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Saturday, April 2, 2011
2011 Honda CBR125R
2011 Honda CBR125R
You've heard the buzz about the CBR125R: it's the fun and friendly Honda that has given so many Canadian riders their first taste of motorcycling excitement – and has given some long-time riders a new reason to smile, too. Well, the buzz has just become a whole lot louder, because a more advanced CBR125R is here for 2011 with a new look and even better performance. Check out the stylish new bodywork, which gives the CBR125R a bigger-bike look and also enhances weather protection and overall ride comfort, and the wider wheels and tires that improve the CBR125R's excellent traction. What we haven't changed is the nimble, confidence-inspiring handling from the lightweight chassis, the low-effort controls, the comfortable seat height, and the responsive, hard-to-stall engine with PGM-FI electronic fuel injection. Easy to own, easy to operate. The Honda CBR125R sure is an easy bike to like.
Crisp response, thrilling performance
The 125cc sportsbike class is where riding careers begin. It’s a machine that gives young riders the opportunity to develop their skills as early as possible. That’s why it’s a motorcycle with a huge responsibility.
It must be just as rewarding to ride as bigger Supersports machines, particularly around town and other places where power is less important. Young riders build confidence on two wheels with bikes such as a 125cc. And let’s face it, it’s easier to learn something when it’s made to be fun.
Since its introduction in 2004, the CBR125R has represented the ideal first sportsbike. Compact, lightweight, refined, easy to use and with welcoming handling that the CBR family is renowned for. It’s a firm favourite with young riders the world over.
For 2011, the all new CBR125R is ready to prove itself as the perfect first sportsbike for a new generation of riders.
Designed to develop the sports riding skills from the earliest days of your career
Superbikes are the ultimate road motorcycles. They offer a thrill no other bike can match. That’s why we designed the 2011 CBR125R. A small-capacity bike with big ambition.
The brief to our design team was simple. Create a 125cc sportsbike with the look and feel of a bigger, more expensive machine. The new model had to retain the current CBR125R’s user-friendly handling characteristics and free-revving single cylinder engine, but packaged inside all-new sophisticated, lightweight and stylish bodywork.
Modern riders expect full-size proportions, so that meant more aggressive wheel and tyre specs too. We also added the latest advances in fuel injection and catalyser technology to make the CBR125R more efficient than its predecessor.
If you want your riding career to start with a motorcycle built as a superbike from the ground up, look no further than the 2011 CBR125R.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: VIETNAM VETERANS DAY!!
OFF THE WIRE
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
VIETNAM VETERANS DAY!!
http://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/534787/Thanking-Vietnam-War-veterans.html?nav=5002
Thanking Vietnam War veterans National ‘Welcome Home’ overdue for those who served March 30, 2011 - By Sam Shawver, sshawver@mariettatimes.com
Thirty-eight years after the last American troops pulled out of Vietnam, the U.S. Senate has, for the second year in a row, passed a resolution welcoming those soldiers home.
For the soldiers, who were greeted with protests and sometimes even spit on when they arrived back in the U.S. the recognition and the "welcome home" are long overdue.
The resolution, introduced both years by Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and passed unanimously in the Senate, declares March 30 "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day."
"I think it's a little late," said Marietta City Councilman Mike McCauley who served with the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam from 1963 to 1964 and said he believes all troops should be recognized when they come home.
He was among the initial troops sent into Vietnam as "advisors" during President John F. Kennedy's Administration.
"We were stationed at Da Nang air base-only about 280 Air Force personnel were there," McCauley said. "And back home I'll bet not one in 100 people even knew where Vietnam was at that time."
McCauley was discharged from the military in 1964 and landed a job with the Marietta City Police Department where he witnessed several anti-war protest rallies by students at Marietta College.
"It wasn't a good time to be telling people you had served in Vietnam," McCauley said.
Jim Waybright, of Marietta, was commander of the U.S. Army's Bravo Company, 3/506 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division that lost 18 members in battle during the first half of 1970.
He said a friend told him about the recently-passed U.S. Senate resolution designating today as "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day."
"I don't think many people are aware of it," Waybright said. "It's 40 to 50 years later for Vietnam veterans now, and we appreciate that the Senate passed this resolution.
