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For broadcast on CBS Radio Network stations August 5-6, 2006:

Rev up those engines!

The Stamp Collecting Report, I'm Lloyd de Vries. 

[motorcycle sound establish and under]

Four new stamps honoring American motorcycles are roaring into your post office this week, 
the kick start for the huge motorcycle rally in Stugis, South Dakoa. One of the stamps shows 
Penny Nickerson's Nineteen-Eighteen Cleveland bike, and she's thrilled.

"It is unbelievable that my motorcycle, my little Olive, is going to be on a U.S. postage 
stamp. And it's exciting because my mother, at 80, finally approves of my involvement with 
motorcycles."
RUNS :15

The Postal Service's chairman of the Board, James Miller, who will be at the launch of the 
stamps, says he'll ride a bike to the ceremony..

"When I was at the Council of Economic Advisors as a senior staff economist, I rode a 
motorcycle to work."
RUNS :05

The other bikes shown are a Nineteen-forty Indian and a Nineteen-sixty-five Harley-Davidson. 
The fourth stamp shows a chopper created by the artist.

And that's Stamp Collecting this week. 

I'm Lloyd de Vries, CBS News. 

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Download this report as an MP3 sound file.

Four new stamps honoring American motorcycles are roaring into post offices this week, 
the kick start for the huge motorcycle rally in Stugis, South Dakoa. One of the stamps 
shows Penny Nickerson's Nineteen-Eighteen Cleveland bike, and she's thrilled.

"It is unbelievable that my motorcycle, my little Olive, is going to be on a U.S. postage 
stamp. And it's exciting because my mother, at 80, finally approves of my involvement with 
motorcycles."
RUNS :15

The Postal Service's chairman of the Board, James Miller, who will be at the launch of the 
stamps, says that one is his favorite of the four on the stamps.

"It's just an amazing story about how she got that motorcycle, and just look at the 
motorcycle, and how clean and neat it is."
RUNS :07

Miller has been a motorcycle rider most of his life.

"When I was at the Council of Economic Advisors as a senior staff economist, I rode a 
motorcycle to work."
RUNS :05

...and he and his wife will ride one from the airport to the motorcycle rally.

"I doubt with hundreds of thousands of motorcyclists there, we (chuckles) ...many people 
will pay much attention to us."
RUNS :06

The other bikes shown are a Nineteen-forty Indian and a Nineteen-sixty-five Harley-Davidson. 
The fourth stamp shows a chopper that doesn't really exist, says Dave Failor of the Postal 
Service.

"The artist, Steve Buchanan, just really thought, you know, I want to give it a shot about 
creating a chopper digitally on my computer to see what it would look like, and it turned 
out to be a great piece of artwork, and we thought, well, let's just go with that."
RUNS :11

I'm Lloyd de Vries of The Virtual Stamp Club. For more about stamps and stamp collecting, 
visit virtual-stamp-club-dot-com.

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