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Motorcycle Safety BEGINS with ME? What Does That Mean in TODAYS Terms?

January 14, 2022 By Laurie Montoya Leave a Comment

For several years, the tagline Watch for Motorcycles or Look Twice Save a Life really hasn’t had the punch that we riders would hope for. The biker community continues to be injured in epidemic numbers. In 2021, the State of Florida had over 5k accidents and over 500 fatalities. Colorado and Nevada during a pandemic saw a 33% increase in motorcycle accidents and fatalities. This is no longer a local issue, but a national problem that requires motorcycle riders to take a different approach, which is to BE READY and INFORMED.

Today we will talk about 3 topics

  • Trauma kits versus First Aid Kits
  • Accident Scene Managment Safety classes
  • Motorcycle Insurance and why the cheap becomes expensive.

Trauma Kits versus First Aid Kits

At first glance, it might be easy to confuse a trauma kit with a first aid kit. Both are bags full of medical supplies. And they may even carry some of the same equipment. So to understand the difference, you must look at the underlying focus of each type of medical kit.

First off, a first aid kit is designed to treat basic, superficial wounds that people suffer every day. They help with injuries such as small cuts, scrapes, and stings that don’t require a hospital or a doctor. These are the type of injuries most often treated with a first aid kit. Most first aid kits include bandages, burn cream, antiseptic, and over-the-counter medications

On the other hand, a trauma kit is designed to treat severe, life-threatening injuries long enough to treat the injured until paramedics or EMTs can arrive on the scene.

We’re talking about life-threatening injuries from situations such as car or motorcycle accidents. Tragic events when getting someone stabilized and transported to an emergency room is of the utmost importance. In such situations, most over-the-counter first aid kits are not nearly enough, and a trauma kit is best.

Now, it’s important to keep in mind that the primary focus of a trauma kit is to save lives. This means they often forgo items that might alleviate a victim’s temporary discomfort and pain. Why? Because these items are considered secondary to keeping them alive.

It’s a bag full of life-saving tools designed to keep someone’s vital functions working.

Trauma kits on your bike can be vital to stabilizing an injured rider until medical assistance can arrive. Trauma kits can be purchased for a reasonable amount given the care they can provide to render aid. If you are interested in getting a trauma kit, there are some motorcycle organizations that can help you get the trauma kit you need.

If you are interested in making the PLEDGE today to have this life-saving item on your bike, BikerDown Foundation offers riders a fully loaded trauma kit that will fit easily on your motorcycle – click here. You can also contact RoadGuardians (ASM) also offers a fanny pack trauma kit – click here

Accident Scene Management Classes

ASM has trained over 40,000 motorcycle riders thru their nationwide instructor and class hosts

For 10 years, BikerDown Foundation with the help of RiderJustice, Full Throttle Law, and other sponsors has sponsored Accident Scene Management Basic (ASM) and Advanced classes to give motorcycle riders basic training. ASM has trained nearly 40,000 motorcycle riders through the expertise of its instructors. ASM is the largest motorcycle trauma training organization in the world and classes can be done in-person or online.

Rider Justice ASM Basic class shows riders how to properly roll over a victim so that they can prepare to remove them from the road.
M. Busch got her Trauma kit at the Full Throttle Law ASM Basic Class

The basic 100 series class teaches you what to do in the first 5-30 minutes after a crash until professional help arrives. Some of the topics you will learn are helmet removal (many believe you don’t do that, but what if the rider isn’t breathing and needs CPR?), securing the scene, rescue breathing, moving the injured rider, controlling bleeding, and much much more.