"But I'm also glad to see those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan being welcomed home now," he added. "Maybe we've learned another lesson from Vietnam."
To honor those from his unit who never made it home from the war, Waybright notes 18 bricks bearing the fallen soldiers' names have been placed in the Veterans Walk of Honor near Marietta's National Guard Armory on Front Street.
"The war protesters were being pretty vocal when the rest of us returned to the states," he said. "Everybody just wanted to go home-we didn't really want any attention."
But Waybright said he would be remiss not to thank all the veterans who have served their country, including the members of Bravo Company.
"We need to thank both the veterans and their families," he said.
For years now, members of Waybright's unit and their families have gathered for annual reunions, and keep in close contact with one another.
"We've all maintained a pretty strong bond over the years," he said.
Former Marine Sgt. Keith Kapple, now pastor of the Open Door Baptist Church in Marietta, was just 20 when his tour of duty ended shortly after he took part in a major battle with North Vietnamese forces at Khe Sanh, near South Vietnam's border with Laos and North Vietnam.
"Many people were killed or wounded at Khe Sanh," Kapple said. "There were only about 7,000 American troops against 20,000 to 25,000 from the North Vietnamese army. It was a real turning point of the war and it all happened just 10 days before I left Vietnam."
During those days Kapple said he began to question whether he would ever make it out alive.
"But you kind of get into a survival mode," he said. "Your only objective is to survive. And the night before I was to fly out was probably the worst 24 to 48 hours for me."
In fact Kapple said the fighting was so intense that Korean planes picking up Marines from the Khe Sanh base could not come to a complete stop, but kept rolling along the runway.
"I had to run alongside and jump into the plane," Kapple said. "Bombs were exploding behind us as the Korean pilots took off. The next day they stopped all flights into Khe Sanh."
Several days later Kapple was discharged from the Marines and flew TWA into San Diego.
"It was kind of like coming off a vacation-there was no one to meet me, so I got off the plane and went downtown," he said. "But I took off my uniform and put street clothes on first. I didn't want to be noticed as a soldier because there was so much protesting of the war going on."
Kapple said while he can appreciate the U.S. Senate's proclamation of a Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day since it's been more than 40 years since he and fellow soldiers returned from the Southeast Asian nation.
"I think most just wanted to put it all behind us," he said.
Roy Ash, Washington County's veterans services officer, was also not aware of the U.S. Senate proclamation.
"It seems a little late," he said. "And I haven't had any official word about it. But we welcome any recognition of all of our veterans."
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
VIETNAM VETERANS DAY!!
http://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/534787/Thanking-Vietnam-War-veterans.html?nav=5002
Thanking Vietnam War veterans National ‘Welcome Home’ overdue for those who served March 30, 2011 - By Sam Shawver, sshawver@mariettatimes.com
Thirty-eight years after the last American troops pulled out of Vietnam, the U.S. Senate has, for the second year in a row, passed a resolution welcoming those soldiers home.
For the soldiers, who were greeted with protests and sometimes even spit on when they arrived back in the U.S. the recognition and the "welcome home" are long overdue.
The resolution, introduced both years by Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and passed unanimously in the Senate, declares March 30 "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day."
"I think it's a little late," said Marietta City Councilman Mike McCauley who served with the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam from 1963 to 1964 and said he believes all troops should be recognized when they come home.
He was among the initial troops sent into Vietnam as "advisors" during President John F. Kennedy's Administration.
"We were stationed at Da Nang air base-only about 280 Air Force personnel were there," McCauley said. "And back home I'll bet not one in 100 people even knew where Vietnam was at that time."
McCauley was discharged from the military in 1964 and landed a job with the Marietta City Police Department where he witnessed several anti-war protest rallies by students at Marietta College.
"It wasn't a good time to be telling people you had served in Vietnam," McCauley said.
Jim Waybright, of Marietta, was commander of the U.S. Army's Bravo Company, 3/506 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division that lost 18 members in battle during the first half of 1970.
He said a friend told him about the recently-passed U.S. Senate resolution designating today as "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day."
"I don't think many people are aware of it," Waybright said. "It's 40 to 50 years later for Vietnam veterans now, and we appreciate that the Senate passed this resolution.
"But I'm also glad to see those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan being welcomed home now," he added. "Maybe we've learned another lesson from Vietnam."
