Ring of Red M25 Biker Run............Nice ride, Nice idea, Good Cause

Ring of Red M25 Biker Run is an event for bikers on Remembrance Sunday 10th November 2013.

The aim is to form a circle of bikers dressed in red and wearing poppies riding Clockwise around the M25 making the biggest Poppy in the World.
This ride is intended to present a physical show of support for our Armed Forces, both current and previous. Not every biker goes to a remembrance service on this day, but I do know that they Respect our armed service men and women.

This is just another way of showing it.

The event was an idea by Julia Stevenson, a well known respected biker in the Ride of Respect Rideouts.

It is a non-profit event with all monies raised from the sale of the patches (after expenses) being given to the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

More here & meet points http://ringofredm25.webs.com/meeting-points-2

 

Not Such a Perfect day ....Lou Reed R.I.P.

BBC just broke the news that Lou Reed has died in New York
aged 71.
He underwent a liver transplant in May this year.

 

R.I.P

The man is/was the biggest inspiration and comfort in my life.

New Video Shows Motorcyclists Stomping SUV Driver Into Pavement

Two publicly available videos showing the altercation between a group of motorcyclists and the Washington Heights last month but have both omitted the actual assault. The first video ends just when a motorcyclist bashes in the driver's side window, and a second video starts just after the bikers finish kicking driver Alexian Lien into a bloody pulp in the street. ( I guess it is difficult to hold the phone whilst throwing punches lol !) Now, however, ABC 7 has obtained (disturbing  ?)video of the assault from another witness:

To tell ya the truth the video is pretty dire and unsteady so although the cops may have found it useful the media use of it is a waste of time ...judge for yourself http://gothamist.com/2013/10/22/new_video_shows_motorcyclists_stomp.php

ABC 7 reports that police have seen the video. Nine people have been arrested so far

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Clampdown Australian style

Apart from always being slightly bemused by the slightly comedic sounding use of the word Bikies  (as opposed to Bikers) by Australians, it is often interesting to take a look at the way bikers are portrayed and represented in the press down under.

It will come as no surprise that it appears to be just the same as everywhere else in the world. In a way it's reassuring.

Oh and hey in case anyone has got me wrong - i really don't give a rats ass what citizens and the press think of me or my kind, or how Hollywood twats represent or misrepresent us...............it just interests , amuses and amazes me that the same stereotypical shit is still pouring out.  I certainly believe that any attempt to explain to these nit wits gives their stupidity a value and the best way to deal with them is to carry on regardless.

Anyway  - Australia.............."Bikies"...........just like elsewhere  the generic term is so wide as to include Pizza bike riders, scooters,sports bikes riders, family tourers, 1%ers  and essentially anything on two wheels with an engine.

The scarey stories and negative representations are fairly standard and equally biased and embellished for dramatic effect.

The Australian Authorities have instigated a clamp down on "Bikies" and have brought in draconian laws to attempt to completely wipe out " bikies".- 25 years jail for membership and equally harsh and disproportionate treatment for association

Today (21st October) Police are reported as having made their first arrests under the tough new anti-bikie legislation when two 'Odin's Warriors' were arrested in Cairns

Just looking at todays papers/reports (Australian)

        ' Police warned to enforce Campbell Newman's new bikie
          laws or face being fired '

Queensland online news
     
         ' Australian Crime Commission finds BIKIES are running
          their illegal businesses while in jail sparking fears they may
          be paying off prison staff.'

The Courier Mail :
      
         ' Is former Bandidos member turned Hells Angel John Fahey
           the man who kickstarted events that led to bikie
           crackdown ? '

and rather embarrassingly for the cops !
         'Two police officers have been left red-faced after confusing
          a man's Sons of Anarchy T-shirt with a real bikie gang's patch
          in Queensland.'

Words - what are words worth and what do they mean ?

Police officer who was part of bike gang saw nothing !

  

Undercover internal affairs police officer who was part of bike gang that surrounded and attacked SUV driver says he didn’t even see the incident, ........must be the truth then .

• Officer Matthew Rodriguez, 28, was part of the team investigating the original road rage assault
• He has since admitted being a member of the gang, called Frontline Soldiers
• The cop said he was with the group on the day of the incident, but claims he left before the fight happened
• Several bikers have now been charged in connection with the brutal attack, including NYPD cop Wojciech Braszczok, 32

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