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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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Australian Slang!
- From: Robin001
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Australian Slang! - The language we speak in Australia seems to baffle other people no-end. I don’t know why? Aussie Slang, or Strine as it is sometimes called, is I guess a reflection of the harsh, remote Australian landscape, and the no-nonsense "lets get on with it" attitude of the Australian people. So a lot of corners are cut both with what we say and how we say it. Here are a few examples for CC who maybe interested in coming to Australia.
A bit more choke and you would have started. misc:- a statement said to somebody who has just passed wind in public rather loudly.
A few Kangaroos loose in the top paddock. adjective:- someone who is mentally 'not quite there, also picnic short of a sandwich , lights are on but nobody is home, etc.
Back of Bourke. noun:- a long way away from wherever you are, specifically inland and away from civilisation. Bourke is an inland town, hence...
Cackleberry. noun:- an egg
Cactus. adjective:- something has had it, doesn't work anymore, or someone in a lot of trouble.
Dad 'n Dave. noun:- a shave.
Dag. adjective:- bits of manure that stick to the long wool around a sheep's bottom forming small dangling balls. Also a term for a funny person, nerd, goof, loser. In this respect it can have either an endearing or disparaging meaning, although is usually used for a likable fellow.
Daks. noun:- a man's trousers or shorts, now also a brand name. However in New Zealand, daks means underpants, underdaks in Australia. Be sure you know which one they are talking about.....
Dead horse. noun:- tomato sauce
Idiot box. noun:- television, often abbreviated to "the box".
Jackaroo. noun:- a young male station (ranch) hand or apprentice. A Jjillaroo is the female equivalent. Perhaps from the Spanish, "caballero", meaning horseman:
Kick the bucket. verb:- to die. Same as to push up daisies, keel over, go west, buy a farm...
Lamington drive. noun:- a traditional way of raising money for charity by selling Lamingtons. Similar the Brownies selling cookies in America. However, these days fund raising is done by selling manufactured chocolate and the likes which doesn't seem to have the same feeling.
Matilda. noun:- the old term for a swagman's bedroll, swag, pack, or sack which contained essentials (sometime complete belongings) when traveling in the bush by foot. See Waltzing Matilda.
Ocker. adjective:- pronounced ocka, a stereotyped uncultivated or uncultured Aussie male who exhibits excessive drinking of alcohol, womanising, chauvinism, and worships the God called Footy! To call a female ocker is to suggest that she is somewhat butch. Similar to the US redneck.
Onya. misc:- an expression of encouragement, short for good on you. My favourite expression.
Razoo. noun:- a fictitious coin made from brass. The term is usually used to indicate that someone has no money. "I haven't got a brass razoo!"
Sack. noun:- a bed. Used as "hit the sack" = go to sleep.
Sandgroper. noun:- a resident of Western Australia, after a sand-burrowing desert insect.
Sanga, sanger. noun:- a sandwich.
Underground mutton. noun:- rabbit.
Ute. noun:- a utility vehicle, invented in Australia. US = pickup truck.
Waterhole. noun:- a pub or hotel.
Yakka. noun:- hard manual labour. Possibly an Aboriginal word.
Yarn. noun:- a story, usually long, intriguing and entertaining, either fictional or not.
Yobbo. noun:- an uncouth person.
Yonks. noun:- a long time, ages.
Zack. noun:- a Sixpence. Pre decimal currency used before Feb 1966. The term is still used today, but to indicate that someone is broke. "I haven't got a zack".
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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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Winter Storage
- From: mkillinger
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I am from the western burbs of Chicago, and need to store my ride for the winter. Does anyone here know of a low cost storage for five months.
Thanks in advance
MK
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ElliebearsDad
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Marker on the Western Highway
- From: australian6
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- 1 month ago
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Marker on the Western Highway
- From: australian6
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Some pictures from last weekends Road trip. Covered over 1800 Kilometres
- 1 month ago
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A Road Trip
- From: australian6
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Woke up on saturday morning 10th of October, walked outside and saw what a magnificent day that it was, so looked at the VN and thought, time for a an inpromtu Road Trip. Went back inside threw a few things into the tank bag put on the leathers strode outside, saddled up and rode off into the morning heading west. Had no real idea of where I was going but thought since I had three days off I would just head west towards Adelaide and then see where things led from there.
Arrived in Murray Bridge, in South Australia {about 76 kilometres from Adelaide} around four pm Saturday afternoon, having taken a lesuirely cruise down the Western Highway passing through Ballarat, Ararat, Stawel, Horsham and Bordertown on the way to Murray Bridge. Made numerous stop offs on the way as it was such a beautiful day I was not in any particular rush and besides it is all about the journey not the destination.
As I had never been to Murray Bridge, and as it is situated on the banks of the once Mighty Murray River {dying now thanks to the stupidity of various State Governments and inaction by the Australian Federal Government} I decided to stay overnight, which, as it turned out, extended into a two night stay.
Whilst sitting in front of my Motel room enjoying a quiet beer, I gave some thought as to where to head off to on the Monday. Remembering back to a message sent to me by Dimitra about how I should, at least once in my life, ride the length of the famous Great Ocean Road {G.O.R}, I decided to take her advice and return to Melbourne via that particular route.
