Custom vintage bikes, show n’ shine, barbecue and more! Starts at 10:00 AM on Saturday, July 10, 2010.

Renegade Bikes at the Tiger Lounge, Seattle is a post from: Scooter Lust

The Westenders Scooter Club Rally, Tour di Mari 3, is fast approaching. This Rally always proves to be a great time with some fabulous rides around the best Seattle has to offer, plus amazing food by Chef Grumpy Gus. The Rally is July 30 – Aug 1, 2010.

Full details are available on the Westender’s Rally page. Hope to see you there!

Westenders Rally: Tour di Mari 3 is a post from: Scooter Lust

Hey kids – time to get your scoots out of storage, fuel up, and get moving.

I’ll be taking a break from posting here at Scooter Lust for a bit, but please enjoy the archives. Stay tuned to the Westenders SC website for Seattle-area scooter events and Pacific NW rally information. Hopefully I’ll see you on the road!

Feel free to drop me a line: k at scooterlust.com or meet me on Twitter: @ScooterLust.

Keep the rubber side down!

♥ Kristin

It’s Riding Season! is a post from: Scooter Lust

My superdorky “Valentine’s Day with Frankenstella” pic won the Genuine Scooter Co.‘s Company’s photo contest on Facebook. That Frankenstella, she’s a looker.

All the credit really goes to Joni James, the mastermind behind the camera.

I’m excited for the Genuine swag that’s part of the prize. I’d share with Joni but she’s moved on from scooters to the world of supersweet vintage motorcycles.

Public acclaim for the beauty of that scooter somewhat validates the blood, sweat, and tears – lots of tears – that went into her!

Frankenstella Wins Genuine’s Photo Contest is a post from: Scooter Lust

Since it’s my birthday, I decided to post my current Top 5 Most Desired Scooters of All Time, in case anyone is feeling both flush and generous at the moment. In fact, perhaps you’re looking to do something meaningful with your tax return this year. Here’s some inspiration. Drop me a line and I’ll be happy to provide my delivery address.

I gotta run… there’s a Dahlia Bakery Triple Coconut Cream Pie with my name on it. And, hopefully, some candles.

Lust: Birthday Edition is a post from: Scooter Lust

Me with my Valentine…

Joni Jett captured this very private moment between the Frankenstella and me over the weekend. (I’m blushing right now.)

Genuine Scooter Co is having a photo contest on Facebook. I think this will be my entry.

Just for the record, I’m fully aware that I’m a total cheeseball.

And I’m okay with it.

Genuine Love is a post from: Scooter Lust

Click led the Westenders on an awesome ride today. He even ordered sun for us and everything! What a guy.

We started at Alki Bakery in West Seattle, moved on to Bakery Nouveau, then to Essential Baking Co. and finally Grand Central. I headed home at that point but some folks continued on to Macrina in Queen Anne. I had to go warm up – I had quite a chill going and the hot cider stopped working.

The ride was fab and I was excited to get out amongst my fellow scooterists in the dead of winter. Plus Doc saved me a huge chunk of change by showing me how to re-align the Frankenstella myself. I’m looking forward to fixing that because that scooter has been super squirrely since the last time I wiped out and smashed the left handgrip into the pavement.

There’s some photos I took over on the Flickr. I’m sure the Westenders SC Group Pool on Flickr will have a ton from other folks.

Soon to follow: a group ride to all local gyms followed by a group run around Lake Union.

Seattle Bakery Tour Scooter Ride is a post from: Scooter Lust

Hey kids! Hope the year is going splendidly for you so far.

I’ve been away working mightily on a new scootering project. However, for a million reasons I won’t bore you with including technology like PHP mapping and SQL server queries, it’s turning into the biggest pain in the patootie ever. So despite the million hours I poured into it, I’ve been sweeping it under the rug.

Then a little lightbulb went off. If my theme for 2010 is “Simplicity,” why am I making this so much more complicated than it needs to be?

So I’ve decided, for now at least, to just bring all the extensive content I’ve written for that project over to Scooterlust.

My idea was to create a spot for folks new to scooters. If you already ride, you know that walking into a cafe or grocery store with a helmet can suddenly make you the Most Interesting Person in America. I get so many questions from people about parking, gas mileage, cost, weather, and how the $#*&% do you get your groceries home, anyway?

It’s obviously I’m psyched about scooters when I talk about them. But I always walk away wishing I had somewhere to send this person where they could get all their questions answered in one place.

They can’t possible retain the eager string of statistics I throw at them, or the myriad resources they need to check out. Cause I don’t know about you, but my short-term memory? Not so good. That summer spent huffing spraypaint in the garage while attempting to restore the Frankenstella is finally catching up with me.

That singular clearinghouse for scooter data is not readily available online — at least without a dose of anti-rice-burner, cooler-than-thou, alpha male pissing contests, or snarky cynicism. Or all of the above. I’m talking about a nice, friendly place to get some basic scooter info without getting a load of crap alongside.

So I made it. I wrote over 100 articles – from figuring out which scooter is the best for your particular lifestyle, to how many MPGs you can expect, to joining a club, to getting insurance. All those “grocery line” questions.

I’m going to revamp them slightly and post them here. Apologies if this information is too basic for you. But I’ll make it entertaining – I promise. And perhaps you can send one of your friends, coworkers or significant others here to fill their gourd so we can get them up and running on two wheels ASAP.

Plus I’ll definitely be posting other stuff in between.

Bringing this project over here will help me focus on seven things at a time instead of eight, which is fab for the ‘ol ADD. It will free up some time to spend hanging out here. Oh and riding my scooters.

Hope you can join me.

Fun & Excitement on the Horizon at Scooter Lust is a post from: Scooter Lust

Happy New Year! is a post from: Scooter Lust

I found this Uberkoot Vespa nightlight for sale on Etsy by thepinkcamellia. I’d snag it for my loo in a heartbeat if I had an outlet in there that worked in the dark!

{ photo courtesy of thepinkcamellia on Etsy }

Vespa night light is a post from: Scooter Lust