Thursday afternoon, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced a new national road safety campaign. The plan, known as the “National Roadway Safety Strategy,” comes in response to increased year over year fatalities on our nation’s roadways. In 2020, an estimated 38,680 people died as a result of a motor vehicle crash. Of those, approximately
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November 5, 2021 Highway Bill Passes… a Year Late After a 13-month delay and enactment of three separate extensions, Congress finally passed a surface transportation reauthorization bill. This bill, sometimes called the highway bill or the infrastructure bill, has been a hotly debated topic in D.C. for several years. Once signed by the President, the
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MRF Flash Alert – Tesla Crashes The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wrote, in a document released Monday, that it has identified 11 crashes since 2018 in which a Tesla vehicle using the company’s driver assistance system, struck one or more vehicles involved in an emergency response situation. Four of those crashes occurred in
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by Rich Kirchen from https://www.bizjournals.com Harley-Davidson voluntarily recalls over 31,000 motorcycles over potential headlamp failure Harley-Davidson Motor Co. said it is voluntarily conducting a safety recall involving the headlamp shields on certain model year 2019 through 2021 Sportster models. The recall includes over 31,000 Harley-Davidson Sportsters on which the headlights could fail, according to National
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RIDING FREE FROM DC: Your Weekly Biker Bulletin from Inside the Beltway Automated Driving Systems (AKA Autonomous Vehicles) Late last year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced a rulemaking process for developing a “Framework for Automated Driving System (ADS) Safety.” As part of the process public comments were solicited by NHTSA. This week
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by Sabrina Giacomini from https://www.rideapart.com/ A software issue poses a safety hazard. The NHTSA has issued a recall by Harley-Davidson on three models of trikes that could potentially present a software issue that could cause the rear brakes to activate on their own. Here are the details. Harley-Davidson Motor Company has issued a recall on
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Two U.S. agencies are preparing to submit for final White House regulatory review a plan to revoke California’s authority to set its own vehicle greenhouse gas standards and declare that states are pre-empted from setting their own vehicle rules, two people briefed on the matter said on Thursday. WASHINGTON: Two U.S. agencies are preparing to
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Hey, Damn, it’s already that time of the year and the holidays will be gone in a flash. I will give pause all week long to give thanks to all the people who have been a wonderful part of my life this year. We’ve accomplished so much on Bikernet, with bikes, with our headquarters and
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Hey, I’ll try this again. Don’t forget Daylight Savings Time and roll back your clocks. I rode my new/old Panhead again yesterday. Dr. Hamster picked up his rebuilt Pan engine from Bennett’s Performance yesterday and brought it to the shop. We’re getting close to starting to assemble this classic. I moved Frankie’s Dyna from the
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Hey, This is a good one and we’re scrambling from one project to the next in an effort to find Nirvana in the weeds. In pondering 2017 we need to create peace and tranquility in our lives daily, hence Nirvana. As life rolls along our definition of Nirvana changes. At one time it’s living in
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Hey, How much of life is a roll of the dice, or fate. Of course, in order to test fate you must roll the dice or play the game. We feel very fortunate around the headquarters. We have succeeded in building a pure unrelenting motorcycle nirvana. We do whatever we want, whenever we want. Our
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Hey, This is an interesting one. We are running at life fast and furious. We peeled through the holidays, and never slowed down, except for maybe a minute. So, how do we make a difference in 2015? It’s up to us, to stop doing anything that hurts us, our families, our brotherhood, or our country.
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Hey, Happy Holidays, and avoid the Miracle Mung if possible. Markus Cuff had it for three weeks. I thought it was a 24-hour bug, but that was four days ago, and I still can’t talk. Maybe it’s a good day to watch football and drink whiskey. Let’s hit the news: SOMETHING FROM
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Hey, Damn, we’re flying at Thanksgiving like we put a turbo on the calendar. I hammer the MRF, Motorcycle Riders Foundation, to up their membership efforts. I believe they are the only true, honest, national motorcycle freedom fighting entity in the US and we need to support them. We also support NCOM which is made
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Hey, This is nuts. This month disappeared in a flurry of harried activity and accomplishments, but I still didn’t rewrite my last chapter. Plus this coming week is already snatched with meetings with Lucas Oil and the run to Vegas for Bikefest. Quick, here are a couple of perfect items to kick off Bikerfest. Rogue
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Hey, It’s that time. We need to figure out the Bikernet e-mail Christmas card. We scramble so hard around here, shopping seems along way off. I ran across a book from Marilyn Stemp called The Last Lecture. It’s a cool motivational read, so I bought a batch of them for Xmas presents. We all need
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