The GUNNY'S SACK

September 2002

This might be a last reminder to make your plans to come to Portland, Oregon for the
upcoming West Coast Regional Conference of the National Coalition Of Motorcyclists, NCOM.

Come in on Friday night, November 1st, and the main action runs all day Saturday,
November 2nd. Reserve your room NOW at the NCOM rate of only $69 a night, at the
DOUBLETREE HOTEL, 1401 N. Hayden Island Dr. Call 503-283-2111. That's about $40 a night
off their cheapie rate! Call that number too, for the FREE airport shuttle. The
Conference is free to all bikers. Saturday night is the party with LIVE MUSIC to top
things off, and a no-host bar right there. The hotel is also fully equipped.

Those of you in the West who for whatever reason can't get to the big national
conventions: make an effort to come see us! It's in our back yard. Co-Sponsors are AIM,
BikePAC of Oregon, ABATE of Oregon, and the Oregon Confederation of Clubs.

You can expect to LEARN a ton at the seminars, and be more effective in your local
motorcycle rights issues. Yours truly will be there, along with NCOM and AIM founder
Richard Lester, AIM attorneys Sam Hochberg, Marty Fox, and many, many more.

These conferences are there for all the biker leaders as well as troops from all over the
West who feel the same way we do about our basic freedoms. FREEDOM ain't free folks, and
we need to spend the time it takes to maintain it. A good friend of mine and fellow
freedom fighter Lil' Jimmy Rouse, recently deceased, rest his soul, said: "If we don't
hang together we'll sure as hell hang by ourselves."

As it happens, Lil' Jimmy is another of those so dear to me that inspired me to continue
in this never ending contest for our rights in this great country of ours. Almost daily
now we lose some of our most powerful members of this group. We should actively recruit
YOUNG people to forge ahead with our ideals and notions of right and wrong or we will one
day not have folks to carry on the ideals of our forefathers. That scares the skivvies
offa me folks. That's why Lil' Jimmy was one of my heroes.

MORE HEROES: Continuing with my thoughts from the last Sack about the terrific people
I've known in the biker world, there are many folks that come to mind, but y'can't miss
SPUTNIK from Texas. Almost single-handedly, he set up the network that eventually took a
great deal of power in the Texas Democratic Party. He went home from an NCOM Convention
one year and went to work for his people, the bikers of Texas. This man wears out tires
on his bike before the bluing comes off the sidewalls. He rides more than a 100,000
miles a year, and he's a true freedom Warrior. He is also a recent recipient of NCOM's
Ron Roloff Lifetime Achievement award. There are many more biker heroes, and I want to
continue to talk about them from time to time, right here in Sack-land.

MORE ON TV: And morons on TV, too. Sam Hochberg, our AIM Attorney, saw some and reports
on it. He WAS a news guy, a disk-jockey and a radio talk-show host, y'know. Here's his
report: SAM here! So, a few Sundays back, I was sitting in my recliner, laptop on my lap
and online while my wife and I had the TV on. The regular modern man. Well I'm staring
at god-knows-what on my computer screen when I hear a motorcycle on TV, on the HBO show,
"Sex in the City." So I pop my head up, and there's "Carrie's" new maybe-beau, trying to
ride what looked like a Yamaha cruiser. He's wearing a FULL-face helmet, he's barely
ever ridden, he almost drops it and he nearly hits the pavement. Next thing I hear
Carrie is worried about problems with this guy, and says "They oughta have a helmet law
for relationships!" An innocent enough, almost-funny quip, but it DOES betray a media
mind-set now, doesn't it?

NEWS BITS'N PIECES: MILWAUKEE, WIS. : 2003 signals the 100th anniversary of America?s
beloved Harley-Davidson motorcycle. It's gonna be a year-long celebration all over the
country. Be sure you get in on the fun. Watch your local news media for coverage of
events in your town. WOW! 100 years old. Some landmark. Finally, something even
older'n me!

SANTA MONICA, Calif.: According to reports from the Associated Press (AP), Keith
Emerson's custom motorcycle, hand-painted with cover art from his band's 1973 album
"Brain Salad Surgery," was stolen from his home.

Emerson played keyboard with the group Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. This is a $60,000
scoot. Guess even the wealthy get ripped off.

VILNIUS, Lithuania: This AP story brings back memories from days long passed. To slow
down the traffic, the cops in Lithuania thought it would be great to set up wooden
cutouts of cops riding scoots alongside some highways. They seem to have pretty nasty
traffic problems there, especially around schools and other high density areas. Well
sir, they tried that in the US once years ago, and the same damned thing happened: People
went and STOLE the cutouts! Can't say it wouldn't be an attractive little item to own in
your garage or clubhouse, can y'imagine? Your own cardboard or wood cutout of a cop on a
bike?! I love it! Not that I'd be one to encourage theft, mind you.

GUNNY AGAIN: Remember as always that our Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (AIM) Attorneys
across this great land all RIDE and they know our world. Ole' Sam Hochberg here has been
on all kinds of scoots since 1971, and he isn't about to stop, either. These guys
network all the time so you aren't getting the use of just ONE brain when you put one of
these fine folks to work for your best interests. They are the people that care about us
and take good care of us when we're hurt in ANY kind of wreck, or in trouble. Be sure
and consider their value to you when you need an attorney. Call AIM - Aid to Injured
Motorcyclists - at 1-800-531-2424, or 1-800-ON-A-BIKE, for good free advice. Sam
Hochberg here in Oregon is at 503-224-1106 or toll free at 1-800-3447-1106.

THE WEBSITE: NCOM and AIM would like to extend a warm welcome to Hawk, from NCOM member
group Sons of Liberty Riders (SOLR), as our webmaster, and he's keeping that cyber-ship
running ship-shape. Go point your browser to www.aimncom.com, or the new address, same
place: www.ON-A-BIKE.com - either address will gitcha there. Hell, even this old dog has
learned some new tricks, and you can find ME by email at AIMGunny@aol.com, or email Sam
at SamBikeLaw@aol.com - let us know your thoughts or concerns about the Sack,
motorcycling, or for more info on the upcoming conference - and I hope I'll SEE YOU ALL
here in Portland, Oregon for our NCOM Regional, Nov. 2nd!! By the way, in the last Sack
I erroneously stated that the NCOM West Coast Conference would be the second weekend in
November, and I hope nobody was inconvenienced.

Keep the round side on the bottom.
Gunny, Oregon A.I.M. Chief of Staff