SHOWNOTES: We have been making plans for Marcel starting her new consulting job. this has meant getting ready to move everything back from Cincinnati to Richmond and figuring out how to cram two homes into one. For all of you geekaholics out there, I have gone from running everything through my old keyboard preamp to a Mackie Onyx firewire setup. Hopefully it will mean cleaner sound. Drop me a note and let me know if you think it makes a difference.

We are both looking forward to this new adventure in her work, especially getting the opportunity to be in Denver more. I think Cincinnati has been a good layover for her, on her career track. Like one of my friends said, it’s good to know what your good at, but better to know what your not good at. It has made me think more about how it feels to be “on your game”. I think you know what I mean…that feeling that you know what you are doing, that the timing is right and you are doing something that really makes a difference.

Occasionally, like this week I find a new blog called skutegruven. His post is about wandering around on his scooter and being taken back in time, then coming to understand that we each, in our own way are looking for that feeling of family. It’s a long post, but well worth reading. I’ve continued to get email saying, talk about Maxi scooters. First you need to understand is what little I do know is about classic scooters. I am starting to understand that Maxi scooters are of great interest to allot of people and I need to learn about them before interviewing someone else. I’ll admit it, there is a personal agenda here, I don’t want to sound like a complete idiot on my own show. So this week I started my research by going down to the local Honda dealer and asking to see the scooters they had in stock

Scooter news and blog posts

London Bikers.com – Peugeot’s New C-tech

Gilera Fuoco 500 IE – great closeup of the steering mechanism used on this and the MP3
Rebirth of the Fiat 500 Car (like the Vespa 400 car of the 1960s)
1967 Vespa SS180 Restoration Blog started in December 06

Music for this show is from the Podsafe Music Network

Jimmie Bratcher with Drive
Geoff Smith with Not on the Radio
Mama’s and Papas from the Monterey Pop Festival with California Dreamin

 

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Show notes: It’s been another busy week, along with my regular job and all the meetings I go to, I have been spend most of my time at home setting up a myspace page. After a number of inquiries about “do you have a myspace page?” I caved and sat down to do some work on it. Look for it here. I guess I had this idea that myspace was about all these single (or maybe married acting single) people trying to hit on each other. But now I understand. In the few short days that my page has been up, I have gotten dozens of contacts from people asking about the show and maybe more important to me, I have had the biggest week of downloads ever. As a podcasters, I guess like a musician, you want others to hear what you produce, so like Orin said to me, this could really expand the audience who listens to SCTRCST
Marcel and I continue to plan her move from Cincinnati back to Richmond, Virginia. She is going to make this her home base for a new consulting company she will be working with. Since the company is based in Denver, it means her and hopefully I, will be getting back there more often.Having lived there for many years we still have many friends there and of course there is always Sportique Scooters, the place I were I would go when I got an itch for a new scooter in my early scooter days of scooting. It is also the home of some scooter legends like, Colin Shadduck who wrote Scooters: Red Eyes, Whitewalls & Blue Smoke Scooters Lawrence who I met at Amerivespa, emailed me to reminded me that the big Texas rally called Third Coast Rally in San Antonio is coming up October 5-7. Check out the rally site here. Also look at myspace page for the Scooter Club in Lawrence’s Brownsville Texas area. It is call the Scooter Club Golden Triangle and is here.

Scooter news and blog posts
Tricked-out scooters scream personality
Aprilia Mana 850 rolling off production lines
Italian Style at Navy Pier
Honda will introduce a Silverwing 750 at the Tokyo auto show (thanks to thescooterscoop)

Overview of Honda Motorcycle Exhibition for the 40th Tokyo Motor Show 2007 Girlbike world headquarters to move to Vermont

Music from the Podsafe Music Network
Lee Coulter with Outside
Ernie Payner with Nothing Wrong With Texas-that Leaving Wont Fix (apologies to The Scooter Scoop)
The Hot Rods with Judy’s Got a Stickshift

 

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SHOWNOTES: This show is chock full of information and news. I was fortunate to spend time yesterday speaking with Dave Dixon, in Vancouver, British Columbia about his blog (he rides a Vespa LX50). Big Guy Small Scooter another talented blogger for you to check out.

In an email from Errol  in Toronto he included a link to the latest update on Hayden Neale of Jacksoul. After his scooter crash he is still in critical condition, but starting to respond to doctors and treatment, which sounds like good news.

Other scooter news and blog posts:
Vintage vs modern vespa in Columbus OH
Once again the pros and cons of buying scooters made in China
Scooters in the Windy City
Kymco 700cc scooter

Music for this show can be found at the Podsafe Music Network
Boo Boo Davis from Netherlands with Tell me what to do
Darren Geffre from the US with Gasoline

 

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SHOWNOTES: Call the voice mail line at 206-888-6174 and tell me what you think of the show or let me know what kind of scooting activities are going on in your area. I have been looking to try to find out how Canadian Hayden Neale from Jacksoul is doing, but there hasn’t been much in the news about him and his website has not been updated. Anybody out there heard anything? Give me a call.
It has seemed that many of the scooter bloggers are slowing down a bit on posting. For me it means searching for more supplemental material and wondering each week what I will be talking about. So this morning, as a jump-start, I took off on my P200/sidecar rig for a ride into the country and some good old fashion open throttle riding. What that really means is pounding out 50 mph on a long downhill stretch. I realized that I haven’t said much lately about what is going on here at home, so in addition to this weeks news and blog reviews, we’ll do a little catching up.
Other scooter blog post that are up have very personal touches, like Honky Tonk Dragon and Ben’s plans to move from Oregon to Connecticut, with no job. How “in the moment” is that! Look at the following posts from and his starting over with his family or Little Billy’s Scooter Tales where Bill talks about his new responsibilities for helping guide their employee run business. An then there is the ever evolving and surprisingly transparent Combat Commuter, who bravely has opened up about his family and talking about what is important to him. These are people living and experiencing life as it is today and what pushes people to be better than we are or better that we were.
Marcel, my wife has been out west in Montana that past few days. Some of you may remember that she has been working in the land of ScooterDave in Cincinnati for the past few years and commuting back and forth on the weekend from here in Richmond Virginia. I think this trip has been a soul search for both of us, trying to regroup and get back to creating more of a life together. I must say that over the time we have been together, which is many years, she also has been much more the risk taker when it comes to employment, than I have ever been. But she has also helped me understand that with risk taking come the potential for great rewards and that is what I am talking about. So best of luck to Ben and Bill and the Combat Commuter and oh, yeah I guess I should say good luck to Marcel and me as it looks like she is coming home and we are embarking on a new adventure with each other and with her work.

Other scooter news and blog posts:
Piaggio continues to move forward in Vietnam
Honda announces lineup for 2008
Piaggio keeps pushing it’s MP3 “it’s fun and stable”
Crystal Waters review of “The Compete Idiot’s Guide to Scooters”

MUSIC
Podsafe Music Network
Steve Paroe from Switzerland with Mary, Mary
Girl stuff from Switzerland with a little hip hop called MI CHIEDO SE (I ask myself)
Italians from Italy of course! with Strong Enuff

 

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