SCTRCST Scooter Internet Radio

 

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Enjoy the music I have been playing on the first twenty-five podcasts without me talking over the great tunes. Here are some of my favorites from the Podsafe Music Network

I just listened to the podcast on my way into work and noticed that when I was talking about the scooter group on yahoo I said 2strokebuzz  instead of twostokesmoke, very different as one refers to Mr. B’s informative blog and the other, to a sometimes contentious scooter discussion group. Sorry…

 

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SHOWNOTES: There have been some website hiccups this week, this time not my fault. Libsyn hosting went down for several days last week and took with them all the mp3 files. Looks like all is OK today. Crystal Water’s ride to Vermont. Was cut short last week about 150 mile past Scranton. The story is in the Times Argus newspaper from Montpelier, Vermont. Her boyfriend Dwayne McCullough drove from Maryland the other to pick her and her Vespa scooter up and get her to Randolph for the ride yesterday.

I gave up on the website I ordered the POR-15 products for reconditioning my 180ss tank and went to the POR-15 website and reordered this past week. Every time I walk out to the garage I am reminded of the last tank I did, spilled a little coating on the floor and it’s never coming off.

Here are the links for other news stories mentioned on this show. Anumber of them are from The ScooterScoop:

1. Crystal Waters Vermont Ride. She is from Girlbike.com
2. Scooter are the answer to NYC traffic
3. Connecticut purchases scooters for training riders
4. Honda to Make scooters in Vietnam
5. Piaggio readies hybrid scooters for the market
6. Most powerful scooter in the world
7. Vespa S Preview video
8. Third Coast Rally 3 in Texas

MUSIC Podsafe Music Network, Blake Morgan – Maybe I’m Amazed, Stingray – Blackbird and Country Blue – Fast Cars

 

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SHOWNOTES: New voice mail number you can call from your phone 206-888-6174. Scoot Richmond had it’s grand reopening this weekend including a Friday night scoot-in movie Empire Records. and a Saturday open house. I took the opportunity to speak again with Chelsea and Dave Munn and found out that they are expanding and moving in the direction of becoming a full service scooter shop along with continuing their web-based mail order business.

Follow up to last week’s note about Hayden Neale from Jacksoul. Seems that everyone has been quiet about his condition, but the Toronto Star reports that he is in a coma, is in critical, but stable condition and has not regained consciousness. Our thoughts go out to he and his family, hoping that he will be fine.

Two stroke buzz reminds us that the Chicago based Slaughterhouse 13 Rally is in just two weeks. The rally website has been updated and you can find all the details over at www.slaughterhousechicago.com Labor day weekend Aug 30-Sept 2, dinner, clubs, dancing, cruising, a gymkhana and of course a pig roast. Get there if you can, it should be a fantastic way to end the summer.

MUSIC for this show is from the Podsafe Music Network, Escape Goats – Canada Day and Todd Carey – Aint got love

It was a shock to have one of the web’s best scooter parts website load saying “SCOMO is closed” But fear not scooter geeks, as Spock once said on the original Star Trek, “I am endeavoring, ma’am, to construct a mnemonic circuit using stone knives and bearskins”…and Scoot Richmond has emerged. I am here to testify, it is true and I have seen it with my four eyed head. In a visit to pickup my 180ss tank, Cheslea spoke with excitement about all the new Buddys and Kymcos in the showroom and the weekend’s planned Scoot-in movie and open house. So keep on clickin’ all you internet shoppers and if you are around this weekend join il partito!

 

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SHOWNOTES: Scoot News, Here is the link to Haydain Neale article about his accident. Here is a link to Jacksoul’s website and music. Crystal Water continues to plan for her Vermont ride, leaves August 25^th. Visit her website and throw some support her way. Positano Italy is a paridise, but expensive. Check here for news on making it more affordable and renting scooters to get around the Amalfi Coast.

2007 Scooter Rallys Videos:

• **Amerivespa 2007, Waiting for the Vashon Ferry
• Animals fae Naboombu Scooter Club, Rothesay Rally 2007
• Australia National Scooter Rally 2007 Mt Gambier
• Chester Scooter Club Durham, Heifer Pub and Club Rally 2007
• Detroit, Windsor and Cleveland Rovers Scooter Club, Motor City Shakedown in 3-D 2007
• **Diner City Scooter Club, Summer Scoot 2007
• Hostile City Scooter Club, Lucky Number 7 Rally, Independence Day 2007 (ID7)
• Isle Of Man, Scooter Rally 2007
• Lambretta Scooter Club of Scotland National Scooter Rally, Scotland 2007.
• Lambretta Scooter Club of Milan, Rally from Milan to Barcelona
• Las Vegas High Rollers 2007 Pioneer Saloon Ride and Hill Climb.
• Las Vegas Scooter Rally 2007, Vespas at the Gold Coast
• Lincoln Knights Scooter club, Ride in to the Charity Rideout
• New Forest Scooter Club, Rally 2007
• New Forest Scooter Club, The 9th Camber Rally.
• New York Scooter Club, Hendon’s Upper Westchester Scooter Ride
• **New York Scooter Club, Scooter BlockParty NYC 2007
• **New York Scooter Club, The Scooter BlockParty/Death To Gotham/Lammy Jammy 3
• **New York Scooter Club, Wednesday Night Ride
• New Zealand, Nelson Scooter Rally 2007
• Paradise Lost Scooter Club, Scooter Run to Hillary’s
• Rotemate Scooter Club, Scooter Rally in Bergamo Italy
• Scooter Club of Madrid, Salida de la Scooter Run La Alcarria 2007
• Scooter Club of Madrid, Segundo vídeo del Scooter Rally Madrid 2007
• Scooter Club of the Golden Triangle, Crazy House Ride 2007
• Scottish National Scooter Rally, Kelso 2007
• Simply Scooter Club, Mods Mayday Singapore 07
• Sydney City Scooter Club, Jamberoo 07
• The Pals Scooter Club, Rideout April 2007
• The San Diego Pharaohs Scooter Cult, King Tut Putt 2007
• Treakle Town Scooter Club, Bourton on the Water Rideout
• Treakle Town Scooter Club, St Georges Day Charity Ride-out
• Treviso Scooter Club, Escape of the Group Ride, Slovenia
• Twisted Wheel Moto Scooter Club, TMSC Scooter Rally 2007
• Vespa Club of Los Gatos, Vintage Ride from Los Gatos, to Rio del Mar
• Vespaclub Flachgau, Scooter Rally 2007
• **WestSide Scooter Club, Beach Invasion II
• **Wrexham Scooter Club, Rideout 2007
• York Inset Scooter Club, Mods Scooter Run Scarbrough 2007
• Yorkshire Scooter Alliance, Lepton Scooter Invasion 2007

