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Well our monthly dinner ride on March 29th had a great turnout. 11 members and friends wanted a taste of Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que.
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Those that made the ride were Stan & Patti, Jim & Barbara, Mike Martin, Rich & Debbie along with their friend Carol, our newest member Jim Edwards, and of course Bev and I.
Once the badge goes on, it never comes off, whether they can see it, or not. It fuses to the soul through adversity, fear and adrenaline and no one who has ever worn it with pride, integrity and guts, can ever sleep through the ‘call of the wild’ that wafts through bedroom windows in the deep of the night.
When Cops Retire
When a good cop leaves the ‘job’ and retires to a better life, many are jealous, some are pleased and yet others, who may have already retired, wonder. We wonder if he knows what he is leaving behind, because we already know. We know, for example, that after a lifetime of camaraderie that few experience, it will remain as a longing for those past times. We know in the law enforcement life there is a fellowship which lasts long after the uniforms are hung up in the back of the closet . We know even if he throws them away, they will be on him with every step and breath that remains in his life. We also know how the very bearing of the man speaks of what he was and in his heart still is.
These are the burdens of the job. You will still look at people suspiciously, still see what others do not see or choose to ignore and always will look at the rest of the law enforcement world with a respect for what they do; only grown in a lifetime of knowing. Never think for one moment you are escaping from that life. You are only escaping the ‘job’ and merely being allowed to leave ‘active’ duty.
So what I wish for you is that whenever you ease into retirement, in your heart you never forget for one moment that ‘Blessed are the Peacemakers for they shall be called children of God,’ and you are still a member of the greatest fraternity the world has ever known.
Civilian Friends vs Police Friends
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Get upset if you’re too busy to talk to them for a week.
POLICE FRIENDS: Are glad to see you after years, and will happily carry on the same conversation you were having the last time you met.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.
POLICE FRIENDS: Have cried with you.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
POLICE FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it’s yours.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Know a few things about you..
POLICE FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct quotes from you.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that’s what the crowd is doing.
POLICE FRIENDS: Will kick the crowds’ ass that left you behind.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Are for a while.
POLICE FRIENDS: Are for life.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have shared a few experiences. ..
POLICE FRIENDS: Have shared a lifetime of experiences no citizen could ever dream of…
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will take your drink away when they think you’ve had enough.
POLICE FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling all over the place and say, ‘You better drink the rest of that before you spill it!!’ Then carry you home safely and put you to bed…
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will talk crap to the person who talks crap about you.
POLICE FRIENDS: Will knock them the hell out for using your name in vain.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will ignore this.
POLICE FRIENDS: Will forward this..
There are those that think they understand. And then . . . There are cops
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The 8th Red Cross Ride for the Red Run was held on Sunday March 27th. What a turnout there was. The ride began @ the Red Cross Facility on Broad and ended @ Johnny Ringo’s Bar & Grill in T0mbstone. The weather was great and fun was had by all. We even had our own private “Shootout at the OK Corral performed right at Johnny Ringo’s by the Staff from Tombstone.
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The parking lot was packed by the beginning of registration @ 9:00 am.
Shortly thereafter more and more bikes began filling the lot. Soon there were bikes parking in adjacent lots just to register for the ride.
There are way too many photos to show here on our page. Please go to the “Photos Page” to see more photos.
This page is dedicated to restaurant information. I have listed a few restaurants that might be of interest to our members to go for breakfast, lunch or dinner rides. I will leave this on top of the first page for a month. It will then move to BKAZIX Rides Page.
Please feel free to “Leave a Comment” with any restaurants that you might like to see us go to.
Eclectic Cafe at Tanque Verde and Sabino Canyon – Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
Gus Balon’s 6027 E. 22nd St. – Breakfast
Cow Palace – Amado – Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Frog & Firkin – Dinner
Gentle Ben’s – Lunch/Dinner
Zachery’s Pizza – Dinner
Bison/Witches – Lunch/Dinner
I’ve also found a Tucson Restaurant Guide that has a lot of restaurants in Tucson a comments from people who have gone to some. You could use these as a guide to where you might like to eat dinner.
