tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69489951085157589422024-02-07T01:25:01.800-08:00Motorcycle Event NewsKey biker events, bike builders, biker news, world travelMaryJo@IowaTechCafe.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658572742418992412noreply@blogger.comBlogger400125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948995108515758942.post-3620574999989474982021-06-26T03:54:00.000-07:002021-06-26T03:54:57.735-07:00<div><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc e5nlhep0 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_at" style="padding: 4px 16px;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="color: var(--primary-text); display: block; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QCy7yIH0YhM/YNcA3F_RDjI/AAAAAAAAJJ8/gkXjzswvewkmVaob5GNqWy2nX39nA9M-wCLcBGAsYHQ/s274/BBB.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="274" height="274" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QCy7yIH0YhM/YNcA3F_RDjI/AAAAAAAAJJ8/gkXjzswvewkmVaob5GNqWy2nX39nA9M-wCLcBGAsYHQ/w316-h274/BBB.png" width="316" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">The 21st Bikes Blues & BBQ is set for September 22-25, 2021 in Fayetteville, Arkansas in the gorgeous Ozark Mountains. </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The BBB Rally is the biggest charitable motorcycle rally in the US. In the first 20 years, the event has donated more than $3 million dollars to local charity groups. More information @ <a href="http://www.bikesbluesandbbq.org" target="_blank">bikesbluesandbbq.org</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 0.9375rem; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Harley Davidson has donated a motorcycle that is being raffled to support the event's 2019 grant recipients! 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<br />MaryJo@IowaTechCafe.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658572742418992412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948995108515758942.post-44496468318532623752017-05-29T08:40:00.000-07:002018-06-17T03:01:39.830-07:00Memorial Day Weekend 2017: The Unsung Heroes of Vietnam<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mr. Purscell was an excellent motorcycle mechanic as well as an excellent welder; both talents put to use in the restoration of a 1933 Indian Scout motorcycle that had been pulled from the ditch of an Iowa farmer. The restored bike took first place in a state competition at the old Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines.<br /><br />He road and maintained a 1956 Harley Panhead, which he has passed down to his son and grandsons. He is survived by his wife, Carol, as well as, his mother, who lives in Florida, his sister, Mary Jo Pezzi and brother, Richard Purscell of Florida; and four older half-brothers: Jim Purscell of Arkansas; Wayne, Jerry and Larry Purscell all of Des Moines. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His four children and spouses include Joe and Krys Purscell of Waukee; Julie and Sean Gilkey of West Des Moines; Karen Purscell and Christina Purscell of Des Moines. He had 12 grandchildren, and has his first great grandchild on the way. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.8px;">The ride was hosted by Bobby and Elisa Seeger, owners of </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/indianlarrymotorcycles" style="color: #993333; line-height: 20.8px;" target="_blank">Indian Larry Motorcycles</a><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.8px;"> to raise funds to help children and families battling ALD - Adrenoleukodystrophy, a childhood disease that can be treated if it is diagnosed at birth. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.8px;">Their son, Aidan was a fighter in life, loved motorcycles and had a posse of friends cheering for him when he was diagnosed with ALD at age six in 2011. He lost the battle in 2012. The Aidan Jack Seeger Foundation was established in his honor to help families, to raise awareness of the disease and to press for legislation to require newborn screening for ALD. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5/29/2016 -- Hundreds of thousands of bikers assembled at the Pentagon before riding en masse through Washington D.C. to the Lincoln Memorial, where Donald J. Trump was a guest speaker at the 29th annual Rolling Thunder veteran's motorcycle run. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://bikeweeknews.blogspot.com/search/label/rolling%20thunder" style="background-color: #fff2cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Rolling Thunder</b></span></a> Riders from as far away as California and Texas, cross the heartlands of America together for the annual "Freedom Ride" through Washington D.C., coming together for the biggest one-day rally in the USA. This year marks 29 years.</span><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;"> - </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Video - MSgt Rob Wilkins, USAF, Ret. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first Rolling Thunder run, in 1987 was made in an attempt to petition the government to take responsibility for the soldiers that were abandoned after the Vietnam War ended. Four Vietnam veterans, exercising their First Amendment "right to petition and assemble," organized a group of 2,500 veterans on motorcycles to ride through the streets of Washington D.C. to bring awareness of the plight of prisoners of war (POW) and those missing in action (MIA.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today, more than 500,000 riders participate in the Freedom Ride and as many as 900,000 people line the streets to welcome them to the nation's capitol.</span><br />
