Get you and your scoot in the paper.

On Sunday August 10th, the NEPA Scooter Club will be getting together at the K-Mart in Pittston. There will be a reporter from the Times Leader as well as a Photographer. I went a few Sundays ago and met some of the peeps. There were some very VERY nice scooters. One guy had one of those 3 wheeled Piaggio MP3's. It was interesting to see. It would be nice if as many people as possible could get there. Last time I did not go on the ride with them, however it was nice to just go and see some different scooters.

I will be going Sunday at 1:00. Even if you just come down for the meet and not the ride, it would be cool. I'm not going for the ride, just the meet and greet. Represent the Scranton Scooter Guild. Get those targets out there.

Weekend Scoot

I drove the Vespa from Lansdale to Scranton on Friday night. I took all back roads, so what would normally be a 2 hr ride ended up taking 4 hrs! It was a beautiful scenic ride with nice smooth roads, but after 3 hrs, riding gets a little painful. On Monday morning, I headed back to Lansdale and attempted the PA turnpike. Even though the scooter is fine reaching the necessary speeds, highway driving is not fun. It felt like I was battling a wind spell the entire way. I don't recommend it.

This picture was taken Sunday after Heather and Kelly received their official scooter guild targets!!

Shannon

Do You Have A Scooter Guild Target?

If not, make sure to let me know what it is you'd like. And remember, don't go in for a lot of detail, it's a silhouette after all.
Requests and image attachments can be e-mailed to me at any time (my e-mail address is listed in the dashboard) or left in the comments. If I get requests in time, they should be ready for the next Scootquest, so get thinking!

August Scootquest?

Okay, guys, the end of summer is fast approaching and we have yet to have had a chance to get the whole gang together for a big scoot ride. In fact, the Guild has grown so much in this past year (and is still growing) that we've got some folks who have never had the chance to ride together. I'm thinking Sunday, the 24th, but it's just a suggestion. Let me know in the comments below what date(s) you think are best, as well as any ideas for our destination. Let's make this happen!

New Scooter!

Hey guys. Just wanted to share the news of my new scooter. I traded in my automatic motorcycle for a '07 Vespa Granturismo 200cc in plum. The motorcycle was nice but it didn't have the riding pleasure of a scooter. The picture looks like mine except it has a black seat, though I plan on switching it to tan in the near future. I will post more pics once I pick up the scooter later this week.

Shannon

Scoot Ride

"The Electric City Scooter Club" is having a scoot ride tomorrow. I know Mark said he might check it out. I can't make it. So, if anyone ends up going, let us know how it was.

And when will the Guild have another ride??


"Scooter Ride July 27th

The Scooter Club of NEPA is sponsoring a group ride on July 27th! The ride will be meeting at the K-Mart parking lot on the Pittston by-pass at 1:00pm.
The ride will be a no-highway 50cc friendly ride, so everyone with a scooter needs to get out there!
I'll be there as well as about a half dozen others as of today... hopefully there will be more by the time of the ride. This is the second ride that the scooter club of NEPA is doing.

See you there!"

European Scooters!

Just wanted to share some pictures of scooters that I took on my recent trip to Germany/Austria. Of course scooters were around every corner with the most popular being Vespas. I saw a few strange Yamahas, but no Hondas!
Here is a description of the pictures:
1.) The most bizarre scooter was this BMW seen in Augsburg, Germany.
2.) Just a nice Vespa on a street in Munich.
3.) An old Vespa outside of a restaurant in Bad Tolz, Germany.
4.)A street in Salzburg, Austria.

If You wish to see more pictures of castles and medieval villages click on this link:
http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f329/liquiiddiamondss/Germany%2015-Jul-2008-21-Jul-2008/?albumview=slideshow

Shannon

Took the Vespa out to a underwater spring.

Went to this cool spring near my house over the weekend. I took some underwater video of some guys cave diving.

This has NOTHING to do with scooting. But I did ride the Vespa to get to this spot.

I just wanted to share.

Please for you to enjoy.

On a side note. This spring was used to film the classic horror movie Creature from the Black lagoon.

I hope you like it.

Keith.

Rival Scooter Gang??

What do you think? Friends or Foes? ;)

Electric City Scooter Club

Matt's Vino

Scoot Horror!

Patrice had a major smash up last night with a VERY drunk driver. Luckily she is banged up but doing well and nothing broken. The same cannot be said for her scooter, sadly. Patrice, we are all wishing you well and hoping this asshole gets what's coming to him.

Mystery Scooterist Identified

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Tim. He has the silver helmet and the Vino 125 like mine. He stopped at the Blockbuster on Wednesday. Tim has seriously modded out his scoot.
He has the Japanese Taillight and blinkers, the chrome front blinkers, some flashy Canadian accents, all to go along with some high tech mechanical modifications. Hopefully he will send me some pics so I can post them.

