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TontoK
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Tsukayu Patrol Bags
- From: vulcman2007
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Re-posting my pics, since they disappeared.
VN900 Classic with Fairing and Hard Bags from www.tsukayu.com . I made the lower saddlebag supports out of round bar and 1/8"x2" steel plate.
- 5 days ago
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Vulcan Street Glide 2
- From: vulcman2007
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Re-posting my pics, since they disappeared.
VN900 Classic with Fairing and Hard Bags from www.tsukayu.com . I made the lower saddlebag supports out of round bar and 1/8"x2" steel plate.
- 5 days ago
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Vulcan Street Glide
- From: vulcman2007
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Re-posting my pics, since they disappeared.
VN900 Classic with Fairing and Hard Bags from www.tsukayu.com . I made the lower saddlebag supports out of round bar and 1/8"x2" steel plate.
- 5 days ago
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Tsukayu Fairing
- From: vulcman2007
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Re-posting my pics, since they disappeared.
VN900 Classic with Fairing and Hard Bags from www.tsukayu.com . I made the lower saddlebag supports out of round bar and 1/8"x2" steel plate.
- 5 days ago
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Saddlebag Support
- From: vulcman2007
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Re-posting my pics, since they disappeared.
VN900 Classic with Fairing and Hard Bags from www.tsukayu.com . I made the lower saddlebag supports out of round bar and 1/8"x2" steel plate.
- 5 days ago
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Vulcan NEWS Update!
- From: vulcman2007
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The International Vulcan Riders Association has just elected John Featherlin, our current US National President, to be the first Internationl Non-Chapter President.
The position has been created out of need. Vulcan riders from over 20 counties have contacted the International VRA with interest in starting VRA chapters. It will be Johns job to help them in any way possible, be it with information, advice, website creation, etc. I can't think of anyone more fitting for this position. Johns passion and dedication to the VRA is un-equaled, as he has done an excellent job as the US National President for the past 3 years.
Link to VRA thread from John: http://vulcanriders.us/Forum/showthread.php?t=1959
Countries interested in starting VRA chapters:
Argentina, Austria, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, China, Columbia, Ecuador, Finland, Ghana, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Kuala Lampor, Malaysia, New Zealand, Phillipines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa and South Korea.
Link to my last post on CCC: http://community.cruisercustomizing.com/_Vulcan-Riders-NEWS/blog/1492431/22960.html?&st=1CA3A2260F4C8AC5B6D7FB62F89DA18D&tid=1258293402879262-158182233
Ride safe ALL!
Dave Stout (aka) vulcman2007
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- 6 days ago
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Vulcan Riders NEWS
- From: vulcman2007
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The Vulcan Riders Association has put together a NEW form of membership. Until now, you could only join the VRA through a current chapter or by starting a chapter.
Our NEW membership is called the Non-Chapter Membership, it is very similar to Nomad Chapters of MC's. The differences being: That the VRA is an association of Riding Clubs (RC). Membership is bought, not earned. You are not required to put on x-amount of miles and cover x-amount of states. To read more about this membership, please follow the link: http://vulcanriders.us/NonChapterMembers.aspx
More VRA News:
1. The SWEDES are coming! Vulcan Riders Sweden will be coming to the U.S. to ride old Route 66 from May 31 thru June 6, 2010. See thread on VRA Forum: http://vulcanriders.us/Forum/showthread.php?t=1872 , if you are interested in meeting them along their route.
2. Belgium Vulcan Riders will be here from March 12 thru March 29, 2010, to ride in the western U.S. See thread on the VRA Forum: http://vulcanriders.us/Forum/showthread.php?t=1940 , if you are interested in meeting them along their route.
The VRA is growing by leaps and bounds, we've added 6 new U.S. Chapters in the past year. Along with new chapters in Czech Republic, France, Italy and Slovenia. Some of which have dual membership as a VRA/VROC Club. To visit the International VRA sites, follow this link: http://vulcanriders.us/Links.aspx
Everyone is welcome to check out our site and register on our forum! http://vulcanriders.us/
Ride Safe ALL!
