Every year a different place, organised by a different member clubs of the FH-DCE Super Rally®. This is the most European Harley-Davidson Rally that you can imagine. Riding a Harley-Davidson is meeting new friends; discover other countries and cultures and this is all packed in the FH-DCE Super Rally®. It goes from North to South, East to West, and every year a new surprise. From the salmon in the North, to the pasta and cookies in the South. That’s what makes the FH-DCE Super Rally® really super.
These are links to various articles in newspapers and on blogs. Some I might have commented on in separate posts, and others I haven’t. Either way I have choosen to post them in newscomments.
Expelled smashed securityguards car Värmlands Folkblad – 28 jan 2012 When the 25-year-old Bandidos member had been expelled from a restaurant in Karlstad, he went home to the securityguard who had him thrown out and trashed the guard’s car with an axe.
Gunshot to the leg remains unresolved Gefle Dagblad – 28 jan 2012 The person who shot the former leader of the Solidos, 34, in the leg with a shotgun will probably remain unknown. Yesterday was the last investigative questioning of 29-year-old who drove 34-year-old to Falun Hospital after the assassination attempt.
Falun resident arrested by the FBI in California Dala-demokraten – 25 jan 2012 During a few turbulent years the 40-year-old transformed the peaceful Creutz MC to the Red Devils, a support organization of the criminal network Hells Angels. Now the 40-year-old resident of Falun is in custody in California’s capital Sacramento, on suspicion of extortion.
12 accused of gang war Aftonbladet – 16 jan 2012 In the middle of Södermalm a huge brawl broke out between rival motorcycle gangs.
Chairs and tables flew in the air and three people from the Outlaws were severely beaten…
Charges after major biker brawl Sveriges Radio – 16 jan 2012 Twelve people with links to biker clubs prosecuted on suspicion of assault after a large bar brawl in Stockholm last autumn. According to Mats Baakki at Stockholm police, the accused are all members of motorcycle clubs: – We have found that they belong to the Hells Angels and their sub-groups, says Mats Baakki…
Twelve charged with wild tavern quarrel Expressen – 16 jan 2012 Wild fights broke out in September at a restaurant in central Stockholm between two rival biker gangs. Twelve men with ties to the Hells Angels were charged on Monday for having assaulted three men who belong in the Outlaws.
The police hit against Hells Angels Eskilstuna-Kuriren – 14 jan 2012 Quite a small bus load of men with suspected links to the Hells Angels in Eskilstuna was stopped by police in Eskilstuna yesterday at 17 o’clock…
Pathologist witness in Hells Angels Case Folkbladet – 13 jan 2012 Murder trial of a 36-year-old Hells Angels member from Norrköping ended this week, with testimony by including a forensic pathologist…
Outlawsmen were searched at Central Station Arbetarbladet – 13 jan 2012 The police intervened against four men in connection with the criminal organization Outlaws who were at the central station in Gävle at 18 o’clock on Friday. The four men were wearing vests with the Outlaws emblem on the back.
HA member would not remain isolated Hallands Nyheter – 13 jan 2012 A Hells Angels member who is serving a ten-year prison sentence on the Hallmark Institute have been placed in isolation because he is considered a security risk. He appeals against that.
Convicted of the Hells Angels-tangle get longer senteces Norrbottens Kuriren – 12 jan 2012 The 26-year-old Piteåbon was the reason for extortion mess with the Hells Angels in the foreground. Now he’s getting the prison sentence prolonged by six months..
Mc-leader missing Kvälls Posten – 10 jan 2012 Bandidos hot shot Jan “Clark” Jensen, 51, is missing without a trace.
Jensen was shot in an attack in Helsingborg in 1996 and now lives near Copenhagen. His car was found burnt out and the phone has not been used in a month.
Drama at mc-trial Svenska Dagbladet – 10 jan 2012 The trial of the man considered to have a knife killed a 40-year-old at a motorcycle meeting at the High Chaparral in the summer, started with drama.
Drama at mc-trial Dagens Nyheter – 10 jan 2012 The trial of the man considered to have a knife killed a 40-year-old at a motorcycle meeting at the High Chaparral in the summer, started with drama.
Heightened security in the High Chaparral-murder Dagens Nyheter – 10 jan 2012 The trial in the High Chaparral-murder against a man with connections to the Hells Angels will be in the new judicial center. Åhörare kommer bevittna rättegången genom glasväggar. Audiences will witness the proceedings through the glass walls.
The man – 51 years old, a lover of all good things in life. Somewhat limited by physical disability and other assorted maladies. The machine – 2006 Harley Davidson FLHTPI ( Police model). The goal – Attempt to experience a season of epic and semi-epic motorcycle journeys to an assortment of places and events, many of which I’ve never been to.
