6 posts tagged “motorscooter”
This has been a great couple of weekends for my vehicle hobbies. I've done a little wrenching in the garage, helped a good friend get a classic BMW motorcycle, and gone to two scooter rallies. The Bay Area is so awesome for this stuff. There are so many events going on for classic vehicles that I have to really prioritize which I go to.
Last Saturday I went on a 100 mile ride with some of the East Bay scooterists. We rode up through the East Bay hills all the way down to Castro Valley. Those are some pretty awesome roads, and it is hard to believe that they are just 5 minutes from Berkeley and Oakland. Towards the southern end of Skyline road, there are people with horses stabled at their houses. And this is in Oakland! Crazy. After Castro Valley (which is a dump) we drove up to Pleasanton. Talk about a "white-bread" suburb! I guess it could be worse. In any case, we drove through some pretty amazing backroads going through the Livermore wine country, and eventually ended up back in Berkeley. Lots of fun, and it was a full day of great riding in amazing weather.
A few weeks ago I went to a really excellent scooter rally in Santa Cruz. This is my kind of rally. It is classic-scooter only, and pre-1960 scooters are highly encouraged. This rally was awesome. There were the most 1950's Vespas on that ride that I have ever seen at a rally... and this includes the big 300+ scooter rallies. People just don't ride these old scooters around much, mainly because they are slow and hard to keep running. I brought my '59 Vespa G.S.
Here are a few pictures. If you care, you should click the bottom picture which will bring you to a "collection" of a bunch of great pictures from the rally.
I should also mention that these photos were taken by Monterey Pete while riding his scooter through the rally. Pretty amazing. They are stored on scoot.net's image gallery.
I have been on vacation for the past week, and am getting ready for more... but I wanted to post a few pictures of the Moto Melee while it was still fresh in my mind. The Moto Melee is a three day 1000 mile vintage motorcycle ride through the state of Northern California. It goes through the back roads, and covering some territory which the average person never sees. The roads are chosen for their twistiness and for the beauty of the landscape. This has got to be the best vintage ride in the country, and it is certainly an unbelievable experience. There is nothing like challenging yourself and your riding skills on crazy mountain roads astride a 50 year old machine. It is exhilarating, that's for sure. Add to that the bonus of seeing some seriously amazing motorcycles the way they were meant to be - on the road - and you have the ingredients of a great weekend. See more pictures by clicking the photo/folder below which will take you to my photo collection.
I'm sure that all of my scooter friends have seen this already... but just in case you haven't...
I'm trying out Comet dudes. Yeah. Check out this scooter I'm selling... it is DOPE-A-LICIOUS!!!