Class attendees completing their ASM Basic Class in Las Vegas

Good Samaritan Law

Legal concerns can come up at the scene of an accident. Questions on legal issues come up in our basic and advanced classes, and there is a part of our instruction that deals with this. Many students ask me, “If I help someone at the scene of an accident, will I get sued successfully?”  Fortunately, in most states, there are statutes that legally shield you from liability. In Colorado, we have Revised Statute  13-21-108. This is the Colorado Good Samaritan Law.  In Nevada, there is NRS 41.500. The statutes in both states say that you are shielded from legal liability when rendering aid at the scene of an emergency or accident. There are some things you have to remember for this to apply. First, the person you are helping is not a person you are required to treat, and you are not there being compensated as part of your job. For example, Paramedics responding to the scene are not covered as it is their duty to respond and treat them. Volunteers on a rescue squad are protected from liability even though they have to react as they volunteer. 

Second, if you act in good faith and do not do something completely negligent, you are protected under the Good Samaritan Law. There is a scene in a funny movie where a woman performs a minor surgical procedure on someone she believes is choking. She has never been trained to do this and only saw the procedure performed on a television show. This woman would not be shielded from liability. For the record, we do not teach minor surgical procedures in Accident Scene Management, not even the advanced class.

Motorcycle Insurance and what that really means after an Accident

Call one of our motorcycle attorneys TODAY and get your FREE Insurance Reviews

Insurance coverages/Reviews – Bike insurance, 2nd to safety gear, motorcycle insurance is the most essential item you can have for your bike.  It outranks 85.00 Harley-Davidson shirts, cool chrome accessories, jackets, and rain gear….it outranks everything.  Without good bike insurance and add ons such as under-insured or uninsured motorists, the injured riders will be surprised how un-insured they are and what the current bike insurance covers.  RiderJustice.com, Full Throttle Law, Upstate Biker Lawyer, and Two-Wheel Attorneys has always offered any biker a FREE insurance review to discuss what your existing insurance covers.  In Colorado at the Colorado Motorcycle Expo, be sure to stop by the Rider Justice booth in February and get their suggested levels of insurance to keep you covered in the event of an accident.

At the scene of a motorcycle crash:

  • Do not move your bike from where it landed after the impact.
  • Take pictures of the entire scene, including your bike, the car, the intersection and debris.
  • Get contact information from any witnesses.
  • Take videos of witnesses explaining what they saw.
  • Take a picture of the other driver’s insurance card.
  • Make sure a police officer comes to the scene and files a report. (Never, ever, ever exchange insurance information with the other driver and leave the scene. You need that police report.)

Motorcycle Awareness begins with US, the motorcycle rider.

So in the event of an accident, having these 3 things in your arsenal will not only protect you and help you recover, but also help you help others. We must take control of our ride, in the event of an accident that trauma kit, ASM Basic class that you took, and the right kind of insurance, can actually help you SAVE LIVES of a friend, family member or complete stranger on a ride.

Filed Under: ASM, Insurance, Laurie Montoya, Legal, Magazine, Perspective, Rider Justice, Safety Tagged With: BikerDown, colorado rider news, FullThrottleLaw, Laurie Montoya, Rider Justice, Scott O'Sullivan, TwoWheelAttorneys, Upstatebikerlawyer

Morning Stretch – Never Leave a Friend Behind

December 9, 2021 By Laurie Montoya Leave a Comment

Morning Stretch
Stretch is a new inspirational writer to CRN and avid rider in the biker community

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling, but he is still a friend. In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. But on the other side friendship is delicate as glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks. If you once forfeit the confidence of your friend, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

I want a friend who tells me the truth to his or her knowledge, not let me fail by withholding what truly needed to be said. And like I said before when you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun!

Well, it is Friday for me, Have a Great Weekend!

Filed Under: Magazine, Morning Stretch, Perspective Tagged With: colorado rider news, Stretch McClure

Bikers Lives Matter Blocking Team

July 14, 2021 By Laurie Montoya Leave a Comment

By Laurie Montoya, BikerDown Foundation

There is nothing more fulfilling than organizing a charity motorcycle ride and having riders show up!  All weekend riders pay for the privilege of riding on majestic Colorado roads to help every type of cause or charity. 

The planning involved in putting together a safe ride is very time-consuming, it is so much more than if we route it….they will come.  I have been preaching for years to organized charity rides and events that you must have more than just a first aid kit on a ride, you must have a moral compass and level of responsibility when putting a ride together.

