Crude City Scooter Club

Hi all. After spending a number of Thursday evenings riding around fruitlessly in search of the Vapours meet-up in the past year, I checked out one of their former meetings spots that I half-remembered from some random post a while back -- and lo and behold, a new scooter group was meeting there, th...

No contest! Guilty as charged.

I don't think so -- Ralph had wanted one for years. I will look for a Heinkel or an IWL, both of which are a bit bigger and more robust than the Bella.
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I don't think so -- Ralph had wanted one for years. I will look for a Heinkel or an IWC, both of which are a bit bigger and more robust than the Bella.

171 cc, 14" wheels, liquid-cooled, cruises at 110 km/h, peaking out around 120-- It's a much better bike than my Honda Elite 250 -- and just as ugly! Now that I have removed all the stickers and badging, and added by own little touches (black daisies and dragonflies -- yes, I chose them AND my ...

Just as I was getting used to the idea of managing in rainy Victoria without a garage, having sold my Zündapp Bella and my R100, and purchased a plastic-clad 170 cc SYM scooter (HD 200) that I did not mind leaving outdoors in all weather (will post pic later), I found a garage to rent close by... n...

This looks like a must-visit: https://www.classicdriver.com/en/articl ... newsletter

Ah yes, that Honda. Thought you had already sold it.

Honda???

Glad to hear it, John! But seriously, there are not enough exciting little packages from SIP or the like in the entire world to give you what you really do deserve as our in-house master mechanic, pep-talker, good-humorator, social convenor, sometime ride-master, etc. And once again, I got precisely...

I for one plan to eat breakfast at what will be 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, or some such wildly inappropriate time -- thanks to the bizarre fluctuations we subject ourselves to as a society so that farmers can run the big projector bulbs on their combines for one hour less per night come September each yea...

11:00 it is. I plan to do a bit of a ride afterwards at any rate.

Wish I could be there. I'll be cowering indoors in rainy Victoria instead...

Great coffee at Dirtbags Cafe today. Good choice. I will be returning for south-facing sunshine, unpretentious interior, and excellent espresso. Nice to see so many out to ride in the middle of October!

Glad to hear you outran winter -- again! Though if you do encounter snow, a hack is the rig you want to be on. Nice riding shaping up for Van Isle the next few days!