Winner of the 2024 Americade Bring It Bike Show Adventure category on Day 2: Dan Verkleir and Harley the Dog with their 1981 Honda GL1000 Gold Wing Terraplane Sidecar. We were excited to return to Lake George, New York, for the 41st annual Americade rally and our Bring It Bike Show. Held at Fort William Henry on the southern shore of Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains, few rallies are in such a beautiful location surrounded by world-class motorcycling roads. For the second year in a row, Rider and American Rider magazines co-hosted the Bring It Bike Show. With thousands of cool motorcycles at Americade, we invited attendees to Bring It! Warm, sunny days with a cool breeze off Lake George made the 2024 Americade rally one of the best yet. The Bring It Bike Show was held at the corner of Canada Street and Beach Road, and the event drew steady crowds. Related: 2023 Americade Bring It Bike Show Winners The 2024 Bring It Bike Show was sponsored by Americade, Spectro Performance Oils, SMK Helmets, Monimoto, Wild Ass, and The Lighthouse Grill. For three days, May 30 to June 1, we gave daily awards in several categories as well as a daily $200 cash prize for Editors’ Choice. All daily winners were eligible for the Best of Show award, which included $1,000 in cash plus several prizes. The bike that won Best of Show was truly a showstopper, a motorcycle that was built from the ground up by a talented 25-year-old mechanical engineer named Hunter Leonard who lives in Crown Point, New York, an hour north of Lake George. Best of Show: Leonard Motor Works Starrettania created by Hunter Leonard (center). The award, including $1,000 cash, was presented by Americade Executive Director Christian Dutcher (left) and Rider Magazine Editor-in-Chief Greg Drevenstedt (right). The Leonard Motor Works Starrettania is one-of-a-kind. Named after a small town in Pennsylvania (with a slightly different spelling), the Starrettania is a vintage-style electric motorcycle that Leonard started designing as a college project. It took about three years to go from the original concept to the final version entered in the Bring It Bike Show. Although its styling is inspired by a 1930s-era motorcycle, the Leonard Motor Works Starrettania was designed using the latest CAD software, and some of its parts – fenders, headlight nacelle, tank, and instrument panel – were built using a 3D printer. Leonard fabricated the frame and many other components, and only a handful of off-the-shelf parts were used. Modern meets classic on the Leonard Motor Works Starrettania, a vintage-style electric motorcycle with 3D-printed components. If you’re wondering what that gear on the front wheel does, it runs the speedometer. The electric motor is in the rear wheel hub. The Starrettania is powered by four lithium batteries from a Nissan Leaf, and its electric motor is built into the rear wheel’s hub, which allows for efficient packaging of the drivetrain. Leonard says the bike has a range of about 100 miles and a top speed in excess of 92 mph. Hunter Leonard entered the Starrettania all three days of the Bring It Bike Show, and it drew a steady stream of crowds, questions, double takes, and photos. It won the Editors’ Choice award on Thursday, and at the end of the show on Saturday, it was the unanimous winner for Best of Show. We know we’ll be seeing much more from the creative, energetic, and enthusiastic Hunter Leonard, and we’ll follow up with a profile of him and the Starrettania in the near future. There was a little bit of everything at the 2024 Americade Bring It Bike Show, from a tiny motorcycle powered by a weedeater motor to the massive orange-and-black Gold Wing trike with custom trailer seen in this photo. Related: Americade Bring It Bike Show Hero: Hugh Smith Jr. and his ‘Milwaukee Packout’ Bike We thank our show entries, our sponsors, and all Americade staff and volunteers for making our second Bring It Bike Show such a success. We’ll be back next year, so Bring It! Bring It Bike Show Day 1 Winners: American Bagger (Day 1): a highly customized 2010 Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic with a stunning paint scheme inspired by 19th century Buffalo Soldiers, owned by Douglas Alexander. Adventure (Day 1): 2012 Honda Gold Wing with matching Tote “floating” trailer, owned by Barry and Lisa Woodcock. Anything Goes (Day 1): 1967 Harley-Davidson Sprint Electric, owned by Tom Fisher. Tom used to race the gas-powered Sprint in the AHRMA 350GP class, and then he converted it to an electric bike with a 3kW (15 hp) motor. Editors’ Choice (Day 1): Leonard Motor Works Starrettania, designed and built by Hunter Leonard. The Starrettania also won Best of Show. Bring It Bike Show Day 2 Winners: American Bagger (Day 2): 2022 Harley-Davidson Road Glide Apex owned by James Pitman. American Cruiser (Day 2): 2012 Harley-Davidson Softail Deluxed owned by Coby Borwell. Best Custom Paint (Day 2): 2020 Harley-Davidson Road Glide Special with a stunning “hellscape” paint job owned by Frank Dumond. Adventure (Day 2): Dan Verkleir and Harley the Dog with their 1981 Honda GL1000 Gold Wing Terraplane Sidecar. Anything Goes (Day 2): Boss Hoss V8 owned by Kevin Taylor (not shown). Editors’ Choice (Day 2): 1974 Honda CB750K owned by Tim Curley. Tim also won Editors’ Choice on Day 3 at the 2023 Americade Bring It Bike Show. Bring It Bike Show Day 3 Winners: American Bagger (Day 2): 2010 Harley-Davidson Road Glide owned by Stephen Luczkowec. American Cruiser (Day 3): 2007 Harley-Davidson Sportster 1200 owned by Pete Ashak. Anything Goes (Day 3): Razer Minibike powered by a 43cc weedeater motor, created and owned by David Kerl. Yes, he rode it to the show! Editors’ Choice (Day 3): 2006 Honda Gold Wing Hannigan Trike with custom 1955 Chevy Bel-Air trailer. Ed’s trike (sans trailer) won Best Japanese (Day 2) at the 2023 Americade Bring It Bike Show.The post 2024 Americade Bring It Bike Show Winners appeared first on Rider Magazine.

