Modern Buddy

Posted: **Mon May 30, 2011 9:39 pm**

Everyone is welcome to vote! (you did NOT need to submit a photo to vote for your favorites.)
Please vote only once, for FIVE of your favorites.

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED

the 70 entries are below & they have all been cropped to the perspective we need for the calendar - some of the submitted portrait photos did not crop well at all & are not included below.

EDIT
the 70 pics have been removed to save some of my bandwidth (they were all on one of my servers) - the winning pics are still up on page 2 of this thread

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2011 8:47 pm**

bump

VOTING IS NOW OPEN!

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2011 9:23 pm**

lotsa cool pics. I think I can narrow it to 5

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2011 9:46 pm**

I've got it narrowed down to my favorite 50 so far....

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2011 10:04 pm**

Can I vote for mine 5 times?

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2011 11:43 pm**

Wow, that was hard to decide, but I voted! I think I got a purdy good variety.

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:07 am**

Done

all the pictures are awesome!!!!

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:42 am**

Done! And no, I didn't vote only for my own.

Only 2 were my own, 3 were of others.

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:13 pm**

26 people have voted so far!

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:28 pm**

Wow! That is a great selection. Not real easy to choose only 5, but I managed.

Howard

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:32 pm**

All I have to say is us Rat riders should be ashamed

There more vespas in the line up than rats?
I tried, but oh well.

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:52 pm**

Sorry if it's posted somewhere else and I missed it - But, how long is the poll open?

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:12 pm**

Agreed—hard to pick just 5!

We may need to do another round of voting depending on results.

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:15 pm**

I can't see current results?

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:20 pm**

ScootLemont, thanks again for putting this together!

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:46 pm**

Syd wrote:I can't see current results?

I think it's better not. Makes the end result more entertaining! (and it prevents some from being influenced by front runners)

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:23 pm**

desmolicious wrote:
Syd wrote:I can't see current results?

I think it's better not. Makes the end result more entertaining! (and it prevents some from being influenced by front runners)

Agreed, it makes the end result more reliable; it's like a secret ballot. I'm just looking for some exit polling.

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:51 am**

I voted! Wahoo!

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:02 am**

Great pics, tough choice! Hope the vote tallying doesn't include a lot of dangling chads.

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:37 am**

So many great pics and only five votes!

Done, but it was really difficult.

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:13 am**

man u gotta love 46 !! just voted

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:02 pm**

That was not fair, having me limit my favorites to 5

Bum pats to all who made the top 70. A good group of pics. Makes me proud to love my Buddy.

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:49 pm**

49 people have voted so far

Voting closes on June 7th

#24 is the top vote getter so far.... but remember, we need 14 pics total (one for each month & one for the front cover & one for the back cover)

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:45 pm**

I picked my favorites..It was 12, then narrowed it to 5...Some really great pics in there!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:27 am**

Same here it is so hard to narrow it down to 5, I spend quite some time until I had my 5. Thanks for all your work.

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:49 am**

Done and done.

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:59 am**

Choosing only 5 is PAINFUL!

I loved so many of them!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:48 pm**

ScootLemont wrote:#24 is the top vote getter so far....

Deservingly so. I remember reading about this trip a while back, can't recall the details, but it was pretty cool nonetheless. And the quality of the picture is nearly perfect. I actually feel bad that I didn't think to post any pictures of 'trackpete' on his trip to Alaska on the Rattler. So many great photos in his album, and he's off on his next epic adventure (riding all across South America) for the past few months and hasn't checked into MB in a while.

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:50 pm**

sniff*sniff* I smell cover shot for #24

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:26 pm**

Wheelz wrote:All I have to say is us Rat riders should be ashamed There more vespas in the line up than rats?
I tried, but oh well.

Sorry, thats partially my fault. With the Buddy all in pieces right now, I shot a buncha shots of my Vespas

Congrats to all the awesome shots everybody!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:05 pm**

wow... all these pics are really sucking up my bandwidth
sorry for the down time on the pics
I upped my bandwidth for this domain & hopefully it wont happen again

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:33 pm**

2 days left to vote

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:50 pm**

voted

Posted: **Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:15 pm**

One day left

We have had 69 people vote so far

Posted: **Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:49 pm**

70.

I think I got a brain aneurism trying to decide on only 5...

Posted: **Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:15 pm**

Up to 71 & photo #24 is in the lead

Posted: **Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:51 am**

I voted and thanks for the great pictures.

Posted: **Tue Jun 07, 2011 5:09 am**

voted. is it going to be top 12 im assuming? have them pick the month they want in order of most votes?

Posted: **Tue Jun 07, 2011 5:47 am**

Top 14
front and back cover.

Eric is going to build it so its his call... some of them clearly are seasonal
I was planning on leaving the order in erics hands but I think the lowest 2 of the vote getters should be the covers since they wont spend a month hanging on our walls

Posted: **Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:19 pm**

Usually the cover of a calendar is also shown for one of the months... People have one picture to look at throughout each month, if you put the ones that get the most votes on the covers then when will you ever see them unless you take your calendar down?

Posted: **Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:13 pm**

10
22
24
52
53

Posted: **Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:47 pm**

let's do this every year! I missed the deadline, but I'd like to get a picture in next time.

Posted: **Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:41 pm**

JHScoot wrote:10
22
24
52
53

did you enter them with the link or only post them here? -

Please click this link
http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurv ... nl1i925883
& vote for FIVE of your favorite submitted photos (from below)

Posted: **Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:41 pm**

Last chance to get your votes in!

Posted: **Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:53 pm**

BTW, calendar production & such will be taking place post-Amerivespa. (Meanwhile, we'll need high-res versions of winners' pics.)

Thank you for your patience.

Posted: **Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:57 pm**

I've forgotten. Is this going to be a 2012, or from June/July to June/July? It doesn't really matter, of course, I'm just curious.

Posted: **Wed Jun 08, 2011 2:01 am**

Syd wrote:I've forgotten. Is this going to be a 2012, or from June/July to June/July? It doesn't really matter, of course, I'm just curious.

I am guessing it will be from July 2011 - June 2012
but we can make it any 12 months we want

Posted: **Wed Jun 08, 2011 2:47 am**

ScootLemont wrote:I am guessing it will be from July 2011 - June 2012
but we can make it any 12 months we want

I propose a new vote, to determine which 12 months the calendar will cover. I vote for March 1965, June 1982, September 1982, June 1983, July 1983, March 1986, March 1987, April 1989, June 1991, September 1997, September 2001 (because I had my picture in the newspaper that month, writing an op/ed piece about You Know What), and November 2008.

Posted: **Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:55 pm**

Voting is closed & we had 83 people vote!

Thanks to everyone who submitted pics!

Eric will be posting results soon

Posted: **Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:14 am**

ScootLemont wrote:
JHScoot wrote:10
22
24
52
53
did you enter them with the link or only post them here? -

oh i entered them with the link. very nice submissions, one and all

can't wait to get my hands on the finished product. nice work

Modern Buddy

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