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This Satuday (April 27) is the first official ESRA race at Circleville Raceway Park in Ohio, and would you believe MASS is racing the same day on the same track? It looks like it’ll be the largest turnout ever for a scooter race east of the Mississippi River, and there’s a lot at stake. Will Scott Smallwood continue his total domination, or has he finally pushed his bike beyond reliability? Will HodgeGarage finally prove their mettle with their prettified-but-still-bodged “Allshit” Mark II? Will all the east coast newbies be able to keep up with the big boys (no pun intended) of St. Louis? And what can we expect from the new-look Team Primo/2SB? Myk is racing in Custom class with his “Smallwood replica” engine in a new, Smallwood-ish frame, but he still has a lot of work to do before raceday. Durso is racing the rossiverdi PK125/Primavera hybrid, and has a good shot at the new Smallframe class, if his skills are up to par. Matt Primo is racing the Ex-Vespa Haus P200 that gave Bastianelli some success last year, will it help him dominate Stock class? Stay tuned, it’s going to be quite a day.

Scoot.net has photos of Hedonism and Chain of Fools. Read this story and then try to tell me Phil wasn’t there.

Amerivespa was not dropped by the Portland Rose Festival, as the VCOA has agreed to remove Suicide Girls as an official sponsor. Sorry about the error.

Is there a baby shower or wedding you’d really like to get out of? Go to a rally! Rally and race information through December 2002 is now available here. If you don’t see your ride, race, or soireE listed, let us know. We’ll add it straightaway!

A Piper airplane crashed into one of Milanis tallest buildings today. Rescue officials say that at least three people, including the pilot, were killed and dozens injured when the aircraft struck the Pirelli high-rise in Milanis financial district. Here’s the story.

Here’s my review of Dealer Expo in Indianapolis, it was freaking huge, something like 900 manufacturersOe
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Portland’s Rose Festival’s dropped Amerivespa as a sanctioned event this week because of its sponsorship from Suicide Girls, a porn site. Suicide Girls had planned on operating a kissing booth at the rally site and donating memberships for the raffle. Here’s the story from the Portland Tribune, where you can mock Robert Volz’ assertion that he’s never visited a porn site.

X guitarist Billy Zoom’s 1964 Allstate is up for sale on Ebay. With seven hours left, it’s at $3100 and hasn’t met reserve yet. That’s a lot of money for a 125 without a front shock, although it looks pretty nice and it comes with a Zoom-autographed manual and a Wild Gift LP. Plus, it was BILLY friggin’ ZOOM’S SCOOTER!

Here’s a new archive of scooter art and logos, which is a brilliant idea if he sticks with it and takes that rude disclaimer off the bottom of the page.

Nothing to do with scooters, really, but as you surely know, the “new” (i.e. overpriced and lacking everything that was good about the “old”) “Minis” are coming on the tails of the “new” “Vespas” and “new” “Beetles,” and what better way to hype them than to poorly remake one of my favorite movies with a “coincidental” marketing tie-in. What are the odds that someone would decide to re-make The Italian Job the very same year that the new Minis came out? And Michael Caine, who’s like 60 now, can still kick Marky Mark’s ass.

2SB reader James Ballot writes, “For the person who feels that $145 is a fair price to pay for a vinyl toy as long as it looks like a Vespa, we submit for your approval: Estate Sam Lee & Scooter.” He’s got our style of writing down pat, doesn’t he?
Actually, Kid Robot has some really cool stuff, some of it more reasonably priced.

Here’s a cute Vespa Television Commercial from the UK, animated by Banana Park.

Just when you think Piaggio ate all the idiot cake, you find out they left a slice or two for Italjet.

As promised, here’s the video of Bones’ pyrotechnics outside the Cock & Bull in Covington, Kentucky: .avi file, 646K. Let me know how it works, I’ve never posted video before.