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Vespa Raffle to raise money for New Orleans Arts Council

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

I recently got this email from Jen Sharp of Vespa New Orleans:Here’s a hand painted GT that Vespa New Orleans and the Arts Council of New Orleans are going to raffle off October 7th. Only 250 tickets are going to…

Mid-grade or 87 octane fuel in an LX?

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Thanks to everyone who replied with your mileage numbers. A reader, Harv, posted this in the “comments” section, and I thought it warranted a post. I’ve only used high octane in all my scooters, so I can’t answer his question:…

Vespas at 14,000 feet - an adventure

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Don’t miss the travelogue recently posted by David Westman about his group’s trip up to the top of Mt. Evans in Colorado. It doesn’t need an intro, just start reading: When you live in Colorado, there’s always an adventure awaiting…

Ride to Work Day - July 19

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Mark your calendars - next Wednesday, July 19, is the 15th Annual Ride to Work day for motorcyclists and scooterists. Held every year on the third Wednesday of the month, Annual Ride to Work Day has the mission to advocate…

Act of God

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

I am glad that June is over. It’s been a bizarre month. It began with a bang but went out with a bust. That’s the reason you haven’t heard much from me of late. There is an unspoken rule on…

The luckiest person alive: Shreve Stockton

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

I heard about Shreve Stockton’s scooter adventures on a new forum, dcscoots. Stockton, a 29-year-old writer and photographer, decided to move from San Francisco to New York - and did the trip on her Vespa ET. The site, Vespa Vagabond,…

getting Vespalitical

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

By now, you’ve probably heard about the Vespatition, part of Vespa USA’s new Vespanomics campain. I’d been hoping Neil would post about it, since he’s much better at political pundicity than I am. My initial reaction was that the Vespanomics…

just a quick catch-up

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Wow, you’d think that both of us must really suck at this blog stuff if we can’t come up with any posts for this long! Well, Neil has a good excuse: He’s one of the founders/event planners/coordinators for the New…

Vespazine Lives!

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

Yes, I am still around. Trying to get my lazy hands to click on my blogger link and start posting to Vespazine again. A lot has happened since my last posts. Vespa turned 60, the Piaggio MP3 was released, some guy from the Sopranos (sorry I don’t watc…

Vietnam Vespa Club Celebrates World Cup With Parade

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

DO NOT buy a Vespa from Vietnam. Instead, enjoy this news story about The Vietnamese Vespa Club celebrating the start of the World Cup with a Vespa parade including jerseys and matching decorations to represent each country participating in the World C…