i’m pretty excited. she’s been at the scooter lounge for a while, so it’s good to have her back :)

did you hear? stella’s back. the scooter lounge has a handful.

i really like the lines of the vespa/stella/bajaj scooters. they’re clean and uninterrupted by cables. unfortunately these cables have to go somewhere to get from the handlebars to the engine where they’ll actually do some good. that means they’ve gotta go through the frame. this can make replacing the cables a bit of a pain…

when i was in seattle last summer i had to do an emergency cable housing repair. luckily, my amazing scooter mechanic Dave had some great advice on how to pull the new housing through the frame. it’s actually quite slick:

if you hadn’t heard, my scooter’s a bit broken. the exhaust has a crack in it, and it doesn’t work very well like that.

apparently barber brothers, our local mitsubishi dealer cum “vespa boutique” is giving away free 50cc vespas with the purchase of a new mitsubishi…

:(

a while back i mentioned my buddy’s amazing new tank scooter, and the worthless warranty it comes with…

we'll start with a few guiding principles

i went to the Scooter Lounge the other day and chatted with Dave about preparing for a short trip i was planning. in a nutshell, here are my thoughts on preparation for a scooter road trip:

i’m working on a writeup on how to prepare for a scooter road trip. until then, here are a couple of thoughts from my trip to logan and back last weekend: