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SCOOTER NEWS
April 29, 2006
Club Ride Leduc, AB. - The weather was fantastic as we rode through Leduc, West to Rollyview, then north to Beaumont. We came back around through Nisku and ended back at Cafe Eden in Leduc for some coffee and great conversation. It was warm, and we had met up with our newest member Gene Eckert of Leduc. Gene rides a beauty of a super-scoot, the Suzuki Burgman 650. better yet, his trusty companion Brownie, a sweatered pooch, sits on his step-through, on a piece of carpet and rides like an "Easy Rider" See our "Member Gallery" for photos.
April 25, 2006 Reynolds-Alberta Museum kicks off final summer of motorcycle exhibition
roads? Wan'na tear up the pavement with your ride? Get in your first trip of the season on Saturday, May 13, 2006. Join avid motorcyclist Global Television's Gord Steinke, as he takes a ride out to the Reynolds-Alberta Museum!
How can you get involved? Register for ‘Ripp’in it up with Gord Steinke' online at www.reynoldsalbertamuseum.com! When you register to ride out to the museum, your admission will include a FREE hot chili lunch PLUS great door prizes! It’s your chance to ride with Gord Steinke, and check out the blockbuster Life & Times of the Motorcycle exhibit. This is the final summer to enjoy this incredible exhibition featuring 150 motorcycles from the past 100 years; it closes September 17, 2006. Most importantly; it’s a reason to RIDE!!
The ride will meet outside the Global Studios in Edmonton at 5325 Allard Way at 11:00am. Do you live out of town? Why not join up with the ride in Millet! The group will stop there around 11:45am at the large parking lot on the east side of main street on highway 2A.
Register online, and admission is $9 at the door. All members of Gord’s Ride will be receiving a voucher for a FREE hot chili lunch* on the day of the ride. Museum hours of operation are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday. The museum is located two kilometres west of Wetaskiwin on Highway 13.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canadian Business, Canada (Apr. 24, 2006) Freedom, Italian style: Vespas are back in Canada ~ Duncan Hood From the Summer 2005 issue of MoneySense magazine It was a blazing hot day last summer when Morey Chaplick turned the corner onto lower Jarvis Street in Toronto, hit his brakes, and saw an all-too-familiar sight. Traffic was backed up for hundreds of metres while sweating drivers seethed in the shimmering heat, "their faces like plastic masks, they were so mad." Chaplick just grinned, gunned his engine and zipped up the bicycle lane a couple of blocks, before hanging a right and going on his way. "I actually felt a bit guilty — but not that guilty," he recalls. "Just thinking about it brings a smile to my face." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Christian Science Monitor, MA (Apr. 24, 2006)
High gas prices propel a new 'moped madness'
Scooters and mopeds see a rise in sales - and cachet - thanks in part to a youth energy ethic.
By Patrik Jonsson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ATLANTA – How it happened, Devin Biek still isn't exactly sure. Infatuation with an Italian Vespa scooter led this resident of Elkhart, Ind., to an ad on eBay, a trip to Iowa, and a triumphant return with a 1978 Rizzato Califfo moped that wouldn't start. After its carburetor was de-gummed, the creature roared to life in a puff of blue exhaust. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheapflights.co.uk, UK (Apr. 24, 2006) It's St George's Day and The Mail on Sunday marks the day with a 500-mile drive (in a Morgan) around Britain's top attractions. Frank Barrett takes in Hastings for 1066, Malvern for Elgar's birthplace and the Morgan car factory, Liverpool for John Lennon's home and Grasmere for William Wordsworth's home. Four wheels good, two wheels better? Tom Robbins in The Observer notes that 60 years ago today, the first Vespa rolled off the production line. He hits the highways and byways of Tuscany with Scooter Bella, which offers six-day guided Vespa trips. If you like the sound of that consider driving through other countries in their iconic vehicles: Paris by 2CV, Germany in a Trabant, Route 66 by Harley. The Observer has the roundup.
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Edmonton Sun, Canada (Apr. 23, 2006)
Scooters shift to high gear By PATRYCJA CHALUPCZYNSKA, SPECIAL TO THE EDMONTON SUN Cheaper than a car and much easier on the gas budget, scooters are becoming more popular in Edmonton. Which is good news for Dylan Liley, owner of Top Gear Scooters on Whyte Avenue. "I think people need a transportation alternative. And there's been a lot of people who wanted a scooter for a long time, but there was never a shop to buy one from here in Edmonton," said Liley, who owns the store with childhood friend Wolf Hatheway. Liley estimates there are about 600 scooters on Edmonton's streets today.
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Winnipeg Free Press, Canada (Apr. 7, 2006)
Vespa business scooting along - City dealership near top of national charts By Myron Love - Winnipeg Free Press WHEN McNaught Pontiac Buick GMC left its long time downtown location on Portage Avenue just west of Sherbrook for the Manitoba Auto Mall three years ago, McNaught scion Brent McNaught decided to keep the old location open as a used car outlet -- under the Brent McNaught Automotive Centre moniker -- as well as a service centre and bodyshop. "Business has been good," McNaught said, "but we felt that we weren't using our showroom to the best advantage." McNaught has remedied that deficiency by acquiring the Vespa scooter franchise for Manitoba. On Thursday, March 30, he held a grand opening to introduce his new product line to Vespa and scooter enthusiasts. Although McNaught officially became a Vespa dealer as of Jan. 1 and he and his staff have sold enough models to rank third in sales in February and fifth in sales in March for Canada (there are currently 30 Vespa dealers across the country), it is only now that the snow has melted that customers can actually drive their Vespas.
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