We ignore the winter and have a beer instead. Come and join us…
Get Your Fun On Route 61! Saturday, february 4, 2012.
We then continue to meet in the bar on March 3 and April 7.
As usual, it’s private events for club members and friends (this includes clubs associated to SBM, and other invited clubs). Friends, neighbors and other individuals who usually attends our events of course counts as friends.
Det sägs att döden är en gammal vän Som leder oss ej bort men hem
Döden är en gammal vän Som hämtar hem oss En och en
Kom inte hit till mig ännu Jag har mycket kvar
Jag kan inte gå ifrån Än på många dar
Inte än
– Om Döden
I saw on teletext that one of my biggest musical heroes is dead.
On May 16, 1981 Dag Vag and Ebba Grön played at Hyttan in Karlstad. I was 16 and was there with some friends and we had an unforgettable experience with two of the biggest Swedish bands at the time.
Besides the gigs being fantastic we somehow managed to end up backstage and got to hang width and talk to both Ebba and Dag Vag. They had opposite dressing rooms and there were some other people there as well and some where in Ebba’s loge and some in Dag Vags and then we switched back and forth.
My friend had a cousin who lived in the same building as Stig Vig, and once when she came home late, there was no light in the stairwell. She accidentally stepped on Stigs foot as he was standing in the stairwell in the dark. “Wow, what did I say?” Stig asked when my friend told the story. “You said ouch!” said my friend and everyone in the room and Stig most of all roared with laughter.
An amazing coincidence, one of the others who were hanging backstage was a girl I do not remember that I noticed her at the time, but 23 years later she became my wife.
The next time I saw Dag Vag was at Parkhallen in Arvika, a few years later. At that time the floor collapsed about halfway into the show because everyone in the audience was jumping up and down in time with the music. My friend threw a note with a greeting up on the stage and after the gig Stig who had read the note came out and talked to us. The strange thing was that he remembered us from the time before and asked what had happened with stuff we had talked about then.
Another fantastic Dag Vag-gig I attended was in 2008 at Sofia Hogs 40th birthday party. Then I managed to dance so I lost the heel of one of my biker boots, and had to walk around with a limp the rest of the weekend.
The last time I saw Dag Vag (or at least Stig) was also on a bike-party. That was when Järngrisen MC in Sunne celebrated 20 years in July 2010, so in a way you could say that Stig and Dag Vag has followed me half of my life.
“It has been said that death is an old friend that leads us not away, but home…” Rest in Peace Stig Vig.
Now, I know we are well into January and already celebrated the new year, but not everyone measures their time like us, and according to the Chinese zodiac the new year – the year of the dragon – starts today.
People born in the year of the dragon are considered powerful and having a strong charisma. Many want their children to be born under this sign, and therefore a baby boom is expected during the year. Since China has its “one child” policy, many couples have waited with having children in order to get a dragonchild.
According to the Chinese zodiac dragons are born leaders, those who make things happen. As far as they can see their power is unchallenged. Most people look up to a Dragon, and he is often the example of others. Dragons are idealists, perfectionists, and because they are convinced that they are already perfect they have big difficulies to change. Because of his thirst for power the Dragon does not age well. The prospect of losing their power, the feeling of his youths strength slowly disappearing is unbearable to him.
The dragon is irritable and stubborn. He is bigmouthed and often speaks without thinking. Nevertheless, his opinions worth listening to and his advice worth taking into consideration. He easally gets an audience and he has a substantial influence over people. The dragon is known for his arrogance. He is enthusiastic on the verge of impatiant, and it’s easy for him to lose his temper.
Dragons are dauntless, dynamic and charismatic. As a Dragon joins a group of people, the room starts to simmer. He has such a firm confidence and inflated ego it’s no use trying to point out when he’s wrong.
Dragons are tyrannical. They hate orders, unless it is they themselves who share them. Unlike the Tiger, who has his way with his assertiveness and his seriousness, or the Taurus, whose authority is implied in his rugged appearance, the Dragon knows instinctively how to exercise authority in a mild and friendly manner.
Dragons are terrible snobs. Even if money is not always important, they can not avoid being impressed by wealth, prestige, status and glory.
The Dragon is gifted, intelligent, diligent and generous. He can carry anything through. Regardless of what the Dragon chooses to devote his life to art, medicine or policy, he will shine. He succeeds wherever he goes.
The Dragon is often loved. He is never disappointed in terms of love – rather, he is often the subject of an unhappy love. Women born in the year of the Dragon are often surrounded by a crowd of admirers.
