The president of the Bellingham chapter of the Bandidos motorcycle gang was sentenced Friday in Seattle to four years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to engage in racketeering.
Glenn Merritt, 65, of Bellingham, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour. He was one of 32 people in Washington, Montana and South Dakota [...]

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Contract concessions that Harley-Davidson demanded in order to proceed with a $120 million plant expansion project in the Milwaukee area were approved Tuesday in a vote by union workers at the motorcycle manufacturer.
Members of United Steelworkers of America Local 2-209 approved the proposal, 943-536, in results announced by the union Tuesday evening.
The concessions were grating [...]

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James over at Why Bike? did some research into the cost of unhelmeted riders:
Unhelmeted riders cost taxpayers $853 million last year.
The United States spent $1.9 trillion on healthcare in 2004.
Unhelmeted riders accounted for .00004% of the spend.
For comparison, caring for smoking related health problems cost the government $12.9 billion or .007%. That is more than [...]

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Does this sound familiar?
A Tacoma motorcyclist was killed while riding northbound on South Tacoma Way when a southbound vehicle turned left in front of him. The motorcycle hit the vehicle’s passenger side and the motorcyclist was thrown onto the hood, hitting his head on the windshield frame. He was pronounced dead at Tacoma General Hospital. [...]

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