I awoke around 4:30am on the Monday morning loaded up the bike and headed off towards Mount Gambier - home of the magnificent Blue Lake Crater - another place that I had never visited, then onto Warrnambool - the Whale Watching Centre of Victoria and then on towards the start of the Great Ocean Road, through countryside, most of which I had never been through before, well at least on a Bike lol.
The weather when I left Melbourne on the saturday was brilliant, however by the time I left Murray Bridge it had turned to shite, overcast with rain threatening. For a part of the ride back the rain held off but about 40 kilometres out from Mount Gambier the sky opened up and down it came by the bucket load. I pulled off the road and managed to find some shelter under some trees where I dug out the wet weather gear and although slightly damp, I managed to don the gear and continue on to the first planned stopover. Spent a good couple of hours in Mount Gambier having a look around this major Rural City before heading off to take a look see at the rather stunning Blue Lake Crater, where I managed to take a few photos, in between dodging rain squalls. Being concious of the time I saddled back up and headed off to Warrnambool, where again I stayed for a time having a look around yet another Rural city that I had never been to. The rain I must add did not stop and remained with me all the way back to Melbourne.
From Warrnambool I headed off towards the Great Ocean Road. Along the way I decided to do the "Tourist" thing and stopped off at the spectacular "Bay of Islands", took a few pictures damm near got blown off the viewing platform as the wind had picked to almost Gale force, which along with the rain squalls made riding a not too pleasant experience lol.
I also stopped off at the 12 Apostles, now down to four as yet another one collapsed not so many months ago from the erosion of the sea. Took some more pics before saddling up and heading off down the G.O.R back towards home. The G.O.R is a truly magnificent and spectactular road which winds its way along the coast before turning inland through the Otway Ranges - a magnificent Rainforest area - then returning back to the coast.
This single lane road is made for Bikes as it winds, turns and twists its way from its start right through till it ends. Not a road for the inexperienced rider, a fact proven by the number of motorbike riders who have perished over the years by underestimating the the dangers that exist all along its length. In fact even for the most experienced rider this road is a major challenge.
Given the prevailing weather conditions, I took undertook the journey along the Great Ocean Road with a slight feeling of disquiet, as there was still a fair amount of traffic consisting of Tourist Buses, Caravans and Cars {many of which were being driven by learners!!} so I proceeded with a fair amount of caution. The road was quite slippery and as I had overstayed at both Mount Gambier and Warrnambool as well as at the Tourist lookouts, the daylight, already poor due to the heavy overcast conditions, started to fail well before I had made it to the end of the road.
Needless to say I made it home safely, although I had a couple of close calls on some of the more dangerous corners, wet through {as the rain intensified into almost a torrential downpour along the final stretch from the coast to home and the wet weather gear just gave up lol}, tired but exhillarated by the ride and the challenges that were thrown my way.
I will return to the G.O.R, but maybe not till summer is well and truly with us as there is so much that I did not get to fully see or appreciate. Next time though will be without the tank bag and other baggage so maybe, just maybe I will test both myself and the 1600 out a tad more than I did this time round. Having said that the VN1600 did perform magnificently, never missed a beat and responded well each time I needed her to. A sure footed and most forgiving girl she most certainly is, which I am indeed thankful for.
Hope that you guys and Gals enjoyed this little narrative and I will post some of the pictures from this trip as soon as I am able, which with any luck will be tomorrow.
Stay Safe, Stay Upright and Enjoy the Ride
A6
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grannyc
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Colors of Autumn
- From: ranbus
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Well, it is autumn in Western PA and that means the mountains are filled with the colors of fall and leaves begin their annual ritual of changing colors before falling from trees in prepararion of winter.
I am hoping to capture some of the beauty of the mountains here in PA by going for a ride this weekend and taking some autumn photographs. I will post these on my page.
Will give you a view of the beauty that surrounds me as I live in the mountains of Western Pennsylvania, also the coming snowfalls.
Ride hard, ride safe!
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- 1 month ago
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Playing both, Country AND West
- From: Runester
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- 2 months ago
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Finally Some Decent Weather...
- From: Annie888
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We finally got some fine weather on a weekend here in Western Australia.
So I led another Ulysses ride out to a country Tavern for lunch. Two other branches of the club joined us, and we had a good day. Covered about 880 miles and no drama's -- doesn't get any better
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- 2 months ago
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Rolling Thunder
- From: scott02
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Ok everyone I wanted to do this as a Vid but couldn't figure out how to do it since its fro You Tube. Most of you know what Rolling Thunder is and what it means to the 10's of thousands who make the annual run in DC. The Video is from a Band here in Buffalo who has played almost every Rally, Sturgis and Laconia to Daytona Beach. I have seen them numerous times. They have been voted Western New Yorks Best Biker Band for the last 10 years. The First link is the Video and the second is the bands info.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptenqvbFJ1I
http://www.cyberspokes.com/spiders.htm
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- 2 months ago
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