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The ride is on July 19, 2014! Rain or Shine! Please share the info and tell all of your friends!
It starts at 9:00 AM at House of Harley-Davidson, 4334 Spenard Rd in Anchorage, AK.
Please call 907-248-5300 for more details!
The ABATE October newsletter is here! Click the link below to read the latest news.
Mayor Sullivan has proclaimed June 20th as Ride To Work Day! Please read the attached proclamation of his directing motorcycles and scooters free public (MOA meters and lots) parking that day!
Download the signed proclamation here!
WHEREAS, scooters and motorcycles use comparatively less fuel, cause less pollution and have little impact on our infrastructure; and
WHEREAS, scooters and motorcycles require only a fraction of space taken by other; and
WHEREAS, the price of fossil fuels is growing and supply is diminishing; and
WHEREAS, the use of fossil fuels continues to damage our health by adding to pollution and risking our future through global warming; and
WHEREAS, our infrastructure repairs fail to keep pace with its degradation; and
WHEREAS, for these reasons, scooters and motorcycles offer a form of daily transportation to be encouraged; and
WHEREAS, June 20, 2011 has been designated as “Ride To Work Day” to highlight the positive daily use of scooters and motorcycles; and
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Dan Sullivan, Mayor of the City of Anchorage, Alaska, do hereby proclaim June 20, 2011, to be
and to encourage scooter and motorcycle riders to ride to work on that day, and pursuant thereto, do further direct that on June 20, 2011 parking at meters and in publicly owned garages in the City of Anchorage will be free of charge to motorcycles and scooters in recognition of their utilitarian value and to encourage the daily use of those vehicles.
The Officers of ABATE are:
President = Karl LeRay
Vice-President = Lynn Fibranz
Secretary= Lynn Fibranz
Treasurer= Ed Rutledge
Legislative Coordinator= Dan “Havoc” Coffey
Riders’ Ed= Barbara Smart
Membership= Michelle Brunner
Sgt at Arms= Unfilled
Run Coordinator= Chris Rigel
Public Relations= Karl LeRay
Products= Marilee Rivas
Gaming Officer= Unfilled
Webmaster= Steve Rains
Newsletter= filled
The 6 Board Members of ABATE are:
Michelle Brunner
Boyd McFail
Marcy Newberry
Dan Owens
Ed Rutledge
Barb Smart
An update for our members. The election results have not been posted to the website as we have not had confirmation from the write in elected members that they will take the positions voted for. As opposed to placing a partial list on the website, the leadership feels it’s better to post the final results once it’s complete.
Please stay tuned and we’ll have more as things develop.
Karl “Two Tone” LeRay
President
NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Motorcyclists across the nation are awaiting a decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York which they hope will declare New York’s “motorcycle only” roadway checkpoints to be unconstitutional. The case Wagner et al. v. The County of Schenectady, et al. could end up in the United States Supreme Court. The checkpoints, which target well-known motorcycle events, force motorcyclists traveling to and from those events to leave the roadway, regardless of any wrongdoing, and have their vehicles and equipment inspected for safety and non-safety equipment violations and stolen VIN numbers. Motorcyclists have been detained as long as 45 minutes in makeshift stockades while undergoing the inspections. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration recently began Federal funding for motorcycle checkpoints nationwide in order to assess their effectiveness despite objections raised by members of Congress.
The New York lawsuit is the first to challenge the constitutionality of motorcycle checkpoints. The plaintiffs are being represented by Proner & Proner, a plaintiffs personal injury law firm with a long history of doing “pro bono” legal work on behalf of motorcyclists. The Proner firm commenced the lawsuit on behalf of four motorcyclists who were detained at two separate checkpoints.
The checkpoints are funded by a grant from the New York Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee and the troopers who work them are paid overtime. Although the stated purpose of the checkpoints is to promote safety, the majority of the more than a thousand tickets which were issued during the first year of the checkpoints had nothing to do with safety and instead focused on non-safety violations such as loud pipes. The written guidelines for the checkpoints specifically state that one of the purposes of the checkpoints is to look for stolen and forged VINs and the police readily admit that they often have undercover members of their gang and auto theft units working the checkpoints looking for signs of criminal activity.
The Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly made it clear that any roadway checkpoint whose primary purpose is general crime control constitutes an unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment and is presumptively unconstitutional. Notwithstanding that fact, the progress reports which the police prepared on the checkpoints specifically state that the grant funds are used “for overtime for intelligence gathering and the subsequent criminal and traffic enforcement.” The police admit that the checkpoints, which focus only on equipment violations and forged and stolen VINs, do not address any of the major causes of motorcycle accidents such as reckless driving, driver inattentiveness and alcohol impairment.
Lawyers for the Plaintiff Riders and Defendant State Police are both seeking summary judgment on the Fourth Amendment claims. The future of motorcyclists’ rights hangs in the balance.
For more information contact: Mitchell Proner 212 986-3030 or MProner@Prolaw1.com
ABATE of Georgia: http://www.abatega.org/state_director.htm
As many of you know, the State of Georgia received $70,000.00 from the NHSTA for Motorcycle ONLY Safety Check Points. They will stop all Motorcycles at these Check Points.
We were informed by unnamed sources that the Check Points would start in early March to coincide with The Daytona Bike Week Event. Most points of entry to Florida will be involved.
We are anticipating them to start March 3rd in order to take advantage of the additional flow of Motorcycle traffic thru our State.
I was told that the officers conducting the safety check points have been trained in what to check for so be sure you, your paper work and your bike are in order.
We understand that this is just a way to increase revenues so do all you can to avoid adding to the state funds.
There are many who Trailer into Georgia and ride into Florida from here. You may wish to change your plans and trailer on through to Florida
Dan Forrest, State Director of A.B.A.T.E. Georgia
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