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MaryJo@IowaTechCafe.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658572742418992412noreply@blogger.com0Washington, DC, USA38.9071923 -77.03687070000000938.7094713 -77.3595942 39.1049133 -76.714147200000014tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948995108515758942.post-60209721749731024412015-05-19T15:43:00.000-07:002015-05-20T05:20:58.748-07:00The Effect of The 1% Biker Wars in Waco, Texas<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Eight Cossack and one Bandido Nation 1% bikers were killed at Waco.<br />170 rival bike club members are in jail w/bond set at $1 million each.</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is concern in the riding community that what happened in Waco will dampen the public's opinion about motorcycle riders -- especially at a time when so many riders will be on the nation's roadways over the Memorial Day Weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Memorial Day Weekend is a time when thousands of motorcycle riders are on the roadways -- including an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 riders from across the country riding together to participate in the annual <a href="http://bikeweeknews.blogspot.com/2013/05/rolling-thunder-run-xxvi-memorial-day.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Rolling Thunder Freedom Ride/ DC</span></b></a> that is a healing event for many war veterans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For most people, who enjoy riding the open roads together as part of a "brotherhood" that is second-to-none, the violence in Waco makes no sense! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"They are ruining this for the majority of motorcycle riders, who are great people and not criminals" is the sentiment shared across the web. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was supposed to be a typical get-together of the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents, an umbrella group that meets every two or three weeks, which is usually attended by two or three members of various motorcycle clubs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We have been doing this for 18 years" without a problem, Gimmi Jimmy told a NY Times reporter. "We discuss things like biker rights, but no individual club business is talked about," said Jimmy, who is chairman of the state group and also national ambassador for the Bandidos. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/waco-texas-biker-gang-shooting.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a> interview, Jimmy said representatives of the Bandidos club were part of the meeting, but "the other side" -- The Cossacks and Scimitars -- were at the Twin Peaks sports bar in Waco, but they were not part of the meeting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jimmy said he's not in jail because he arrived late to the meeting. He did not share what might have triggered the fight in the bathroom that spilled into the bar, and then out into the parking lot. Eight Cossacks and one Bandido were killed in the gunfight, he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It's all about territory," said <a href="http://bikeweeknews.blogspot.com/2014/01/outlaw-motorcycle-clubs-outlaw-bikers.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Edward Winterhalder</span></b></a>, a former Bandido who has written more than a dozen books about outlaw bikers. "The Bandidos told the Cossacks to remove the third-rocker TEXAS from their 3-piece cut, and the Cossacks chose to ignore the warning."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Bandidos club was founded in 1966 in Texas, and the Cossacks club was founded in 1969 in Texas. But the Bandido Nation has grown to be the largest outlaw club in the world, and feels they own Texas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Waco episode was a challenge to the Bandidos' pre-eminence by less established organizations," said Don Charles Davis, who writes the biker blog, "The Aging Rebel."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A lot of the newer members are veterans, and they want to prove their independence and equality," Davis said in the article. "It's a generational thing that is reshaping the culture."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The "1% outlaw club" distinction dates back to 1947</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>All clubs not sanctioned by the American Motorcyclists' Association (AMA) were labeled "1% outlaw clubs" and banned from all future AMA bike events after the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club made headlines at an AMA-sponsored event in Hollister, California in 1947 that was the basis for the movie, "The Wild One."</b></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The AMA (founded in 1924 to organize events sponsored by bike manufacturers) wrote a scathing article in their magazine shortly after the disastrous event, stating that "99% of all motorcycle riders are law-abiding citizens and only 1% are outlaws." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, the AMA represents 235,000 members and <a href="http://bikersmag.com/html/ama_chartered_clubs.html" target="_blank">hundreds of riding clubs</a>, including H.O.G. (Harley Owners Group) and the Jackpine Gypsies MC -- Founders of the Grandaddy of all biker rallies, "The Black Hills Classic, in Sturgis, SD" that started off as 9 featured motorcycle races in 1938 and has grown to a rally attended by more than half a million motorcycle fans. -- But there are plenty of good people within all clubs.</span><br />