When you are sponsoring or promoting a ride, you are taking the lives of those riders into your hands, waivers are of course signed, and every rider should ride their own ride, but it is important that organizers think about their ride and do everything possible to ensure SAFETY FIRST.

BIKERS LIVES MATTER BLOCK TEAM

Blocking or Leapfrogging is a term that most will not recognize unless you have done it.  The purpose of those terms is to get groups of riders thru intersections and not break up the group.  There are many that don’t feel bikers should be blocking intersections.  I am a proponent of safety first and apologies later.  I would rather see a group of 100 riders make it to their destination than worry about upsetting a few drivers who are inconvenienced for a few moments.

In 2020, Lyndell “Fuzz” Elliott founded Bikers Lives Matter Blocking Team with a few of his friends.  His sole purpose was to help BikerDown and a few other charity rides he attended with a team of blockers that shared the same vision of motorcycle safety in a group setting and to have a Facebook page where others could volunteer to assist him.  Fuzz has a long history in the biker community and has ridden on many charity rides in Colorado and has seen the GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY when it comes to things that can go wrong on a ride.

MOLLY-DHARMA RIDE

A few weeks ago, I broke out and attended the 15th Annual Molly-Dharma Motorcycle charity run.  If you have never run this ride, put it on your calendar for 2022.  This event supports a variety of no-kill shelters in our community and draws a large crowd every year.  There were puppies and dogs/cats looking for their forever family running around the Resolute Brewery in Arvada, and it took all my strength not to bring Gerda home for Noel.  

150 riders attended this ride which started in Arvada and then headed up Coal Creek Canyon, a route that can be challenging for a large group of riders. 

Prior to the ride leaving, I watched Jeff Busch and Fuzz, detail every stop, and turn along the route and the duties and responsibilities of the Bikers Lives Blocking Team.  These types of pre-ride meetings can seem overzealous at times, and too much information for others who just came to ride.  However, watching Fuzz and Jeff layout everyone’s responsibility is something that most riders don’t get to see which is the goal of a good ride. 

The weather was warming up and Fuzz and Jeff did the safety meeting to the crowd, and I thought to myself, guy’s you are going too long…you are losing the crowd.  This ride thru Coal Creek has a lot of sharp curves at 10-15 mph and it was important that riders understand and be prepared for the ride ahead.

My responsibilities during the ride was to ride behind approximately 10 blockers (which to me, seemed like way too many) and when we did the 3 designated hard stops, I was supposed to leave enough room for the blockers to get back in the front.  I was up to the task but nervous as I have never had that level of responsibility.

As we proceeded thru Coal Creek it became clear that had any of the riders listened to the safety meeting, they should now be prepared for the tight curves and to watch their speed.  I would glance in my rear-view mirror and could see that everyone was leaving enough room and being patient with other riders that may not have had their skill level.

As we proceeded to the first hard stop Hwy 72 meets Hwy 119 – the road gets quite steep to the intersection, so the blocker in front of me stopped about 75 yards before the intersection.  I began to understand right away that the pre-riders had decided that they didn’t want the riders to come to a full stop on such a steep road.  I did my job and stopped the riders about 10 feet away from that blocker.  Suddenly all the blockers caught up and several went ahead to the intersection.  This break also gave all the riders time to catch up so that when we turned, we could get everyone thru at 1 time.   

Our ride on Hwy 119 to Black Hawk was beautiful and the weather while warm was cooler than in Denver and we all really began to enjoy the ride.  However, I still was pondering why did we have so many blockers in the front.  I was given my answer when we entered Black Hawk and I began to see Fuzz designate each blocker to go to each of the 3 intersections and block so that 150 riders could get thru with ease.   Hard Stop #2 was at Johnny Z’s Shell Station on our way down and again, my job was to stop and leave enough room for all the blockers in Black Hawk to catch back up and get in line.