Originally published March 16, 2011 at 5:46 p.m., updated March 17, 2011 at 2:40 p.m. San Diego Union Tribune.
The open road and the motorcycle were made for each other on either the fifth or sixth day of creation, before God rested – by taking a road trip on a very early model Harley, I’m told.
This I believe.
If you do, too, then you might be interested in the list of the Top 15 motorcycling roads in America, published in the April edition of American Motorcyclist magazine.
American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) and its website tapped the considerable experience of its 230,000 members to come up with the list, we’re told. Members nominated 100 roads, according to AMA President and CEO Rob Dingman.
Not surprisingly, a Western leaning gives a full-throttle feel to the list. Several, including the Pacific Coast Highway run through California.
Here is the AMA’s Top 15, and a short list of honorable mentions. The magazine, of course, goes into detail on each road trip:
(#15) Washington Route 129 and Oregon Route 3, Clarkston, Wash., to Enterprise, Ore.
(#14) Ohio Route 170, Calcutta to Poland.
(#13) California Route 58, McKittrick to Santa Margarita.
(#12) U.S. Route 33, Harrisonburg, Va., to Seneca Rocks, W.Va.
(#11) Natchez Trace, from Natchez, Miss., to Nashville, Tenn.
(#10) Angeles Crest Highway, California Route 2.
(#9) U.S. Route 12, Lolo Pass, Idaho and Montana.
(#8) California Route 36.
(#7) Cherohala Skyway, North Carolina and Tennessee.
(#6) Going to the Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana.
(#5) California Route 1, Pacific Coast Highway.
(#4) U.S. Route 550, from Ouray to Durango, Colo.
(#3) U.S. Route 129 — The Tail of the Dragon — on the North Carolina-Tennessee border.
(#2) Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina.
(#1) Beartooth Highway, Montana and Wyoming.
Honorable mentions:
Highway 12, Colorado
Route 191, 180, 78, Arizona, New Mexico
U.S. 191 (Alpine to Morenci) Arizona
U.S. 16A South Dakota
U.S. 50, Nevada
Farm to Market 336, Texas
Brough Superior motorcycles were made in Nottingham, England from 1919 until 1940 and were known as ˜the Rolls Royce of motorcycles”. Very expensive at the time, they were available only to the wealthy. This model dates from 1931.
T. E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, owned several of these machines and died from his injuries after crashing on one in 1935… Another beautiful bike is this Imme (Germany), with a single side suspension:
The Megola motorcycle was produced in Munich in the 1920’s. Some 2000 were built, but only 10 fully working examples are still in existence, one of which is in the Guggenheim Museum in New York:
In 1935, the Killinger and Freund motorcycle was an attempt to make an improved version of the Megola, but the advent of World War Two put an end to any further development:
Some sources point out that “in 1940, when Indian’s skirted fenders appeared, several questioned the manhood of Spingfield’s designers”. It seems that aerodynamic shape of Killinger & Freund bikes influenced the Indian designers:
This streamlined torpedo is the French-made Majestic, 1929:
Speaking about “Custom War Bikes”, here is one that was fashioned after World War Two style (modern concept by Kogisama):
The previous wild concept was not so wild, after all – take a look at the real WW2-period 1936 BMW Schneekrad (more info):
Another front-wheel tracked motorcycle prototype from 1937 (more info):
Modern all-terrain tracked version is proposed by Hyanide & Baal:
After the war, the Moto Guzzi 500 cc V8 race bike was seen on the world’s high-speed racetracks from 1955 to 1957.
Going Hubless
The hubless wheel was invented by Franco Sbarro, who incorporated it into the Sbarro Osmos car in 1989. He also built at least two motorcycles employing the hubless technology.
