speedway

“Speedway” by Sybil Andrews, 1934. Via: Dwell

Ride the Machine..

Spawn, Custom Bicycle

so very cool, but i would totally hurt myself trying to ride it.

Spawn, Custom Bicycle – via.

Welcome to Vintage Motos

Welcome to Vintage Motos.

Denver’s vintage and modern PTW museum.

i think if i can’t get over there soon i might just wilt into a little blonde puddle and die.

Get Out & Ride Magazine

what looks to be a moped ‘zine.

Get Out & Ride Magazine.

also – New Café Racer Society seems inexplicably to have changed their name. why? the original had more panache, frankly.

http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/

well, whatever.

Top 10 Reasons why riders don't wave back.

Top Ten Reasons Why Harley Riders Don’t Wave Back

10. Afraid it will invalidate warranty

9. Leather and studs make it too heavy to raise arm

8. Refuse to wave to anyone whose bike is already paid for

7. Afraid to let go of handlebars because they might vibrate off

6. Rushing wind would blow scabs off the new tattoos

5. Angry because just took out second mortgage to pay luxury tax on new Harley

4. Just discovered the fine print in owner’s manual and realized H-D is partially owned by Honda

3. Can’t tell if other riders are waving or just reaching to cover their ears like everyone else

2. Remembers the last time a Harley rider waved back; he impaled his hand on spiked helmet

1. They’re too tired from spending hours polishing all that chrome to lift their arms.

via Top 10 Reasons why riders don’t wave back… – Hayabusa.oRg.

I get around

Retro Vespa Pin 2 1/4 inch by picturama on Etsy.

Look, Internet, it’s only $2.50. surely you can afford to buy me this, Internet.

you would, if you loved me.

Street photography of scoots & riders! « Who rides a Vespa?

check out this beautiful gallery of the Vespa Club of the Philippines.

Street photography of scoots & riders! « Who rides a Vespa?.

Scooter gang raids Mayfair designer store

Scooter gang raids Mayfair designer store

A gang of scooter robbers staged a raid on a designer store in Mayfair last night stealing thousands of pounds of leather jackets.

The four-strong gang, on two mopeds, struck at the Belstaff store in Conduit Street and used two large stones to break the glass front doors at about 11pm.

The two pillion riders grabbed several designer jackets and stuffed them into bags before the gang rode off towards Berkeley Square.

The Belstaff store specialises in motorcycle clothing and Ewan McGregor used the clothes for his BBC series Long Way Down.

*giggles*

for some reason, putting the words “scooter” and “gang” together in the same sentence makes me giggle. and when you add mayhem and chaos into the mix, well. *cackle*

..besides, come on. it’s Belstaff gear. those brothers needed those jackets. *cackle*

okay, tucking my amorality away now.

2010 Geneva: Honda 3R-C

oh, Honda, you wild and wacky kids.

2010 Geneva: Honda 3R-C Another Urban Mobility Dream Machine – Wide Open Throttle – Motor Trend Magazine.

BUT DOES IT FLY? i mean look at it.

Don’t put plastic bags on your head

Don’t put plastic bags on your head.

a friendly reminder from my neighbor and hardware slave, Alex.

Tiffany Scooter charm

Tiffany & Co. | Item | Scooter charm in sterling silver with Tiffany Blue® enamel finish.

Vespa Rocking ‘Horse’

oh look, it’s yet another in the newly discovered line of PTW-themed rocking-horses. shades of the cruiser frame rocking horse, anyone?

it’s cute that they’re convinced this was upcycled from a real body. that’s some rear cowling, innit?

FFFFOUND! | Vespa Scooter Turned Vespa Rocking ‘Horse’? »

Vespa Scooter Graphic Print tee

*MAKES GRABBY HANDS*

Vespa Scooter Graphic Print Alternative Apparel by happyfamily.

Asheville scooterjacker gets 8 years in scooter attacks

remember the crazy rash of assaults on scooterists in and around Asheville, a couple years ago?

Leicester man gets 8 years in scooter attacks | citizen-times.com | Asheville Citizen-Times.