To honor those from his unit who never made it home from the war, Waybright notes 18 bricks bearing the fallen soldiers' names have been placed in the Veterans Walk of Honor near Marietta's National Guard Armory on Front Street.
"The war protesters were being pretty vocal when the rest of us returned to the states," he said. "Everybody just wanted to go home-we didn't really want any attention."
But Waybright said he would be remiss not to thank all the veterans who have served their country, including the members of Bravo Company.
"We need to thank both the veterans and their families," he said.
For years now, members of Waybright's unit and their families have gathered for annual reunions, and keep in close contact with one another.
"We've all maintained a pretty strong bond over the years," he said.
Former Marine Sgt. Keith Kapple, now pastor of the Open Door Baptist Church in Marietta, was just 20 when his tour of duty ended shortly after he took part in a major battle with North Vietnamese forces at Khe Sanh, near South Vietnam's border with Laos and North Vietnam.
"Many people were killed or wounded at Khe Sanh," Kapple said. "There were only about 7,000 American troops against 20,000 to 25,000 from the North Vietnamese army. It was a real turning point of the war and it all happened just 10 days before I left Vietnam."
During those days Kapple said he began to question whether he would ever make it out alive.
"But you kind of get into a survival mode," he said. "Your only objective is to survive. And the night before I was to fly out was probably the worst 24 to 48 hours for me."
In fact Kapple said the fighting was so intense that Korean planes picking up Marines from the Khe Sanh base could not come to a complete stop, but kept rolling along the runway.
"I had to run alongside and jump into the plane," Kapple said. "Bombs were exploding behind us as the Korean pilots took off. The next day they stopped all flights into Khe Sanh."
Several days later Kapple was discharged from the Marines and flew TWA into San Diego.
"It was kind of like coming off a vacation-there was no one to meet me, so I got off the plane and went downtown," he said. "But I took off my uniform and put street clothes on first. I didn't want to be noticed as a soldier because there was so much protesting of the war going on."
Kapple said while he can appreciate the U.S. Senate's proclamation of a Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day since it's been more than 40 years since he and fellow soldiers returned from the Southeast Asian nation.
"I think most just wanted to put it all behind us," he said.
Roy Ash, Washington County's veterans services officer, was also not aware of the U.S. Senate proclamation.
"It seems a little late," he said. "And I haven't had any official word about it. But we welcome any recognition of all of our veterans."
New Zealand - Motorcycle club history in a book
OFF THE WIRE
Ron Hebberd transports a step ladder on his Royal Enfield 500 in 1955.
In his 58 years riding motorcycles Ron Hebberd has crashed through flaming fences, traversed the length and breadth of New Zealand and collected more than 100 bikes.
But as the Marlborough Motorcycle Club celebrates 90 years this month, the 74-year-old's proudest achievement may well be the compilation of a 260-page history of the club.
Ron has been collecting and writing on the club's history for about 20 years but it was only after a knee operation reduced his mobility last March that he finally set about collating the vast wealth of information.
"It's not quite as simple as writing a story," said Ron. "You can just spend so much time on just a small bit of the history.
"My wife and I spent three afternoons looking in the Express records looking for the particular date that the club started up again after the war but we never found it."
The book will have about 200 photographs, from 1921 through to 2011 and includes a fascinating glimpse into the lives of those first members.
"Alan Woodman [who was racing in the 1920s] lost his right leg racing his bike, but he still raced – as long as they were going anticlockwise round the track so that he could stick his left leg out," said Ron.
Ron bought his first motorcycle – a Royal Enfield 500 – when he was 16 in 1953. A year later he was a member of the Marlborough Motorcycle Club and hasn't looked back.
President for two periods of three and five years, and on the executive for 19 years, Ron now takes a behind-the-scenes approach, but still rides the vintage bikes from his motorcycle museum on the roads.
The museum has bikes nearly 100 years old, such as the 1913 New Hudson, of which Ron proudly states he is only the second owner.
Ron was a mechanic by trade, working for 52 years on cars and motorbikes. He owned a service station in Seddon, selling Yamaha motorbikes.
"I still have a soft spot for Yamahas," he said.
They make up about half his collection of bikes, which has examples of weird, wonderful and extremely rare machines.
