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12/17/2025
10,000 Miles at 80 - A Cowboy's Ride — Motorcycle Podcasts Adventure Rider Radio & RAW When Tom Fitzgerald asked his friend Patrick Farrell if he could talk to him, there was a plan brewing in his mind, one that he wanted Patrick to be a part of. Tom is 80 years old and he’s been a cowboy and ranch hand most of his life. His love for motorcycles began 60 years ago and he’s been ri...
12/16/2025
Florida’s House Bill 429 (HB-429) seeks to loosen the standards required to qualify for gang membership. This bill would require a two-factor system, where meeting two of the listed criteria would qualify individuals for the criminal gang database. These criteria do not require you to have participated in criminal conduct or criminal activity. The criteria included are as simple as commenting on identified social media posts or being observed twice in the presence of anyone previously identified as a gang member.
Other criteria include adopting the style of dress of a criminal gang. However, that style of dress is not identified and left to the discretion of law enforcement. Another criterion is having a tattoo identified as used by a criminal gang. With this broad option, if a gang began using a heart-shaped tattoo, all citizens with heart tattoos would be eligible for the criminal gang database at the discretion of law enforcement.
Understandably, Florida citizens are alarmed and have started an online petition to oppose HB-429. This petition is open to everyone nationwide. The Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) encourages all freedom fighters to click the link below and sign on. We are also including a link to the text of HB-429, so that you may read the two-page bill for yourself.
Petition:
https://www.change.org/p/fight-hb-429-and-protect-motorcycle-culture
HB-429 Text:
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/429/BillText/Filed/PDF
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Easyriders magazine editor, Lou Kimsey, made a plea in issue #3, October 1971, for bikers to come together to fight impending restrictions by joining a new national organization called the National Custom Cycle Organization, but because of a conflict with the acronym the name was changed in February 1972 to A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments (ABATE). Easyriders began granting state charters around 1974, and Keith Ball was the original national coordinator (Keith was the Easyriders editor for many years).
ABATEs which came into existence around the same time were chartered in Kansas, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and New York. Also started were the Modified Motorcycle Organization (MMA) of California, the MMA of Massachusetts, the New Hampshire Motorcycle Rights Organization, Rhode Island Motorcycle Association, Connecticut Motorcycle Rights Organization, and the Wisconsin Better Bikers Association. Easyriders published their contact information and soon the network began to grow.
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