Month: January 2003

If you do, then you can probably afford the 6,120 C-cell rechargeable batteries needed to power this across the salt flats.

Ok, not really, but two bands featuring Chicago scooterists are playing at two different venues on Thursday, February 6. The Shifties, featuring Jeff Tudor, play at 10pm at The Wise Fool Pub, 2270 N. Lincoln ($2 off coupon), and Abe Villalobos’ Waxon Seven are headlining their debut live appearance, at the Mutiny (home of mixed-drink pitchers), 2428 N. Western.

In honor of the the old SNL sketch, 2SB asks: “All the girls on this magazine cover, all the scooters on that magazine cover, or a Crave Case of White Castles.” You have thirty seconds. Thanks for the photo, myk!

ModChicago is hosting the Rhythm&Booze ‘zine (“For all the Suedeheads, Hard Mods, and Peanuts.”) on their site in fantastic Luddite photocopy black and white. Issue #4 is up for your perusal.

Scooterworks’ Scooter of the Month Showcase gets off to a questionable start. Apparently P.J. and Chad are dating now.

When I skid off a cliff on the 883 in Vegas, take me to the crematorium in one of these.

if you haven’t seen a Stella in person yet, here’s the next best thing: Bill from scoot.net took 106 photos of the Stella in Salt Lake City.

Jedi Chad’s research project for today:
State by state low temperature records:
IL -36 Jan. 5, 1999
HI 12 May 17, 1979
AZ -40 Jan. 7, 1971
Record highest temperature by state:
IL 117 July 14, 1954
HI 100 April 27, 1931
AZ 128 June 29, 1994
At least we’re not in Arizona.

The Jedi Knight Scooter Club has organized a Friday-night welcoming reception at Venus in the Venetian Hotel. Venus was designed by Bosko and Shag and Chad reports they make the best old-school tiki drinks anywhere. The party starts at 10pm.

Nike lacks the technology to make an Arsenal jersey that fits me, but they make great ads.

Just kidding. Here’s Stella’s new spokesmodel. Guess her name. Pretty hot in a Frida Kahlo-meets Audrey Hepburn kinda way. And she’s not a greasy-looking blonde stripper like those other scooter companies use. Print her and glue her to Myk to thank him for the tip-off.

Oh, I almost forgot! The entire M.A.S.S. Stock class was at the Empty Bottle for The Patsys’ show, and I took a photo:

Seated: #1 Stewart Nicol (Supersonic). Standing, left to right: #2 Myk Rodriguez (2strokeBuzz/Primo), #3 Matt DeVries (2strokeBuzz/Primo), #4 Ryan Bastianelli (Moped Hospital/Ryetronics), #5 Tim Youngblood (Andiamo!), #6 Mike Durso (Solo/Speed Shed).

I blatantly stole this joke from someone on TSS. I’m sure whoever it was will take credit for it right away, unless it was Gome, who’s in Guatemala.

Dave McCabe sent 2SB a copy of Bajaj’s 1999-2000 interactive annual report a couple months ago, and I’ve finally figured out the video compression software enough to wedge one of the 24MB ads into a 1MB file. So, bootlegged for the first time on American public internet, 2SB proudly presents this silly, loveable, overcompressed Bajaj Legend ad from 1999. The Chetak ad’s on the way. Thanks, Dave!