Dave Stout (aka) vulcman2007
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Blue Ridge Pkway - oct 2009
- From: davisglane
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Blue Ridge Parkway... in North Carolina, somewhere around 6000 ft elevation, near cowee mountains.
- 3 weeks ago
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Blue Ridge Pkway - oct 2009
- From: davisglane
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Blue Ridge Parkway... in North Carolina, somewhere around 6000 ft elevation, near cowee mountains.
- 3 weeks ago
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Mississippi
- From: Moorerk
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Nearly 10,000 BCE, Native Americans or Paleo-Indians arrived in what today is referred to as the South.[12] Paleoindians in the South were hunter-gatherers who pursued the megafauna that became extinct following the end of the Pleistocene age. After thousands of years, the Paleoindians developed a rich and complex agricultural society. Archaeologists called these people the Mississippians of the Mississippian culture; they were Mound Builders, whose large earthworks related to political and religious rituals still stand throughout the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Descendant Native American tribes include the Chickasaw and Choctaw. Other tribes who inhabited the territory of Mississippi (and whose names were honored in local towns) include the Natchez, the Yazoo and the Biloxi.
The first major European expedition into the territory that became Mississippi was that of Hernando de Soto, who passed through in 1540. The French, in April 1699, established the first European settlement at Fort Maurepas (also known as Old Biloxi), built at Ocean Springs and settled by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. In 1716, the French founded Natchez on the Mississippi River (as Fort Rosalie); it became the dominant town and trading post of the area. The French called the greater territory "New Louisiana".
Through the next decades, the area was ruled by Spanish, British and French colonial governments. Under French and Spanish rule, there developed a class of free people of color (gens de couleur libres), mostly descendants of European men and enslaved women, and their multiracial children. In the early days the French and Spanish colonists were chiefly men. Even as more European women joined the settlements, there continued to be interracial unions. Often the European men would help their children get educated, and sometimes settled property on them, as well as freeing slave children and their mothers. The free people of color became educated and formed a third class between the Europeans and enslaved Africans in the French and Spanish settlements, although not so large a community as in New Orleans. After Great Britain's victory in the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War), the French deeded the Mississippi area to them under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763).
After the American Revolution, this area became part of the new United States of America. The Mississippi Territory was organized on April 7, 1798, from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina. It was later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. From 1800 to about 1830, the United States purchased some lands (Treaty of Doak's Stand) from Native American tribes for new settlements of Americans.[citation needed]
On December 10, 1817, Mississippi was the 20th state admitted to the Union.
When cotton was king during the 1850s, Mississippi plantation owners—especially those of the Delta and Black Belt regions—became wealthy due to the high fertility of the soil, the high price of cotton on the international market, and their assets in slaves. The planters' dependence on hundreds of thousands of slaves for labor and the severe wealth imbalances among whites, played strong roles both in state politics and in planters' support for secession. By 1860, the enslaved population numbered 436,631 or 55% of the state's total of 791,305. There were fewer than 1000 free people of color.[13] The relatively low population of the state before the Civil War reflected the fact that land and villages were developed only along the riverfronts, which formed the main transportation corridors. Ninety percent of the Delta bottomlands were frontier and undeveloped.[14] The state needed many more settlers for development.
On January 9, 1861, Mississippi became the second state to declare its secession from the Union, and it was one of the founding members of the Confederate States of America.
During Reconstruction, the first constitutional convention in 1868 framed a constitution whose major elements would last for 22 years. The convention was the first political organization to include freedmen representatives, 17 among the 100 members. Although 32 counties had black majorities, they elected whites as well as blacks to represent them. The convention adopted universal suffrage; did away with property qualifications for suffrage or for office, which also benefited poor whites; provided for the state's first public school system; forbade race distinctions in the possession and inheritance of property; and prohibited limiting civil rights in travel.[15] Under the terms of Reconstruction, Mississippi was restored to the Union on February 23, 1870.