Famous dragons are Joan of Arc, Jimmy Connors, Salvador Dali, Kirk Douglas, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Oliver Hardy, Edward Heath, Grace Kelly, Bruce Lee, John Lennon, Yehudi Menuhin, Walter Mondale, Francisco Franco, Martin Luther King, Florence Nightingale, Shirley Temple, Haile Selassie, Frank Sinatra, Ringo Starr, Anthony Quinn, Mae West, Harold Wilson, myself and my dear wife.
As a Dragon you should supposedly avoid another Dragon as a partner because the relationship might become a permanent race or fight. But if you succeed
in getting through the fight with the relationship intact, it can work well. Something I can vouch for.
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The Internet is on strike to protest SOPA and PIPA and I participate in the strike.
The blog is blacked out and will stay black for 24 hours, like thousands of sites all over the internet.
Ironically, this means that you can not see this post until tomorrow.
Tomorrow I close down The Biker Blog in protest against SOPA – Stop Online Piracy Act and its sister proposal PIPA – Protect IP Act, both of which will be voted through in the U.S. unless something is done quickly. Thousands of websites, blogs and web services will go out tomorrow in protest and to show what the Internet might look like in the not too distant future if these bills are voted through.
Many of you might be thinking that “Yeah, that’s a bummer, but what they decide in the United States does not affect us here,” and while it’s easy to think so nothing could be more wrong. The Internet has no national borders and if the U.S. enforces censorship on the net, how long do you think it will take Sweden to do the same? We already have the FRA law and directives to all ISPs to save logs of IP addresses and web traffic for the authorities to take part of them.
We live in Little America, as the song goes, in the 51st State. Everything that comes to the U.S. comes to us too – it just takes a little longer.
If You don’t know much about SOPA and PIPA and what they mean You might benefit from watching the movie below.
I received a comment from Jonte (or Jonas Carlstrom as his real name turned out to be) with a link to the site nyatatueringar.com. Of course I went there and checked it out, but pretty soon I started to get a weird feeling. To begin with, I was bothered by the “free offer” of tattoo designs on the page. The only way to shut down the “offer” was to fill in your name and email address and download. It was not so terribly hard really, but I was annoyed that you could not decline, and one can only speculate in what Jonas Carlgren will use all the mail addresses for…
At first glance, the site gave a professional impression, but the more you read the stranger it seemed. The author (Jonas?) is good at writing, but seems to have no real knowledge of the subject.
Nevertheless, I read a bit on the site and even managed to comment on an article in which it was proposed that one could let a student at a tattoo school do your tattoo to get away cheaper, before I seriously started believing there might be another hidden purpose to the whole site.
“WARNING!
There are NO tattoo schools in Sweden! Sometimes theres been adverts in the newspapers about “tattoo educations” that goes over 3-5 days, but no real tattooist (meaning those who who work in environmental and health-controlled studios) knows who organizes these programs or what they include. You can not become a tattoo artist in such a short time. An apprenticeship usually lasts between 1 and 3 years!
Registered Tattooists of Sweden (http://www.srt.se) has unsuccessfully tried to get in touch with those responsible for these courses.
As they are quite expensive it seems to be an attempt to fool people with tattoo dreams out of their money.
The right way to go if you really want to become a tattooist is the apprentice way. Forget everything else!”
The site lacks all contact information. Not even an alias or an anonymous email address is to be found. Most images has been copied from Gaddad.se. They are greatly reduced and tightly cropped, but you can still see the copyright information on several of them.
Apart from Google ads there are ads for “world’s best tattoos” from Chopper Tattoo. The link to the chopper Tattoo is a so-called affiliate link that goes through Clickbank.net. The affiliate Account name jozcar and he gets 75% of any completed purchase at Chopper Tattoo that goes through that link. How professional Chopper Tattoo is and what you can buy there, I do not know because I had no desire to sign up, and You have to signup i order to see anything of the site. They claim to have “the largest selection of award winning tattoo designs” but what they really are, I don’t know.
Jozcar, as the affiliate account is called is the name of Jonas Carlstroms company, Jozcar Marketing, and it is also the name of the company that registered the domain nyatatueringar.com.
In the pdf file one had to download before one could see nyatatueringar, there are adverts for
tatueringsbilder.com which despite its swedish name is registered in Los Angeles. The domain owners identity is protected from transparency, but the registration was handled by the same company doing the registrations for most of Jonas Carlstroms blogs and websites. If you try to access the site, there is a re-direct sending you to Chopper Tattoo via the affiliate link.
