Modern Vespa

Carol and I will be leaving Vacaville at 9:30am

I will be leaving as soon as i get dressed. if any one from berkeley oaktown wants to ride with me call me at 510.387.4110 I'll meet you some where. Ride safe Ruben O.

Yea the Bastards are leaving for Napa soon.

We have some crazy guy that's never rode a Vespa so stay away from the Bastard riding in the back of the pack. You really don't want to meet him by accident. He will have the Scooter with the Big get out of my way STAR on the side.....

See you all there, travel safe.

Don't be late.

I'm leaving in about 10 min to pick up donuts. I'll be there at 10AM

AWESOME RIDE!!!!!
33 Scooterists.

It was an awesome ride with great weather!

I just got back from riding with Ruben down through Vallejo to highway 80. What a fun day. Can't wait for Rides of March next weekend.

Thanks for everyone's help today. And for everyone that travelled from out of town to ride with us.

Just got back. Almost a 200 mile trip for us here in the city. Great time, thanks to everyone who came and road. Glad you made it Jess...The button Rocks!

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Great day for riding, cannot belive its still 'winter'....*smile

R

8)

thank you to everyone that came today
i had a great time
it was nice to see some new faces


Ryan,
thanks for letting me ride your GT60
im really inpressed

Great ride, great weather, great people. I was really impressed at how organized everything was, and John and the team led and blocked like pros. Viva la Napa!

Sounds, and looks, like a great time.

This was my first ride and I loved it! Lots of thanks to my hometown bastards. They rock! Hopefully one day I can achieve such greatness Here are a few of the piccys I took...


At the gas station in Sacramento filling the scooters with gas:


We are "taking the scooters for a ride" here


Unloading the scooters once we finally arrived in Napa:


Lunch at Taylors:


End of the ride shots...we're done...can't wait until next time!

What a fun day. It was really nice meeting all of you, hope to see you on more rides.

And Paige, thanks so much for letting me borrow your Buddy. I was amazed at how much fun it was riding it. It rawked!

thanks nvsc and everyone for a great ride.
nice to meet you, jess, valerie, cindy and other folks from this board.

-tom

Wow, what a great ride! Thanks so much to the Napa folks for treating us to such a great day.

Bastard Down! Bastard Down....

Hey thanks Jim, Kirsten, Curt, Tom, for coming to the aid of the fallen Bastard. He is a little sore but happy that he was only on a Baron Scooter.
His first ride and first ditch. I am sure his wife the CHP officer will be happy to hear that her husband has a scooter repair bill. We estimate the dammage to be around $200.00 yea it's a total..

His new nick name is Mud Surfer... That was one long painfull slide.

The clean up riders from Napa "Jed & Matt" you guys did a great job.
Thanks~

I'm glad he's OK. Mud Surfer if an awesome nick name. I'm glad to have been able to help keep the group together and safe.

Nice to have met you Lucky and Mud Surfer. You Bastards seem like a really great bunch.

"yeah, honey, it was a bummer when the scooter fell off the trailer into the mud. next time we'll tie it down better."

...and I got my pants and boots muddy trying to save it from hitting the ground.

Damn, sorry I missed it guys, my son got pinkeye this weekend so there was no way I could make it. Plus I would have been on the Triumph, and it looked like all scooters... I wouldn't want to get beat up.

No worries Chris. Hopefully we'll be seeing you in a few weeks at Scootouring. And the Triumph is always welcome, 'cuz it's so damn cool. 8)

It was about 260 for me RT from SJ Sunday. Nice Job NVSC!

Mike
"El Jefe"
VCLG 8)

260 miles RT Wow! Thanks for making the trip.

That's including the ride miles.

I did Cannonball on an ET4. Doing 260 miles on a GTS is not too bad, not bad at all.

Mike

Now that mileage makes more sense.

It's my turn next weekend to rack up the miles heading down to Rides of March, but the wife and I are driving and I'm gonna pilot Curt's Sidecar rig, or one of his other bikes.

sorry to hear about the Pinkeye
that shit hurts

Thats so funny. Yea we will be giving him so much crap the entire rest of his life..... Yea that may not be too long if he dosent get some safety gear and a safer Scooter. Those Baron scooter are way to dangerious to own...

the Ortiz family wanted to say thank you to everyone at the napa valley ride! We had a great time together. Sofia really loved sittng on the burgman 650 ! We also loved seeing everyone that we have not seen in awhile. I wanted to thank Jed for riding me out of the valley(it's always nice to have a wingman!) As always NVSC comes Thru!!!!

holy teh crap that looks like it was a crapton of fun. Sorry I missed out. Will try to be there next time

He's fine, the kid never gets sick and never complains at all. We didn't even know he had it until we noticed how red his eye was. At first we thought he poked it, but a day and a half later it was still red so he got to go to the docter.

bummer, hope all is healing up well.

Another thanks to NVSC.

Spalding Grey used to describe Perfect Moments in his monologues.

There were a bunch on that Sunday ride!

(Well, excepting the poor Bastard's less-than-perfect mud surfing moment)

/scott

What everyone else said. It was great meeting so many new people, especially the folks from Sacto. This ride definitely challenged my riding skills! More, please!

Total mileage for me that day was 180. My enormous thighs are still sore from grabbing the seat while on the 101.

That one longish hill climb after lunch has convinced me that I need some performance upgrades. At one point I was huffing and puffing, doing 30 at full throttle, and I half expected Lance Armstrong to pass me. Please PM me with recommendations!

--cindy (the only Daring Plum)

Cindy, you did great. We pretty much threw our most challenging roads at you and you handled them like a pro.

Ya, that long uphill after lunch (Oakville Grade) will show you what your scooter is made of. My old Vino 125 would slow down to about 25mph on that grade. I hear the 190 kit is the ticket on the LX.

I will second the 190 kit. SF Scooter Center can do a good job on this mod.

More and different pics up on the NVSC site.

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