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MaryJo@IowaTechCafe.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658572742418992412noreply@blogger.com0Waco, TX, USA31.549333 -97.1466695000000331.332836 -97.469393000000025 31.76583 -96.823946000000035tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948995108515758942.post-75895420004100352752015-05-17T18:25:00.002-07:002015-05-19T19:09:02.313-07:00Shootout Between Rival 1% Bikers in Waco, Texas <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eight Cossacks and 1 Bandido Nation 1% bikers died in the armed battle between rival clubs</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: start;"><b> in the parking lot of Twin Peaks Restaurant in Waco, Texas. </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">IMAGE: ROD AYDELOTTE/WACO TRIBUNE HERALD VIA AP/ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hundreds of bikers were at the Twin Peaks sports bar and restaurant, near Interstate 35 in Waco, Texas when a fight broke out just after noon between rival 1% biker club members. Eight bikers died at the scene, another biker died at an area hospital, and at least 18 other people were injured. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.5px;">All nine men killed were members of the two main rival groups, the Cossacks and Bandidos Nation, police said.</span><br />
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<b>The Bandido Nation 1% Club was formed in Texas in 1966 and has spread all over the world. </b></div>
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<b>The Cossacks 1% club formed in Texas -- in 1969, and last year was told by Bandido Nation NOT to claim TEXAS as part of their 3-piece color back patches. The younger generation of bikers, that often includes military veterans, decided to ignore the warning and keep TEXAS as a bottom "rocker" on the club's patch.</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><b>The Bandidos Motorcycle Club</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">: AKA the Bandido Nation, is an organized crime syndicate with a worldwide membership. The club was created in 1966 by Don Chambers in Texas. The motto still stands today as "We are the people our parents warned us about." It is estimated to have 2,400 members in 210 chapters, located in 22 countries. The FBI and the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada have named the Bandidos as an "outlaw motorcycle gang." The chapters are divided around the world, with over 90 in the US, 90 in Europe, 17 in Australia, 1 in NZ and 1 in South-east Asia:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Waco police arrested 192 biker club members, and filed "organized crime" charges against 174 bikers, described by a county judge as "mostly from out of town." They were at Twin Peaks to recruit members. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Justice of the Peace W.H. "Pete" Peterson set their bond at $1 million each. "I think it is important to send a message," the judge said. "We had nine people killed in our community. These people just came in and most of them were from out of town. Very few of them were from in town."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fight began inside the restaurant and moved to the parking lot, where it escalated from fists to knives and chains, and then guns, police said. Diners, including small children, scrambled for shelter in the restaurant's freezer. Other people fled from the parking lot or took cover behind parked cars during the gun battle. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.5px;">Police were aware of growing tension at the bar, and at least some police were at the bar when the fight began. Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton told KWTX-TV said hundreds of bikers were involved in the parking lot fight. Some began shooting at each other, and when police arrived, they began shooting at police. It is unclear how many of the dead and wounded were shot by bikers and how many may have been shot by police.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.5px;">On Sunday night, Waco police advised citizens to avoid the area until further notice:"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.5px;">Again!! Please avoid the Central Texas Market Place as the area is NOT safe. Officers are continuing to arrest individuals coming to the scene with weapons. This is not the time to sight see as we are dealing with very dangerous individuals." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For months, police say they tried to thwart danger by boosting security inside or having the restaurant deny service to the rival club members. But police say that local managers at the restaurant refused to cooperate. The managers disputed that claim after the shooting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The biker clubs involved Sunday are well-known organized criminal enterprises, some with national affiliations, police said, that make money through drug dealings, extortion, robbery and violence.