Great Southwest Scooter Fiesta
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:21 am
Well, there were 3 of us who rode up to the rally (John, Lori and I) and 4 more Sky Island Riders trailered up and met us there. Seven scoots was a pretty good showing, I think. The ride up was uneventful and we arrived at the hotel about an hour before we needed to be at the first ride.
View from the hotel at 3 of our scooters.
The first meetup was at Vespa of Chandler. The first folks who arrived were 5 Tucson riders, Carl (who rode in from Las Cruces, NM and 2 or 3 scoots who rode in from Fresno, CA (by way of Lordsburg, NM and Tombstone, AZ.) I think 12-15 of us made the ride from there to Joe's BBQ. The food was good. I think 30-35 scooters eventually arrived. Great fun.
Our hotel was in Gilbert. Saturday morning, we got up early and rode to Scottsdale for the big ride to the main rally site. When we arrived, the Ducati racing team was there doing a stunt show. Another 25+ bikes made the hour ride back to Gilbert to Joe's Farm Grill. (Yes, its the same Joe who owns the BBQ.) The venue was perfect. I estimate that about 70 bikes were there at some time or another.
Ducati Stunt Team
Yamaha Morphus - Weird looking scoot.
These next 5 pics are scanning from left to right at all the scooters parked at Joe's.
Saturday after noon, we rode out to Saguaro Lake. It's very pretty. The ride was nice and John saved the day for another scooterist who broke down, because he had a spare clutch cable on board. He wound up missing the lake and met us for dinner and the Chino Bandito. Strange restaurant, but I enjoyed it a lot. Mexican-Chinese combo, what's not to like?
Four Buddies at the lake
Looking over the marina, toward the damn
Machaca in a quesadilla, jerk chicken and jerk fried rice
We put 400 miles on our scoots in 3 days and had a great time.
Howard
View from the hotel at 3 of our scooters.
The first meetup was at Vespa of Chandler. The first folks who arrived were 5 Tucson riders, Carl (who rode in from Las Cruces, NM and 2 or 3 scoots who rode in from Fresno, CA (by way of Lordsburg, NM and Tombstone, AZ.) I think 12-15 of us made the ride from there to Joe's BBQ. The food was good. I think 30-35 scooters eventually arrived. Great fun.
Our hotel was in Gilbert. Saturday morning, we got up early and rode to Scottsdale for the big ride to the main rally site. When we arrived, the Ducati racing team was there doing a stunt show. Another 25+ bikes made the hour ride back to Gilbert to Joe's Farm Grill. (Yes, its the same Joe who owns the BBQ.) The venue was perfect. I estimate that about 70 bikes were there at some time or another.
Ducati Stunt Team
Yamaha Morphus - Weird looking scoot.
These next 5 pics are scanning from left to right at all the scooters parked at Joe's.
Saturday after noon, we rode out to Saguaro Lake. It's very pretty. The ride was nice and John saved the day for another scooterist who broke down, because he had a spare clutch cable on board. He wound up missing the lake and met us for dinner and the Chino Bandito. Strange restaurant, but I enjoyed it a lot. Mexican-Chinese combo, what's not to like?
Four Buddies at the lake
Looking over the marina, toward the damn
Machaca in a quesadilla, jerk chicken and jerk fried rice
We put 400 miles on our scoots in 3 days and had a great time.
Howard