“Brett Roger Griffin, 22, of Israel Road, pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and aiding assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Griffin was sentenced this week in Buncombe County Superior Court to 96-134 months in state prison, according to the District Attorney’s Office.[...] The other attacker, Jeffrey Lane Gillespie, 26, of Pennant Road, Leicester, was sentenced earlier this month to 160-210 months in prison.”

so that’s what, three years with good behavior? and what about the woman mentioned?

if i were the type of lady to advocate violence, i know what i’d recommend to the local scootering community. three to five years isn’t all that long to wait.

iScoot.org

are you on iscoot?

if so, add me, o reader.

iScoot.org | modchen

if not, check it out! it’s new and swell.

in which #himself huffs my head while we get photobombed by a ghost.

Vesta Dipping Grill, Denver, CO, Feb 28 2010

happy dydd dewi sant

happy st. David’s day.

i’d like to take this opportunity to remind all of you that welsh bitches ain’ playin’.

it’s the little things that matter.

mottos

tomorrow becomes never.

quality not quantity.

ancora imparo.

this too shall pass.

earthquake worries

please send good thoughts, love, housing Wa and related radiations towards our good friend, founding member of the Colorado Lost Fleet, and pillar of the FoCo Killer Bees:

miss tia saavedra dell, who is having quite an adventure, to say the least, down in Chillán, Chile, right now.

tia, aimee, kriska

we are worried.

bubble visor, the blog

bubble visor, MF’er. Do You Read It?

you should.

i’m also liking Nostalgia on Wheels.

of course.

Bicycle crime fighter vs. scooter villians | TheScooterScoop

HAH!

Bicycleman wins. From what I understand a lady in Wenzhou, China had her purse snatched by a couple of thugs on a scooter, she screams. Just seconds later security cameras catch a bicycling bystander calmly dismounting his bicycle and then forcefully hurling it at the criminals sending them sliding down the pavement. The moral of this story, “Only use your scooter powers for GOOD!”.

via.

nota bene

i’ve been gone for a while, as you may have noticed.

due to, among other things, technical issues, a heavily dreary winter, financial turmoil, and plain overcommittment.
i’m not sure the latter will change: i rather like having my fingers in a lot of pies.
so i’m going to attempt to compartmentalize: scooter stuff, general PTW stuff, pictures and so forth and some unavoidable (always unavoidable with me anyway) cultural commentary will go here, while design- and tech-related material will go on my vanity domain, imagedumps and art bloggery on my tumblr, political ramblings on my other tumblr, steampunk stuff on the Chrononauts’ League blog, and crossnotifiers on twitter.

i’m not entirely sure where to put makery or general geekery or green topics. so. i’ll figure it out. it’ll take a bit to set this up anyway.

chiefly this is as much as to say: i’m not dead, just busy.

as proof herewith: one (1) image of madame wilderkind and myself, mardi gras.

glamour shot

ciao, belli.

randoma

i’ve been quiet lately because i’m in one of those places in life when there doesn’t seem much to say.

it’s not that there isn’t anything going *on*. it’s just that nothing seems adequate to say about the things i’m doing. i suppose it’s less apathy than a conviction that pictures say more than i can, just now. i do my thing: work (there’s quite a lot of it), make things, play my game, devise things, hang out places, do things with #himself. what else can one say about one’s life that isn’t tedious, or precious, or attention-whorish?

i’m in one of those places where everything superficial seems nauseatingly vapid. and that happens to me sometimes.

it’s a foggy day in Denver. real, eyebleaching, chalky fog. in fact, it’s been quite an Oregonian week. weather conducive to mystery, perhaps even mayhem. good weather to get one in the halloween spirit, certainly.

we have been going to Twin Peaks nights, Wednesdays at the White Owl. this is *definitely* the weather for that. see flickrish bits at right if you want to see what i look like dressed up as Julee Cruise.

tonight i’m doing Dead Teresa Banks. wrapped in plastic. so that’ll be fun.

this week is packed. thursday i’m going to try to get down to the Tesla meetup (i miss carol, and I think i’ve only met three or so of those kids). and i have a friday thing. and a saturday thing.

of busylife there’s little to be said, until it ends.