SHOWNOTES: I have been way over busy the past couple of weeks, but this also means that I have been traveling a bit and this translates into time in the car when I can catch up on listening to podcasts. I haven’t talked much about other podcasts I listen to, but I have gotten a few emails asking me about how I got into podcasting. My first podcast was an automotive podcast called Whiteroof Radio. It is a podcast where three guys talk about the new BMW Mini Coopers. I have tried a number of other automotive podcasts, but most don’t hold my interest, either because they are about things I am not interested in or to be honest, they are too technical for me. There aren’t many other scooter podcasts out there, but I want to suggest you check into one called Just Gotta Scoot. David Harrington is a scooterist up in Minnesota that has a number of scooters and probably as many different business interests. You can find out more about all this at his website Just Gotta Scoot,.David may not be everyone’s picture of the typical scooter fanatic, but his last show with Phil McCaleb from Genuine Scooters or you may know him as the owner of Scooter Works of Chicago was great! Regardless of what you think of Phil or Scooterworks, his story about creating the Genuine Scooter company and their network of dealers is really interesting.

This week I got an unsolicited suggestion from Marcel that I consider getting another scooter. Is she the perfect wife or what? But I think it really is more that over these many years we have developed a regard for each other that is unique. I use to worry about every penny we spent, you could even say, there was a time when I was the naysayer of doom. But then I started to realize that even if things didn’t follow the path I had marked out they always seemed to turn out OK. So as of today, I am officially researching my next scooter, and will share that experience with you over the next few episodes. Hopefully it will be a little less impulsive that some of my other automotive purchases and I will try to impart some of my success and failure as I go along.

Scooter news and blog posts

1. Gotta start with my homeboy at Little Billy’s Scooter Tales talking about northwest scooting and a new helmet.
2. Girlbikes’ post about fall riding hazards
3. Peanut Butter Scooter Time blog from Columbus Ohio, they know about cold weather riding
4. Riding technique at Musings of an Intrepid Commuter
5. Milan Motorcycle convention and Piaggio multi-line new offerings
6. Motorcycle news site has info on the Piaggio X7
7. Always classy material from the Scooter Scoop, a test drive video of the Smart Car.

Music for this show is from the Podsafe Music Network
Beau Hall with Behind Bars
Secrets in Stereo with Quit and Go Home Adam Woodall Band with Coming Home Soon

 

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