He also has examples of early leather and papier mache helmets, an exhibition of mangled engine parts and biking paraphernalia of all descriptions.
And the end of the road is not in sight for Ron's motorcycling passion.
He and Shirley, his wife of more than 50 years, will be part of a group of 16 motorcyclists from Marlborough who are doing a two-week tour of Vietnam in May.
But before that, the club of which he is a lifetime member will celebrate 90 years of biking enthusiasm – the icing on the cake being the publication of Ron's definitive history of the Marlborough Motorcycle Club.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/community-papers/4822674/Motorcycle-club-history-in-a-book
Shoplifter injured in Augusta GA
According to the Police report filed:
Orville Smith, a store manager for Best Buy in Augusta, Georgia, told officers he observed a male customer, later identified as Tyrone Jackson of Augusta, on surveillance cameras putting a laptop computer under his jacket. When confronted, the man became irate, knocked down an employee, drew a knife and ran for the door.
Outside the store were four Marines collecting toys for the "Toys for Tots" program on the sidewalk. Smith said the Marines stopped the man, during which Jackson stabbed one of the Marines, Cpl. Phillip Duggan, in the back; After the Marines subdued Jackson, police and an ambulance arrived at the scene, Cpl. Duggan was transported for treatment, the injury did not appear to be serious.
The subject, Mr. Jackson, was also transported to the local hospital with injuries including; two broken arms, a broken ankle, a broken leg, several missing teeth, possible broken ribs, multiple contusions, assorted lacerations, a broken nose and a broken jaw...that he apparently sustained when he slipped and fell off the curb after stabbing the Marine.
Now, that's a well written police report.
Orville Smith, a store manager for Best Buy in Augusta, Georgia, told officers he observed a male customer, later identified as Tyrone Jackson of Augusta, on surveillance cameras putting a laptop computer under his jacket. When confronted, the man became irate, knocked down an employee, drew a knife and ran for the door.
Outside the store were four Marines collecting toys for the "Toys for Tots" program on the sidewalk. Smith said the Marines stopped the man, during which Jackson stabbed one of the Marines, Cpl. Phillip Duggan, in the back; After the Marines subdued Jackson, police and an ambulance arrived at the scene, Cpl. Duggan was transported for treatment, the injury did not appear to be serious.
The subject, Mr. Jackson, was also transported to the local hospital with injuries including; two broken arms, a broken ankle, a broken leg, several missing teeth, possible broken ribs, multiple contusions, assorted lacerations, a broken nose and a broken jaw...that he apparently sustained when he slipped and fell off the curb after stabbing the Marine.
Now, that's a well written police report.
WA Anti-Profiling Legislation Engrossed (Passed)
OFF THE WIRE
To Mr. Breeze, BOLT of WA, ABATE of WA, US Defenders, and all Bikers in Washington who worked so hard (and smart) on the Anti-Profiling bill,
BIG KUDOS!
I just got off the phone with Mr. Breeze. He says amendments got the anti-profiling bill to the exact wording they wanted by the time it was engrossed.
Since the legislature had overwhelming support, that should be enough to convince the Governor to sign it into law, but Breeze isn't going to take any chances and already has an appointment.
When he can, expect Mr. Breeze will write more. As we've been saying, expect other states to follow suit, but similar bills will not work themselves.
jan
The helmet law in NV has been the reason to profile and harrass. The Sentate Cmte Chair in Nevada - Sen. Breeden, basically said she didn't believe me cause she rides on the back seat of motorcycles and has never seen any law enforcer violate any motorcyclist's rights. You can bet I'll be jumping all over Breeze' work to demonstrate to our legislators that we, too, have big problems - and those problems are killing our economy!
Great job, Breeze!!!!!
TigerLily
On 4/1/2011 4:44 PM, Donnie Landsman wrote:
ESB5242 HAS UNANIMOUSLY PASSED BOTH CHAMBERS OF THE WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE!
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5242&year=2011
TODAYS 91-0 VOTE (6 EXCUSED) WAS THE FINAL VOT NEEDED TO SEND THE LEGISLATION TO THE GOVERNORS DESK!