I won’t finish the number of incidents where the blockers made sure the group got safely to the END stop.  What was noticeably clear to me was how important it is to have a good blocking TEAM with you on an organized ride.   The precision and planning to ensure that 150 riders didn’t get lost or left behind made the event all that more enjoyable for everyone.  Riders at the end of the event kept commenting that the ride was great and how much they enjoyed themselves. 

These are the comments that you want when hosting a charity ride.  A ride was so enjoyable that riders will come back the next year and support you again.  A huge thank you to Jeff Bush and Fuzz and their team of riders with Bikers Lives Matter Blocking Team.

The TEAM has accumulated quite a resume of rides that they have blocked for including

  • International Female Ride,
  • Cruizin for Kruzer,
  • BikerDown’s 9th Annual Look Twice Save a Life ride; and
  • 15th Annual Molly-Dharma Motorcycle ride.

A special thanks and honorable mention to their TEAM members including

  • Fuzz,
  • shiner
  • Steve Cox,
  • Superman John Dentin Asdourian ,
  • kickstand Joe Rivera,
  • Rick Bouska,
  • Jeff Bush,
  • Michael Valles 

And a special thanks to the Team for Molly-Dharma included

  • Rob Bagforb
  • Jake Marr
  • Charles Holland Jr
  • Joey Hackney
  • Dave Wynn
  • Chad McCullough
  • Randy Barnett

Filed Under: BikerDown, Community, Laurie Montoya, Magazine, Perspective, Ride Tagged With: Biker Lives Blocking Team, Fuzz Lyndel Elliott

Morning Stretch – Cancel Culture

April 5, 2021 By Laurie Montoya Leave a Comment

Morning Stretch
Stretch is a new inspirational writer to CRN and avid rider in the biker community

By Stretch McClure

Cancel Culture and Effect!  These acts of public shaming have always been present.  Now, this modern form of public shaming takes on a new name:  Cancel Culture.

There is no single accepted definition of cancel culture, but at its worst, it is about unaccountable groups successfully applying pressure to punish someone for perceived wrong opinions.  The victim ends up losing their job or is significantly harmed in some way well beyond the discomfort of merely being disagreed with.  Some of this is in censorship, false statements, context, to as far as destruction of statues and history.

The ability to twist information to fit one’s argument.  It is just scary to see someone or thing, drop so fast based on somebody’s story which could have absolutely been falsified.  You may know them as an idol or hero, it makes it hard to support the person or the representation of history, when that representation that you respect or look up to, gets so much hate!  Being cancelled in this fashion, causes a limbo, and then hate.

It just goes too far and does more damage than repair.  I believe once anything is canceled, it become hard to make a genuine apology, and even if you do people still might not believe you.

There are new consequences for saying or doing racist, bigoted, or otherwise terrible things.  All because a mob has taken undue offense to a clumsy or out-of-context remark.  We all make mistakes!  We should acknowledge that and learn from it.  I feel that Cancel Culture is a cancer, and it will spread, not for the good of humanity, but the loss of history and the hard lessons, we have learned and lived in!

Seeing the out-of-control mobs (yes, I said mobs) roaming city streets, tearing down statues and destroying historical markets should shock every American.  The fact that most of the SOB’s are ignorant of who they are attacking is a sad example of the education system our children and grand children are being subjected to.   The destruction of history will not make you feel good about the present.  The destruction of statues usually shows a general insecurity and lack of confidence.  Destroying silent monuments or the legacies of the dead offers no rebuttal or resistance.  There are remedies for removal of monuments and statues, and these mob groups choose to deface or tear down these statues at night or under the cover of darkness so they cannot be identified.  This just shows the continued cowardness of these individuals.  The fix is to hold people accountable, at whatever level.

Some people also blame their current situation on the past and believe that destroying long-dead supposed enemies will liberate them – or at least make them feel better.

