Month: July 2003

Lee has posted a route map and camping information on the Wildcat 100 site. Grace’s 100/100/100 plans have been dashed for this year, but hopefully someone can pull it off.

Phil Lombardo’s Denver Custom Rally will debut at Mayhem. Beauty! Can’t wait for the haircut photos. Rumor has it Phil Waters hasn’t cut his hair since last Mayhem, maybe he’s waiting for a Phil Lombardo Kustom Kut.

2slow2go has organized a ride out to Arlington Park this Sunday, July 20th. General admission is 6 bucks including a race guide and general parking is free. You can bring food in or buy food and beer there. You can not bring liquor or glass in. Bring money if you want to gamble.
Meet at the Starbucks Coffee on the corner of Lawrence and Broadway (Uptown Chicago) at 11:45am, ride leaves at noon. We can meet up with westside or surburban peeps somewhere along Foster or Northwest Highway.

Thought you folks might like to see a photo of the inside of Vina.

Thought you folks might like to see a photo of the inside of Vina.

Ryan let us know that the Moped Army has started a Chicago chapter, and they’ve planned their first event at 1:00 on August 2nd in Wicker Park (flyer). “Bring some food and your ‘ped (working or non). Interested non-owners are welcome too. Meet other Chitown ‘pedders, talk shop, fix up your ‘ped and cruise around town. Help decide on a name for our Chicago branch. Residents of Chicago and other outlying counties are welcome. For more information contact chimopeds@burntmail.com, Curt Cameruci or Chris Reilly.”

So there’s this scooter guy here named Ian who I’ve met a couple times, and people have told me his band, Happy Supply, is really good, and I finally heard them on WLUW a few weeks ago, and wouldn’t you know it, they’re awesome, then I find out they broke up. Damn. Check out the mighty “Sparky Song” from Crucial Cuts, only $7 from Dutch Courage Records

Deanna reminds us that Wednesday is Ride To Work Day. Also, don’t forget that Thursday is “pick up your bike at the tow yard” day.

Durso just sent me another file to crash my mac. So I haven’t seen it, but apparently it’s a movie trailer with some cool scooter stunt riding: Taxi (wmv).

I came across this one afternoon while doing research on “RFP Search Engines” for work. It’s a small but interesting collection of Vespa commercials in Italian and English. Unfortunately, they’re .wmv files, so they only work with Windows Media Player. I think my favorite is VESPAPAP.

This is a test. | 2strokeBuzz |

Scooterist Jeff Tudor’s band, The Shifties, are going to tape their segment for Chicago’s favorite dance show, Chic-A-Go-Go this Saturday night (July 12) at 6pm at CANTV studios. 322 S. Green St., Chicago. If you’ve never been to a taping, go, it’s like Soul Train, but hosted by a hand puppet and Miss Mia, and they play really diverse music and anyone who shows up dances, some people dress up in costumes, people bring their kids, it’s a blast.
In the meantime, check out the Shifties’ Can’t Go On (mp3).

Finally, a rally for Mods without the nusiance of scooters: Wilderbeat, in Port Burwell, Ontario, Canada, August 15-17, a mere CA$75 at the gate. For CA$22 you could see the Rolling Stones, Flaming Lips, AC/DC, and Rush play in Toronto on July 30.

JKSC has organized a group rideout from Chicago to the Screw City rally, meet at ScooterworksUSA Friday at noon. The time Ryan and I rode up, it took like seven hours, but we had issues.

19-year-old newcomer Shamim Khan wins the Gulf Monsoon Scooter Rally and LML suffers defeat at the hands of a, wait for it, Kinetic Marvel.