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Some Douchebag Stole A Landspeed Racing Motorcycle From El Mirage. Help Us Find It!


Some Douchebag Stole A Landspeed Racing Motorcycle From El Mirage. Help Us Find It!

I got an email last night from Jill Iversen, who works as a starter for the SCTA at El Mirage and also races her own 1941 Indian motorcycle, telling me that their other race bike was stolen from El Mirage on Saturday night. Whoever stole it should be beaten to within an inch of their life and buried to their neck out in the desert for the animals to finish off. Thieves suck, and as the victims of theft on our own BangShift Suburban, we completely understand the Iversen’s plight. Please help us find their 96 cubic inch S&S powered bike. One unique thing about it is the fact that it’s a kick start bike with a 5 speed trans. It is unlikely that you will see an Evo powered Harley with a kick starter like this one. You can see the kick start mechanism in the photo below right above the L in the For Sale sign.

The bike, which is pictured above and below, was parked next to the Motorcycle Tech Trailer with a for sale sign on it. Apparently someone wanted to make an offer of $0. Offer not accepted douche.

It was stolen sometime between sunset Saturday May 18th and sunrise Sunday May 19th.

As you can see, the bike is a laydown style landspeed bike with the shifter and brake pedals mounted at the rear axle. This is not some normal looking street bike, and should be very easy to spot, although it would be easy for someone to change the shifter and brake setup as well as the clip-on bars and make it look like a street bike.

Jill and her husband Dave built this bike themselves, and are willing to overlook the theft and not press charges if it is returned asap. The thief just needs to contact the Iversen’s, or us here at BangShift.com and let us know where it can be picked up. Leave it in a parking lot somewhere and drive away, we are good with that.

BUT…if you dont’ return this bike, this is what Jill has to say. “Your reward for doing so will be protecting your ass from the rath of our landspeed family… thousands of members WORLDWIDE. It’s a strong community of racers. Hotrodders, riders and bikers….and ALL of them will be looking for YOU!”

What she is saying nicely is that if you are found with this bike you will beg the racers and bikers that find you to call the police, because their wrath and the big biker boyfriend you will get in jail are going to be a day at summer camp in comparison to what might “accidentally” befall you otherwise.

RETURN THIS BIKE!

If you see this bike or think you may know where it is, please contact Dave Iversen at 605.645.2573

OR if you prefer to be anonymous, please contact me, Chad Reynolds, at 214.876.4316 and I will pass on the location of this bike or any leads to Dave.

Help a racer out folks!

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15 thoughts on “Some Douchebag Stole A Landspeed Racing Motorcycle From El Mirage. Help Us Find It!

  1. 38P

    Probably the first time in the history of man that a megabuck “96 cubic inch S&S powered bike” has been compared to a $200 Suburban . . . . Just sayin’ But then someone once stole my lunch money . . . same thing, right?

    We all hope the Iversens get their motorcycle back.

    BTW, HIPsters, the proper format for a telephone number DOES NOT INVOLVE PERIODS! EVER! . . . Here’s the correct way: (XXX)XXX-XXXX

    1. Prozacboi

      Really 38? So I guess the people who publish phone books don’t know what they’re doing because none of them put the area code in parentheses. You really should actually know the correct way before posting such a childish rant.

      1. 38P

        I do know the correct way! See my post, supra. The “trendy” people who use the “dot separators” are the ones who are willfully ignorant of the proper citation forms.

        If you can show me any AT&T or “Baby Bell” telephone book published before the abysmally under-educated, slouchy “dot commers” and the mostly living-with-parents “selfie generation” started asserting their hegemony which does not parenthesize the area code and use a hyphen between the prefix and suffix of telephone numbers, then I shall recant my statement. Otherwise, I’m stylistically correct and Chadmouth is just following another doggerel fad.

        BTW, every style book I own supports my position on the form for an American telephone number.

        1. 38P

          The lone exception I could find is for when a regional dialing “trunk” prefix (such as a leading “1” for numbers in the North American Numbering Plan) and the area code are a necessary part of a telephone number (i.e. toll free numbers and perhaps some cellular mobile telephone numbers). In those cases, dialing prefixes and area codes are properly separated by hyphens.

          When a portion of a number is not always necessary, such as when dialing a number in the same region and area code, the area code should be parenthesized to indicate it is only necessary to add when calling from outside the area.

          Dot separators are not a proper form.

  2. C1BAD66

    One would hope they’re getting the V.I.N. from the frame and the engine serial number out to “folks in the know”.

  3. cooollleeeoo

    it’s most likely in pieces and on craigs list or ebay by now.. and why they make lock and chain..

  4. cyclone03

    Having just booked a tour of Normandy France I can tell you for 100% certainty that at least France separates the numbers with “dots”.

    But really, who cares ?

    1. 38P

      Well that explains everything!

      Our younger generations are becoming like the oft-surrendering, socialist French on way too many matters . . . from excessive wine consumption . . . to lack of appropriate hygiene . . . crude, self-centered “manners” . . . poor and abusive customer service . . . corrosive personal morality . . . reliance on statist handouts and subsidies . . . and now even near-ritualistic punctuation abuse!

      Fine kettle of smelt you’ve opened Mr. Chad . . . . 🙂

  5. 38P

    Chicks in Europe don’t shave their underarms and legs . . . . Why would we want to copy those socialist bums?

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