Category: 2sb News

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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

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

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

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?”

Three bands, (two featuring local scooterists), will play a free show this Saturday (February 21) at Gallery Cabaret, 2020 N. Oakley, Chicago. I haven’t seen Jeff Tudor’s band The Shifties yet, but they’re called “pop geniuses” by those in the know, and I’ve seen Jeff wearing little round sunglasses, which everyone knows means “Pop Genius.” We DO know what Brown can do for us: Abe Villalobos and Waxon Seven have added Ryetronics’ Ryan Bastianelli for more electric power, and they’ve added a new scooter-specific song to their set. Demilos, sorry, I know nothing about you. Check out Jeff’s flyer for the show. 2strokebuzz might be making a rare live appearance, we don’t want to miss this show. Did I mention FREE?

For all you d-i-y scooter electricians, here’s a nifty guide about making regulators, and the same principles applied to a Vespa.

Vespa has collaberated with totem-of-suburban-affluence Coach leather goods to create seven custom scooters. A pink ET with Coach’s “Poppy” pattern appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Another one with a teal “C” pattern has been popping up in PR blurbs. I haven’t seen the rest, and neither Coach nor Vespa has much info on their sites. Meanwhile, it’s fun to see how many papers run the same press release as “news.” Did I ever tell you about the time I worked at Lazarus and spilled a bottle of Windex on a $1100 purse?

Geegaw’s ten reasons. I can think of a lot more.

Mike Hardcore’s Nitro 180 Riva story from squidlys.com. Thanks for the link, Big Rye.

Here’s a great story from the Orlando Sentinel about the High Endurance SC at Daytona Bike Week.

All this talk of Dream 50Rs and NSR50s led to my discovery of Beginner Bikes, a webpage dedicated to smaller, saner bikes. It’s a must-read for new motorcyclists, and they even have some scooter test rides and reviews. Well done!

Here’s a Kinks parody I helped my friend Dave write. If you don’t live in Chicago, it might not make much sense, though.

I don’t know if the Defilers didn’t notice that Sept 4-5-6 was Labor Day Weekend, or they’re trying to be “cute,” or what, but this year is Slaughterhouse’s tenth anniversary, and it’s been on Labor Day weekend for several years, and I’ll sure as hell be there and I hope all of you are too. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they didn’t look at the calendar when they picked the date. I don’t know any of the Defilers very well, but if you do, you might consider respectfully asking them to reconsider their plans. They’re welcome to have their rally any weekend they wish, but I think holding a rally 40 miles from Chicago on Labor Day Weekend is disrespectful to all the people that have worked so hard to run ten years of Slaughterhouse rallies.

I’ve been goofing around with VoiceXML, hopefully I can figure out how to post news and rally listings via an 800-number, plus Song of the Day and some other gimmicks. To check out my first stab at VXML programming:
1.**Call 1-800-555-TELL
2.**At the “Menu” prompt, dial 1-45243
Let me know what you think, and if you’d be interested in this feature if it was less stupid and more useful.