It has inspired me to finish up on some of my own mods. I can't wait to put the shark teeth on the front fender, which looks great by the way, Mike. Next on the list is the whitewall tires.

I guess Wednesday was Scooter day in Scranton/Dunmore. On my way to work I rode along with a young woman on a BEAUTIFUL Black Aprilla. I think if I get another scoot, that may be it. It was very nice. I also got to see our own blue beauty Heather tooling around Dunmore.

After talking to Tim, I had no sooner said to a kid I work with Justin, "Scooters are taking over", than Heather rode by. It's getting so you can't throw a stone with out hitting a scooter.

Pics from Group Scoot

Some cell phone snap shots from Sunday, June 22nd.



Generic Voltron!


Where generic Voltron spits the ball out.

Scooter Girl Stencil

Scooter girl stencil I made this weekend.

20"X20" spray paint on masonite.

Vino country

I live in a town called Port Orange in Florida.

I just wanted to let you guys know its Vino country around here lately.

I see lots of new scooter riders in my town. I've had my Vespa for about 8 years now and can remember when I would go months without seeing another scooter on the road. That may have something to do with the fact that i'm right next to Daytona Beach. Home of Bike week every year.

Lately I love the fact that I see 2 of 3 scooter EVERY day now.

Most are Vino's. I was wondering whats its like up north. Do you guys see my scooters on the road? I know climate down here is a bit nicer for all year round riding.

Can't wait to get my scoot up to see you guys. I would love to do a ride with the Scranton crew.

Take care everyone.

Ride safe.

(Your LONG distance member)Keith : )

Sunday Scooter Ride.

I'm guessing we could meet at "Scooter Central" i.e. Mike and Sarah's house. What time is good
for everyone? I know the afternoon was mentioned. We could meet at 1 or 2 ish? Let's hear some feedback on the subject. Hope to see everyone on Sunday.

New Member!!

Please welcome Kyle to the guild!

He recently purchased a blue Yamaha 50cc Vino Classic. (Possibly like the one shown here?) Sadly, I don't have pictures of Kyle's scoot, so hopefully he'll post some of his own and share some more info!

CAPTAIN FREEDOM!

I give up! me and Pidge had a discussion on how the older man on the blue metro w/ american flag officially hates all other scooters. Not two days later, i see him comin my way, i give a firm fist and a even more solid smile to the man....NOTHIN! I can see him look directly at me. There's no room for mopeass behavior whilest on a scooter! I say we play a classic game of road rash II with this guy!
p.s. the worst part is, today he was REAL tan!

just my luck

So, I'm outside today trying to fix my filter for the pool (which was fixed yesterday, then this morning hoses were leaking...it never ends) anyway, i hear my scooter alarm start beeping. i look out and i see two kids probably around the age of 10 or so. one on a bike and this other shirtless scummy kid touching my scooter. i said "HEY" they laughed. i continued fixing the pool thinking they had left. i hear my scoot alarm going insane. look over my scooter is in the middle of the road knocked over and kids riding away on bike laughing. i walk over to see if any damage had been done. pick it up. cracked mirror and scratched to hell. pretty much no pink paint on the front side. i was about to cry. i had it on the big kickstand...so they had to really push it to knock it over. im gunna call geico and see if they can help at all. im never parking my scoot outside the gate again. had to be scumbag kids...who touches a parked scooter and pushes it over for fun?

Mystery Scooterists 2008

Okay, so it seems that when we meet up, we are constantly relaying to one another all the unidentified scooter spottings. It's gotten so overwhelming that I end up forgetting half of them.

Here's my list so far, feel free to edit and add your own.

And if you happen to be one of our mystery scooterists, drop us a line in the comments and say "hi":


So far this year:

Gent on blue Yamaha Vino (Classic, I think), spotted on Linden & Ridge Row.

Gent on Denim Blue & White (2006 or before) Honda Mertopolitan or Metropolitan II, spotted on Linden Street & Harrison Avenue.

Red, 80s style scooter (sans rider), make unknown, spotted in the back of a pick-up on Mulberry the day Heather got her scooter (yay!).

Lady with longish brown hair in camo jacket on a silver Yamaha Vino 125 near the University, intersection of Adams and Linden.

Gent on black Vino (Classic I think), probably 2007, longish blonde hair and matte shorty helmet, spotted on Spruce Street, downtown.

Orange Stella whizzing by on Washington Avenue.

Mint green scoot with some black detail, not sure of the make (maybe Venice) parked outside a shop on Drinker Street in Dunmore.