Filed Under: Community, Magazine, Morning Stretch, Perspective Tagged With: Morning Stretch

Canada – April is Child Abuse Awareness Month

April 5, 2021 By Laurie Montoya Leave a Comment

Belt Drive Betty Ride Canada
Renee “Belt Drive Betty” Charbonneau is Exec. Director of CMTA and a CRN contributor

By: Belt Drive Betty

Here in Canada, we have several motorcycle organizations that work to prevent child abuse or to support kids who are experiencing child abuse. Many, like Guardians of the Children, help kids if they must go to court. Others like BACA and UBAKA offer a variety of support from counselling to family support. A few of the organizations that many motorcyclists support and raise money for are Little Warriors and their Be Brave Ranch to help kids heal and the Women’s Shelters of Canada.

According to one of the oldest children’s charities in the world the NSPCC in England and Wales (www.nspcc.org.uk) there are some signs to look out for regarding abuse that are common signs that there may be something concerning happening in a child’s life and these include:

  1. Unemplained changes in behavior or personality;
  2. Becoming withdrawn;
  3. Seeming anxious;
  4. Becoming uncharacteristically aggressive;
  5. Lacks social skills and has few friends, if any;
  6. Poor bond or relationship with a parent;
  7. Knowledge of adult issues inappropriate for their age;
  8. Running away or going missing; and
  9. Always choosing to wear clothes which cover their body.

As they warn “These signs do not necessarily mean that a child is being abused, there could be other things happening in their life which are affecting their behavior – but we can help you to assess the situation. You may also notice some concerning behavior from adults who you know have children in their care, which makes you concerned for the child/children’s safety and wellbeing.”

Being sensitive to changes that happen, asking questions, letting them know you are there for them and knowing what resources are available in your community and region may save a childhood.

Child abuse is a universal problem and something that everyone should take a stand against.  I am proud to see our riders step up for children in need.

Filed Under: Belt Drive Betty, Magazine, Perspective, Writers Tagged With: child abuse awareness

META = Turning Point

January 28, 2021 By Colorado Rider News Leave a Comment

META motorcycle magazine cover

Article courtesy of Rider Justice.

Andrew Campo trusts his gut. Typically, his gut is way ahead of the times… or way behind the times, depending on your perspective. And yet, he gut-trusts his way into some of the most rewarding, mold-breaking work imaginable, achieving success and defying the expectations of all the people who say, “Are you out of your mind?”

Andrew Campo
Andrew Campo, co-founder of META

Campo is the founder of META, a company focused solely on motorcycles, the motorcycle lifestyle and – of all things – print magazine publication, which is largely considered a dying form of media. But in Campo’s hands, and in the hands of his business partner and Creative Director Ben Giese, META is transcendent. It transcends expectations, norms and previously held beliefs about the power of print.

How did Campo and Giese come to create a wildly successful print magazine and its surrounding company during a time when no one understood or believed in what they were doing? Campo says that “swimming upstream” has always been his way. He also believes that, because he and Ben grew up racing motorcycles, “competition is in our DNA. When people tell you you’re nuts, it’s the fuel that makes you work harder.”

Ben & Andrew riding motorcycles through water

The Journey to META

Back when Campo was in college, he took a magazine writing course and submitted it to Snowboarder magazine via snail-mail. Times being what they were (young internet), it was another six months before the publisher of the magazine called him and offered to publish his story and also offered him a job.

“I quit school and moved to California and worked for that whole group of magazines: Snowboarder, Skateboarder and Surfer,” says Campo. “I worked in just about every department. That was my education.”

While at that publishing group, Campo saw the drawbacks of the print format – mostly that it was slow.

“Fans knew races were occurring but they had to wait two months to get results and coverage because everything was print,” says Campo. “Digital media was just becoming a thing and I realized that we could speed up that information delivery.”

Campo teamed up with Wes Williams to create Vurb, a digital media company focused on the motocross industry. (This is where you start to see how Campo swims upstream.) The new company went to the print magazines and offered to partner and create daily digital content for them, including race recap videos, that would be instantly available to subscribers.

