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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Taking the things we love for granted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I love my husband. But there are times when, like every
other human being out there, I take him for granted and some days that shoe is
on the other foot. And then you get a diagnose of Multiple Sclerosis and your
world changes – you are challenged with the loss of many things – your spouse –
your relationship, your security…<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>All of a sudden you are in gratitude mode and guilty mode
all at the same time.  And then things
improve, and life returns to a new version of normal and you slowly start
taking time for granted, them for granted, until the next scare…we humans can
be hard learners.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Our motorcycles are another love that sometimes we take for
granted.  </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It doesn’t mean we don’t love them to distraction; it’s just
that we have become comfortable that they will always be there for us. Until
someone threatens to take our love away…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The recent request for a <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/saskatchewan/295-motorcycle-television/26018-motorcyclists-upset-over-sgis-new-rate-proposal"><span style="color: red;">rate increase by SGI</span></a> </span>has taught us
all something, I hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We need to reconnect with the love of our machines and the
utter feeling of freedom and empowerment they bring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One person on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/248400351962414/"><span style="color: red;">R.A.G.E. Facebook</span></a> page expressed the love
for his motorcycle as one of massive joy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What a great way to describe riding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This has gotten me to thinking about our community, the
community of motorcyclists, I don’t care if it’s a 50cc dirt bike, and enduro,
a sport bike a drag bike or a cruiser, a Honda, a Yamaha, a Kawi or a Harley
etc. etc. etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are things that most of us have experienced in our
life as riders that connect us on some levels and if we could find the right
things to connect on, we could erase our own prejudices in our community first.
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then we could work on the outside world seeing us
differently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I came up with a short list of things that might connect us…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>You might be a biker
if…<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You and your machine have encountered many kinds of riding
conditions from torrential rain to snow and all things in between. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You and your machine feel like you are a part of each other.
There is a bond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You have encountered friend and foe by the very nature of
the receptions you have gotten from those who don’t ride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You and your machine have endured countless political
debates over whether or not you are gang members or if that patch you choose to
wear is legit or not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You and your machine have had discriminatory bylaws put in
place to muffle you, the only noisemaker in the vehicular world. (Said
sarcastically.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You and your motorcycle have ever been restricted as to where
you can and cannot compete or ride – referring to the recreational land use
issues being faced in Saskatchewan and Alberta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You have ever had your charity fundraiser affected by laws,
discrimination, and misconceptions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You have ever had insurance premiums threaten to cost you
your ride. You might be a biker…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Our brothers and
sisters in Saskatchewan are facing a challenge that the rest of us need to feel
– to own.  <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Their freedom to choose a motorcycle, as a method of
transportation, is being threatened.</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We need to understand that we live in a political world –
like it or not and those politics have the power to take our passion, our
freedom, our life line to sanity, a part of our identity, our entire lifestyle
away from us unless we unite and do something proactive - <b>it will be taken away
from us.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>This is not in the
distant future people and I am not being a fear monger.  The danger is real and it is imminent.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is time that we began working together. That we began in
earnest to share the issues each town, each region, each province and territory
is experiencing and help each other to protect and preserve our lifestyle, our
right to choose to ride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Do you need any more
examples before you realize that I am speaking the truth?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Our very way of life is being threatened and I don’t care
HOW you love that motorcycle be you a trials rider or a drag racer, a motocross
rider or a cruiser/touring rider, adventure rider or road racer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Never more than now, has there been a time to educate our
fellow rider about their actions and how they affect the greater good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Never more than now has there been a reason to share, talk,
communicate and UNDERSTAND that even if the fight is not your fight – IT IS YOUR FIGHT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Every time one segment of our community looses it’s freedoms
or is in someway unfairly restricted, it undermines our Charter Rights and
