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Join or renew your VCOS membership using PayPal!

VCOS is pleased to offer a PayPal option for joining VCOS or renewing existing memberships!  To join or renew, just click on the PayPal button located on the left side of this page.
Please choose one of the following options:
1) If you are a new member, please choose and pay the ‘New Membership’ option of $40 [...]

Happy Holidays from VCOS!

All of us at the Vespa Club of Seattle wish you happy holidays and safe scooting!
What a good-looking group! And this was even taken after a productive general meeting at Mars Bar.
Photo courtesty Chuck Pefley

City Council Parking Forum Meeting Summary

Here is an email from Sally Clark’s office along with a document
summarizing the forum.
Susan
Scoot About
Greetings,
As all of you know, we hosted a motorcycle and scooter forum on
Tuesday, March 11th to hear concerns, challenges, thoughts and ideas
from scooter, moped and motorcycle riders in Seattle. More than 90
people came to hear from a panel of speakers and [...]

2008 Rally Season Dates

5/2 – 5/4       May Day 4, Eugene OR
5/14 – 5/19   Garden City Rally, Victoria BC
?                 Mods vs Rockers, Seattle WA
?                 Inland Invasion IV, Coeur d’Alene ID
6/13 – 6/15   Scoot or Die 2, Vancouver WA
?                 Scooter Insanity 21, Seattle WA
7/19 [...]

Scoot of the Month: December

New column: Scoot of the Month
December’s scoot of the month is “The Amerivespa GL”
At Amerivespa 2007 in Seattle, the VCOS donated a 64 GL – which was won by, and is now owned and ridden by our own Chuck Pefley. I was sitting next to Chuck and when he stood up, and I thought he was going [...]

Holiday Cheer

Santabear visited the VCOS meeting in December for a holiday photo.
Click the pic to see if you were smiling in this one. Then click “Full View” on the right to fill your screen with your mug.
Thanks Chuck and Don for lighting and shooting us so swell. 

Worst Scooter Rally Ever? No, not really…

Labour Day in Vancouver means a scooter rally, this year called “The Worst Scooter Rally Ever,” presented by The Worst Scooter Club Ever.
Attendance was down from last year, and the out-of-town contingents were small. Mr. Mark, Kelly, C.J., Brent and yours truly were the only Seattle people I know of; there were only a few [...]

VCOS members’ Seattle 2 S.F. adventure

VCOS members Chuck, Safety Ed and Doc left Seattle on Tuesday on a road trip to San Francisco, via the Pacific Coast Highway.
They left in the pouring rain, the first day’s ride ending as planned in Seaside, Ore. where the weather was considerably drier. Their plans call for the trip to S.F. to take four days, [...]

Big Thanks to all who came to Amerivespa

Thanks to everyone who attended! See their pictures here. 
                  And see their Youtube videos here.
Thanks to all our sponsors! VISIT THEM YEAR ROUND

Thanks to everyone who pitched in to help with planning, donations, raffle, gymkhana, concourse, slow race, patches and shirts, rally bags, logistics, cruise, rides, PR, art, design, catering & beer garden, GL restoration, [...]

Vince on KIRO

 

For Queen Anne resident Vince Rowley, collecting scooters has become quite a hobby.
Click to learn why: 
http://www.kirotv.com/video/13238651/index.html?taf=sea