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Spring Cleaning Tip
Saturday, 14 February 2009

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It’s a box o' versatile!
Cleaning engine cases, carbs and other dirty/scaly parts has always been a pain, and more often than not, results aren't all that satisfactory. For instance, oxidized aluminum can be completely free of dirt and grime, but will still have a slightly grey or even whitish appearance.

Bead and soda blasting has always been an option, but it's kinda expensive, and taking irreplaceable parts into some shop where you're never sure whether the guy doing the work will somehow screw things up ain't a comfortable idea, either.

But we found this little DIY article today - and for us air-cooled, resto-crazy, budget-minded scooterists, it looks like a great solution:

Homemade Soda Blaster - "Nate's Aircooled Tech"

Now, not all of us have air compressors (or even garages). But like the proverbial buddy with a pickup, there's likely two or three folks we know with compressors. And phone numbers.

Look out, Mark! dingbat

 
Top This, Hallmark!
Friday, 19 December 2008

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Here's how it's done, folks.
Along with our bills from Qwest and Chevron, today's mailbox included one teriffic Christmas card from clubbies Kevin and Suzette.

Posing with their ever-photogenic sidecar Stella, the two, along with their son Joe, are worked into a scene imagining their scooter as Santa's sleigh, airborne and delivering presents on Christmas eve. As an added touch, the scooter's headlight glows red - presumably in leiu of halogen-nosed Rudolph.

If we were holding a club competion for best card, this one would win hands-down. But given the fact that we weren't, the work and imagination these two put into this card made it all the better - and made us very glad to know them, and to have such a great bunch of folks to ride with.

There's almost three feet of snow outside today. Riding's out of the question, but it's warm inside, we've got time off next week, and we've got family and friends like Kevin and Suzette and the rest of the club gang to be thankful for.

From all of us in the Minions Scooter Club, Happy Holidays! dingbat

Scooter Christmas Card (pop-up window)

 
Santa Vespa
Wednesday, 10 December 2008

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Have an ear-splittin' Holiday!
So, you’ve got a scooter fanatic on your shopping list, and have no idea what’ll please? Call it self-interest (provided you send such gifts to us), but we’ve pulled together a collection of products and items sure to make any scooterist smile. So much to buy, we’ve grouped it all into a neat little categorized table. Have at it, and shop early and often. Got an economy to revive! dingbat

(Table below) 

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