Modern Vespa

This will probably not mean too much for many on this forum, but I just had to tell someone.

In Brisbane, Me and my wife rode out with the Merlo Red Ride for Life campaign on Saturday. Merlo is a coffee roaster who sponsored the coffee and sausage sizzle.

The campaign united riders to donate blood for Australian Red Cross Blood Service.

It wasn't raining when we left and we both thought "naaaah - it won't rain. It just looks a bit overcast". Needless to say, it teemed down for the whole ride and for the rest of the day. We arrived at the donor centre bedraggled and cold.

The local news (channel 9) was at the donor centre when the bikes started to roll in and we got about 3-4 seconds of my black MP3, full frame! We're both stoked!!!!

I"m trying to work out how to convert DVR-MS to MPEG now so I can post the news snippet up somewhere for you all to look at.

Last year, it was only me on my Vespa ET4 150cc scoot, WOT all the way down the highway to the donor centre but this year, there was one other scooterist. He was 2-up with his partner. And what was he riding? A Vespa PX200!

Congrats. I for one would love to see it! I haven't had the pleasure of riding all day in the rain yet. Hopefully soon, though.

That's too cool - kinda made the wet ride worth it - hope you get the video figured out - we would love to see it.

Haven't had a chance to snip the news snippet yet (have the software ready at home). In the meantime, here are some photos:



Some of the motorbikes assembled outside the torrefazione.



Kim on the back and me waving to the photographer, Zie, who was kind enough to send us pics.



Another shot with a view back along North Quay in the CBD



A bedraggled Jared (who decided not to don the wet weather gear despite it being overcast) and a dry kim. Her RJays jacket works a treat and she was warm as toast she said.



A shot of Kim and Zie, the photographer.

After much delay, here is the news snippet. It is hosted on photobucket:

http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/gg230/jaredmorgs/?action=view&current=NineNews_NINEHD_05_07_2008_18_00_05.flv

Enjoy

The pics are too cool, how'd Zie not fall off?

My question Jared, did they take your blood before or after the coffee and sausage?
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Apparently Zie does this all the time. She is just a very good pillion rider, I guess.

My intra-venious caffeine donation was well appreciated...

That is way cool!! Congrats.!!!!!!