Welcome to Friday Fudge. If it’s weird, funny, or strange motorcycle news, or it just plain won’t fit anywhere else on the site – you’ll find it here.
Government crackdown
Over the years in Friday Fudge, we’ve seen a lot of politicians try to use motorcycles to gain popularity. Whether it’s Vladimir Putin riding with the local outlaws, or Sarah Palin riding into DC on the back of a Harley-Davidson, our globe’s fearless leaders seem to have decided the motorcycle is the modern-day version of an ancient king’s conquering warhorse.
Except, it seems, in Nepal, where the election commission has banned motorcycle rallies during upcoming municipal by-elections. According to the chief election commissioner, the rallies run up unnecessary costs and make for “needless competition among the candidates.” Bam. If only we could extend that ban to Canada, and add in robo-calls and attack ads and pre-election budget spending and so on …
Source: Himalayan Times
The madness of Russia
We’ve told you before on Friday Fudge that Russians are crazy. For more proof, here’s this clip. There are only a couple motorcycle clips in it, but check out 2:29 for a particularly effective anti-tailgating technique.
Need more proof? Check out this clip of a Russian motorcycle parade’s inability to avoid a streetcar.
 Biker blues
So, a couple weeks ago, the gossip mags made a big deal of country music star Miranda Lambert giving fellow singer Carrie Underwood a motorcycle. Apparently, this move came as a surprise. We say, big deal. We’re pretty sure it’s a cagy move to avoid songwriter’s block; country music is all about sad times, and nothing can make you feel crappier than a broken-down motorcycle.
Trouble is, Lambert bought her a brand-new machine. Our suggestion? She should have bought her a non-running Honda XL from the ’80s. Then, Underwood could have spent the next 18 months running around trying to understand why Big Red’s engineers decided to change their charging system, motor, suspension and breaks every spring, and figure out how to mix and match enough parts to build a runner. Hey, that angst would prove gold for an upcoming album, amiright?
From what we understand, Underwood has stated she plans to learn to ride on a dirt bike first, so maybe that is indeed her intention. In that case, we’d expect a gold record soon.
Riding the pine
Ever had a bike with wooden brakes? This machine suffers from that problem, and more.
Terrors on wheels
It seems we’ve got a global problem with politicians on motorcycles, as we mentioned earlier, but it also seems there’s a growing problem with perverts on two wheels worldwide.
Take, for instance, the report from the Scottish town of Gretna, where a bike-borne flasher has been riding around the area, exposing himself to innocent pedestrians after passing them on his bike. Perhaps he was simply trying to answer the age-old question of what Scotsmen wear under their kilts? In any case, it’s bad press for motorcyclists.
It could be worse, though. Japanese police are reporting a local perv has taken things even further. Somebody on a bike in Tokyo has been riding up to women and girls and throwing containers of urine at them (presumably his). He’s struck at least six times in a month. Police don’t seem to know who it is – at least, they haven’t leaked his identity yet.
Source: BBC, NY Daily News
Up, up and away
Remember when Evel Knievel used to do jump over buses on his motorcycle? That was sooooooo 20th century. Check out this clip, which as far as we know isn’t CGI … it’s supposedly Cody Elkins at an air show in Cameron, Missouri, last week.
Busted
Making a YouTube video of your getaway from a police chase sounds like a good idea. Hey, what could go wrong with the idea of showing yourself breakin’ the law all over the interwebz?
Well, that’s what Hamza Ali Ben Ali did back in 2012 (see the video here), and while it’s taken the law a while to catch up to him, they did eventually figure out who was riding the bike. In court, Ben Ali admitted it was his bike, but said they couldn’t prove it was him riding it.
Bad idea. See, Ben Ali had been in a previous brush with the law (he was facing deportation over an immigration beef), and was wearing a GPS-monitored ankle bracelet at the time of the incident. The prosecution was able to acquire that GPS data, and show that if Ben Ali was indeed on foot at the time of the incident, he was a very, very fast runner, able to 115 mph.
So, his excuses didn’t fly, and he was convicted. He may get his wish to stay in-country, though, as the prosecution is asking for prison time.
Source: Business2Community
She is such a pissy bitch anyway.
Let it be known at once, we wear nothing under our kilts so that lad in Gretna is a pervert or an exhibitionist . But I would rather see that than receiving a pint of urine that`s for sure.