Welcome To Our Scoot Happy World!

This Blog is about scoots, every kind, everywhere, here in the Land of Enchantment. I am a big scooter fan from way back, I had a Vespa P200, with sidecar, when I was in high school and I have been totally hooked ever since.

I moved to Santa Fe a little over a year ago and thought I had come to an alternative transportation wasteland, there were trucks, trucks, and SUV's galore, but nary a scoot to be seen. Understand that I came from Portland, Oregon, where scooters are major transportation, I actually think they outnumber cars by now! So you can imagine my delight when I ventured on the web and Googled "scooters-newmexico" and up popped New Urban Transport of Albuquerque and my double delight when I saw Centaur Scooters in Santa Fe. I immediately rushed over, they were still in their old garage digs on Jemez so I only got to see a couple of scooters, but that was enough, I picked up the brochure for a company called The Genuine Scooter Company and their bike called The Stella. I knew right then that I was going to get one. I waited a couple of months until Centaur got all moved into their spankin' new space on Cerrillos Rd then went for a closer look. Meg and Richard at Centaur were terrific, centaurcyclesandscooters.com they were very well versed on all of the modern scooters and did some serious sellin' on some other scoots, like the Kymco's and Bajaj, but I had seen the Stella, the spittin' image of the old school Vespa and that was all she wrote. I readily admit this purchase is totally an early mid-life crisis vehicle for me; when I first got on the new Stella I got the same rush I did 20 years ago on my first Vespa.

I bought my Mint Green Stella and immediately got rid of my crappy little putt putt truck and made the scooter my primary form of transportation. Last summer was great, I got lots of looks, I don't think they have ever seen anything like it here in Santa Fe. Scoots are great conversation pieces, especially now that gas prices are going up, I get asked about gas mileage, price, etc... two or three times daily, I am like the best salesperson for scooters, I refer people to Centaur all the time, I should get a commission !

So it's been a year since I got the Stella and I had been thinking about starting a scooter club, they were great social clubs back in my day, there were rallys all over the place, all kinds of social events revolving around scooter stuff and totally fun. I thought about it more after my girlfriend bought her scooter this summer, a Kymco People 150, and we started talking about going on rides together and we both thought it would be fun to get more folks on scooters. Our first foray was going to be Gay Pride here in Santa Fe, we were going to be so cute on our matching scooters (her's is mint green as well, how adorable is that?) and we thought we would be seen by other folks with scooters and we could make new friends. But then she had to cancel on me and go to an all day thing in Albuquerque, boo hoo. Since I already paid for the parade entry fee I figured I would just put a post up on LesbeFriends and see who showed up.

Well much to my delight, people showed up! So Las Scooteristas is born.