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Impact Jackts save their first life!

15. October 2007

(photo from AMADirectLink.com‘s 2006 Indi Dealer Expo coverage) Eddie H. alerted us to this exciting bit of news. Impact Jackets (who’s website is having some issues at this moment) have come through for Joseph McPhatter. The news coverage goes like this: BALTIMORE — While motorists who have been in car crashes often attribute the help […]

P.E.A.C.E. Scooter Ride is complete! Congratulations to Alix Bryan!

15. October 2007

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(The crew from the Urban Moto Shop in central Austin hosts a bang up welcome session for Alix to celebrate her 11,000+ mile journey.) What a wild ride… 200 miles of freeway on a Genuine Buddy, just so I could get a taste of what Alix put up with nearly every day for 3 months. […]

Riding to Crawford, TX tomorrow morning at 9am

13. October 2007

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Tomorrow I’m meeting up with a woman who has completed an AMAZING feat… 11,000 miles across the USA in 3 months on a Genuine Buddy! While I’m there I’ll be covering the event and then escorting Alix Bryan back to Austin where the Urban Moto Shop has a little BBQ & champaign toast planned for […]

Matching helmets? Too cute!

12. October 2007

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That’s just too cool. I don’t know how I ended up at Cute Overload (it’s in Steve’s Bloglines account)… but that’s not important right now (he goes there every day). What is important is the fact that these two have matching star helmets. Sweet right? There is another shot too, but you’ll have to click […]

Third Coast Rally III was a success!

10. October 2007

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Wow! So much catching up to do. While I finish editing my photos, you should check out what was posted at Scoot.net . Also, big shout out to Kevin (of WireTree) for this awesome video that would be even MORE awesome if it didn’t have so many damn digital compression artifacts. Gimme a buzz man, […]

Vespa launching a 30th Anniversary PX

6. October 2007

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Another Arigato to Aki H. who has been hot on the press release patrol and has dug up another interesting announcement from Vespa. Looks like they are releasing the last 1,000 Vespa PXs next year. This is a 30th anniversary edition celebrating the more than 3 million vehicles sold during their production from 1977 to […]