damn times, I was lucky enough to follow that and learn from people that I would not generally learn from. Deb was one of those that taught me. Okay, more of a path of teaching me to think a different way and for that, I will always adore her. Her passing was a hard kick in the feels, and I am a pretty jaded asshole, but it gave me a blast of our own mortality and the fleeting nature of life. Deb lived a full life, I hadn’t heard or spoken to her for almost 40 years, but I did what most of us do, I stalked her space book page. That led to me check on a couple of other teachers I actually liked. Thankfully, they appear to be doing well. But more importantly, it made me remember things she exposed me to, helped me awaken my curious mind once again and as Fat Albert once said, “If I am not careful, I may learn something along the way.” Or maybe it was Minnesota Fats? Fats Domino? The Domino pizza guy? Welcome to the New Year, I hope your goal is to open up, try something new, and achieve what you dream. Todd “Crash” Davis under Roads Magazine of Iowa on Facebook
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