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November 2017 AFM Round 7 Program Inside! Don’t Be a Statistic Learn to be a safer, better rider now! News, Clues & Rumors Our comprehensive Intermediate and Advanced Volume XXXIV, Issue 11 clinics help motorcyclists become defensive riders. Publication Date: October 16, 2017 On The Cover: Golden Gate closed Our Italian three-way, left to right: An due to #motorcycle #SMIDSY DeYoung on the Guzzi (Photo: Angelica crash #RiderDown Rubalcaba), Fish on the Energica Eva (Photo: Max Klein), and Fish (yep!) on the Report of Brutale (Photo: Angelica Rubalcaba). #motorcycle crash - #RiderDown lanes blocked Contents: #RiderDown NCR............................ 3 Shop Rag ....................... 5 #MC down #1 Pit Stops........................ 6 lane #RiderDown on Uneasy Rider . 6 New Stuff ....................... 9 Photo: Angelica Rubalcaba Bay Bridge Events......................... 10 Hot Agusta Nights................ 12 #motorcycle OHV Is On! SB 595: $9 Bridge Tolls? And since you asked, yes, we’re still sore AFM Round 7 Program............ 16 about it not being free for bikes to cross the #crash Police and Energy Drunk ................... 18 We reported here in NCR last month that On the other hand, while we’re on the ambulance on Luzzi Guzzi ..................... 20 bridges any more. scene #crash Serious crash, HU You Calling A Traveller ......... 23 SB 249, the California State Senate bill to topic of bills signed by Governor Brown, Motorcyclist injured #motorcycle motorcycle vs. car Maynard ....................... 24 create a replacement for the Off-Highway our auras simply cannot smile at the Oregon Lane Splitting Hate on 880 #moto #RiderDown Hertfelder...................... 25 Motor Vehicle Recreation Act of 2003, had language of SB 595, the California State #accident Doc Frazier..................... 26 passed both Senate and Assembly, along Senate bill authored by Senator Jim Although splitting is specifically Devine ........................ 27 prohibited in Oregon vehicle code, Classifieds ..................... 28 with SB 159, the bill that would extend Beall, whose name you may recognize Locals Only..................... 29 the Green Sticker registration program to thanks to the ill-conceived and thankfully it looked for some time like the state Slapped, But Good ............... 30 might be the next to legalize lane Last Page Photo ................. 31 fund Off-Highway Vehicle Programs in ill-fated lane splitting bill he authored California. back in 2013. In a tragicomic twist of splitting. ODOT (Oregon Department Talking With Your Hands, CityBike-Style.. 33 of Transportation) commissioned a “Wait, we thought you were on our side!” Governor Brown signed both bills California Motorcyclist Safety Program Find us online at: in which “our side” is the motorcyclist lane splitting literature review that was into law on October 3rd, meaning that, Training Site of The Year - 2015 CityBike.com subset and the “we the people” superset, compiled back in 2010, and there have Learn Total Control at our three Bay Area /CityBikeMag according to CORVA (California Off Assemblymember Quirk, who we came been multiple lane splitting bills in recent Road Vehicle Association), “OHMVR years, although the hearings for those bills locations: Santa Clara, Newark and Gilroy /CityBikeMag to feel ok about thanks to his way-better- Program is now a permanent part of the than-SB 350 lane splitting bill, AB 51 (yes, were also the source of horrific, admittedly /CityBikeMag California Department of Parks and the one we helped pass), is a co-author of anecdotal tales from motorcyclist Call today! 510.784.8978 Recreation dedicated to providing safe and this turd, which would, or rather will take friends to our north, who reported that Contact CityBike: sustainable off-road opportunities in the government officials lied on the record, 2wheelsafety.com/advanced-clinics PO Box 18738 the question of adding up to $3 to Bay state.” Oakland CA 94619 Area bridge tolls, in the name of funding leading those same motorcyclists to Phone: 415.282.2790 projects that will hypothetically reduce conclude they were fighting a losing battle. Editorial: [email protected] As we wrote last month, this doesn’t Advertising / Business: [email protected] mean we riders, on and off-road, can stop congestion on Bay Area roads. This latest piece of evidence doesn’t paying attention. This win happened in Estimates say that each dollar added to do much to allay those concerns. The CityBike Staff: large part due to intense involvement ODOT Facebook page ran a sponsored Editor in Chief & Jackass of All Trades: Surj Gish bridge tolls will raise something like $127 from organizations like CORVA and million annually, to fund Master of Puppets & Layout: Angelica Rubalcaba the AMA tirelessly advocating for our Senior Editor: Robert Stokstad projects like longer BART interests. We don’t always agree with these trains and more ferries. Chief of the