"Effortlessly ridiculing and thoroughly demeaning the plethora of flag slathered retards and trend humping fashion lemmings as well as the noisy self-propelled dildo yachts that these Luddite posers worship. Additionally, I occasionally find the time to easily put to rest blatant pop cultural ignorance, long standing hillbilly myths, cleverly spun marketing lies, acts of rampant flock behavior and other cringe-worthy societal stupidity as found deeply imbedded in and on display throughout America's largest home-grown trailer park spawned cheap white trash oriented wannabe pagan religion; Harley Davidson (as taught in its official think-by-numbers catechism;
the Milwaukee Orthodoxy)." - Christopher T. Shields (Black Echo)

"A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on Earth."
-T.E. Lawrence

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The much anticipated update of  June 1, 2019 included:

ENTER AMERICAN ANGST

• After 14 years of owning her since she was brand new I sold the 2004 Honda CBR600RR (to a young preacher of all people) and went back to my cruiser roots with a rare 1988 Honda VF750C V45 Super Magna.  The V45 Super Magna is powered by a 45 cubic inch (748cc) liquid cooled, DOHC, 16-valve V4 (slightly detuned Interceptor engine) backed by a six speed transmission and a shaft drive.  When the V65 Magna appeared in 1983 it was the fastest motorcycle in the world and the Magna created a new genre known as the "power cruiser" which, within a few years, had competition from Yamaha's V-MAX.  The Super Magna is an amazing bike that I originally fell in love with way back when I saw my first Super Magna parked outside the University library at USM in the fall of 1990 (when I was a college student).  
  
  I'm going to chopper the '88 out within the next year or so because I've always had a fondness for choppers and cruisers, especially powerful choppers and cruisers like the Magna and V-Max.  I'm going for a radical 18 degree rake on the front with 10 inch oversized forks / tubes and some aesthetic touches.  The front mag wheel and the rear solid disc wheel are staying but the rear disc wheel is going to get powdercoated black and maybe some designs added to it in order to make it not so ... plain.  I thought about doing some custom fenders but I think I'll leave the stock ones on for now.  A newer LED high intensity headlight and maybe a pair of driving lights with a lightbar is in the stages, might mount the auxillary lights way down low near the wheel on the front fork.  In a year or so, I'll have an old-school chopper capable of, stock, running mid to high 11's in the quarter.  A liquid cooled, V4 chopper, one of very few, an elite genre of riders.  The engine, like all Honda V4s, is liquid smooth and the exhaust note from those FOUR mufflers is incredible.  Of course, when I pull up in traffic and people see those four mufflers, it causes heads to turn.  I like to drive and ride things that no one else has ... or at least drive and ride things that you don't see five to ten times coming and going each way when you travel.  I've always wanted to build a chopper and building an import chopper, let alone a V4 powered chopper, really has me stoked.
  

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