Post by ce on Mar 2, 2009 16:44:57 GMT -5
These folks have got their scoots together.
We met at Scooteroos for a breakfast provided by our gracious host, who gave a great introduction to the club and outlined some of the civic activities and goals and aspirations for development of the club.
Another meeting is scheduled for the 14th of March, when the applications for membership and dues will be collected, all of which remains to be determined at this time, but to this observer, we are in very capable hands, and I'm looking forward to a full membership participation.
By 11:30, we had 20 scooters and 6 motorcycles standing by for takeoff, and after organizing the riding order and route, we launched.
Down Eubank to Central Avenue, and then west in a nice formation, waving to passing bikers, and erupting in a hoot of tooting horns at anyone who waved, or at any scooters we passed.
We rolled through Nob Hill, then Downtown, got a little separated in Old Town, but reformed up nicely at Tingley Beach,and then headed for the A&P bar, in Barelas.
The A&P was a notorious bar that was closed by the City for excessive fights and brawls and all kinds of criminal activity, so we gathered in the old parking lot for a photo shoot. It's right next to the old Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad yard, several big 100 foot tall windowed buildings left over from the1930's
What a cool setting, and some of the guys tried to explain the scooter scene in 1960's England as inspirational for scooterists everywhere, but I think we'll need to organize a mandatory screening the the film "Quadrophenia", by The Who.
It really chronicles the battles between the Mods and the Rockers, the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the privileged and the working classes, just about any conflict.
So since we were all kind of Mods on our scooters, wouldn't you think it a good idea to head over to Eppi's Harley Davidson, where the Rockers were having a Swap Meet and barbecue?
Of course you would, don't be reddiggilous!
Man, when we rolled up to Eppi's, there was 200 hard core bikers, and all their flame and chrome heavy metal thundermachines, spilling out onto the street.
We arrived in a blaze of tooting horns beep beeping thrugh traffic as we pulled around back, parked our scooters and went into the yard for beer and barbecue.
It was totally cool, those bikers had a nice, tight set up, loud music and dudes cooking and cleaning and serving, very nicely done.
We swaggered around for a while, and fit right in, I probably couldda used a few tattoos or earrings, but they were nice people.
As we mounted up and started our engines, there were quite a few dropped jaws as the rest of the crowd realized they had just been scootered, but by then we were beeping on down the road.
Thanks, Duke City Scooter Club, that was a gas!
We met at Scooteroos for a breakfast provided by our gracious host, who gave a great introduction to the club and outlined some of the civic activities and goals and aspirations for development of the club.
Another meeting is scheduled for the 14th of March, when the applications for membership and dues will be collected, all of which remains to be determined at this time, but to this observer, we are in very capable hands, and I'm looking forward to a full membership participation.
By 11:30, we had 20 scooters and 6 motorcycles standing by for takeoff, and after organizing the riding order and route, we launched.
Down Eubank to Central Avenue, and then west in a nice formation, waving to passing bikers, and erupting in a hoot of tooting horns at anyone who waved, or at any scooters we passed.
We rolled through Nob Hill, then Downtown, got a little separated in Old Town, but reformed up nicely at Tingley Beach,and then headed for the A&P bar, in Barelas.
The A&P was a notorious bar that was closed by the City for excessive fights and brawls and all kinds of criminal activity, so we gathered in the old parking lot for a photo shoot. It's right next to the old Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad yard, several big 100 foot tall windowed buildings left over from the1930's
What a cool setting, and some of the guys tried to explain the scooter scene in 1960's England as inspirational for scooterists everywhere, but I think we'll need to organize a mandatory screening the the film "Quadrophenia", by The Who.
It really chronicles the battles between the Mods and the Rockers, the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the privileged and the working classes, just about any conflict.
So since we were all kind of Mods on our scooters, wouldn't you think it a good idea to head over to Eppi's Harley Davidson, where the Rockers were having a Swap Meet and barbecue?
Of course you would, don't be reddiggilous!
Man, when we rolled up to Eppi's, there was 200 hard core bikers, and all their flame and chrome heavy metal thundermachines, spilling out onto the street.
We arrived in a blaze of tooting horns beep beeping thrugh traffic as we pulled around back, parked our scooters and went into the yard for beer and barbecue.
It was totally cool, those bikers had a nice, tight set up, loud music and dudes cooking and cleaning and serving, very nicely done.
We swaggered around for a while, and fit right in, I probably couldda used a few tattoos or earrings, but they were nice people.
As we mounted up and started our engines, there were quite a few dropped jaws as the rest of the crowd realized they had just been scootered, but by then we were beeping on down the road.
Thanks, Duke City Scooter Club, that was a gas!