“The industry loved it but nobody had a budget for digital,” says Campo. “They didn’t understand the power of digital yet.”

For three years, Campo and his partners spent their own money operating Vurb, and then the industry caught on.

Motorcycles riding in the mountains in Telluride Colorado

“We were way ahead of everybody,” remembers Campo. “We went from zero to absolutely killing it. We traveled the world. But then Instagram hit. We were the first company in motocross to have an Instagram account, but the writing was on the wall. Two years in, every team and every athlete and every brand had their own Instagram account. People could get their digital content somewhere else.”

Still, Vurb had a huge following and most people encouraged Campo to stick with it.

He wasn’t having it.

“I didn’t want to reinvent our web publishing strategy. I had always known that my passion was for print publication. It was time to challenge myself again so I teamed up with our Art Director Ben Giese and never looked back.”

So, just as the print industry was starting to collapse under the weight of digital popularity, Campo switched back to print.

“What Are You Thinking?”

Motorcycles outside the META Syndicate Headquarters in Denver Colorado

Campo immediately faced head-shaking.

“Plenty of people said, ‘What are you thinking? You have massive reach with Vurb! Just adapt to the changes!’” recalls Campo. “I totally understand that they thought I was crazy. When I launched Vurb, a digital media company, print media was strong. Now, people were devouring digital media and I was leaving for print. I can see why they thought I was nuts. But Ben and I aren’t afraid of doing what everybody says we should not be doing.”

Very soon after abandoning Vurb, META was born. The name comes from Roman days when chariot races pounded through the Coliseum (a precursor to motocross?). Campo says that a “meta” was the marker on the track telling the chariot drivers whether to turn left or right.

“META represents our turning point from digital to print,” says Campo.

Like Vurb, META started slowly because, again, Giese and Campo were swimming upstream. Because of previous partnerships that Campo had established in the motorcycle industry, they had enough support to fund volume one of META. From the beginning, it was unlike any other motorcycle magazine anywhere.

First impression: META is absolutely stunning. Artistic, gorgeous, gritty and visually astonishing, META is an ode to the motorcycle, a poem, a love affair, a desperate-pining-away-for-that-which-you-can-hardly-describe-but-know-it-when-you-feel-it. If you ride, you’ve felt it. If you haven’t, META will make you want to.

stacks of META magazine

Central to the magazine and the company’s mission is an aesthetic that is more art-driven than advertising-driven. There are only 14 to 15 advertisers per issue – a stark contrast with a typical magazine, which includes 30 to 60.

“Because we have 14 advertisers, it allows us to work hard for them,” explains Campo, who says that it was hard to explain the concept initially to potential sponsors.

“When I first approached the industry, I asked them not to focus on pricing but to use our platform to focus on their brand history and heritage. That conversation was very interesting. They didn’t get it until they saw it in action. Now, advertisers approach us because of what we can do for their brand.”

A META ad package includes the print magazine, as well as digital products, such as short feature films, on the META website.

“Print is the foundation of everything we do,” says Campo. “With each volume, we create a short feature film to support our cover story. Sometimes, more than one film piece comes out of a volume. Those films allow us to bring global traffic to the site and to create assets for social media. They are also a strong part of our revenue plan. But everything supports the print product.”

From that first volume, META grew to three volumes per year. Finally, in 2019, Campo and Giese believed they had the foundation established to publish four volumes per year, which would be a very strong business model to carry the company forward. Then, COVID.

“I really didn’t know what would happen,” says Campo. “But it turned out that, in 2020, people really craved an interaction with an analog product. They wanted to get off their phones, laptops and TVs. They embraced META in a big way.”

And so, once again, Campo is riding the wave of success while swimming upstream.

Looking for a Different Kind of Partner

Meanwhile, back in 2018, Campo was approached by Chere Martin, Community Liaison with Rider Justice, a motorcycle legal/advocacy organization in Colorado, which is also where META is based. Mostly, Martin was curious to meet the visionary behind the stunning magazine. She and Rider Justice founder, Scott O’Sullivan, also hoped the two Colorado companies might collaborate in ways that serve, promote and protect the rider community.

