No One Cared About The Bling Bear

... and winter has not been kind to it. I will now share its location with you, so that you may pay homage, show your friends and/or dress it up with additional decorations of your own devising.

If you noticed that URL, you may also like http://scoot.to/nashville, http://scoot.to/wanda and http://scoot.to/kymco .

Flair Bear: Another Hint

Hmmm...

Bear Minimum

The bear, mentioned in my "geo-cache" challenge, is inside the radius of this green circle overlay. Now you know where NOT to look.  :)

HF(C)S!

I will not ask anyone to explain this.

I found this, today. In Nashville.

Anyone who can pinpoint this where in Nashville this is on Google Maps will receive $10 towards whatever beer said person prefers. I'll post hints in coming weeks.

UPDATE:  Oh, look!  The bear holds a new object in its left paw!  Can you figure out what it is?

UPDATE II: HF(C)S AGAIN!  You can see this on Google Street View if you know where to look!

'Za Night

Another fine time had by all at the Pizza Perfect on 21st.

I brought a quiz, with the winner winning a rally scooter raffle ticket. The quiz was too hard (no one got more than two right), so I will have to randomly draw. The quiz:

1.) Honda recently announced a slightly-sub-300cc scooter for the U.S. market that takes design cues from the PCX. What is the name of this new scooter?

2.) Vespa's new 946 model was so dubbed owing to the 1946 model Vespa, and was available only by pre-order until 4/30/2013. The model's name may have something to do with the answer to this question. What was Vespa's U.S. MSRP for the Vespa 946?

3.) One of our scootnashville folks works on a current television program that airs on ABC, and it has just been renewed for a second season. What is the name of that show?

(that was a gimme)

Saturday, we play a Glympse game! There will be blogging...

Sproing...?

Just look  at this coming weekend!  It's snowed all day, today (flurries -- nothing stuck).

I'm ready for this miserable shit to end... you?

I'll be sending out the contest winners' goodies on 3/15, btw. I'll need the 1st Place Winner, Skully, to contact me to state their preference (Vespa model or foam-lined safety goggles), and both Skully & Dan Durston to send me their addresses to jprestonian upon the mail-of-g dot com.

Only Because That Other Site Are Being Exclusionary Douchebags

... so shall I also be!  :)

I love 2strokebuzz, I really do; it's a very informative site. I love old scooters... old, Italian, metal-bodied scooters, even. Old, Italian, metal-bodied scooters that can only be reliably ridden in hours-per-year that you can count on one hand, even.

But this exclusionary "cold weather challenge"?  Where ONLY  shifty, 2-stroke scooters can qualify?  I call bullshit. 

We all know the real Cryo-Commandos are people like me, who ride every  day to work, on reliable, modern CVT-equipped scooters. Most of these "vintage" guys have to ride around the neighborhood multiple times in cold weather to get to their nearest latté and fulfill the minimum 10-mile requirement of 2sb's challenge. This, as they say, Shall Not Stand.

So!  My counter-challenge: Longest ride over 20 miles, on any 4-stroke, CVT-equipped, plastic-bodied scooter (yes, Chinese junk included) of 150cc or less in the lowest temperature will have their choice of either the ironic prize offering of a model of a 1955 Vespa 150 GS (pictured above), or a pair of Northern Safety's N-Specs® Venom Riders clear lens foam-lined protective eyewear, which are completely awesome for cold weather riding (or nighttime riding at any temperature). Second Place gets the prize not chosen by the First Place winner.

Enter in comments, on this post, including location, scooter make, model and displacement, starting temperature, and distance. A Google Maps route would be nice, but not required. Please be prepared to back up your claim from TWC historical data. Otherwise, I trust you to do the right thang. Contest ends February 28th, 2013. Winners will be announced here.