The Busted Knuckle Chronicles Northwestern Ontario MOTORCYCLING [email protected] Robert’s Aimless Ramblings… Northwestern Ontario MOTORCYCLING And, yes, it is possible to have some fun while you’re out freezing your ass, and this is the other fun part - (see the third picture in this series). With any luck we’ve broken the back of this winter and can start looking forward to the upcoming riding season. I always like to pick a date as my first riding day and this year I’m hoping to get out on March 26th. Of course getting out riding that day will depend on a whole lot of things coming together just perfectly, such as: the weather, the temperature, dry roads, being able to snow blow a path across my back yard, and being able to actually get my bike started. That’s a lot of variables. Where I try to ignore winter and pretend that it just doesn’t happen, the guys that built these two machines seem to have embraced winter and decided to get out and have some fun on the frozen lakes. Isn’t this fun? Not - FAIL Now... At a certain age, we will all be at this stage: I thought about the 30 year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, Continued on Page 7 5th Edition Vol 7 February 4th 2010 Page 6 How to Get a Harley for $100! Buy a ticket on the 22nd Annual Harley-Davidson® Motorcycle Raffle and you could win the awesome 2009 Night Rod Special! This raffle supports students in the Harley-Davidson® Technician program, with all proceeds going towards enhancement of the HD program. Be the first in line for tickets when they arrive, call 1-888-999-7882 or 780-835-6600 to reserve your ticket! The Busted Knuckle Chronicles Continued from Page 6... pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space. That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world. My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag. The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. Northwestern Ontario MOTORCYCLING We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven’t figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have to run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings. The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden “Paper or Plastic?” every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused but I never remember to take them in with me. Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, “Paper or Plastic?” I just say, “Doesn’t matter to me. I am bisacksual.” Then it’s their turn to stare at me with a blank look. Old Bones ‘10 I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it’s red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife as everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. Seems I have to take my hearing aid out to use it and I got a little loud. Retreads Regional Rally June 4, 5 and 6 I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, “Re-calc-ul-ating” You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then when I would make a right turn instead, it was not good. When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GSP lady, at least she loves me. To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. 5th Edition Vol 7 February 4th 2010 Page 7 Last Chance Saloon, Wayne, Alberta Registration $15 Friday Meet and Greet Saturday Breakfast (included) Register on site Accommodation: Rosedeer Hotel is booked up Camping on site $12/night* Other accommodation: www.traveldrumheller.com Area Rides: Alberta Badlands, Tyrrell Dinosaur Museum Dinosaur Provincial Park, Local Historic Tours Scavenger Hunt (Prizes!) Saturday D.I.Y. Steak BBQ ($17*) Sunday Breakfast ride to Drumheller Registration on site. Let your chapter rep know how many are coming so meals can be planned RangerDon @ 780-640-3238 [email protected] Dave Corbett @ 403-938-3404 [email protected] Larry Fowell @ 780-352-3701 [email protected] or visit www.foothills-retreads.com/oldbones10.htm South of Drumheller Alberta, off Highway 56 *Prices to be finalized IT’S THE ONLY LAW WE DO Calgary 1-877-230-0091 Braithwaite Boyle Centre 1701 Centre Street N Red Deer 1-877-314-0123 Braithwaite Boyle Annex 3401 Gaetz Avenue Edmonton 1-800-661-4902 Braithwaite Boyle Building 11816 - 124 Street Free Consultation Call any local toll-free number 24 hours Proud sponsors of: The Canadian Paraplegic Association INJURY CONTROL RESEARCH GROUP Faculty of Medicine University of Alberta Serving Riders in Alberta, BC, Yukon and NWT www.AccidentInjuryLawyer.com Helmet Stickers IGNORANCE CAN BE CURED, STUPID IS FOREVER TM The Busted Knuckle Chronicles Sports - Corner Grass’s New Ice Weapon 5th Edition Vol 7 February 4th 2010 Page 8 Presented by: www.cornergrass.com CGRT unveil their 2010 Husaberg Ice weapon! CGRT have completed preparations for their 2010 program and are ready to launch another attack on the Alberta Endurance Ice Racing Association - Pro Open title. This year Jay McGregor and Nick Riewe will be