Gas prices are going up and your SUV is a heavy drinker, time to find another means of transportation.  How about a scooter?  While I’m all for scooters, I definitely think that scooters aren’t for everybody.  So does Peter De Lorenzo at AUTOEXTREMIST. Take a look at his article. If you’re really considering buying any 2 wheeled vehicle, take some time and really think about it. The choice is NOT as simple as buying a car.

Who says that motorcycles all have to look alike?  The nUCLEUS certainly doesn’t look like any motorcycle I’ve ever seen and it doesn’t act like one either.  The sides of this beast are made of a thin, lightweight composite material which slices through the air and also acts as stand when the bike is at rest.  Check out the video after the link
From Non-Object

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So there I was doing about 35mph with my visor opened about half an inch when something smacked the lip of my visor and bounced off. Being that it’s spring with lots of bugs in the air, I wasn’t really surprised. So I continued on. Then I felt something move in my hair. Oh great. So with cars in the front and back of me and no good place to turn off I did the only thing I could do, I flipped up my visor. Instead of watching the bug get blown out of my helmet I felt the thing dig into my head with a vengeance. Ok, now what? What I saw next made my decision easier. As I peered through my sunglasses I noticed a familiar silhouette move in front of my left eye. Oh crap. A very angry wasp was just a fraction of an inch from my eye.

As an experienced rider I’m used to making split second decisions, but this wasp right in front of my eyeball made my decision more urgent for some reason. Without a lot of thought on my part I dove into the first patch of open shoulder I could get to… right into a patch of gravel. Surprisingly I kept the bike upright and came to a stop. I quickly unlatched my helmet, yanked it off and ripped the glasses from my face. I sat there, shaken, trying to comprehend what just happened. Wow. I was pretty lucky not to have been stung and I was just as lucky that I didn’t panic and dump my bike. After a minute calming down, I put my gear back on and headed home. Not exactly a good end to my day, but things could have been a whole lot worse.

The moral of this story: keep your visors down and sunglasses on.

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Most of the people who know me, know me from my association with scooters.  As the founder of the Sonoma County Scooterists (www.socoscoot.com) I get to meet a lot of people.  My love for scooters started about 5 years ago, even before I had a scooter.  Once I bought my scooter, an ‘04 Aprilia Custom Mojito 150, I was anxious to ride with others.  So I took it upon myself to start a club.  Since then the club has grown from just 3 members to over 50.  Wow!  I never would have guessed that the club would have grown so much.

My other passion is computers.  My interest in computers started a long way back when I got the programming cartridge for my Atari 2600.  I could write like 20 lines of code before I ran out of memory.  My Apple IIe was what really got the fire burning in ‘83.  The rest is history… now I spend most of my day on computers, not usually programming, but designing.

I’m not sure where this blog with take me (or you.)  It’s mainly an experiment in writing for me and I hope it’s entertaining and informative for you.  Please let me know if you like what you see (or if you don’t.)  This is an outlet for me and I hope you tag along for the ride.