When scooter news breaks, we put it under a tarp in the garage.
If you’re into scooters, skateboarding, rock and roll, and heavily-branded sportswear, and have kids, check out Townsend kid’s clothing; their mod Vespa shirt is on sale right now. That reminds me, they sell Hurley kid’s shirts at Costco:
Vina: “We should get this for Liam“
Bryan: “He doesn’t even know what Hurley is.”
Vina: “Just tell him it’s a skateboard shirt”
Bryan: “I don’t think Hurley even makes skateboards, they just make shirts.”
Thanks for the link, M5.
Believe it or not, Gary Charpentier’s Baron 150SX ran like a top all winter. I think Gary was even a bit surprised, what with naming his blog “The Baron in Winter.” So he ran a contest to re-name the blog. I won’t spoil the results, you can read about the name change here.
Kirsten Dunst doesn’t seem to have the same two-wheeler aptitude as Reese. Thanks Professor Matthew. (Anyone out there looking to hire a professor?)
From a Globe and Mail story about the new “MTV Canadia:”
“I joked that … we’re going to see Pimp My Snowmobile,â€? Mr. LeBlanc says with a chuckle, a reference to the popular MTV program Pimp My Ride in which old cars are restored and customized to hip status. It may not be that much of a joke. Mr. Schwartz notes that MTV in Germany has a version called Pimp My Bicycle, and in Italy they’re developing Pimp My Vespa.
The Eastern Scooter Racing Association today announced their 2006 racing schedule. All makes and models of scooters are welcome, provided they’re properly prepped and follow the rules. The schedule:
Milena at Culvers modeling her sweet new shirt from The Scooter Scoop. I shoulda got a 4T, she’s growing fast. The monster sort of looks like Dave McCabe.
Scooterman, the British company that dispatches riders on folding pocketbikes to transport inebriated motorists home in their own car, has finally had their great idea ripped off by Americans: Scooterpatrol.org, however, uses Go-Peds instead of folding pocketbikes.
Look Media in Australia has developed a large trailer-mounted advertising billboard to be mounted on a Vespa. (see story in Seoul Times.) Look Media has clearly never ridden a Vespa down Lake Shore Drive in rush hour with a 25mph sidewind.
This has been bouncing around the web for a while, but in case you havent’ seen it: video of the Piaggio X2 (with two front wheels) in action.
(PS: I knew I’d seen this before, and that’s because cy posted it ON 2SB last week, duh. The dangers of more than one person on a blog I guess…)
A link blatantly horked from The Scooter Scoop (thanks!), but too totally freaking awesome to not spread around: Beamer from Austin Mopeds has produced a series of Google Videos covering moped maintenance and service. This is why the internet was invented, spreading information from those who have it to those who need it. These would be great in video podcast form!
Edith Frost:
“If it Weren’t for the Words”
from It’s a Game
Drag City DC301
We start out with Chicago-by-way-of-Austin-and-NYC singer/songwriter Edith Frost. This song has been a WLUW staple for the last couple months, and the whole album is a mellow Sunday-morning classic must-have. I could name drop all the albums she’s appeared on, but I’ll let the song speak for itself. If you ever get a chance to watch Thrill Jockey’s Looking for a Thrill video, be sure to check out her story, it’s the best on the DVD.
Lambretta Clothing’s line of watches. If they weren’t presumably among the people preventing CMSI from using the Lambretta name, I’d presumably want one of these.
Indian business website Sify reports Kinetic Motors is seeking $15 million from investors to fund its production and development of Italjet scooters. It’s about time, the deal was announced two years ago. The first Kinetic Italjet, the 170cc Millenium (the name was already dated when Italjet introduced it in 2000), is due later this month, with the Jet Set (c. 2001) to follow in June. One wonders when they’ll get around to re-introducing the more-than-a-decade-old Velocifero, let alone the Dragster.
Steve at Scooter in the Sticks posted a great observation yesterday about Scooter owners vs. Scooter Riders. I am definitely guilty of being an “owner,” and his use of photography as a metaphor hit home, as i’ve grown more interested in photography, I’ve grown to dislike “photographers,” instead favoring “people who take pictures.” If you’re a “rider,” you’ll love Scooter in the Sticks, it’s very much in the same vein as The Baron in Winter, with mostly personal anecdotes about riding, something you’ll rarely find on 2strokebuzz, ha.
Vespaquest and Vespaway, the two official Vespa blogs, announced today that they’ll join forces effective immediately. Crystal Waters, of Vespaquest, Girlbike, and Scooter Seat Covers fame, will join Neil Barton at Vespaway. Vespaquest’s Justene “Andrew Ridgley” Ademec and Vespaway’s Jonathan “John Oates” Ogilvy apparently lost interest in blogging and/or scooters. Best of luck to Neil and Crystal, who clearly and rightly recognized 2sb as a huge threat and reacted accordingly.
