This is “The Morning Run – Mizuno Ad“, Patrick Barry’s promo for sports company Mizuno was shot on 10 cartridges of 200T Vision 2 negative film stock with a Canon 1014E camera. Go to www.bluellamastudios.com for more on Patrick’s work. I happened upon this while looking into a post on scooters and retro-technology. What makes this fascinating is that this and a whole world of 8 mm camera fanatics are out there making beautiful clips, while the rest of us (me included) are fiddling around with little flip video cameras. Check out onsuper8.org where “The technology of yesterday becomes the artform of today”

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 EPISODE 85 - SCOOTERCAST Scooter Internet Radio: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Some of you know that my politics lean a bit left. At one point in my life I think my family might have worried that I was part of the weather underground. Over the years I have morphed into a passionate community organizer. This was a good week. It started with an old fashion rally at the State capital that drew more than 500 people. Later that same say, people with all kind of disabilities flooded the committee hearing and demanded a voice in determining state budget cuts. Watching it all I thought to myself, this is the right thing to do.

After all the excitement and several long days, it was good to get back home and be able to retreat to the garage. I spent most of the day Friday, fashioning a new ignition coil, but even with the extra work I get no spark. This is another caution, before you take on restoring a piece of forty year old junk, triple check the availability of parts. I figure that I have two options, I either wait and hope that a new stator emerges from some dusty shelf or I go see if Dave the mechanic can construction some form of hybrid solution.

I have been noticing a number of scooter blogs that have started up in the past year and then have gone silent. So what happened? I think I know. I get focused on other things and all of a sudden it has been a week since I have posted. The other thing I rediscover is that bloggin and pod casting is work. You have to be disciplined, organized yourself and set a schedule or it just doesn’t happen. On January 29th I will have finished two years of blogging and pod casting. Come to think of it, thats a lot of talking (writing).

Webpicks

• Copart is a leading online remarketer of vehicles including scooters and motorcycles, selling more than 1 million vehicles per year.

• A very popular scooter post this week had to do with a Portuguese craftsman Carlos Alberto who hand built a beautiful wooden Vespa

• Scooter Rats Garage is an incompete site with potential and Vespa Guide is a resource for scooter mechanics

Music for this show is from the Podsafe Music Network and features The Plastic Soul Band

It is not unusual to see police in Italy riding motorcycles and scooters. Apparently this is becoming more true here in the U.S. and other parts of the world as documented at the aptly named “police scooters” website. I was also glad to see that it looks like New Orleans Vespa got a bit of the action down in the big easy.

 

 SCOOTERCAST Episode 84: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Cold weather doesn’t start in Richmond, VA until January and is usually over by the end of February. That’s not a season, that’s cold snap. So scooting here is mostly a matter of bundling up and staying warm. My prep consisted of purchasing a new riding suit.It is a First Gear one-piece, medium weight, lined and has reflective material sewn into the suit. It is large enough to step into and to fits over any of my other riding gear, without feeling like a wet suit. You know, the kind that you have to peel off? If you order one, be careful not to go too large, they are big.

The new and old bike both appreciate a little winterizing with Sta-bil. The treatment is good for running in cold damp weather and if you are going to store your scoot for any length of time as it keeps adatives in the fuel from detriorating and removes water that might get into the tank through condensation.

For other other old weather riding suggestions I am going to suggest a David Westman post at the SQREAM scooter Club. David rides his scooter all winter long and is the founder of the Denver SQREAM (Scooter Queers Riding Everywhere and More). He writes about about clothing, scooter maintanance and riding/road conditions.

This Weeks Webpicks

• The Houston Scooter Battalion, still scooting in the sun and enjoying the brewskis
• SoCal Scooter Blog showing off the Ruckus Cheesecake calender shoot

Music for this show is from the Podsafe Music Network and features the Brendan Boogie Band