Rover Eric wrote:
I dunno. I think i've just realized it's far more productive to try to convince people that vintage scooters are a viable, cool thing rather than try to convince people who have modern scooters that their scooter is uncool.
You've done the same by starting the Corsa race - that's a positive step.
I don't think modern scooters are uncool. I think they're too expensive for what I would do to them, which is wreck them by dropping them on the sidewalk trying to make happy hour. Also if I can't tear down a motor and put it back together in 6-8 hours I'm not interested in it. At that point it ceases to be a viable fun hobby and is instead something I have to send to someone specialized then wait weeks for it to get back to me then write them a check.
It's many of the -people- who are uncool. I know I'll be negged out the ass for that one but naming scooters, having scooter songs, toot toot tooting in tunnels, having matching Vespa gear from Dome of Obedience to chaps, yakking on about Toreador Pants to ride a block to pick up a six pack, complaining that the raffle isn't at 7 pm so they can go home and get a good night's rest and, well, just being f'ing Nerds.
I know many of MVers aren't like that, but damn, many are. Just read the threads reposted over on the BBS from here
I mean to go a pretty much modern Vespa rally and then go to PVSC - THAT's the difference in a nutshell. I just get along better with the PVSC type people or the Rabble Rousers in Philly, or the Sole Survivors and, hell, probably the Rovers if I actually wasn't too lazy to get to Detroit for a rally. Hell I'd probably get along with Jess if he wasn't so keen on marketing Nerdom and Sensitivity to an entire populace swayed by a clever marketing campaign so he can make money the more people he gets visiting his site...
Just different folks is all. Different attitudes about life.
But shit, I'm friends with a lot of them, nerds that they are. I just don't like them in groups.