Modern Vespa

~ 2 hrs later ~

Was all this prerecorded and you're just messing with us?! Bet you guys are in San Luis having some cold brews right now.🙂

Ha, you overestimate our cleverness.

Long shadows growing in here in Laguna … had to sort electrical gremlins on the Unicorn.

Est. departure time still uncertain… coming along though.

well... at least it'll be after traffic now?

*ducks*

Ned generously said I was under no obligation to stay and sort it out. So at 2:00 I did the math and decided I'd like dinner in SLO. I figured they wouldn't be that far behind. I get hangry, what can I say?!?!

Even so I didn't make the evening ride. Probably 50 scoots blasted by as I took a walk over to Chipotle. Gonna be big tomorrow.

We're off!
Just on time.

Who's truck is that? Looks like a 2021 Ram cummins Laramie?

I think that's Ned's

if it is, and it's the same one Birb's and I rode in with him to get tacos it's super luxo!

No such luck. We are here, though, enjoying the lovely cold rain and wind.

Hopefully we will emerge in the morning like the chrysalis from its cocoon into a lovely sunny spring day. That or we'll just be wet.

ahhh... back to ye olde Rains of March format this year...

Tides of March.
Sky is blue now.
If they could only managed to get us going on time…
Would be nice

Re Truck: guilty as charged

Glad you guys made it, at least for today's ride and festivities.

My mouth is watering for a tri-tip barbeque

Current status...

Couldn't have met a nicer bunch of guys from NSM! Only got to spend an hour and a half there this morning but was totally worth it to see the crew and the scoots. Going to be bring my GS next year. The others I met were just as cool.

Rad.

Looks like a solid turnout.

Solid MV representation, even geeklion made a guest appearance

Nice meeting you Rob.
You missed out on a fun ride.
I inhaled so much two stroke smoke today I can still taste it.

Yes, nice to meet FNG and BajaRob. Now I'm off to win that raffle scooter…

The scenery is great!

Definitely a great time, albeit a bit rainy in places. Once the weather decided to cooperate, though, it was an excellent time.

SoCal's P200 was a champ, not even complaining when I jumped on the 101 with it for almost 20 miles, not once but twice.

I had one exciting moment on a downhill hairpin turn in a downpour. Wound up in about a 45 degree skid, sliding toward the edge of a cliff. Luckily I managed to recover before this story had to be told about me in the third person. Luckily, I was NOT riding too fast for the conditions, but still a little more excitement than I really needed.

My first scooter, a Serveta, lives here now with a good owner named Josh. He's made it better than I could imagine, though it still threw a panel on him today

lol!

The dude behind you seems to be enjoying the view as well

Do i see a silver Squaretail with fully hydro bakes in the background? In fact i see a lot of disc brake conversions in your pic.

Don't see any smallies… someone represent…! Lol

Sorry I missed you guys at the lunch.
I had to get home because my daughter and her husband were in for a visit.
She brought me a present.

Dude...I wondered where you went!

Congrats! Tell then to keep it in their pants ahead of next year.

Yeah that's hard to avoid

I meant to use this one

There were only a couple, I know I saw an ET3.

Advil

I liked the first one. Really captured the spirit of the moment.

How about this one?

the mid-cal guys don't play around. they build some serious machines up there and host epic rides.

Anyone making it out for the Sunday ride?

Hopefully you're on it.
Prefumo canyon?

Totally bummed I didn't make it.
"Repaired" truck wouldn't even cooperate out of my driveway.
Did the unload of shame from truck to garage in pouring rain here

Well you are "lucky " the truck didn't start.
Only a few scooters showed up for the ride. We sat around for a while watching the rain. Eventually the ride was canceled.

Doh! Glad I stopped by though to get a hello in for a few minutes before heading out. But looks like I made a good call.

Honestly the best part of ROM was getting to meet and get to know all these great MV people who showed up. Turns out the people on this forum are real people and good ones to boot!

I'm actually a ghost, but I manifest pretty well.

I 100% agree. Putting real faces and names to usernames was hands-down the best part of the trip.

It was awesome getting to meet BajaRob (who rode all the way up to SLO to bring me the Justin Case), even though I've never actually forgotten a cotter pin (As we all know, I'm much more innovative than that when it comes to scooters and destruction).

Getting to see FNG, SDJohn, CM2, SoCal, as well as other old friends, plus all the other new friends I made along the way is always just excellent.

I got to do some serious wrenching on SoCal's P200, help CM2 re-assemble The Unicorn, help multiple other riders with everything from sorting a clutch to diagnosing electrical and carb issues to rescuing another rider who'd run out of gas.

SoCal's P200 was a champ. I had it WOT three times on the 101 for 15, 15, and 20 miles and was loving every minute.

One thing I loved was how unique all the bikes were. While there were some of the nicest resto's I've seen, especially the Rally's for whatever reason, even with 150+ bikes, I don't think any two were the same.

To all of you who could only be with us in spirit, know you were missed and start planning earlier next year.