Category: scooters
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When My Number Was UP: A Six Sentence Story
It was exciting to take a helicopter ride over Alaskan glaciers; the view was stunning, and the sounds in the chopper were just like the sounds you hear in films and TV shows. I couldn’t help but feel that the pilots for these tours had to ask themselves from time…
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One Thing I Don’t Miss About Scootering
Back in 2010, fourteen years before the crash that ended the “scooter” part of BurgerScoot, I would ride around Sacramento enjoying my newfound freedom. (I had stopped driving many years before, and my modes of transportation were limited to bicycling, riding Sacramento’s abysmal Regional Transit system, or having either of…
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The Accident, the Smell of Jimboy’s, Recovery, & the End of Scootering
On September 25, 2024, I got into a traffic accident while riding home on my scooter. I am a retiree, but I occasionally work part-time as a retired annuitant at my old job. I traveled about 10 or 15 miles an hour in congested traffic and did not stop in…
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New reflectors for my ride (and other boring stuff)
I picked up my Vespa from Scooter City the other day after some expensive work was done on it. Hopefully, the leaky back tire is fixed for good. I’ve been in to have this leaky tire fixed for the third time. This time I put my foot down and told…
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My Scooter’s Long-Lost Twin
How many years have I had my Vespa? I don’t recall exactly, but it has been around ten years. And in that time, I had never seen a Portofino green Vespa Granturismo 200L like mine. (Actually, I did see one while on a Google Maps search of Oxford, England. It…
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Burger Patch and Scooter Parts
Burger Patch and my perpetual (failing) diet This blog started out in part to investigate hamburgers from Sacramento restaurants, bar & grills, and food trucks. That part didn’t last–dieting got in the way. I’ve been trying to lose weight and to cut back (way back) on beef and dairy. This…
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Five Guys, another fat guy on a scooter, and the burning question that just might render all this burger scooting irrelevant
As the subtitle of this blog suggests, I don’t review burger joints very often anymore. Also, now that I am almost as fat as I have ever been, I have made a couple of healthy half measures (I rarely stick to whole measures): cut way down on dairy and…
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Hi-V and my ugly safety vest
Early this month I had my third near collision on my scooter with a car. This time just like the first time the driver of the vehicle pulled out of a parking lot to cross my lane only to notice me too late. Thanks to me I stopped in time…
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Rolf Soltau and the Vespa Tech Workshop I may never use
I was looking up something about my Vespa. In grand Jockomo fashion I had forgotten what a particular indicator light meant on my scooter’s instrument cluster and after failing to find the information in either the Google or Google Images results I pulled up YouTube and entered the same criteria. When the results…
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Finding My Vespa
I recently got my scooter towed. I and three or four motorcyclists had been parking our rides in a tow away zone for a couple of days. Sure there were signs, but each day I found my Vespa in the spot where I left it–in between two signs prominently stating:…
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