Fun & Excitement on the Horizon at 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.

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