Black Bikers Experience

This is a copy of the letter sent to the Governor of Georgia:

  

January 12, 2011

The Office of the Governor
State of Georgia
203 State Capitol
Atlanta, Georgia 30334

Re: NHTSA Motorcycle Law Enforcement Demonstrations Grant

Dear Honorable Governor Deal:
I am writing to voice my concerns over the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Motorcycle Law Enforcement Demonstrations Grant Program and ask for your assistance in disrupting the program in Georgia. The program blatantly discriminates against motorcyclists and fails to address motorcycle safety.

The NHTSA recently announced a grant program to supposedly address Motorcycle Safety issues. The recipient of the money for the demo project was the Georgia Department of Public Safety. The Georgia State Patrol is conducting a series of roadside motorcycle safety checks in accordance with what was outlined in the Request for Applications. The amount of NHTSA funding is $70,000.00. The motorcycle check points do not address nor decrease motorcycle accidents and instead “profiles” motorcyclists and discriminates against citizens based on their mode on transportation and clothing.

Motorcycle Safety is an important and growing issue in Georgia. Over the past several months Georgia has lost several motorcyclists to inattentive and distracted drivers. The Motorcycle Only Check Points do not address the issues that are killing our motorcyclists. A strong research based motorcycle safety awareness program is needed to ensure our safety and reduce crashes not police check points that target the victims of crashes.

Members of the US Congress recently urged US Transportation Secretary LaHood to suspend the grant program and to concentrate on crash causation and education programs. I am asking for your help in suspending the demo program in Georgia.

I am one of 800,000 registered motorcyclists in Georgia and am counting on your help to redirect and redefine motorcycle safety in Georgia.

Thank you for time and consideration. If you have any questions or need further clarification please contact Linda Allen, Legislative Director, ABATE of Georgia, Inc. at 770-949-3426.

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I got a message the other day on Facebook from a woman who is struggling financially and doesn’t have money to buy things for her kids for Christmas. I asked her to send me a wish list and told her I would post her letter on my website.

  

I am asking all bikers around the country if you can help share with this family by making Christmas happen for her kids. I encourage you to purchase the items and get them to her if you can.

  

Goldie I am reaching out to you and the biker community for assistance with Christmas, I know it is late in the season but I have tried many other unsuccessful resources til this point. I am a single mom of two (10yr old boy/ 14 yr old girl) and I am unemployed any assistance will greatly be appreciated, because right now they have nothing.

  

I have reached out to United Way, Toys for tots, Salvation Army, Clayton County Board of Commissioners, a few local churches and the items they had collected were for smaller children ages2-8. I had already purchased most of this stuff last week, and I had it at a friends house til the kids would be gone and I could bring it home to get it ready for them since they are older and nosey. Her house was robbed this past Sunday morning, and they do not carry insurance on their residence.

  

So as of right now they have nothing any little bit will certainly help. I am in the Jonesboro area of Clayton County, and I can be contacted by phone 404-857-5031 or email www.atlprncs25@yahoo.com and I am always available. I really open to any help that can be offered at this time.

  

Thank you in advance,
Tiffany “Tip” Lewis

  

These are a few things off of their lists for this year just to give a general idea of what type of kids they are.

  

Olivia 14yrs old
Sperry shoes (payless 6 1/2)
Aéropostale (pants 1 tops xs)
Dora stuff
Miley Cyrus clothes (Walmart)
Cute Sweaters
Purse
LEI hoodie sweater
pretty watch
costume jewelry
(She hates pink and flowers)

  

Khalil 10 yrs old
Shoes size 61/2
Clothes boys 18 husky
PS3 controller
lava lamp
saints snuggie
game stop gift card

  

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Annual Ride To Work Day! We ask for your support on Monday, June 21, 2010 to demonstrate:

• The number of motorcyclists to the general public and to politicians.
• That motorcyclists are from all occupations and all walks of life.
• That motorcyclists can reduce traffic and parking congestion in large cities.
• That motorcycles are for transportation as well as recreation.
• That motorcycling is a social good.
  
