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Easy Rider Again
For awhile, the airwaves hummed with shows featuring colorful welders and “custom choppers.” One of those shows was called American Thunder and it was different from all the rest because instead of welder it featured a model named Michelle Smith. (Seen squatting in the photo above.) When the depression hit and people became less interested [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Talk To Cops Ever
21. January 2012
There are, to paraphrase a common biker saying, two kinds of people: Those who have been arrested and those who will be. The video below, published here at the urging of a reader, presents a brief primer on the pitfalls of talking to the police. It runs almost 50 minutes but if you have not [...]
Continue reading...SOPA And PIPA
18. January 2012
If you surf the web, you have probably noticed today that numerous high profile sites including Google, Wikipedia, EBay, Facebook, Yahoo and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are protesting two proposed laws called SOPA and PIPA. If you have found anything on this site that is informative, interesting or amusing you should know what these laws [...]
Continue reading...Motorcycle Noise And Money
4. January 2012
It is tempting for bikers to laugh off the holy crusade against “motorcycle noise” and aftermarket exhaust pipes. In the first place, the reasons for replacing the stock exhaust on a Harley are obvious to the people who do it. Back in the day, 82 inch Shovelheads made about 70 horsepower right out of the [...]
Continue reading...Iron Order Stabbing
12. December 2011
A week ago, a Hells Angel Motorcycle Club patch holder named William “Spook” Sosebee was convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping, possession of a knife during a violent crime and first-degree assault and battery for stabbing a member of another motorcycle club. The victim is named Jim Moye and this happened in a bar in Rock [...]
Continue reading...On Censorship
11. December 2011
During the last two months, two commenters have posted increasingly inflammatory remarks on this site. One is a jackass who identifies himself as “just a question” or JAQ. JAQ, presents himself as someone who detests the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club and aspires to be a Mongol. JAQ is opinionated about most disagreements between the Hells [...]
Continue reading...The Just A Question Honeymoon Suite
7. December 2011
This article is here only so a police agent provocateur who has identified himself as “just a question” since November 11 and as “PAPA JUST FUCKED WITH THE WRONG BULL” since October 8 will have a place to comment without offending anyone else who stumbles in here. The Aging Rebel believes that this trouble maker [...]
Continue reading...Dear JAQ, On Dave Burgess
3. December 2011
In reply to a brief announcement about federal inmate Dave Burgess yesterday, Just A Question wrote: Wow, Cavazo’s snitch unit is Having a Christmas competition with Burgess’ molester unit. I wonder who will get to eat Bologna sandwiches first. I’m sure his whole “Christmas request” is in some code, which deciphered reads: IT’S ME DAVE, [...]
Continue reading...Out Bad
20. November 2011
Regular and occasional readers of this page may want to know about a couple of new books that are finally in print. The first is called Out Bad: A True Story About Motorcycle Outlaws. The second is titled The Aging Rebel: Dispatches From The Motorcycle Outlaw Frontier. Both books are self-published, like Granny’s collection of [...]
Continue reading...The Dialogical Saloon Is Open
1. November 2011
News, in case you haven’t noticed, is undergoing a radical redefinition these days. For more than 30 years the dominant television news format was called “Eyewitness News.” An actor would “stand up” in front of a camera near some recent event and try to give you the impression that he was an eyewitness to that [...]
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17. February 2012
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