Music for this show is from the Podsafe Music Network. Syd with On a Friday, Mr Vegas with Youre are gonna need me feat Jovi Rockwell and Jimmie Bratcher with Happy.

In anticipation of this week’s SCTRCST check out this video that is a montage of scooter pictures and references to wanting a scooter along with with a jazzy piece of Vespa music. Here is Susan’s (the producer) Youtube page and her website. Look for a boat load of music related 2007 scooter rally videos links right back here in a few days.

 

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SHOWNOTES: Welcome back to all of you who are subscribers or who are returning. If this is your first visit thanks for joining us. I have been spending a lot of time this past week working on updating the website with a new design and a few new features. I have gotten some feedback that it would be better if I could make it easier to listen to the Podcast on the website. What is interesting is that many of you listen to the show right on your computer. So there are many more choices now, I hope it makes it easier. Another enhancement is the site now also supports embedding video clips and full size pictures right into my log posts. With learning how to do all this and all the website editing I have been doing I have decided that this means I am not yet brain dead and can still some new tricks. All my scooters have been up on blocks in the garage this week. I am doing some repair on my P200e sidecar that will require taking the sidecar axle out for some welding. Luckily it came apart with very little effort and revealed an adjustment that I never knew it had and seems to be for camber. Hopefully when it goes back together I will be able to decrease some of the wobble that comes through the headset. My other scooter are waiting for some carb work. I started on the ‘66 Vespa Sprint, and with Chelsea’s suggestion I have removed the jets to clean them, hoping that this will correct the choking problem I have. She advised me that if this doesn’t work it may mean removing the carb and checking for an air leak caused by warping or a gasket. That’s not too bad, but her third suggesting was frightening, drain the gear oil, if it smells like gas…oh that’s bad! Let’s hope it’s an easy fix. Steve Guzman has revamped The Scooter Scoop Blog. On the last show I mentioned Piaggio’s plans to produce a hybrid scooter and the Scoop has a post with pictures of the engine and more details of technology behind the scoot. I don’t think I have ever said anything about Rush Hour Rambling, but Gary Carpentier is a blogger that a number of us have admired, both for his creative posts and his persistent blogging over the years. His first posts started back in 2005 when he put together The Baron in Winter site. Gary lives in Minnesota and has posted several times on the tragic bridge failure in the twin cities. His post is both descriptive of the scene but goes beyond this to talk about the practical and emotional effects of trying to get around town. The Combat Commuter blog site is an interesting mix of scooting news and personal reminiscence. What I like about this blog is that John Timbes writes about his life in Florida, his wife, his son and his work. This can get personal, very different that the “news” oriented blogs, an approach that I admire. For more information on scooter bloggers checkout the Ride to Work Blogs website that includes many more scooter and motorcycle bloggers. Let’s change focus for a minute. So where do you go to get your scooter news? I’m still fairly new at this so I use Google Newsreader and the Feeddemon built-in. With so many news stories coming down through just these two readers, I sometimes have trouble deciding what to pay attention too, but here are a few of the past weeks stories. There seem to be a lot of stories these days about how scooters are the ecological alternative to conventional vehicles. One example is a recent news story in print and on television in Greensboro, NC, although they probably would refer to them selves as small town. You can take a look at it on their local CBS affiliates website WFMY. And of course, the other scooter news that I like to see is the story that talks about all the good things scoot people are doing. Three stories this past week pointed to scooter rides for worthy causes, one in England with the Midlife Crisis Scooter Club for the Cystic Fibrosis Fund, another a cross county ride for peace by Alix Bryant and the other, of course is Crystal Water’s ride to Vermont to benefit the Gifford Memorial Hospital.

Music for this show is from the Podsafe music network. Dice with Believe, Patrick Harris with Give her what she has been missing and a bonus track, Tom Smith Everything is Dangerous

This is a club that has it’s sh…. together. So Errol emails me saying he has produced the second video of the rally. Two complete videos within 4 days of the meet-up. Benny and Errol talk about the rally and there is video of the ride.

I couldn’t help but play around with the link from 2strokebuzz that provided modification of Steven Colbert’s “on notice” board. “Scooter bloggers, you are on notice.” Any suggestions why? Hope you enjoy this.