Kentuckiana Scooter Chronicles

The Kentuckiana Scooter Chronicles is a journal of a man's entry into the world of motorbikes. It also contains product evaluations, reports on regional scooter events, and interviews with various people in the growing worldwide scooter and motorcycle culture.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Weekend ride to Madison, Indiana

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Our ride left from Donut Kastle on Lyndon Lane. We had a good group show up to ride to Madison. I had some routing issues and missed a dece...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

Donut Castle

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We are hanging out at Donut Kastle, getting ready to ride!
Friday, November 6, 2009

Nice Ride Tomorrow

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I have organized a nice ride tomorrow. We're taking some back roads up to Madison, Indiana on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River. We...

Gas Mileage

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I ride my scooter pretty hard. As a result it doesn't get the 50+mpg that it says it should get on Yamaha's web site. Plus I am a ...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Gunge on My Stuff

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This summer a couple times, I used Armor-all to do the black plastic on my scoot.  The only place where I ran into any trouble was the handl...

Motor Scooter Parking Only!

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The place where they had scooter-only parking was ValuMarket in Mid City Mall in the Highlands. It looks really nice and is up front next t...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Reserved Scooter Parking

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Wouldn't you know the Highlands would be the first area in Louisville to have dedicated scooter parking!
Friday, October 23, 2009

Objects in your mirror...

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Take note, and please comply.  The life you save could be mine!  

Suzuki Fuel-cell Scooter...

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The Burgman 125 Hydrogen fuel cell scooter sounds still non-practical, but it is nice to see companies still moving forward and trying to ge...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Jokester

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This is my buddy Ralph. He has a Piaggio MP3...its looks like a scooter with training wheels in front...really cool machine. Well the other...
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Oil change, ride & 11K

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I met Vince over at Skyline Chili for lunch. We both needed to do oil changes today, and he was nice enough to volunteer his garage. We went...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Weekend coming up

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I need to do my oil change this weekend, but the weather looks good, so I hope I get to ride!! I don't have the kids this weekend, and ...
Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Seat Cushion

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One of the things I've done recently is to work on a custom seat cushion. My friend Kathy, who is good at sewing, had some durable blac...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Saturday ride-forgot to mention the distilleries!!

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I forgot to mention this...   We rode by at least two seperate distilleries on Saturday. I'm quite sure I smelled Barton just throught...

Overcoming scooter stigma?!?!? Yeah, ok...

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I started to be annoyed at this web article by Will Johnson , but ended up liking it.  In his article Johnson states such facts as...   ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Bozo & The Victory Vision

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My buddy Steve sent this picture to me.  I think it is too funny!  
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Ended up in New Albany

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Kat and I ended our short ride this weekend in New Albany at Honey Cream doughnuts. It was a bad-for-you end to an otherwise ok day. I got a...

Rural Kentuckiana Toilets

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This is the 2nd time I have been to a little podunk town in either Kentucky or Indiana on my scooter, and the public restroom has a sign ask...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Saturday ride-gasoline clothes iron!

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Sometimes you see something in an antique store that you think is cool. Now I would never care to own a gasoline-powered clothes iron, but t...

Saturday ride-Cool buildings

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After lunch we rode around Kentucky a bit more then went across the bridge that goes from Brandenburg over into Mauckport, Indiana.  We rode...

Saturday ride-Custer, KY

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On Saturday, Kathy and I took a short ride.  We rode out towards Hardinsburg, KY visiting a couple of those old buildings I like.  We stoppe...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Rain

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I got stuck riding in the rain tonight. It was no big deal. This time I took the time to put on my gear, and I kept about 95% dry. I think...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Offroad Majesty

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After the 13th, I feel like I need this emblem from a jeep on the side of my YP400...
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Dye from Motoboss gloves

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This is the 2nd time I have been in the rain with my newish Motoboss gloves ($14.99 at Cycle Gear on sale). Both times the dye has come off ...

Tuesday night ride

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I'm going to be leaving in about an hour for the Louisville Scooter Group Tuesday night ride. We ride about every Tuesday in good weath...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

More pictures from the Dragon

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These are from a company that just sets up in a turn and takes shots. http://www.photoreflect.com/PR3/AlbumSlideshow.aspx?a=624508 You can s...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Vince's Pictures

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Here's my friend Vince's pictures of the weekend: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=tail%20of%20the%20dragon%20trip&w=33477989%40N...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Kathy the Christmas tree

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It got much worse for her than this, but you get (no pun intended) the picture...

Burgman/Dragon Rally

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This past weekend was really good. My friend Vince and I rode to Vonore, TN to the Burgman/Dragon rally. The ride up was fairly uneventful...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

The Prize

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Too tired to tell all the stories right now. Just wanted to show the reason I did The Dragon...its all about the patches, pins and THE STICK...
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