TheScooterScoop

A case for the full face

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Here’s a frame from a 3D CT Scan rendering that says it all. Surfactant shares it in video from flicker and you can watch it by clicking the title link. Here’s what Surfactant has to say about what we see here: This patient was not using a helmet.. Extensive facial and mandibular fractures are present. […]

Captain to starship America: Brace for impact!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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(I know I’ve posted this image before, but it fits so well with today’s post) You know that feeling you get just before you to do something painful? You’ve gone past the point of “how can I avoid this” and have entered that sure sense of inevitability. This is probably one of the few moments […]

D’oh!

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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Funny Scooter Crash Ends in Faceplant – Watch more free videosSorry for the lack of updates. We’re still alive, but very embarrassed… much like the guy in this video. Thanks Tim! More posts coming soon! I can feel them bubbling up.*hopes it’s not just Dr. Pepper and fish oil supplements**shudder*

Globetrotting Vespa scooter-riding Italian author dies in China

Friday, September 19, 2008

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(Addio Giorgio Bettinelli amico mio, addio)Rome – Italian author Giorgio Bettinelli and recording artist, who clocked up hundreds of thousands of miles travelling the globe on a Vespa scooter and then recounting his adventures in books, has died in China. He was 53. Bettinelli, who together with his wife, had been living in southern China […]

Police destroy 14,277 ‘illegal’ motorcycles with bulldozers.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

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Today’s Daily Sunshine reported that 14,277 confiscated “illegal motorcycles” were destroyed by bulldozers in Yungang district, Shenzhen as part of the city’s “motorcycle ban”. The Shenzhen-based newspaper says that in April this year another 9.532 illegal motorcycles were wrecked in the same way. Shenzhen began taking steps to reduce the numbers of motorcycles in the […]

If anyone needs you to show ‘em some love right now it’s Steve Sellers

Monday, July 7, 2008

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On Sunday, June 22nd, P-Town Scooters’ mechanic Steve Sellers was admitted to a local hospital where things went from bad to worse. I never had the fortune of meeting Steve in person, but I’ve heard much about him and I do know he was one of the few to test drive the Sasquatch of the […]