Jonas is according to himself, a marketing profile among other things holding seminars on search engine optimization and on how to make money on the internet. He appears frequently both in words and pictures on the web, and in non of the pictures I’ve found he has so much as a single visible tattoo. He sais this¸ on one of his sites:
“Jonas has also created the educational product Blog Pro School where he walkes You through via video how to step by step attract people to your blog / website and live on your interests as PROFESSIONAL BLOGER. You will, among other things learn how to create Content & Products that attract visitors, so that you do not have to guess to know EXACTLY what your market would rather read about. But you may also practice how to deliver it to them in a flash. This can include how quickly you can position yourself as an expert in your market. Or how easily You can build trust and be perceived as an expert in your industry.”
I don’t think Jonas Carlstrom is the least interested in tattoos but nyatatueringar.com is just a way
to catch tattoo related searches on the search engines and then send them on to Chopper Tattoo to
hopefully collect those 75% of what people buy. It is also remarkable that he uses a lot of copyrighted images while at the same time his “official” sites carefully points out that one must not use their text and images without permission.
Media noise of the month
29 January, 2012These are links to various articles in newspapers and on blogs. Some I might have commented on in separate posts, and others I haven’t. Either way I have choosen to post them in newscomments.
Värmlands Folkblad – 28 jan 2012
When the 25-year-old Bandidos member had been expelled from a restaurant in Karlstad, he went home to the securityguard who had him thrown out and trashed the guard’s car with an axe.
Gefle Dagblad – 28 jan 2012
The person who shot the former leader of the Solidos, 34, in the leg with a shotgun will probably remain unknown. Yesterday was the last investigative questioning of 29-year-old who drove 34-year-old to Falun Hospital after the assassination attempt.
Dala-demokraten – 25 jan 2012
During a few turbulent years the 40-year-old transformed the peaceful Creutz MC to the Red Devils, a support organization of the criminal network Hells Angels. Now the 40-year-old resident of Falun is in custody in California’s capital Sacramento, on suspicion of extortion.
Aftonbladet – 16 jan 2012
In the middle of Södermalm a huge brawl broke out between rival motorcycle gangs.
Chairs and tables flew in the air and three people from the Outlaws were severely beaten…
Sveriges Radio – 16 jan 2012
Twelve people with links to biker clubs prosecuted on suspicion of assault after a large bar brawl in Stockholm last autumn. According to Mats Baakki at Stockholm police, the accused are all members of motorcycle clubs: – We have found that they belong to the Hells Angels and their sub-groups, says Mats Baakki…
Expressen – 16 jan 2012
Wild fights broke out in September at a restaurant in central Stockholm between two rival biker gangs. Twelve men with ties to the Hells Angels were charged on Monday for having assaulted three men who belong in the Outlaws.
Eskilstuna-Kuriren – 14 jan 2012
Quite a small bus load of men with suspected links to the Hells Angels in Eskilstuna was stopped by police in Eskilstuna yesterday at 17 o’clock…
Folkbladet – 13 jan 2012
Murder trial of a 36-year-old Hells Angels member from Norrköping ended this week, with testimony by including a forensic pathologist…
Arbetarbladet – 13 jan 2012
The police intervened against four men in connection with the criminal organization Outlaws who were at the central station in Gävle at 18 o’clock on Friday. The four men were wearing vests with the Outlaws emblem on the back.
Hallands Nyheter – 13 jan 2012
A Hells Angels member who is serving a ten-year prison sentence on the Hallmark Institute have been placed in isolation because he is considered a security risk. He appeals against that.
Norrbottens Kuriren – 12 jan 2012
The 26-year-old Piteåbon was the reason for extortion mess with the Hells Angels in the foreground. Now he’s getting the prison sentence prolonged by six months..
Kvälls Posten – 10 jan 2012
Bandidos hot shot Jan “Clark” Jensen, 51, is missing without a trace.
Jensen was shot in an attack in Helsingborg in 1996 and now lives near Copenhagen. His car was found burnt out and the phone has not been used in a month.
Svenska Dagbladet – 10 jan 2012
The trial of the man considered to have a knife killed a 40-year-old at a motorcycle meeting at the High Chaparral in the summer, started with drama.
Dagens Nyheter – 10 jan 2012
The trial of the man considered to have a knife killed a 40-year-old at a motorcycle meeting at the High Chaparral in the summer, started with drama.
Dagens Nyheter – 10 jan 2012
The trial in the High Chaparral-murder against a man with connections to the Hells Angels will be in the new judicial center. Åhörare kommer bevittna rättegången genom glasväggar. Audiences will witness the proceedings through the glass walls.
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