Get Plugged In...
Don't miss the next ABATE meeting in the Sacramento,
CA area.
Mountain Mike's Pizza
8112 Madison Ave.
Fair Oaks, CA 95628 Be there by 7:00 p.m.
August 21, 2008
September 18, 2008
October 16, 2008
Some of the most knowledgeable people on the subject of
motorcycle safety, helmet laws, traffic stops and vehicle
equipment tickets will be there. There's no hotter spot
in Sacramento if you're into motorcycling. There is
always time for a question and answer session, and they
are responsive to your suggestions.
Let those who ride decide.
Let those who ride tell the lawmakers what to decide.
Poker & Pasta FUNdraiser
September 14, 2008
The United States Freedom Fighter
B.O.L.T. of California Original site - Quigley's CalBOLT creation
B.O.L.T. of Nevada
Helmet Law Defense League - Advanced site for Freedom minded riders.
Biker Friendly
MMA of California
ABATE of California
Bikers Rights
Bikers USA
McKay for NC Senate
Search for Code, court cases and decisions.
Findlaw
LexisOne
Supreme Court of the US
California Vehicle Code
Findlaw
LexisOne
Supreme Court of the US
California Vehicle Code
The best deal in California is the California Vehicle Code book. This is a taxpayer
subsidised book and is probably worth over $40.00
You can walk into the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and buy one for $9.00
I bought one of the leftover 2003 books in 2006 and they only charged $3.00
Getting a Code book is a good first step in knowing with certainty if you are
following the law or violating the law; and making the police follow the law. You can
get it free online, but you can't take the online code with you on the bike to show the
officer or a friend what is in the book.
subsidised book and is probably worth over $40.00
You can walk into the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and buy one for $9.00
I bought one of the leftover 2003 books in 2006 and they only charged $3.00
Getting a Code book is a good first step in knowing with certainty if you are
following the law or violating the law; and making the police follow the law. You can
get it free online, but you can't take the online code with you on the bike to show the
officer or a friend what is in the book.
| A "must read" from Bruce Arnold at LDR. |
8-3-08
| BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE § 9884.7 (a) The director, where the automotive repair dealer cannot show there was a bona fide error, may refuse to validate, or may invalidate temporarily or permanently, the registration of an automotive repair dealer for any of the following acts or omissions related to the conduct of the business of the automotive repair dealer, which are done by the automotive repair dealer or any automotive technician, employee, partner, officer, or member of the automotive repair dealer. (1) Making or authorizing in any manner or by any means whatever any statement written or oral which is untrue or misleading, and which is known, or which by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading. |
| CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS § 3372 False or Misleading Defined. In determining whether any advertisement, statement, or representation is false or misleading, it shall be considered in its entirety as it would be read or heard by persons to whom it is designed to appeal. An advertisement, statement, or representation shall be considered to be false or misleading if it tends to deceive the public or impose upon credulous or ignorant persons. NOTE: Authority cited: Sections 9882 and 9884.19, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 9884.7(1)(a) and (h), 9884.19 and 17500, Business and Professions Code. |
| OK. All that means, what? That means when you walk into any business in California that has a repair shop, and sells motorcycle safety helmets, ask them if they sell "DOT approved" helmets; if they say yes, the store has violated those laws. The store made a False and Misleading claim according to California law. Fraud. Making false or misleading statements. Helmet sellers have got to stop violating those laws, because they are perpetuating the hoax that the rogue law officers are using to violate the law and your rights. Selling helmets under false pretenses. You should not get a ticket for not wearing an approved helmet when approved helmets don't exist. And helmet salesmen should not be able to claim they sell approved helmets if approved helmets don't exist. The helmet sellers are helping to expand the problem the police are creating when they ticket you for wearing a helmet that doesn't meet the standard that only exists in the cop's imagination. Know of a California shop that claims to sell 'approved' helmets? File a complaint with the Department of Consumer Affairs. |
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To Richard Quigley,
from BOLT Founder Tony Sanfelipo, December 2006
My first recollection of Quigley is when he called me to inquire about my article that appeared
in Riders X-change Magazine in Florida in 1991. He liked the title, Where is ABATE, and he
liked the content even more. Quig was going through some painful withdrawal symptoms from
the biker’s rights community. It seemed his theory on how to fight mandatory dress codes
differed from the movement at the time. He liked some of the historical references in my
article about civil disobedience and confrontation.
Quig’s been a fighter all of his life. He’s been a BOLT person all of his life too. You can’t be
trained on how to do some of this stuff; it has to be embodied in your spirit, your makeup.
Cantankerous, moody, short fused….yeah; he’s all of that too. That’s what makes him
tick…intolerance for stupidity and a lack of compassion for bureaucratic blunder and
incompetence. Quig recognized long ago that he differed from most people fighting the helmet
law in that they were moderate in their approach. Never, ever accuse Quig of being a
moderate, in anything. Most bikers in California were satisfied with solely a legislative
approach, even if it took years to be effective. Most everyone agreed that the helmet law was
unwanted and a direct infringement on our rights. Those same people did not or could not
condone Quig’s direct action of disobedience of the law. Quig could understand why the police
and safety-crats felt this way, but he was astonished that fellow bikers criticized him and the
rights community counseled against such demonstrations. As Martin Luther King wrote in his
letter from Birmingham City Jail to his fellow clergymen, “Shallow understanding from people
of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
So was the frustration that Quig endured. Well meaning bikers, who just didn’t understand it
was proper and right to refuse to obey the helmet law.
