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Category: Scooter Kids!
Lil 32!
Big congrats to Chris “32” Davis and Sara Lachenman, Sullivan James Davis was born at 7:30am Friday, January 18, just in time for Raleigh/Durham’s FYBO rally. Good timing. “No number yet,” says 32, “We figure Curley can can give him a number later on.”
“Tour du monde en Vespa” board game
Brian Holm of Vespa Obsession fame is selling an amazingly cool-looking Vintage Vespa Board Game on eBay. I’m hoping he won’t mind me using his photo if this post drives the bidding higher, ha. (Thanks for the link, Matt.)
Moped menorah and more
Well, that’s technically a scooter, not a moped, but happy hanukkah anyway. If that and Hallmark’s electronic scooter Santa ornament aren’t proof that it was a big year for scooters, I don’t know what is. If you need scooter-related gift ideas for the holidays, Scooter Swag is the place to look. (For your-non-scootering friends, check out “Gifted” at the Coudal Partners Swap Meat.)
Child seat
I know what Milena’s getting for Christmas. I wish I could bring myself to think that barreling through city traffic with a four-year-old strapped to my scooter might somehow be OK, but I’m just clearly not European enough. (Via Mike Maddox.)
Pickitup pickitup pickitup pickitup…
I have this whole rant about how parents today think they’re so badass and hip and enlightened, when they’re really just forcing their embarassingly lame 20-year-old values on their poor kids just like every other parent before them (They Might Be Giants and IKEA are actually several notches down the hip scale from Shel Silverstein and avocado-colored appliances). But today I’ll spare you that lecture and pretend it’s cool that my Debbie-Harry-obsessed daughter watches a kids’ show that runs stuff like this.
That’s Parker Jacobs’ nifty animation for a nifty GoGo13 song that appeared on Yo Gabba Gabba, a show produced by one of the Aquabats that often features Mark Mothersbaugh and Biz Markie, neither of whom are nearly as hip as we’d like to think. But we love the show and the seeds for yet another wave (is this the seventh?) of ska are sown, and my little peanut will do anything a brother in an orange jumpsuit tells her to.
Mini-mod Matt
A ten-year old that performs mod and soul favorites on guitar is ripping it up on the British rally and allnighter circuit.
ET4 Transformer
Following up on the Vespa “Transformers” Open House link he sent yesterday, Dave McCabe found photos of a Japanese Vespa ET4 robot toy on the BBS (though it doesn’t appear to be officially-sanctioned by Transformersâ„¢ or Vespaâ„¢).
Scooter games
Four scooter video games at vespa.org.uk.
Patricia Piccinini’s “Nest”
Australian artist Patricia Piccinini has created a family of mutated fiberglass scooters for her 2006 “Nest” exhibition. 2SB pal Christine describes it best as “Surreal, oddly endearing, and sentimental like Bambi” and we can’t top that. If your taste for art extends beyond the scooter-related, see more at Patricia Piccinini’s site. Her first U.S. exhibition opens tomorrow at the Des Moines Art Center, with a later stop in Seattle. (Thanks, Chandler.)
Peg Perego Red?
The green Peg Perego Vespa GT seems to be everywhere these days, at wildy different prices, but The Conran Shop in the UK is the only place we’ve seen it offered in red. It appears to be the Peg Perego Vespa, anyway, minus the mirrors and the topbox, and with two small extra wheels.
Toys for Tots: Save the date
Just a reminder that the Chicagoland Toys for Tots Motorcycle Parade is December 3th [sic]. We’ll post the meet-up details for scooterists soon.
Peg Perego Vespa: as overpriced as the original
We reported on the Peg Perego Vespa GT for kids a while ago, but Nitro has finally spotted it for sale at Hammacher Schlemmer. $329.95? Suck it Milena, I’ll be able to buy you a real one for $329.95 by the time you get your license.
Update: Vespaway reports Sears and Walmart are selling it for less than $250. Still not cheap, but somewhat more reasonable.
Child Riding Belts
I’ve ridden up and down the alley a couple times with Milena precariously set upon the floorboards of my Vespa, but I look forward to the day I can take her for a real ride. While toddlers riding as passengers on motorcycles is a way of life in many countries, it’s a bit frowned upon in the U.S. Now, thanks to the Child Riding Belt (Invented, obviously, in Canada, and clearly labeled as “not a safety device”) I’ll be able to tote her around as soon as I can find a helmet that fits. Or maybe not. Thanks for the link, Mad Man Maddox.
No scootering for Fatboy Slim
Ex-Housemartin (he loves being called that!) Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, told New! Magazine he’s given up smoking and scootering for the sake of his son, Woody. My mom gave up smoking shortly after I was born, and I thank her for that, but I’ll never forgive her for selling her ’68 Mustang convertible.