March 2016 Moto Guzzi’s Meanest 2 Sexy 4 My Gear • #RedBikesMatter • Lane Splitting Updates • Gentrifiers v. Locals • FJ-09 Project Update News, Clues & Rumors Volume XXXIII, Issue 3 Publication Date: February 22, 2016 Photo Of The Month: You Can On The Cover: Always Use More Horsepower Griso-mounted Sactown CityBiker An DeYoung keeps an eye out for the man in Oakland. A few of the high-vis Ride To The Photo: Angelica Rubalcaba Unification Rally crew chated up some Contents: fellow riders at the State Capital during a NCR............................ 3 break in the rain. You see, folks? We can all Locals Only...................... 4 just get along. Pitstops ........................ 6 Uneasy Rider . 7 Breaking News: The Bible Says New Stuff ....................... 9 Events......................... 12 “Don’t Ride Alone” Thexthee....................... 13 We’re about to do something that doesn’t Greezy Weezy................... 14 Pretty Bikes .................... 17 happen too often—we’re gonna quote The Photo: Surj Gish Red Matter ..................... 18 Bible right here in Ye Olde CityBike. Feejer Finish.................... 19 that gave $10,000 to the SFMC back in was converted to a two year bill, thus Devine ........................ 20 It was a sunny day in January and the July 2015 to help them pay for repairs essentially delaying action until this year. Doc Frazier..................... 21 Wrecking Crew was loafing about our to their clubhouse, which drowned in We’ve been waiting eagerly for the Maynard ....................... 22 luxurious East Bay HQ , reclining in our Stormageddon. Hertfelder...................... 23 expensive chairs (What, you thought we’d legislative session to start—CityBike Classifieds ..................... 24 be out riding? Hah!), chuckling at our The AMA, always a step ahead of us, supports the bill in its current form, Slappy McSlapperson ............ 26 interns’ feeble attempts to count the ever- has awarded the century-plus old club of which would codify a 50 MPH top speed Last Page Photo ................. 27 bikers in orange with their “Friend of the with a 15 MPH delta. It’s an acceptable Sexiest Men’s Gear for 2016 . 29 increasing stacks of payola that we now use for cubicle walls, and Senior Editor AMA” award, which is awarded to clubs, compromise to get something concrete on Find us online at: businesses and other organizations that the books, which would let CHP, OTS and CityBike.com Bob Stokstad piped up: “We have a Bible around here?” have “strongly supported the AMA mission other organizations dedicate resources to /CityBikeMag and programs.” educating both riders and drivers, /CityBikeMag After a few minutes of poking and remove the supposed “gray area” and prodding the dusty stacks that exists today. Having an actual /CityBikeMag OMC: friend of the of books in Editor Surj’s office, AMA and SFMC. law will also help prevent a future CityBike Staff: we gave up, and Bob pointed ban. PO Box 18738 out, “Well, there’s always the Oakland CA 94619 internet. Anyway, look up We checked in with Tomasa Phone: 415.282.2790 Ecclesiastes 4:10.” It took us Duenas, Quirk’s Chief of Staff Editorial: [email protected] a few tries to get the spelling for a status update, and she told Advertising / Business: [email protected] us: “AB 51 is currently in Senate Editor in Chief & Jackass of All Trades: Surj Gish right—we keep starting with accel… for some reason—but Transportation Committee. At Master of Puppets & Layout: Angelica Rubalcaba once we’d gotten close enough this moment it is too early to know Senior Editor: Robert Stokstad for Google to figure it out, we when the bill will be scheduled Contributing Editors: John Joss, Will Guyan, read this out loud: for a hearing. It can be as early Courtney Olive as March or as late as July. With Chief of the World Adventure Affairs Desk: If either of them falls down, Photo: Surj Gish regards to the direction the bill Dr. Gregory Frazier one can help the other up. Club president (and friend of CityBike) will take, we are not sure if the bill will Staff Photographers: Robert Stokstad, But pity anyone who falls Bill Espinola said, “The Oakland move forward in its current version or a Angelica Rubalcaba and has no one to help