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police had been aware for several months that rival club members were gathering to address recruitment and turf, areas where the groups have clashed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">At least 10 uniformed SWAT officers from Waco and the Texas Department of Public Safety were in marked cars outside the restaurant, but no plainclothes officers were inside because they felt they </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">weren't</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> welcome by restaurant managers, Swanton said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Bandidos were involved in a shooting less than two months ago at a local restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. >>><a href="http://bikeweeknews.blogspot.com/2015/04/banditos-nation-in-news-in-albuquerque.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Read Story</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">"Bandidos are in town recruiting and collecting debts. Fact. Even in Rio Rancho," said a local Albuquerque rider on Facebook. - March 2015.</span><br />
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MaryJo@IowaTechCafe.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658572742418992412noreply@blogger.com0Waco, TX, USA31.549333 -97.1466695000000331.332836 -97.469393000000025 31.76583 -96.823946000000035tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948995108515758942.post-17166640980260503322015-04-18T16:31:00.000-07:002015-04-18T16:31:19.412-07:00Daytona Beach Main Street Biker Bar Owner Arrested<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Police were called to the saloon at 601 Main Street and arrested the owner, Louis Derosa, age 59, for stabbing an employee in the face with a hunting knife.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Derosa got into an argument with an employee because he wouldn’t give him the password for his computer. Derosa punched the victim then slashed his face from the bride of his nose to his left cheek, according to the arrest report. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Police said the wound was about 8 inches long and 2 inches deep. The victim was transported to Halifax Health Medical Center. Police said his injury was not life-threatening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Derosa was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon with bodily harm. Bond was set at $50,000.</span></div>
MaryJo@IowaTechCafe.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658572742418992412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948995108515758942.post-77513400188576159632015-04-17T14:43:00.003-07:002015-04-17T16:43:35.901-07:00Bandidos Nation in The News in Albuquerque and Ontario<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7KvUsQCY63U/VTF5d5LeKrI/AAAAAAAAFto/Y8ivJBbDBWU/s1600/Bandidos-Motorcycle-Club.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7KvUsQCY63U/VTF5d5LeKrI/AAAAAAAAFto/Y8ivJBbDBWU/s1600/Bandidos-Motorcycle-Club.jpg" height="340" width="580" /></a><span style="color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>
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<span class=" authorLocation" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 3px;">ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -</span><span class=" authorLocation" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 3px;">A member of the Bandidos shot a member of the local Wheels of Soul motorcycle club in a shootout at the end of March at an Applebee's restaurnaunt on the northeast side of town. One restaurant employee said guns were pulled by several members of the rival clubs and at least 7 shots were fired, with one man falling to the floor.</span><br />
<span class=" authorLocation" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 3px;"><br /></span><span class=" authorLocation" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 3px;">Police did not release the name of the man they took to the hospital, and two weeks later, no arrests have been made. No one is talking. Even witnesses are unwilling to identify the shooter. "I'd give you his name but I don't want to die," one 911 caller said.</span><br />
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<span class=" authorLocation" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 3px;">Eight members of the Toronto Bandidos motorcycle club were shot execution style on April 8, 2006 at a farm property, the result of an internal gang dispute involving the Winnipeg and American branches. Their bodies were found stuffed in trunks of vehicles on the property near London, Ont.</span><br />
<span class=" authorLocation" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 3px;"><br /></span>
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<span class=" authorLocation" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 3px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"><b>In 2011</b> - there was violence between the Hell's Angels and the Mongols on main street during the <b>Sturgis Motorcycle Rally</b>, followed by a shootout during the <b>Reno Street Vibrations </b>rally. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Insiders say the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Vagos Motorcyle Club - also called 'The Green Nation'</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"> - is on a mission to replace the Hells Angels as the "Baddest" outlaw biker gang. </span><br />