riding a 2010 Husaberg FE570, which has been specially prepped for the brutal duty of Endurance Ice. “The 2010 Husaberg is showing to be perfectly suited for Endurance Ice racing. It’s awesome turning capability makes it very easy to ride at our limit and still conserve energy” comments Jay. CGRT begins the assault on their third Pro Open title this Sunday January 31 at Sandy Beach, Alta. CGRT video footage from testing last week: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=-odABXPBXII For 2010, the AEIRA series runs every weekend from late January through early March. Each event is 6 hours long (except for the famous Numb Bum 24 hour on Feb 13/14) and held on road course style tracks plowed into lakes around central Alberta. Continued on Page 9... The Busted Knuckle Chronicles Continued from Page 8.. Corner Grass’s New Ice Weapon Typical lap lengths vary from 5-15 km per lap. This year the schedule totals 54 hours of intense racing and enduring the elements. For more race information on the races visit www.AEIRA.com ;and for next day race results visit www.mylaps.com under the MX category. CGRT would like to thank the following sponsors for their contributions towards our success: HUSABERG, A&E RACING, RONWOOD ENTERPRISES, LEE BUILT, EXTREME HOT OIL SERVICES, MOTOVAN, UFA, BREWSTER WEST MOTORSPORTS, VP FUELS Helmet Stickers LOVE YOUR COUNTRY... Sports Schedules 5th Edition Vol 7 February 4th 2010 Page 9 2010 CMDRA WESTERN RACE SCHEDULE May 29-30 - Nl’akapxm Eagle Motorplex, Ashcroft, BC - www.eaglemotorplex.com June 19-20 - Grand Bend Motorplex, Grand Bend, ON - www.grandbendmotorplex. com (optional for classes that commit 4 or more bikes to attend event) July 10-11 - Castrol Raceway, Edmonton, AB - www.castrolraceway.com July 17-18 - Nl’akapxm Eagle Motorplex, Ashcroft, BC - www.eaglemotorplex.com August 7-8 - MHDRA Drag Strip, Medicine Hat, AB - www.mhdra.com August 21-22 - Mission Raceway Park, Mission, BC - www.missionraceway.com September 11-12 - Castrol Raceway, Edmonton, AB - www.castrolraceway.com September 13 - Year-end Awards Banquet, Nisku Inn, Edmonton, AB www.aeira.com 2010 Race Schedule FEAR YOUR GOVERNMENT. ARE FARTS LUMPY? I DON’T DATE GIRLS WHO USE FOUR LETTER WORDS, LIKE QUIT, STOP OR DON’T I SAW YOUR MOM SURFING NAKED January 24 - TBA January 31 - Sandy Beach 6 hr February 7 - Telford #1 February 13/14 - Numb Bum 2010 February 21 - Chip Lake February 28 - Telford #2 March 6 - Grande Prairie (Saturday) March 14 - TBA The Busted Knuckle Chronicles So what’s in a Name? Naming a child is one of the most important things new parents do. Months are spent pouring over baby name books and agonizing over the decision. As a society we place a lot of importance on names and attach certain stigmatisms to a name. Matilda can’t possibly be better looking then Brittany. Going into battle you would rather follow Alexander the Great then Leonard the Leader. For some the choice is as simple as Junior tacked on to the end, or naming after a favourite relative or parent. Sadly in the end there is no right choices. Little did my parents know that SNL would one day torment me, yes “Party on Garth, party on.” Saskatchewan News - The Monkey Report friends, family and comrades, bonded together with the road, our machines from across the world, from all lands, all motorcycles. So whether you are Poet, Loser or Buddha, embrace the name that you have been anointed with. After all a Rose by any other name is still the Rose working down at the coffee shop. Helmet Stickers Are You Man Enough? Bad Boy ! Go to My Room!! But Honey It creates a brotherhood, a comradery. We often go years before we discover someone Christian name. Perhaps the reasoning lies in the motorcycles, the freedom that they give us. An opportunity to reinvent ourselves, to leave the world behind. We are no longer that guy sitting at a desk 9-5, no longer a nurse saving someone’s life. We are fun loving, we are freedom in a suppressed society. We are there to extend a helping hand to the downtrodden, barbarians conquering an over tamed world. A society of     It is a rare occurrence when we meet someone who is still known by his or her given name. We are renamed into a family that is different then that of the “normal” world. It is a world full of Snakes, Pappys, Captain Ron’s, and Belt Drive Betty’s.  -bad Uncle Monkey In the motorcycle world it would seem that none of us are very happy with our names. No, the biker world is full of Bubbas, Mamas, Bandits, Indian Larrys and Uncle Monkeys. As the miles tick off, our names disappear and we are given a new name, a proper name that is suited just to us and us alone. 5th Edition Vol 7 February 4th 2010 Page10   Southern Independent Riders of Assinibioa, SK and the famous St.Victor Rally will raffle this 2010 FLSTFB and Roaddog trailer in June 2010. Tickets are only $10 each! http://www.stvictorboogie.com/                