2strokebuzz

The “Just Shoot Me” cast visits our troops at Spago, where yet another dumb waif pays almost $10,000 for two Vespas.

Akyana sends us three vaguely scooter-related links: bath-in-a-field features a bathtub sidecar, Ananova reports phone company follies in SIL’s hometown Lucknow, India (no wonder they have manufacturing problems), and Milan bank robbers escape on a scooter.

Jeremy and Derrick at Minnescoota.com have put together a good buyers’ guide.

“Op deze site wordt beschreven, hoe je je standaard PK 50 automatica kan omtoveren in een Bruut monster.” Rich claims that’s dutch for “You can make your PK50 go faster with some creative Dremeling.”

A 1967 story about the Arthur Francis 250 Special is scanned and posted on racinglambrettas.com.. Thanks for the link, Elvis!

Our neighbor and friend Fiona drew this picture of our scooters in the garage, waiting for the snow to melt. Happy New Year!

Elvis found this one, modmedia design. Someone should open a scooter shop across the street from RISD.

Kinda last minute, but Mike Z(tm) points out there’s a Rally in San Francisco January 4-5-6.

Another screensaver, plus backgrounds, postcards and more from scooterpoint.ch (In German, but you can figure it out. Except for “Mein Hasi,” what the heck does that mean?).

YumPop has scootergirl shirts and posters, and plenty of other last minute gift ideas for trendy small girls like Sara (thanks for the tip-off.)

This is a good story about how Piaggio (Vespa) and other companies are using more and more subtle ways of advertising. There’s nothing wrong with it, and sometimes it’s creative and entertaining, but a good consumer should always be able to tell the difference between hype, advertising, and truth.

Britton Walters illustrated most of the Slaughterhouse patches, some JumpUp! albums, and some great typefaces. View his design, illustration, and type at nerfect.com and be sure to download his scooter icons!

I won a Simpsons DVD in a trivia contest last night at our company party. Now’s your chance to win a 2sb t-shirt and other mediocre prizes. The funny part is that I was allowed to make up my own category, and I didn’t do “Scooters” because I didn’t want Robin to do “Child Care.”

Christopher Markley found a great site, Flanders’ cable parts. Mmm, stainless steel, nylon-lined, homemade cables.

French type designer Jean-FranAois Porchez sent these photos of his scooter and his friends from a mid-80s issue of the French magazine Nitro.