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MaryJo@IowaTechCafe.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658572742418992412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948995108515758942.post-22754187492687205272015-03-25T11:34:00.001-07:002015-03-28T22:20:15.550-07:00Leesburg Bikefest: Biggest 3-Day Rally <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br /></span></span> <span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br /></span></span><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>Who's Ready For Leesburg Bike Fest April 24 to 26? </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.7600002288818px;">International Female Ride Day© (IFRD) is a campaign for women motorcyclists with the purpose of highlighting and profiling the female motorcycle and scooter rider. Its mission is that of building and underlining broad-spectrum (and public) awareness of female motorcyclists of every culture around the world, while simultaneously encouraging other women to take up the activity; demonstrating the ease of the activity.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.7600002288818px;">Read more: </span><a href="http://goo.gl/jbNNJX" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.7600002288818px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/jbNNJX</a>MaryJo@IowaTechCafe.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658572742418992412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948995108515758942.post-72650285975918959972015-03-14T21:44:00.001-07:002015-03-14T21:48:35.005-07:00Remembering Daytona Bike Week 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: red;">The Real Thing!</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Billy Stevens, founder of the Iron Horse Saloon with Jay Allen of the Broken Spoke Saloon at the 74th Daytona Bike Week, Friday, March 13th.</span>MaryJo@IowaTechCafe.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658572742418992412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948995108515758942.post-78085239129162423412015-03-14T20:37:00.000-07:002015-03-14T20:37:59.382-07:00Kansas Bike Builder Big Winner at Daytona Bike Week 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bike builder Larry A. Moore of Wichita, Kansas is a big winner this year at Daytona Bike Week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He picked up a first place extreme-radical custom's award and "Best of Show" at Saturday's Rat's Hole Custom Bike Show, staged for the first time at the new Indian Motorcycle dealership, 290 N. Beach Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He also picked up top awards at this year's Daytona Boardwalk Merchant's bike show, near the pier at the beach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His custom shovel head, <b>Kontrolled Kaos</b> was named "Best Bike of the Year 2015" earlier this year at Easyrider's annual invitational competition -- after a win at the Easyrider's Columbus, Ohio show.</span><br />
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<br />MaryJo@IowaTechCafe.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658572742418992412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948995108515758942.post-27208700042708747042015-03-08T17:08:00.000-07:002015-03-08T17:09:08.120-07:002015 Indian Scout Wall Bike: Daytona Bike Week 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The American Motor Drome Company presents the Original Xtreme American Wall of Death Show at Destination Daytona. Shows every hour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>MaryJo@IowaTechCafe.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658572742418992412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948995108515758942.post-6678321369023045482015-03-05T19:14:00.000-08:002015-03-05T19:14:27.968-08:00Tattoo Willie's Old School Bike Show: Best of Daytona Bike Week<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oP6MaPn7GM8/VPkXof93KrI/AAAAAAAAFpQ/VaLwMHqmYuQ/s1600/WilliesTattoos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oP6MaPn7GM8/VPkXof93KrI/AAAAAAAAFpQ/VaLwMHqmYuQ/s1600/WilliesTattoos.jpg" height="640" width="506" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span><br />
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<b>One week from today, don't miss the best bike show in Daytona during Bike Week. Willie's Tropical Tattoo hosts the Chopper Time Old School Bike Show. Billet or trailer queens need not apply.</b> North of Daytona Beach at 825 S. Younge St. US 1, Ormond Beach.MaryJo@IowaTechCafe.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658572742418992412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948995108515758942.post-24967369100661121882015-03-04T13:03:00.002-08:002015-03-05T19:15:17.975-08:00Daytona Beach Boardwalk Bike Show: March 13<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<b>Boardwalk Classic</b>: Registration is 8 to 11 am Friday, March 13th for the 26th Annual Boardwalk Merchant's - Full Throttle Classic ride-in bike show, beside the pier at the end of Main St. Entries will compete in 21 classes for 55 trophies, including Best of Show $500. The awards will be presented at 4 pm.</div>
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