Modern version of the hubless wheel can be seen in the recent concepts for Harley Davidson, by designer Miguel Cotto (more info):
Many of us remember the lightcycles from the 1982 movie Tron. The long awaited sequel, Tron Legacy, is set to hit theaters in late 2010 and will feature this splendid looking specimen:
Swordfish concept chopper:
Rats & Kustoms
This custom built motorcycle, called Iceman II, was made by Walz Hardcore Choppers of Germany for Formula One world champion Kimi Raikonnen:
Rat bikes are usually defined as motorcycles that are decades old, in a poor state of repair, but still maintained and kept roadworthy by their owners on a shoestring budget. Survival bikes do resemble rat bikes and the two are often confused, although survival bikes are usually modified in much the same way that cars are customized. Here are some great examples of both of these types of machines.
Imagine seeing this coming up behind you in your rear view mirror (below left)? On the right is the rounded green beauty, also seen at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally:
Not sure what kind of a view you’d get of the road ahead on this one (image below left)? On the right you can see a really inventive fuel tank –
On the left image below is The Survival Bike from some sort of Zombie Apocalypse.. Whereas the owners of the bike (below right) decided to actually attach the coffin as a sidecar:
We featured what we had speculated might be the world’s largest motorcycle in Magnificent Motorcycles Part One, but the biggest one on the planet may actually be this one.
This bike is pretty big too and apparently this machine, called the Gunbus, is perfectly capable of being taken out on the road.
Want to travel in style? Why not try this Harley Davidson and limousine combination?
Concept Beasts
Finally, here’s a selection of concept motorcycles, which may or may not see the light of day at some point in the future. Here’s the Akira concept bike:
FuturA was designed by Mario Malagrino of the Florence Design Academy (left)… Romanian 3D artist Adrian Baluta created this cool bike called Darklight (right):
Above image, bottom row: the Suzuki Biplane and the Victory Vision 800 concept bike produced by Victory, a division of Polaris ATV’s.
William Woods designed the Fallout concept motorcycle in 2009 (below left). The Wrath concept (below right) by Alexander Barnard is dubbed a “future modern retro chopper” for the year 2083:
So there you are, another look at cool, fascinating, unusual and weird motorcycles from around the world.
Possible problems with Dunlop tires on Harley Davidson’s, especially rear tires. Many reported incidents of sudden catastrophic deflation at high speeds. Please constantly check tire pressures and be mindful of overloading the bike, especially when riding two up.
Get immediate information on all motorcycle, car, truck safety issue recalls. You can select recalls on the entire vehicle, or tires, or engines etc.
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Enter the selections (vehicle, year, make etc.) and get complete safety recall information.
Make: HARLEY DAVIDSON Model: TOURING
Model Year: 2005
Manufacturer: HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTOR COMPANY Mfr’s Report Date: JAN 21, 2004
NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number: 04E094000 N/A
NHTSA Action Number: N/A
Component: FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:CARBURETOR SYSTEM
Summary:
CERTAIN FUEL SHUT-OFF VALVES USED AS REPLACEMENT EQUIPMENT, P/NOS 61338-02, 62169-02A, 61338-94D, AND 62169-95C FOR USE ON CERTAIN 2005 CARBURETED SPORTSTERS, DYNA, SOFTAIL, AND TOURING MODEL MOTORCYCLES. THESE VALVES MAY HAVE BEEN PRODUCED WITH THE FUNCTIONALITY OF THE ‘ON’ POSITION AND THE ‘RESERVE’ POSITION OF THE VALVE MAY HAVE BEEN REVERSED.
Consequence:
IF THE BIKE WERE OPERATING WITH THE VALVE IN THE ‘ON’ POSITION, THE BIKE COULD RUN OUT OF FUEL, THE EXPECTED FUEL RESERVE WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE. THIS COULD LEAD TO THE DRIVER RUNNING OUT OF GAS WITHOUT WARNING, INCREASING THE RISK OF A CRASH.
Remedy:
DEALERS WILL INSPECT THE FUEL VALVE AND REPLACE IT, IF NECESSARY. THE RECALL BEGAN JANUARY 27, 2005. OWNERS SHOULD CONTACT HARLEY-DAVIDSON AT 1-414-342-4080. IF YOU HAVE HAD OR INSTALLED A REPLACEMENT FUEL SHUT-OFF VALVE IN YOUR MOTORCYCLE, PLEASE TAKE YOUR VEHICLE TO YOUR DEALER TO HAVE THE VALVE INSPECTED FOR PROPER OPERATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
Notes:
CUSTOMERS CAN ALSO CONTACT THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION’S AUTO SAFETY HOTLINE AT 1-888-327-4236.
