SHOWNOTES: Just a quick reminder, I now have a voice mail number you can call from your phone 206-888-6174. It is listed at the top of the web page and should scroll in the podcast title for those of you using an ipod.

The POR-15 product for reconditioning my 180ss tank came this week. Take my suggestion and just order it from the company website, it was here in three days. If you are planning this project, make sure you have time to complete the whole thing, that way there is less likelihood of any flash rusting, before you can get the tank coated. Just so you know, you will not find that everyone agrees with coating a tank. I think this comes from using inferior product and having the tank lining deteriorate over time.

There is an interesting blog post over on Modvespa.com taking about the restoration of an NSU scooter. NSU is from Germany and this on has been on the scoot.net website before. It is a 1956 Prima D and I’ll have links to both the ModVespa blog post and the original post at scoot.net. This is the kind of European scooter you don’t see over in the US very often.

Vespa has started pushing hard on their “Go Green” campaign The have put up another flashy website encouraging us all to make videos praising the Vespa as a tree hugger’s dream. At the moment there are only a few short clips, but given that they are offering to give away a couple of scooters for the best ones, I’m sure they will start flooding in. There will be a link in the show notes to the Go Green Vespa Video Challenge.

MUSIC Podsafe Music Network, Gatlinburg by Quarter Drawn Band, PJ Style Blues and Gasoline by Justin Gordon

 

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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

 

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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: 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.

 

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