pointless, incessant barking

Well, my short attention span dictates that I move on... for more pointless, incessant barking go to scooterrats.org. It's kinda like like a blog but not so self-centered. Never was was much of a diarist.

Maybe I shouldn't have parked my scooters so close together. Look what they did :) 6 month report - 1655 Km on the VeeBeeCee - over 1000 trouble-free miles before I parked it for the winter. It's been a mild one here so far, but the first snow brought out the salt trucks so I'll have to rely on my Chetak to take care of my scooter-jones til spring rains arrive...

6 weeks old now

Over 1200 trouble-free Km so far.
Got that nice broken-in two-stroke sound goin'...
Hit 100 Kph coming home from work last night! Woo Hoo!
Fast enough for me, thanks.

2 weeks later...

580 trouble-free Km on the ScootRS Vespa. Exciting ride home from work today in the rain. Forgot about small drum brakes in the pouring rain & got my heart rate up a bit the first time I stepped on the brake. Just needed a little drying time so no problems but for a minute there...

one week later...

I've put 260 Km on my Vespa this week with only a minor glitch. I picked up a piece of lint in the idle jet when I first put the fuel tap on reserve. No big deal. This was a good opportunity to see how simple the carb (Spaco 20/20) is on this thing. I can't wait to get up to 5-600 miles so I get some confidence in this scoot and maybe my fear-of-death level will drop a bit. After sparring with the ScooterBBS folks I think I generated some bad vibes, feeding my paranoia. Mostly deserved for my opening salvo (first post). Got a nice email from Spoffy, another ScootRS customer, who inspite of well-publicized motor problems leading to a replacement LML motor from S-RS, still had nice things to say about Randall & Co.

absofukingloutely awesome

Damn my new VeeBeeCee is a shiny red scoot... It's better than I ever imagined and after it's first 169 km, seems to be pretty sound. After a few rides gritting my teeth as I looked out for the worst, all seems in good order for a 40-year-old machine. What was I bitchin' about last week? I don't remember.

BREAKING NEWS! christmas in august?

yes, Virginia, there IS a Scooter Santa Claus!!!
















George W Customsweiner finally found his pen under the Krispy Kreme box & signed my customs entry release!!! outta my way i'm finally goin' to see my VeeBeeCee!

another new milwaukee scooter club?

what? another scooter club in town? this one has the largest membership in Milwaukee...

milwaukee scoots!

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Milwaukeescooterist/
found more milwaukee scooterists (were they lost?). just chillin' on the MetroBob.

bet your scooter didn't come with one of these... OR... what's that smell?

still waiting for George W Customsweiner in Milwaukee to sign my freakin' entry release...