While Mississippi typified the Deep South in passing Jim Crow laws in the early 20th century, its history was more complex. Because the Mississippi Delta contained so much fertile bottomland which had not been developed before the Civil War, 90 percent of the land was still frontier. After the Civil War, tens of thousands of migrants were attracted to the area. They could earn money by clearing the land and selling timber, and eventually advance to ownership. The new farmers included freedmen, who achieved unusually high rates of land ownership in the Mississippi bottomlands. In the 1870s and 1880s, many black farmers succeeded in gaining land ownership.[14]
By the turn of the century, two-thirds of the farmers in Mississippi who owned land in the Delta were African-American. Many were able to keep going through difficult years of falling cotton prices only by extending their debts. Cotton prices fell throughout the decades following the Civil War. As another agricultural depression lowered cotton prices into the 1890s, however, numerous African-American farmers finally had to sell their land to pay off debts, thus losing the land into which they had put so much labor.[14]
White legislators created a new constitution in 1890, with provisions that effectively disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites. Estimates are that 100,000 black and 50,000 white men were removed from voter registration rolls over the next few years. [16] The loss of political influence contributed to the difficulties of African Americans in their attempts to obtain extended credit. Together with Jim Crow laws, increased frequency of lynchings beginning in the 1890s, failure of the cotton crops due to boll weevil infestation, successive severe flooding in 1912 and 1913 created crisis conditions for many African Americans. With control of the ballot box and more access to credit, white planters expanded their ownership of Delta bottomlands and could take advantage of new railroads.
By 1910, a majority of black farmers in the Delta had lost their land and were sharecroppers. By 1920, the third generation after freedom, most African Americans in Mississippi were landless laborers again facing poverty.[14] Starting about 1913, tens of thousands of black Americans left Mississippi for the North in the Great Migration to industrial cities such as St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and New York. They sought jobs, better education for their children, the right to vote, relative freedom from discrimination, and better living. In the migration of 1910–1940, they left a society that had been steadily closing off opportunity. Most migrants from Mississippi took trains directly north to Chicago and often settled near former neighbors.
The Second Great Migration from the South started in the 1940s, lasting until 1970. Almost half a million people left Mississippi in the second migration, three-quarters of them black. Nationwide during the first half of the 20th century, African Americans became rapidly urbanized and many worked in industrial jobs. The Second Great Migration included destinations in the West, especially California, where the buildup of the defense industry offered high-paying jobs to African Americans.
Mississippi generated rich, quintessentially American music traditions: gospel music, country music, jazz, blues and rock and roll. All were invented, promulgated or heavily developed by Mississippi musicians and most came from the Mississippi Delta. Many musicians carried their music north to Chicago, where they made it the heart of that city's jazz and blues.
Mississippi was a center of activity to educate and register voters during the Civil Rights Movement. Although 42% of the state's population was African American in 1960, discriminatory voter registration processes still prevented most of them from voting, consequent to provisions of the state constitution, which had been in place since 1890. [17] Students and community organizers from across the country came to help register voters and establish Freedom Schools. Resistance and harsh attitudes of most white politicians (including the creation of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission), the participation of many Mississippians in the White Citizens' Councils, and the violent tactics of the Ku Klux Klan and its sympathizers, gained Mississippi a reputation in the 1960s as a reactionary state.[18][19]
In 1966, the state was the last to officially repeal prohibition of alcohol.