    
  
  

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If you don’t know now you will. Airtran Airways is a no go!!! I was in Dallas, TX for training about a week. Friday my flight was leaving at 7:35pm. I checked in and went thru security, no problem…
  

The problem started once I arrived at the gate. They instructed us to move down to another gate because our flight will leave from this gate. Moved to the new gate and then they said the flight will be delayed an hour. That was fine about 15 minutes later they said the flight was canceled due to bad weather conditions in Atlanta.

Confused yes because I spoke with my friend and he said it was raining and lightening but blowing over within the hour. I called my companies travel agency and booked the next flight out for me and my co-worker which was 7:30am Saturday.

Told to go to the counter to change ticket for tomorrow’s flight. Well this is when it gets good. The guy and girl at the desk first told me we had to pay $300 plus to secure the flight. They told others there were no flights til Sunday.

Called travel agency again and went to the counter with the phone and now they told us that we would need to pay the difference combined of over $300 plus because it would be more to leave on Saturday. What the hell…

They canceled the flight and me the customer had to pay more to go home? I didn’t make this decision, they did. Never new Airtran new how to play “Three Card Monty“. The said if our companies travel agency canceled the flight they had canceled, they’d apply that money toward our tickets and then we’d owe the addition money. Catch this, we were told there were no seats available on the flight leaving out Saturday morning but if we paid the $300 plus maybe, just maybe we’d have a seat. How do you go from not having seats to having seats if you pay the money. Airtran got game!
  

They had a flight that left at 5:10pm going to Atlanta and another one of our co-workers was on that flight. We thought he was home by now; not so fast. As we were walking to get our luggage and take a taxi back to the hotel; we passed the gate they moved us from. What an amazing thing we saw. The flight that left at 5:10pm didn’t. The people from that flight was at the gate we were moved from and they were leaving on our flight to Atlanta.
  

What happened to the bad weather being the reason to cancel our flight. Airtran was so horrible that they didn’t try to accommodate this family who the mother was going to her father’s funeral. The manager at the gate told her he couldn’t help her. He could have made arrangements to get her on our original flight…since it did leave for Atlanta without us.

I said I was going to give Airtran Airways a shout out but not in a good way. Bad, sorry, horrible customer service and liars at that. I almost forgot when I did get back to Atlanta there was a female employee of Airtran that was checking luggage to make sure baggage claim check was the same as the one on your ticket. She asked me to fly Airtran again. I told her the story…the short version. It was like this, Hell no never again!

She said that the pilots make the decisions on canceling flights and they get away with it because they are Union…I don’t blame Frontier Airlines from dissolving their partnership with Airtran; they suck!

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Sasha is my friend and a wonderful woman. Her spirit is so warm and fuzzy. She is beautiful inside and out.This article was captured from American Iron Magazine.
  

The Chrome Cowgirl Guide to the Motorcycle Life ($24.95) is part biker chick-lit and part author Sasha Mullins’ personal photo album and diary entries. The book is billed as a “primer for women entering the motorcycle community.”
  

That it is, but with a twist. Mullins sees life through rose-colored glasses with gold-sparkling scribbles on the lens. That’s the only way I can describe the tone and feel of this 192-page book, which provides inspiration to ride more through imparting the empowering and spiritual benefits of motorcycling rather than any concrete factual reasons.
  

To read Chrome Cowgirl is to buy into a whole new vocabulary invented by Mullins. Words like ridelicious, roadacious, windsister, windini, and motocure appear in chapter titles. “Motocure: manicures for the motorcycle, mind and mood” is the title of the section on maintaining your motorcycle. It explains how to do a tire burnout and advises carrying fun bandannas, a compact umbrella, and a Chrome Cowgirl attitude hat in your motorcycle tool kit for the road. You get the picture.
  

Mullins’ material is gleaned from her years riding a Sportster she’s named Tigerlily; she’s had the privilege of experiencing the motorcycling lifestyle through a proverbial backstage pass to the action and by rubbing elbows with the who’s who of the Harley world. She’s learned a lot and is a changed woman as a result of spending time on Tigerlily.
  

This book is a compilation of that wisdom, written to inspire other women to “ditch life as you know it” and become windsisters. AIM
–Genevieve Schmitt

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