THIS IS HISTORICAL LEGISLATION NOT ONLY FOR THE CITIZENS OF WASHINGTON, BUT ALSO PAVES THE WAY FOR SIMILAR LEGISLATION IN ALL STATES!
Donnie 'Mr. Breeze'
BOLT of WA - Director
ESB5242 HAS UNANIMOUSLY PASSED BOTH CHAMBERS OF THE WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE!
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5242&year=2011
TODAYS 91-0 VOTE (6 EXCUSED) WAS THE FINAL VOT NEEDED TO SEND THE LEGISLATION TO THE GOVERNORS DESK!
THIS IS HISTORICAL LEGISLATION NOT ONLY FOR THE CITIZENS OF WASHINGTON, BUT ALSO PAVES THE WAY FOR SIMILAR LEGISLATION IN ALL STATES!
Donnie 'Mr. Breeze'
BOLT of WA - Director
To Mr. Breeze, BOLT of WA, ABATE of WA, US Defenders, and all Bikers in Washington who worked so hard (and smart) on the Anti-Profiling bill,
BIG KUDOS!
I just got off the phone with Mr. Breeze. He says amendments got the anti-profiling bill to the exact wording they wanted by the time it was engrossed.
Since the legislature had overwhelming support, that should be enough to convince the Governor to sign it into law, but Breeze isn't going to take any chances and already has an appointment.
When he can, expect Mr. Breeze will write more. As we've been saying, expect other states to follow suit, but similar bills will not work themselves.
jan
The helmet law in NV has been the reason to profile and harrass. The Sentate Cmte Chair in Nevada - Sen. Breeden, basically said she didn't believe me cause she rides on the back seat of motorcycles and has never seen any law enforcer violate any motorcyclist's rights. You can bet I'll be jumping all over Breeze' work to demonstrate to our legislators that we, too, have big problems - and those problems are killing our economy!
Great job, Breeze!!!!!
TigerLily
On 4/1/2011 4:44 PM, Donnie Landsman wrote:
ESB5242 HAS UNANIMOUSLY PASSED BOTH CHAMBERS OF THE WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE!
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5242&year=2011
TODAYS 91-0 VOTE (6 EXCUSED) WAS THE FINAL VOT NEEDED TO SEND THE LEGISLATION TO THE GOVERNORS DESK!
THIS IS HISTORICAL LEGISLATION NOT ONLY FOR THE CITIZENS OF WASHINGTON, BUT ALSO PAVES THE WAY FOR SIMILAR LEGISLATION IN ALL STATES!
Donnie 'Mr. Breeze'
BOLT of WA - Director
ESB5242 HAS UNANIMOUSLY PASSED BOTH CHAMBERS OF THE WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE!
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5242&year=2011
TODAYS 91-0 VOTE (6 EXCUSED) WAS THE FINAL VOT NEEDED TO SEND THE LEGISLATION TO THE GOVERNORS DESK!
THIS IS HISTORICAL LEGISLATION NOT ONLY FOR THE CITIZENS OF WASHINGTON, BUT ALSO PAVES THE WAY FOR SIMILAR LEGISLATION IN ALL STATES!
Donnie 'Mr. Breeze'
BOLT of WA - Director
Australia - Charges dropped over bikies fight
OFF THE WIRE
abc.net.au
Charges have been dropped against seven members of a motorcycle gang accused of assaulting and robbing a former office bearer of the Gypsy Jokers.
Adelaide police arrested the men during raids at various properties in April 2009.
At the time, police said the men were also members of the Gypsy Jokers.
Six also were allegedly involved in an altercation at a house at Blair Athol in August 2008, in which shots were fired.
Prosecutors tendered no evidence against the men in Adelaide Magistrates Court.
An eighth member of the group had all-but-one charge against him dropped.
He will reappear in court next month.
abc.net.au
Charges have been dropped against seven members of a motorcycle gang accused of assaulting and robbing a former office bearer of the Gypsy Jokers.
Adelaide police arrested the men during raids at various properties in April 2009.
At the time, police said the men were also members of the Gypsy Jokers.
Six also were allegedly involved in an altercation at a house at Blair Athol in August 2008, in which shots were fired.
Prosecutors tendered no evidence against the men in Adelaide Magistrates Court.
An eighth member of the group had all-but-one charge against him dropped.
He will reappear in court next month.
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