Author: illnoise

I suppose I might as well post the MASS schedule for this year. There are still a couple holes, but here it is:
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Ananova reports an Indian mechanic named Mohad rode his scooter nearly 87 miles with his hands tied behind his back. Mohad rode from Pondicherry to Chennai to “propagate the messages of universal education, awareness on AIDS, rain water harvesting and eradication of female foeticide.” So, there’s your challenge for the summer. Good luck with that.

Longtime scooterist and friend Marco DeGroot’s 1954 BMW boxer is featured on the cover of Feburary 2004 Classic Bike Guide, with a great story and photos inside. Way to go!

To see the future, we must know the past. here’s Ryan’s review of the second Las Vegas rally in 2001, from the pre-blog days of 2strokebuzz.

The Grammys sucked, as usual, so we’re having our own music awards. No industry backpatting, no genres, no confusion over the difference between “best record” and “best album,” and no hookers and blow to sway votes. We’ll name 2sb readers’ choices for winners and runners-up in each category, as well as our editor’s choices. We’ll name the winners on March 1st, so send in your votes before February 29th. >>
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Here are Chris Densmore’s and Scoot.net’s Daytona photo galleries. e*rock sent us a loooong review that I’ll post soon.

Big Dave’s Vespa Rally 180, NYC, 2/20/03. Turn up your sound to hear the chrome rusting.

Jason Reinhardt’s latest ebay auction.

One of the American Scooter Racing Association’s partners, CMRRA, recently discovered they’ve been fraudulently insured since 1999. CMRRA has closed operations and cancelled future events, including all of ASRA’s Southern California events. Northern events will continue and may expand.

Stella dealers have been receiving their first batches of Genuine Scooter Co. Stellas this week. Here’s Bill Cochran with his Stella, the first one sold at Pride of Cleveland Scooters.

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Ha ha ha ha ha! Thanks for the laugh, Phil!

Sent to Thrasher today:
Hi Thrasher.

Your moronic publisher “Tactless Ed” Riggins threatened me with a lawsuit
last year for making a small run of parody “Skoot and Destroy” patches to
promote my dorky scootering website/scooter racing team.

After a few of his nasty emails, I decided it wasn’t worth arguing with an
obstinate idiot and chucked the unsold patches in the trash. I’d only sold
about ten of them, and given a few away to friends, so it was a net loss of
$150. Big deal. If I didn’t have to read another of Ed’s moral high-horse
emails about “integrity” and “ripping off an artist,” it was worth it.

I now see that your creative geniuses have been hard at work for your new
line of T-shirts. (T-shirt 1) (T-shirt 2)

Impressive. Especially since no one’s ever ripped off the Budweiser or Jack
Daniels logo before. Not only has every half-price Cozumel and Daytona Beach
T-shirt shop done it, there have even already been several Budweiser and
Jack Daniels skateboard parodies, not to mention the “Older…Bud Weiser”
Gang Green ads in Thrasher in the 80s.

Awesome. Keep up the good work. How about a “Calvin peeing on a TransWorld
Logo” t-shirt?

Love,
Bryan Bedell
2strokebuzz.com

The Breeders, Friday, February 14 at the The Huntridge Theatre, Las Vegas (tickets)

A day late and a dollar short… It’s a Hallmark holiday anyway. But it’s fun to make your own candy hearts.

Europe’s top-selling scooter isn’t available in the US, but 2SB is giving away a contraband Piaggio Zip 100 to the first person who can answer the following question: “What is Brooke G. Kelley’s mom’s name?”