I hope it doesn't snow this weekend

I decided to ride the 50cc into work today and to my surprise it dumped snow on me. This sucks, it's almost May and it is still so cold out that it is snowing at sea-level. It's almost 5:30 in the afternoon as I am writing this and the sun finally came out and I am hoping the weather takes a turn for the better.

A great way to bring in the weekend

The Sun was shining today and the temperature was great for riding. I started with some serious riding after work today by heading to the post office to mail my Tax return. I probably should have done it earlier but you know what they say about procrastinating...I don't but I'll probably google it tomorrow. Anyway, after that I went to the one place where I get a chance to get Sofia going at top speed, The Spit. After I got past the paper mill and out to the straight away I glanced at my mirrors to see if anyone was behind me and let her rip. Once I got her up to 65 m.p.h. I decided to slow down, park and take a walk on the beach. When I stopped to
collect my thoughts and have a good chuckle, I noticed that the vibration from the Scooter had moved from Sofia to me. My hands and knees were a little shakey, it wasn't the bad kind, it just made me laugh ever harder.

After my walk on the beach I jumped back on Sofia and blasted toward town at 65 again and headed home. The weather reports said that we should have sunshine this weekend and if that is the case, I'll be on the road.

I also want to say so long to Steve Williams at Scooter in the Sticks, he has decided to hang up the reigns on his blog. I hope he has fun in whatever future venture he choses.

Sofia can now be ridin' legally

You can read into that title all you want but in the State of Washington you are required to have at least Two mirrors on your Scooter or Motorcycle. As of the 1st of April, I have Two mirrors on my legshield. It was my birthday present from my Parents and I was grateful for them. I also got these really cool scale model Vespas that I set up on my desk at work and the DVD Johnny English from fellow Geezer JayBee. All in all it turned out to be a pretty good day.

Easter ride with Sofia part2

The fun continued after I called Jaybee to ask him if he had found the gas mask I left on his p200 "Big Daddy" so he could use the sandblaster to get the rust off of it. one thing lead to another and we ended up meeting at the yacht club. On the way there my engine cut out on me at a stop light and so I had to kick it over when the light was turning green, lets just say I gave her a bit too much throttle and I popped a wheelie through the intersection...at least I had a little bit of unexpected fun.

I met up with Jaybee and we went out to the spit and talked about meeting up on Sunday with the Rev. Bill for an Easter Run and called it a night. The next day we all met at the yacht club again only this time the weather was a little crappier. Billy showed off his new look and we took off with myself in the lead.

I ended up leaving them in the dust after I got up to 60, I hadn't realized until I looked behind me and couldn't see anybody. We eventually met up at the spit again and shot the shit a little more, only to head off to Lincoln park.We noted that the longhouse they have there would make a great location for a rally center. Naturally the Geezers Moto-Scooter club would take first place in all categories of a contest in our scenario.

After a bit of conversation and joking around we all went our separate ways for the rest of the day. I can say I particularly enjoyed the bit of snow we had from about 5:00 to 6:00

Easter ride with Sofia part1

It was a great day for riding yesterday in the Pacific Northwest. I started by riding over to my parents house so I could fill the tires up with air, after that I got my Dad to ride it around the block. He has always been a little wary of riding a scooter because he grew up in the school of Harley Davidson and even the thought of a classic Italian two-stroke was a little iffy to him.
After about a minute of telling him he could ride Sofia now or wait another two weeks for his tank to come back from being painted he jumped on and started her up on the second kick. I gave him a crash course on how to work the clutch and off he went.

Five minutes passed and he came back. He seemed to have a good time but complained about his wrist hurting from the clutch. He handed Sofia back over to me I went off to have some more fun. (continued in part2)

Its been a while

I haven't really posted anything for a while but I've still been riding a lot. I went for a ride with some of the geezers last weekend and let Billy ride my Lammy. He had fun on it I could tell so I decided this week I didn't want the fun to stop so I rode Sofia as much as I could in between the rainy patches we have had this week. I have also been working on some pictures that are intended to go on JayBee's Allstate Vespa, he has decided on going for a Yellow Submarine themed Scooter. Here is a mock-up shown above.

Some Jerk knocked my scooter down

I went to the Gaelic Storm concert last night and afterward I went to have a round with the band at the pub. I decided I would park on the side street where nobody parks so nothing would happen to it. Not a half hour later the drummer came from outside saying "hey man, is that your Vespa out there?" I said yes and he went on to tell me that it looked like somebody tipped it over. The damage wasn't serious or anything but it still kind of pissed me off.