Random Ramblings About This or That
High Rollers Weekend - Las Vegas, NV
The most recent issue of Scoot! Magazine came with a flyer advertising the 2009 High Rollers Weekend scooter rally in Las Vegas. They’ve posted pictures of past rallys on the website and it looks like a good time. If I can’t make this one I would definitely like to see what’s happening the following week in San Diego.
Learn to Skank on YouTube
Is there anything that you can’t learn on YouTube these day? We ran across some instructional videos on skanking and tons of footage of people skanking in places ranging from schools to SKA concerts. To see an (ahem) instructional video, check out this one put together by Caleb McGhoulson. And there’s some “old school” skanking here.
Vespa Lamp
Maurizio Lamponi Leopardi’s lamps are incredibly cool. He doesn’t list prices on the website but you can email him for a quote – and I suspect that they are very expensive.
Lamponi's Scooter Lamps
The trail took Steve Bendon to a nearby estate, where he spotted the culprit riding his treasured Vespa.
Police warned him not to try to apprehend the man – then called again the following day – to say the scooter had been damaged in a collision.
He was then given a £170 bill for releasing the damaged scooter from the recovery compound.
Mr Bendon’s Vespa – a 40th birthday present from his wife – was stolen from the garage at his home in Wellingborough, Northants.
When he called the police he was told he would have to wait for an officer to become available.
He set out himself, following the scooter’s tracks in the frost from his home to the town’s Hemmingwell estate, before they melted away.
That night he went back to the estate and saw the thief on his scooter.
Top Gear s12e08 - Vietnam Special
On Dec 28, 2008 Top Gear’s eighth episode of season twelve (s12e08) aired. This time Jeremy, James and Richard were givenmillions of Dong (Vietnamese currency) to buy vehicles and “do something that the Americans never could” – get from one end of Vietnam to the other. Unfortunately the exchange rate for Dong to Dollars isn’t quite what they’d hoped so they wind up on two wheels instead of four. Jeremy’s vintage Vespa (like most Vietbodges) continually breaks down and must be repaired using local parts and man power. There are some great scenes of scooters in general and it really gives some insight into the hard lives that the Vietnamese scooters have lived and the questionable repair tactics used to keep them on the road.
