Roland

Roland

I owe my passion for scooters to my father, who would never let me buy one. HIs tight-ass attitude whipped me into a frenzy of scooter-mania that I have never managed to outgrow.
Since buying one was out of the question, I stole my first scooter, a 1957 All State, when I was in Junior High -- I have been riding some kind of scooter ever since. My first legal scoot was a GS160, which I still have.
The two things that changed my life, scooter-wise, were scooter clubbing and scooter racing. The TMI scooter club and the Eastern Scooter Racing Association (ESRA) started up at roughly the same

time and immediately replaced all of the conventional, sensible, things that I had been wasting my time with (family, work, etc.). Overnight, I went from riding a Lammy SX200 to and from my office every day, to riding a variety of scooters to and from a myriad of interesting places with a bunch of wild and crazy people.
Currently, I have two Lambretta vintage-class race bikes and a bunch of new and vintage street scooters, some of which actually run. My two daily drivers are a GTS250 and a PX200.
There is nothing in the world that can beat the sheer joy and total irresponsibility of bagging everything that you were scheduled to do, and going off with your pals for long ride and a few pints at the end of the road. As Ogden Nash said, You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Roland2  
club
members
meltdown
calendar
links
photos

 

logo