them up different version all together.” Illustrations: Mr. Jensen Motorcycle Club is greatly appreciative Operations: Gwynne Fitzsimmons That’s the NIV (New International of being awarded the prestigious 2016 Remember, Quirk promised us that if he’s Road Scholars: Version) version of the passage. If you want Friend of the AMA Award. Throughout forced to reduce the speeds in AB 51, he’ll J. Brandon, Sam Devine, Jeff Ebner, more something more biblical sounding, the 109-year existence of our club, the pull the bill (“Better Luck Next Time? An DeYoung, Max Klein you can always go with the King James programs and goals of the AMA have been AB 51 Pushed To 2016” – Uneasy Rider, Contributors: Version for this kind of jazz: “woe to him diligently supported not only through August 2015). If for some reason the speeds Dan Baizer, Craig Bessenger, the sponsorship of untold numbers of Blaise Descollonges, Dirck Edge, Julian Farnam, that is alone when he falleth…” are lowered and he doesn’t make good on Alonzo Fumar, Will Guyan, Brian Halton, sanctioned events, but also through our that promise, he’ll lose the limited support Bob looked pleased, having schooled the David Hough, Maynard Hershon, Ed Hertfelder, efforts to be an asset and good neighbor he currently has from the motorcycle rest of us heathens with good smack from Otto Hofmann, Jon Jensen, Bill Klein, to the general community. We believe community, CityBike included. David Lander, Lucien Lewis, Larry Orlick, the Good Book, and said, “This applies so this form of brotherhood and outreach Jason Potts, Bob Pushwa, Gary Rather, well to the Ed Cavanaugh stories.” Stay tuned for updates as we learn more. Curt Relick, Charlie Rauseo, Mike Solis, contributes greatly to a positive image Ivan Thelin, James Thurber. It’s true. We’ve heard from a lot of riders of motorcycling as a whole. We are ABATE Supporting AB 51 Alumni (RIP): about Jason Potts’ heartfelt story (“The delighted to be recognized for our efforts John D’India, Joe Glydon, Gary Jaehne, Teacher’s Last Lesson” – February 2016) and we thank the AMA for all it does for Following in the footsteps of the ever- Adam Wade the advancement of the motorcycling progressive, groundbreaking, even Back Issues: $5, limited availability on what we motorcyclists should learn Archived Articles: We can find stories and send you scanned images for community.” disruptive thinkers here at CityBike, $5/page. No, we will not mail you our last copy for free just because your from the search for Ed Cavanaugh, and a buddy Dave was on the cover. Please know the name of the story and the ABATE of California (American year of publication...at least! If you say something like, “it was about this lot of these people have talked about the cool bike I used to see at Alice’s and I think it was in CityBike in 1988... Splitting Down To Business… or maybe 1994” we will buy a cheap latex adult novelty and mail it to your Brotherhood Aimed Toward grandkids. importance of not riding alone. So here’s For back issue and archive requests, please mail check made out to Maybe Later This Year Education), which had previously CityBike magazine to PO Box 18738, Oakland, CA 94619 or send money the definitive word on it, kids: don’t ride and request to [email protected]. alone—the Bible says so. 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Yeah! you’re paying attention, Director, told us the CityBike magazine is owned by CityBike Magazine, Inc and has teams of simply because they’re our friends, the sleep-deprived, coke-addicted attorneys ready to defend it from frivolous or we’re gonna need to lawsuits, so even if you see Lucien Lewis doing one of his wheelies on Oakland Motorcycle Club would have organization voted to the cover and decide you want to do that too and then you hit a parked car and your bike is wedged under a van and it catches fire and the Vallejo FD have a talk) you know that “support AB 51 as currently has to come and extinguish the resulting blaze and four cars and your bike gotten the “Friend of CityBike” award a are melted into slag and you suffer permanent trauma including a twisted AB 51, the lane splitting bill pinkie, sleeplessness and night terrors, it’s not CityBike Magazine Inc.’s long time ago.