A public memorial service was held in Tucson for a U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in December in a shootout with border bandits.
The service for 40-year-old agent Brian A. Terry was held at 11 a.m. on Jan. 21 at Kino Stadium, formerly known as Tucson Electric Park.
Terry was waiting with three other agents north of Nogales on Dec. 14 when a gun battle with the bandits began. Four suspects were arrested.
FBI spokeswoman Susan Herskovits would not provide details of the investigation.
Bandits have long roamed border areas, robbing and sexually assaulting illegal immigrants as they cross into the country.
A memorial service for Terry was held Dec. 22 in his native Michigan.
Those in attendance from the Blue Knights AZ IX Chapter were Harry Barden, Norm Hubbard, and Ron Friend.
Photos of the proceedings can be found in the “Photos” area at the Top of the “Home Page.”
THE FOLLOWING IS FROM THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR JANUARY 22, 2011
More than a month has passed since Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was slain on the job, but grief over his death has not subsided in Southern Arizona.
More than 1,200 people turned out Friday for a memorial service honoring the 40-year-old agent, killed Dec. 14 near Rio Rico in what authorities described as a shootout with border bandits.
Authorities have yet to charge anyone in the killing. Several suspects were taken into custody a short time later, but so far they are facing only immigration-related charges.
Kino Stadium, formerly known as Tucson Electric Park, was a sea of flags and uniforms as a Border Patrol chaplain opened the ceremony with tears in his eyes.
“Mere words cannot express our sorrow when one of our own falls,” said Mark Vander Lee, a chaplain for the Border Patrol’s Nogales Station.
Terry, who served as a Marine in the Iraq war and as a police officer in his hometown in Michigan before joining the Border Patrol, is “an example of strength and devotion to duty,” Vander Lee said.
U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords was there in spirit, even as she was making her way to Texas by air ambulance to begin rehabilitation.
Giffords aide Ron Barber attended the memorial service on the congresswoman’s behalf, despite being recently released from the hospital after he was wounded in the same shooting spree as his boss.
Terry joined the federal agency at age 38, and quickly advanced to a position with a Border Patrol tactical unit that takes on demanding assignments.
“Brian was a man who believed in service,” said Kurt Martin, who spoke on behalf of the slain agent’s family members, who traveled from Michigan to attend the Tucson memorial.
Terry knew the dangers of his job but “loved what he did, and who he did it with,” Martin said, addressing the hundreds of fellow agents in attendance.
At the request of Terry’s family, his tactical unit colleague, Agent John Bonbright, read aloud from a letter Terry once sent home to loved ones. In it, the slain agent describes his on-the-job credo.
“I do not fear death, for I have been close enough to it on enough occasions that it no longer concerns me,” the letter said.
“What I do fear is the loss of my honor and would rather die fighting than to have it said that I was without courage.”
Police officers, sheriff’s deputies, firefighters and military veterans from around Arizona took part in the service.
Some, like Marine Corps veteran Al Garcia of Tucson, arrived just after saying goodbye to Giffords outside Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
“I came to pay my respects to a fellow Marine,” said Garcia, 47.
Terry, he said, “was someone who put his life on the line constantly. That says a lot about him.”
Amorette Hernandez, 33, wife of Border Patrol Agent Jorge Hernandez, attended the service with their 5-year-old son, J.R., in tow.
“My husband is working today and couldn’t be here so it’s our duty to come and show support,” Amorette Hernandez said.
Any time an agent is killed in the line of duty, it sends a chill through the families of all agents, she said.
“Whenever one of ours is taken down, we realize it could have been any one of us. It makes me thankful for every day my husband gets to come home.”
Contact reporter Carol Ann Alaimo at calaimo@azstarnet.com or at 573-4138.
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