“I met with Chere two years ago and we just had a really nice, warm conversation,” recalls Campo. “Chere is a designer and a creative and a really cool person. She told me that Rider Justice would like to align with META. They didn’t just want to be advertisers; they wanted to create a true partnership.”

Campo liked the Rider Justice mission, so he met O’Sullivan.

“If you look at Scott’s website… yes, he is a lawyer, but he has no interest in being an ambulance chaser. He’s anything but. He’s a really good human being. You don’t often meet people who practice what they preach, but Scott and Chere do. They have philanthropic values and I had been looking for a way to involve myself in goodwill projects. It made sense to collaborate with Rider Justice, especially after COVID hit.”

Therefore, in early 2020, the two organizations created #2Wheels4Meals, a grassroots bunch of motorcycle enthusiasts who have come together several times to make meals for healthcare workers, the homeless, and other at-risk populations.

“We’ve made something like 2,500 to 3,000 meals since March,” says Campo. “I’m proud to align with them and work on projects with them. And we’re talking about going to a larger scale with our efforts in 2021. We have a lot of mutual respect and we have some great ideas kicking around.”

The META Lifestyle

Andrew Campo riding a dirt bike in Sweden

From the beginning days of META, Campo and Giese decided to create a company that enabled them to live the lives that they desired – outdoors, with family, playing a lot! That dream has also been achieved.

“At times, I feel selfish because my work lets me have so much fun!” says Campo. “At the end of the day, I’m out playing more in a single day than a lot of people will ever play in their entire lives. I’m all about quality of life and that feeds everything we’re doing.”

For example, Campo recently found “the one that got away.” Not a girl; a motorcycle.

Back when he was 15, Honda started making a street bike called The Hurricane. To say Campo fell in love would be an understatement. Campo spent the next eight months waiting for the bike’s release and making plans with his best friend to ride their new bikes together. But, when the time came, Campo’s dad wouldn’t let him get it.

“He said, ‘If I buy you that motorcycle, you’re dead in two weeks.’ He supported my motocross but he didn’t want me on a road racing bike. I was shattered.”

Campo has been looking for his Honda Hurricane ever since. And recently, she came back into his life.

“They are collector’s bikes and very hard to come by. A few weeks ago, I stumbled across one on Facebook marketplace and it was kinda too good to be true. Less than 10,000 miles, great condition, and a low price. Turns out the guy was leaving the country and needed to sell quickly.”

So, Campo got his girl. (Notably, Campo is also happily married to a wife whom he credits with being his number-one supporter, even when his ideas seem like pure lunacy.)

Next up: Campo and Giese plan to publish four volumes of META again in 2021, complete with the moody, surprising, provocative short films that grab global viewers and lure them into the META masterpiece: the Meta magazine. Campo also plans to continue partnering with Rider Justice, hosting events that celebrate and support riders.

“We are in uncharted waters for what things will look like in 2021,” says Campo. “What’s going to happen? I don’t know! But if everything was easy, the product wouldn’t be as good.”

Upstream.

Filed Under: Biker Owned Business, Magazine, Perspective Tagged With: META

2021 National Motorcycle Profiling Survey

January 20, 2021 By Laurie Montoya Leave a Comment

The 2021 National Motorcycle Profiling Survey has only 6 questions that are designed to help define the profiling trends so we can focus our resources on the areas that need it the most. Your participation will have a long-lasting, positive impact on the community. This survey on average will take 1 minute to complete.

The information collected in these surveys has been an essential part in lobbying efforts at both state and national levels, and without a doubt provide critical data points for the grassroots activist to intelligently communicate issues impacting the motorcycle community and influence change.

Click HERE to take the Survey

With over 34,000 survey participants from all walks of life, the National Motorcycle Profiling Surveys, with 99% accuracy, has proven that many motorcyclists are being targeted by law enforcement based on appearance. This information was the foundation of the argument that resulted in the Motorcycle Profiling Resolution passing in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives with unanimous consent.