Quigley knew that even though some bikers thought he was disrespectful of the law, and that
this disrespect would close some legislator’s doors, it was his very disobedience of an unjust
law that expressed the highest respect for the law. If legislators, bikers, law enforcement
agencies and the like couldn’t understand that, it was Quig’s task to take it to the institution
charged with understanding and interpreting the law. Thank God for Judge Barton.
Quig has come full circle and finally has the respect and understanding from most of the biker
community. He certainly has the respect of the court, and I would guess a few district
attorneys respect his intelligence also, although they probably won’t be inviting him out for
drinks or a few rounds of golf in the near future.
I love you Quig. You are all that there is to be in a freedom fighter. You’re right not to want to
be in the Hall of Fame, along with us mere mortals. You are so far above us. You’ve taught me
more in the last 10 years than I’ve learned in the 35 years I’ve been pretending to know what
I was doing. We are all pretenders in your shadow. Because unless we’ve invested our life
savings, abused our bodies into marathon sessions in front of a computer, suffered the
indignities and refusals from our peers, relinquished our pursuit of happiness for the pursuit of
justice, then all we were doing was pretending. There is a world of difference between right’s
activists and freedom fighters, and they should never be mistaken as the same. They are not!
You are my dear friend, my teacher, my brother; a true Freedom Fighter. God speed in your
quest for liberty and justice. And may all who come to know you, feel as I do about you. Your
name may not appear on some over-exalted list of patriots, nor on some plaque or certificate
at a national gathering of rights leaders. But there is a shrine to you in my heart, and it ignites
a fire in my soul that challenges me to be more like you everyday.
Happy Birthday Quig
Tony “Pan” Sanfelipo
Founder, BOLT
ABATE of Wisconsin
Sturgis Freedom Fighters Hall of Fame, 2002
from BOLT Founder Tony Sanfelipo, December 2006
My first recollection of Quigley is when he called me to inquire about my article that appeared
in Riders X-change Magazine in Florida in 1991. He liked the title, Where is ABATE, and he
liked the content even more. Quig was going through some painful withdrawal symptoms from
the biker’s rights community. It seemed his theory on how to fight mandatory dress codes
differed from the movement at the time. He liked some of the historical references in my
article about civil disobedience and confrontation.
Quig’s been a fighter all of his life. He’s been a BOLT person all of his life too. You can’t be
trained on how to do some of this stuff; it has to be embodied in your spirit, your makeup.
Cantankerous, moody, short fused….yeah; he’s all of that too. That’s what makes him
tick…intolerance for stupidity and a lack of compassion for bureaucratic blunder and
incompetence. Quig recognized long ago that he differed from most people fighting the helmet
law in that they were moderate in their approach. Never, ever accuse Quig of being a
moderate, in anything. Most bikers in California were satisfied with solely a legislative
approach, even if it took years to be effective. Most everyone agreed that the helmet law was
unwanted and a direct infringement on our rights. Those same people did not or could not
condone Quig’s direct action of disobedience of the law. Quig could understand why the police
and safety-crats felt this way, but he was astonished that fellow bikers criticized him and the
rights community counseled against such demonstrations. As Martin Luther King wrote in his
letter from Birmingham City Jail to his fellow clergymen, “Shallow understanding from people
of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
So was the frustration that Quig endured. Well meaning bikers, who just didn’t understand it
was proper and right to refuse to obey the helmet law.
Quigley knew that even though some bikers thought he was disrespectful of the law, and that
this disrespect would close some legislator’s doors, it was his very disobedience of an unjust
law that expressed the highest respect for the law. If legislators, bikers, law enforcement
agencies and the like couldn’t understand that, it was Quig’s task to take it to the institution
charged with understanding and interpreting the law. Thank God for Judge Barton.
Quig has come full circle and finally has the respect and understanding from most of the biker
community. He certainly has the respect of the court, and I would guess a few district
attorneys respect his intelligence also, although they probably won’t be inviting him out for
drinks or a few rounds of golf in the near future.
I love you Quig. You are all that there is to be in a freedom fighter. You’re right not to want to
be in the Hall of Fame, along with us mere mortals. You are so far above us. You’ve taught me
more in the last 10 years than I’ve learned in the 35 years I’ve been pretending to know what
I was doing. We are all pretenders in your shadow. Because unless we’ve invested our life
savings, abused our bodies into marathon sessions in front of a computer, suffered the
indignities and refusals from our peers, relinquished our pursuit of happiness for the pursuit of
justice, then all we were doing was pretending. There is a world of difference between right’s
activists and freedom fighters, and they should never be mistaken as the same. They are not!
You are my dear friend, my teacher, my brother; a true Freedom Fighter. God speed in your
quest for liberty and justice. And may all who come to know you, feel as I do about you. Your
name may not appear on some over-exalted list of patriots, nor on some plaque or certificate
at a national gathering of rights leaders. But there is a shrine to you in my heart, and it ignites
a fire in my soul that challenges me to be more like you everyday.
Happy Birthday Quig
Tony “Pan” Sanfelipo
Founder, BOLT
ABATE of Wisconsin
Sturgis Freedom Fighters Hall of Fame, 2002
| BOLT of California |
| A few scenes from the CHILI & CHOPPERS CHILI COOK OFF on March 8 |
| The Charlie Brechtel Band blew everybody away with the awesome sounds they are known for. |
| Band |
Babes
| Bikes |
Great weather, and a great party