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From The
GUNNY'S SACK

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hanukkah, along with a slew of other holidays, topped off with contested elections were the last gasp of 2000. What a way to start the new year. Bikers across the country now have the opportunity to really be effective in our quest for freedom of the road, and we begin a new century to boot. Let's work together this year, more than ever before, to accomplish our goals in the year 2001. We have countless groups all working for separate agendas and most of us are fighting for the same things. Don't you all think it's time we got rid of the animosity between groups and worked for the common good of us all? This is my prayer for 2001 folks, please give the FREEDOM FIGHTERS in this country and around the world all the support you can muster. If we work together we can work wonders. It's a proven fact of life brothers and sisters...let's just DO IT.

NEWS BITS'N PIECES:

OHIO: There are plenty of reasons to take a Motorcycle Ohio safety course: polishing technique, increasing control, fun. And the biggie is doing it could keep you among the living. Starting Jan. 1, there's one more reason. Graduates from Motorcycle Ohio safety courses can take their certification directly to OBMV and obtain a motorcycle endorsement on their license. This is good news indeed. Now if we could get all states to work that way, wouldn't this make things much easier on everybody?

WASHINGTON D.C.: While President Clinton was in Viet Nam he made very clear to the world that he is a motorcycle helmet advocate by encouraging the use of the things for children in that country. I'm amazed that I am still living having ridden thousands of miles before helmets were considered a deterrent to motorcycle accidents.

NEW DELHI, INDIA: The sales of two wheeled vehicles is mixed in this country but motorcycle and moped sales are doing just fine with Honda in the lead. Scooter sales are down for some reason. I don't understand it. I'd ride one if I owned one.

NEW DELHI AGAIN: Hero Honda is India's largest motorcycle maker and right now they sell the 10-year-old CD series and the six-year-old "Splendour" model in the 100cc motorcycle segment. In the middle of 2001 they plan a new model and later in the year there is even another coming out both in the 100 cc range. The roads there won't handle much more power than that I guess. I was there in the 50's and most rural roads were dirt.

WASHINGTON: Recently we have read that the FBI has tested a new beast of software called CARNIVORE that takes all privacy away from Internet users and makes confidential information their baby to play with. This is scary folks. Privacy experts say they are worried about the breadth of Carnivore's capability and questioned why the FBI even conducted such a test in June if it intends to use the tool only for narrow purposes. Hopefully the courts will step in and set VERY strict standards for this stuff. I guess our Constitution and Bill of Rights really don't carry any authority anymore.

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