The state repealed its segregationist era poll tax in 1989 and its ban on interracial marriage (miscegenation) in 1987. In 1995, it symbolically ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, which had abolished slavery. In 2009, the legislature passed a bill to repeal other discriminatory civil rights laws that had been enacted in 1964 but ruled unconstitutional in 1967 by federal courts. Republican Governor Haley Barbour signed the bill into law.[20]
On August 17, 1969, Category 5 Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars). On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, though a Category 3 storm upon final landfall, caused even greater destruction across the entire 90 miles (145 km) of Mississippi Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Alabama
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to all new bikers
- From: nickymetromagna
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hi,
i have been riding bikes for over 45 years,i started with mini bikes and dirt bikes. i see young people buying fast rocket ship bikes,and getting killed on them,its a shame! they ride with people they know that have been riding a lot longer than them,and try to do the same things. i used to think i was the master of my bike,till it bit me in the ass,and sent me over the handle bars,like saying,dont be cocky. i mostly rode dirt then,and its different,cause you dont have to worry about being run over by a 18 wheeler if you do fall,ha and as far as having protective gear on,i learned my lession with that too,better to have it and not need it,then to not have it,and need it,ha i rode with guys,and sometimes it seemed like they wanted me to crash,so they could say,man you gotta know what your doing,before you can ride like me! i talk to guys and they tell me stuff,i cant belive,like,i never use my back brake,i only use the front,it works better to stop the bike,or other stupid things,like i dont use the brakes,till im ready to stop! i also see them laying the bike over as far as they can,i say to them,all you have to do is hit a wet leave or pebble and you will be on your ass. a friend of mine,was w/this guy she just started dating,he bought a new harley ultra,they went to south carolina,had no helmets or jackets,and got hit waiting for a light from behind,she will never be the same again! im gonna put her pic on here,her back and leg is messed up,but the rest of her looks good,ha its the pic that says,my back hurts! i always worry when im stopped,i look in the mirror a thousand times till the light changes! i know so many people that got killed or are in bad shape for the rest of their life from bike crashes! if this helps one person,ill feel i didnt waste my time typing it! i remember that clint eastwood movie,when he said,a man has to know his limitations! so live to ride another day!
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- 4 weeks ago
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Blue Ridge Mtns. - North Carol
- From: tchatham
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Tree's starting to turn color's. Pretty time to take a Mtn. Ride....but chilly!!
- 4 weeks ago
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Vulcan Riders Growing
- From: vulcman2007
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Kentucky has become an official Vulcan Riders Association (VRA) chapter.
Other VRA news:
1. New World President and Vice Presidents have been elected. (This is especially exciting: Because the newly elected Pres. (Lasse Lahn) was the fromer National President of Sweden, which had grown to 3000 members.
2. We have chapters in 13 countries: USA, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
3. Soon to be chapters in: Indiana, Rhode Island, Tennesse, Colorado and Georgia.
There is no doubt, we are growing!
If you haven't checked out our site yet, I invite you too. http://vulcanriders.us
If you are interested in joining or staring a Vulcan riding club in you area, don't look any further!
Dave (vulcman2007) VRA Marketing Officer
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- 1 month ago
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ElliebearsDad
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Vulcan Riding Clubs
- From: vulcman2007
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Interested in joining or starting a Vulcan riding club?
Vulcan Riders Association
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Leaving Shamrock TX headed to
- From: cking7
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This is a shot from the beginning of day 3 of our trip to California from North Carolina to see our Marine and his wife. They are in 29 Palms CA. We stopped in Memphis the first night and in Shamrock TX the second night. We made it to Cali in about 4 days after a day messing around in Albuquerque, NM and a stop at the Grand Canyon.
- 1 month ago
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Cherohala Skyway Tennessee / N
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- 1 month ago
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Bridal Vail Falls - North Caro
- From: tchatham
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A Water Fall you can ride under!
- 2 months ago
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Slovenia Vulcan Riders
- From: vulcman2007
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I'm proud to announce the latest addition to the Vulcan Riders Association......Slovenia Vulcan Riders from the Czek Republic: http://www.vulcan-riders-slovenia.com/ Video: http://vimeo.com/6810817
Visit all the International VRA sites: http://vulcanriders.us/Links.aspx
We continue to grow and bring riders together for safe, fun, family-oriented riding activities.
Founded in 1998, we have chapters throughout the US, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and now in Slovenia.
U.S. Chapters: Florida 1-2, Florida 1-6 (NW), Maryland 1-29, Maine 1-25 (Bangor), Maine 1-28 (Kennebec), North Carolina 1-11 (Charlotte), North Carolina 1-7 (Raleigh), Nebraska 1-36, Nevada 1-42 (Vegas), New York 1-8 (NYC), New York 1-9 (Fingerlakes), Ohio 1-38 (Brunswick), Pennsylvania 1-52 (Harrisburg), Wisconsin 1-3 (Fox Valley), Wisconsin 1-10 (Greater Mid-West)
U.S. Chapters in the process of forming: Kentucky, Colorado and Tennessee.
Visit the U.S. National VRA site at: http://vulcanriders.us and find out how you can join or start a VRA chapter in your area.
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