Notes:

**NO PERSONAL DATA IS REQUIRED. YOUR PRIVACY AND ANONYMITY ARE IMPORTANT AND RESPECTED. By asking for no more than your zip code, which is also voluntary, there is no personal information to maintain or protect.

**If you or your organization are interested in cosponsoring this survey, or would like to get survey results specific to your state, please contact David “Double D” Devereaux at:
doubled@motorcycleprofilingproject.com

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Change is Coming – Morning Stretch

January 13, 2021 By Laurie Montoya Leave a Comment

Stretch McClure is an avid rider and new writer for Colorado Rider News

Change is coming! Prepare you and your families and friends. Remember If you say you can or you can’t, you are right either way. Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter. Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.

Be mindful of the link between action and outcome. Ask yourself: If I repeat today’s action 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year? One of the Secrets in Life is to Make Stepping Stones out of Stumbling Blocks. Remember some people are Slinkies…they’re really good for nothing but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realize your goals. It is not enough if you just live life as it comes to you like a floating leaf in a pond. Make use of the powers bestowed in you and soar like an eagle.

What I am trying to say is people, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so most as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the “tribe” will desert us to die a sad, lonely death. Your core, lying deep within you, is what makes you what you are. Some call it the soul, the Higher Self, the true self, the being and so on. The name is unimportant once you realize that you are more than your looks and outward appearance. You can’t hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you’d like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you’ve been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can’t be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it. If you take any step, no matter how small it is, towards achieving your dreams then you will surely find the right path and reach the happiness and goals that lies in store for you.

Have a great Week!

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Morning Stretch

January 7, 2021 By Colorado Rider News Leave a Comment

Stretch is a new writer to CRN and avid rider

By Stretch McClure

I am thrilled to be a new contributor to Colorado Rider News magazine.  I have followed the growth of this publication for several years and am pleased to have my daily affirmations now posted in a larger forum.  So here we go!

We will open a new book in 2021. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day! Each New Year, we have before us a brand-new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year—the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show, and the charity we forgot to offer.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You are doing things you have never done before, and more importantly; you are Doing Something. So that is my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody is ever made before. Do not freeze, do not stop, do not worry that it is not good enough, or it is not perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you fear doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever. Have a SPECTACULAR 2021!

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Is The Next Wave of COVID coming? If so, prepare Now!

November 2, 2020 By Laurie Montoya Leave a Comment

When the pandemic began last spring, people invaded stores buying all the toilet paper, cleaning supplies, and canned goods they could find. For months it was nearly impossible to find items like hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, and paper towels. Manufacturers have finally caught up with the demand, and it’s now much easier to find basic cleaning supplies at your local grocery store. But as the country is faced with the very distinct possibility of a second wave, retailers worry there may be another run on the stores.

A new survey shows a large number of Americans are considering replenishing their spring stockpiles for winter, and many are considering creating a permanent stockpile. The survey found 57 percent of shoppers want to restock depleted stockpiles and 27 percent are planning to buy more because they fear shortages this winter. The products at the top of shopper’s lists are toilet paper and hand sanitizer.

Paper towels and sanitizing wipes were also high on the stockpile list last spring. Back in August, Clorox CEO Benno Dorer said the company wouldn’t be able to produce enough wipes until early 2021. Another key item on the stockpilers list is canned goods. Shelf-stable products that can last longer than frozen or fresh food are a safer bet in the event there are shortages this winter. Still, 45 percent of people surveyed said they plan on buying items they didn’t the first time around, including frozen dinners, pasta, snacks, and other types of cleaning products.

Even if another wave of hoarding starts, stores could be better prepared for the onslaught of shoppers this time around. Grocery and big box stores have hired more people and increased the capacity of their delivery and personal shopping options. Supply chains are also more prepared for the demand than they were last time, and stores will likely place limits on how many items each household can purchase.

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