takes us all one step closer to walking …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Everywhere you look, our rights are under siege, our
freedoms are being restricted – we can’t take on all of the challenges, but we,
the riding community could lead the way in showing other communities how to
work together and how to protect our cherished way of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>There is an old
saying that you never truly appreciate what you have until it is gone.</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Remember that with freedom comes obligation – the obligation
to remember that our rights and freedoms stop when they infringe upon those of
another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We need to learn to share our world and that is becoming
harder to do the bigger the population becomes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Something I want you all to ponder and consider.  Is riding a motorcycle important to you? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Do you finally believe that it CAN happen to us – the bureaucrats
really can take our lifestyle from us – and do you understand that we have to
let them first!  </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you are with me, that we need to somehow get organized on
a national basis – then email me at <a href="mailto:bdbetty@gmail.com">bdbetty@gmail.com</a>
with the subject being Riders Rights. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the mean time I invite you to help <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/248400351962414/"><span style="color: red;">R.A.G.E. inSaskatchewan</span> </a>by buying one of our patches - $2 from every patch sold will go to
help them get up an running financially – these guys and galls are shaking the
Saskatchewan government hard and really need the boost that outside support
from their family Wind members in other provinces can offer…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Have a fantastic weekend everyone and please do one thing for me...go look at your motorcycle, remember the sun, the rain, the wind, the scenery, the empowerment, the freedom and ask yourself one question - what would happen to me if I couldn't ride my motorcycle?</span></i></div>
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IT REALLY IS ABOUT THE RIDE...

Taking the things we love for granted. I love my husband. But there are times when, like every other human being out there, ...

<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><b>The <a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/news/international-news/286-news-international-/26222-oxford-dictionary-drops-hairy-from-bikers-definition"><span style="color: red;">Oxford Dictionary has changed it's definition of the word "biker"</span></a>!</b></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Oxford English Dictionary has revised its current definition of bikers as "hairy" and wearing "dirty denim" after motorcyclists complained that the description does not do them justice.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Citing new figures, they claim that bikers are now more likely to be short-haired, clean shaven and tattoo-free.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They hold up motorcycling fans like David Beckham and Princes William and Harry as an example of how bikers have changed, and are not now typically, as the OED states, "a member of a gang: a long-haired biker in dirty denims."</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">According to a recent survey, less than 9 percent of bikers now have long hair, while 42 percent do not have any tattoos, piercings, facial hair or gang markings.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Ceding to pressure, the OED has changed its definition of "biker" to "a motorcyclist, especially one who is a member of a gang or group: a biker was involved in a collision with a car.</i>" <b>End Quote</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Isn't that a clear and all encompassing description of bikers?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Doesn't that clear up all of the confusion and controversy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The news feeds are relatively quiet this morning, however there is a great article under the <b>Lifestyles/Music Category</b>, it is complete with some of the tracks from a new album by <a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/music/26225-now-hear-this-wayne-hancock-ride-album-premiere"><span style="color: red;">Wayne Hancock called "Ride"</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Also under the Lifestyles Category - <b>Lifestyles/Motorcycle Events International</b>, there is a great write up about that motorcycle riding <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/motorcycle-events-intl/26223-archbishop-wenski-leads-90-mile-motorcycle-run-read-more-here-httpwwwmiamiheraldcom201302243252158archbishop-wenski-leads-90-milehtmlassetidarchbishop20wenski20rides20his20harley20for20a20higher20causeaassettypehtmlmodulestoryl">Archbishop, Thomas Wenski, who lead a 90 mile motorcycle poker run</a> </span>from St. Richard Catholic Church in Palmetto Bay and organized by the Archdiocese of Miami.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I find it interesting that St. Richard Catholic Church would pick a poker run for their first ever event - I wonder if the poker run will become the new BINGO of riding Catholics? (Being said totally in fun...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That's what's fit to print so far today. Check out our website: <a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/"><span style="color: red;">www.beltdrivebetty.com </span></a>throughout the day as I have not listed all of the news articles from today or the weekend - only one's that caught my eye and we update the feeds 2-3 times per day!</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I leave you with a few giggles to start the week off right...laughter - it's good for the soul.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thanks to my friends on Facebook and who shared with me via email!</span></i></div>
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