Speaking of Big Ass Motors, I love their BBS ad. Oh, the lengths people will go to to sell 2004 Chetaks. Shame, really, they’re lovely bikes.
Category: Sightings
Scooters pop up all over the place
Vespa PR
Ever wonder why just about every news story about scooters follows the same formula and focuses on the Vespa rather than other scooters? CooperKatz is doing their job well. (Is that the Adobe Acrobat guy moonlighting in the background of that page?) They’re the people that coordinate Vespa’s events, shop openings, and media relations, including the official blog.
Scooter Rally “Scrubs” airs tonight
According to girlbike.com, the episode of “Scrubs” airing tonight (5/16/06) will feature the “Scooter Rally” footage cut from an earlier episode.
Tip for scooterists:
How to guarantee a public beatdown
A suspectedly-drunk man on a scooter was detained by onlookers and arrested in Herzogenrath, Germany on Friday, after crashing three times within a two-hour span:
[…] The 22-year-old man first crashed the scooter as he took a
corner […], losing his helmet in the process, police in nearby Aachen said. Unfazed, the man remounted and plowed straight into the back of a parked car. He flew head over heels through the back
window, landing inside […] “Then he crawled out of the vehicle again, and sped off,” an Aachen police spokesman said. […] Onlookers tried to stop the man, but he fled. Two hours later, bystanders were shocked as the scooter crashed leaving a gas station, this time with the man as passenger.
Please don’t ride drunk.
Crazy Jake and the Gator
It was a slow day at my job.
Vespa “Smooth Getaway” winner.
All I know is if I happened to find myself on Grand Cayman with a free Vespa and six cases of Baileys Irish Creme, the very next story posted on CaymanNetNews would be a police report.
Another, less interesting, Sopranos post.
Sopranos star James Gandolfini was hit by a cab Wednesday morning while riding his Vespa on Hudson Street in New York City. He was uninjured, and, fortunately, no one got a photo of his underpants.
Scooter lamps
Google News is giving us nothing but a hundred more “Vespa 6oth anniversary” and “Scooters get 60mph” wire stories, so how about some home decor tips? Check out these nifty Lambretta and Vespa lamps by Italian designer Maurizio Lamponi Leopardi. It does not appear they’re for sale, but now you have the idea, you can make one and clear one more milk crate full of spare parts out of your garage.
Vespa New Orleans sponsors raffle to benefit NOPD
Vespaway reports today that Vespa New Orleans is raffling off a Piaggio Fly 150 to support the New Orleans Police Department. Tickets are $5 for one chance and 3 for $10 and will be available later this week at Vespa New Orleans or by contacting Nelson at 504-628-5252. Vespa New Orleans also supplies the NOPD’s Vespa and Piaggio scooters.
Meadow Soprano Vespa Porn
WARNING: NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR KIDS: 2strokebuzz hearts porn, but we rarely post it here. We’ll make an exception to share this photo of Meadow Soprano’s panties riding up her crotch as she climbs onto a Vespa in a mod microdress. No idea where it came from, but I bet the comments will be interesting on this one.
Kama Scooter
For those of you that think that slow-to-load two-second-long Flash clips featuring two satin-clad chicks dry-humping each other on a Vespa LX would be hot, it’s your lucky day: The Kama Scooter. If they were trying to out-weird Bajaj advertising, they’ve done it. I feel stupid, and kind of dirty, for even posting this. Someone tell Piaggio UK that sending out press releases about a “viral ad”, labeling the site as “Amazing Viral,” and slapping sales messages all over it sorta destroys anything “viral” about it, that’s just called “advertising.”
Shouldn’t Morpheus ride a Morphous?
Shunning the scooter sorta named after his Matrix character, Larry Fishburne posed on a Vespa (or as Reuters will tell you, a Lambretta) at a Mission Impossible 2 premiere photo shoot in Rome. You know a movie’s gonna clean up at the box office when they premiere it in Rome. (via The Scooter Snoop)
Vesparados!
A Matthew Diffee cartoon from this week’s New Yorker. Available from The New Yorker Store on T-shirts, framed prints, and anything else New Yorker readers crave… tote bags? latte mugs? Thanks to DC Rob, pretending he’s literate enough to read the New Yorker. I wonder if my “Brew City Beer Run II” flyer, on which Brent misspelled the name of his own club (“Vespardos!”) is worth anything now.
Legolas warning!
Riding in London? Keep an eye out for Orlando Bloom.
New M/C Stamps: Scooters Snubbed!
In August, the US Postal Service will introduce Commemorative Motorcycle Stamps. The stamps feature a 1918 Cleveland, a 1940 Indian, a 1965 Harley, and a “c.1970” Chopper. Too bad David Mann wasn’t around to do the illustrations, but they’re nicely done. We’re just sort of wondering why they left off the 1946 Doodle Bug. Thanks for the news, Racecar Bob!