World Adventure Affairs Desk: organizations on every issue, but we give Dr. Gregory Frazier money to both specifically so that we have We’re all for reduced Staff Photographers: Robert Stokstad, a bigger voice in situations like this, and congestion on paper, Angelica Rubalcaba, Max Klein you should too. although in practice we Artwork: Mr. Jensen, Sam Devine don’t care too much because Operations: Gwynne Fitzsimmons It’s worth noting that while ABATE was we can split lanes, but this Road Scholars: involved in the efforts to first turn SB 249 bill is a slap in the face Sam Devine, An DeYoung, Jeff Ebner, Fish, into an acceptable bill and then pass it, Max Klein of regular folk for whom most of the “we’re real bikers” MC-centric Contributors: an additional $20 to $60 MROs were largely absent on this issue, Michele Appel, Dan Baizer, Craig Bessenger, J. in monthly costs ranges Brandon, Blaise Descollonges, Julian Farnam, presumably because Harley-Davidson in impact from “not Alonzo Fumar, Will Guyan, Brian Halton, David doesn’t make dirt bikes, revealing immaterial” to “looks like Hough, Maynard Hershon, Ed Hertfelder, Otto the disingenuous cries to civilians, Hofmann, John Joss, Bill Klein, David Lander, we’re skipping dinner, the ludicrous name given to non-MC Lucien Lewis, Larry Orlick, TJ Noto, Courtney kids.” It’s so expensive to Olive, Jason Potts, Bob Pushwa, Gary Rather, riders, for unification to be more about live in the Bay Area now Charlie Rauseo, Curt Relick, Mike Solis, Ivan attempting to secure non-capital B Biker Thelin, James Thurber. that even highly-paid tech support for the causes they care about, like workers are bailing out for Alumni (RIP): profiling, than genuine cooperation. John D’India, Joe Glydon, Gary Jaehne, places like Sacramento. Adam Wade Also, since Governor Brown did us riders Ugh. For back issue and archive requests, email [email protected]. Back issues (if we have ‘em) are five bucks a pop. No, we will not mail you a solid by signing these two favorable our last copy of an issue from the ‘80s for free, just because your buddy In short, funding for these programs was on the cover. We can find stories (maybe) and send you scanned bills, maybe the supposedly anti-big post, also known as an advertisement, images for $5, too, but please know what you’re looking for and the year of publication… at least! If you say something like, “Well, it was about should not come from bridge tolls, which this cool bike I used to see at Alice’s and I think it was in 1988... or maybe government, all new legislation is bad featuring what may be the shittiest lane 1994, or maybe it was in Urban Moto” we will buy a cheap latex adult should be used to maintain the bridges. novelty and mail it to your grandkids. legislation except when it’s something we splitting Photoshop job ever, along with CityBike is published on or about the third Monday of each month. Editorial Thankfully, voters in all nine Bay Area deadline is the 1st of each month. Advertising information is available on want crowd can cut the facile, stupid, shrill confusingly juxtaposed language stating, request. Unsolicited articles and photographs are always welcome. Please counties will get a chance to extend two include a full name, address and phone number with all submissions. We “Governor Moonbeam” shit for the month “Share the Road” and “Lane splitting gets reserve the right to edit manuscripts or use them to wipe our large, fragrant middle fingers at The Man on this one, bottoms. of November to say thanks, or just take us nowhere fast.” Never mind that splitting ©2017, CityBike Magazine, Inc. Citybike Magazine is distributed at over come the eventual vote. Although it’s not 200 places throughout California each month. Taking more than a few their always-running mouths to the “free actually does get the rider where they’re copies at any one place without permission from CityBike Magazine, Inc, hard to see a scenario in which everyone especially for purposes of recycling, is theft and will be prosecuted to the going faster, without affecting the ETAs full extent of civil and criminal law. Yeah! states” they’re so fond of already. who doesn’t use the bridges regularly says, CityBike magazine is owned by CityBike Magazine, Inc and has teams of of surrounding traffic, and that data- sleep-deprived, coke-addicted attorneys ready to defend it from frivolous lawsuits, so even if you see Fish doing one of his wheelies on the cover and “Well, it’s not coming out of my ass. Ok decide you want to do that too and then you hit a parked car and your bike driven simulations suggest that if enough 24/7 is wedged under a van and it catches fire and the Vallejo FD has to come then!” and extinguish the resulting blaze and four cars and your bike are melted riders split, traffic overall will become less HOTLINE into slag and you suffer permanent trauma including a twisted pinkie, sleeplessness and night terrors, it’s not CityBike Magazine Inc.’s fault and congested.