Utah Valley

MarsR · Post by **MarsR** » Sat May 10, 2008 3:34 am

This is about a 15 minute scooter ride from my house.

The pictures aren't too great; I took them with my cell phone...

madtolive · Post by **madtolive** » Tue May 13, 2008 2:24 pm

thats some amazing scenery, must feel grand to be able to ride through something like that. i have a friend who wants to move to utah for this very reason. great pictures, mars!

toddrw2251 · Post by **toddrw2251** » Tue May 13, 2008 3:25 pm

I’m jealous….very jealous.

KRUSTYburger · Post by **KRUSTYburger** » Tue May 13, 2008 3:48 pm

Man, I wish we had some mountains down here!!! ...or hills ... or any slight variances in altitude...

Pretty amazing view.

Post by **ericalm** » Tue May 13, 2008 6:42 pm

I get all excited when i can see snow-capped mountains from the SF Valley or L.A., but this has out mountains beat. Really beautiful and a reminder of all the places I want to scoot but haven't yet.

MarsR · Post by **MarsR** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:53 pm

Yeah, the mountains here are pretty awesome. Too bad I have to spend most of my time down in the valley....

MarsR · Post by **MarsR** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:05 am

Here's some pics of our ride up to Traverse Ridge this evening. We met at The Scooter Lounge at 6pm, ate some BBQ at Lon's Cookin' Shack, then headed for the mountain. Very nice little drive.

MarkTur · Post by **MarkTur** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:11 am

Too cool! WOW!

polianarchy · Post by **polianarchy** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:18 pm

OMG!

What a breathtaking vista.

Howardr · Post by **Howardr** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:11 am

Verrrry nice. What is the lake in the background?

Howard

MarsR · Post by **MarsR** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:34 am

Howardr wrote:Verrrry nice. What is the lake in the background?

Howard

Utah Lake. Out in the middle of Utah Valley. In Utah County. In Utah.

It's about a half hour or 45 minutes south of Salt Lake City.

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:59 am

what a great genuine scooter turn out!

Buddies and Stellas and Ratllers OH MY!

newslinky · Post by **newslinky** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:07 am

I agree I was like look at all the Genuine scooters woot! Beautiful scenery too wow nice pics!

MarsR · Post by **MarsR** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:29 pm

newslinky wrote:I agree I was like look at all the Genuine scooters woot!

There was also a SYM HD200 and a couple of MCs along for the ride. The ride was sponsered by The Scooter Lounge which is a great local Genuine dealer. They even bought our dinner!

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:58 pm

MarsR wrote:
newslinky wrote:I agree I was like look at all the Genuine scooters woot!
There was also a SYM HD200 and a couple of MCs along for the ride. The ride was sponsered by The Scooter Lounge which is a great local Genuine dealer. They even bought our dinner!

ummm... we never get our dinners paid for...

I need to find a new dealer! haha

Eazy · Post by **Eazy** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 4:42 pm

I wish my Stella wouldn't have gotten totaled.

I really wanted to come down and cruise with Dave and the folks at the scooter lounge.

MarsR · Post by **MarsR** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 6:14 pm

Eazy wrote:I wish my Stella wouldn't have gotten totaled.

I really wanted to come down and cruise with Dave and the folks at the scooter lounge.

Provophenia, Sept. 12-13....

You totaled your Stella?

Eazy · Post by **Eazy** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 6:38 pm

MarsR wrote:
Eazy wrote:I wish my Stella wouldn't have gotten totaled.

I really wanted to come down and cruise with Dave and the folks at the scooter lounge.
Provophenia, Sept. 12-13....

You totaled your Stella?

I didn't total it,

a guy in a pickup was nice enough to run over it for me in a parking lot.

It's still ridable around town, but I think a 500-600 mile trip would be too much for it

justscooten · Post by **justscooten** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:55 pm

great pics and what is it with you guys in the mid and far west with the big scooter seens??

i live in michigan and cant get anyone to put a scooter group together i see them all over (mostly main land china stuff...tank) but a scoot is a scoot and id like to go riding. but here in the great wight north the car is still king unless its a harley

fiver1971 · Post by **fiver1971** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:32 pm

Provophenia, Sept. 12-13.... ?????

I guess I can go to ScooterLounge's website and see if they have details, but what can you share about this? I might be interested.

MarsR · Post by **MarsR** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:19 am

fiver1971 wrote:Provophenia, Sept. 12-13.... ?????

I guess I can go to ScooterLounge's website and see if they have details, but what can you share about this? I might be interested.

I talked to Dave at The Scooter Lounge this evening about Provophenia on Sept 12-13. He didn't have an agenda worked up yet, but should be posting more info on their website in the next day or two. Basically, it is an Olympics themed event, putting up real scooters against some Chinese scoots in various challenges. Probably a fairly early start on Friday and all day Saturday activity. It sounds like it should be fun.

We had a nice evening ride down the The Great Steak and Everything in Provo. Not nearly as many people as last time. Dave bought us all dinner.

BeachBuzz · Post by **BeachBuzz** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:12 pm

fiver1971 wrote:Provophenia, Sept. 12-13.... ?????

My nephew from Provo just brought me a Scooter Lounge Shop Shirt - best value scooter shirt I have ever bought!! I'll wear it PROUDLY next weekend (9/12-13 ) at the PA Scooter Rally in New Holland PA. I only wish it mentioned Provo or even Utah on the beautifully embroidered patch on the back.

'Go to Provo or go to hell'

MarsR · Post by **MarsR** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:12 am

I got this email today from The Scooter Lounge:

Provophenia scooter rally fun good time

Announce The rally for scooters to make you have happy fun time and careful!
only once a year opportutiny for lifetime
Provophenia!!!
you may submit to the authority of new scooter regime

meet at scooter lounge 600 north state orem utah
friday sept. 12 at 5pm
we eat first
we ride alpine roop promptly at 6pm. no lollygaggers!
fun time after

Saturday 13 september
meet at scooter lounge 10am for show and shiny showing off scooters contest
then at noon we eat. we have chinese take-out-- you want a pot sticker?
also we give award for sharpest dressed scooter
then we leave for ride to secret olympic site...
super lucky fun contests!
win the gold medal!
then ride home.

MarsR · Post by **MarsR** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:03 am

Day 1 of Provophenia. We did a ride around the Alpine Loop this evening. There were about 30 scooters in all. Ok, so maybe one of them was a MC. But it was a blast. We all stopped at JCW's in American Fork for a hamburger on the way home.

MarsR · Post by **MarsR** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:35 am

Day 2 of Provophenia. The Chinese Olympics. Let's just say the lighting of the Olympic cauldrin was "awesome".