According to a report by OpenTheBooks, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) collected $710 million in royalty payments from “private pharmaceutical firms” during COVID-19. Nearly all of the royalty payments went to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the agency formerly led by Anthony Fauci. Fauci’s Agency Scored $690 Million in Secret Royalty Payments During Pandemic "These were payments to NIH, its leadership + scientists by healthcare entities licensing inventions created in federal, taxpayer-paid labs." — Adam Andrzejewski https://t.co/dT3paoekgK — Children’s Health Defense (@ChildrensHD) June 4, 2024 “In 2022 and 2023, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies paid the National Institutes of Health a sum of $710,381,160 in third party royalties. These were payments to NIH, its leadership and scientists by healthcare entities licensing inventions created in federal, taxpayer-paid labs. The two-year average of such payments over the prior decade was less than $5 million, for an increase of more than 175 times,” OpenTheBooks stated. “Fauci’s institute, The National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) received $690,218,610 of the $710 million, or 97%. In the same period, the other 26 institutes under the NIH received some $26 million in total,” the organization added. OpenTheBooks sued the NIH twice in federal court, alongside Judicial Watch as its legal partner, over the agency’s royalty payment database. BREAKING: New data from the National Institutes of Health reveals the agency and its scientists collected $710 million in royalties during the pandemic, from late 2021 through 2023. These are payments made by private companies, like pharmaceuticals, to license medical… pic.twitter.com/s3iEQWTRke — Leading Report (@LeadingReport) June 4, 2024 Per OpenTheBooks: Some of these companies, like Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, are recognizable as some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Other notable top companies include: State-owned Chinese vaccine developers Changchun BCHT and China National Biotech Group Intranasal vaccine developer Blue Willow Biologics Taiwan-based Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp, which developed the MVC COVIC-19 vaccine Just this list raises all kinds of potential conflict-of-interest questions such as how much money did the Chinese state-owned vaccine developers pay NIH on third party royalties during a period when Fauci, NIH, and their colleagues did all they could to hammer down the Wuhan lab-leak theory? While it’s clear vaccine developers are licensing patents from the NIH, it is unclear if those patents are related to COVID-19 treatments. The NIH provided un-redacted license numbers as a part of the OpenTheBooks.com lawsuit, however, the agency’s active license database , which describes the technology being licensed, only runs until fiscal year 2020. We reached out to NIH to ask why this database is not updated. As is typical, they ignore such questions. Without an up-to-date database connecting patents to NIH licenses, auditors cannot match the medical invention to the payment from a private company. Pfizer and Moderna are not among the top royalty payers during this time – based on payment count. Moderna made 29 payments to named scientists and Pfizer made nine. Moderna did settle litigation with NIH in February 2023 for a $400 million payment for their licensing of Covid-vaccine technologies, but it is unknown if any of these funds are reflected in our data. As more questions pile up around NIH’’s involvement in pandemic policy, and even pandemic origins, it is crucial the full dataset is unredacted as a step towards restoring trust in this agency. Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder, said in an op-ed for the New York Post that Fauci has “spent years scoffing at questions about potential conflicts of interest between COVID policymakers, who relentlessly pushed vaccines, and recipients of private royalties.” “Is it right for scientists and doctors getting paid by the American people, government taxpayer paychecks to get patents where they’re paid millions and hundreds of millions of dollars in royalty fees?” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) asked Fauci. WATCH: JUST IN: Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for the imprisonment of 'Mr.' Fauci to his face as she cites a new report where NIH scientists made over $700 million on cov*d royalties. "NIH scientists made $710 million in royalties from drug makers. A fact that's been hidden." "Is it… pic.twitter.com/cPHNDqGdr8 — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 3, 2024 Andrzejewski wrote via the New York Post: Beyond this small cabal of scientists covering up discussions of the virus’s origin, NIH has consistently treated FOIA requests like viral attacks on their own. No wonder, then, that we’re plaintiffs in six ongoing FOIA cases. Characteristically, NIH is still redacting pieces of the data that would help us more easily connect therapeutics with their government-paid inventors. For example, they refuse to show us the amount of royalties paid to each individual scientist. So we still can’t entirely follow the money. In the meantime, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has sponsored the Royalty Transparency Act, which sailed unanimously through the committee process and deserves a floor vote immediately. There’s plenty Fauci could do in the meantime, too. He could indicate he supports bills like Paul’s. He could call on NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to voluntarily “unmask” the royalty payments. Then we could see whether their decisions have advanced the general welfare or their own. Fauci could also support fixes to the FOIA law that create real consequences for those who purposely violate it. At minimum, he must apologize for the utter contempt for FOIA, and the transparency war waged by his colleagues that’s now been revealed in private communications. Among the government’s most basic duties to the public are providing for the general welfare and reporting its income and spending.

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Major League Baseball (MLB) has permanently banned San Diego Padres player Tucupita Marcano after discovering that he placed hundreds of bets on different MLB games, including Pittsburgh Pirates games when he was still with that team last season. 

Vice President Kamala Harris will represent the United States during the global peace summit on the Ukraine war. 

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