The other forum where I post a lot is on a Cushman motor scooter site. Naturally, it's mostly men, older guys like me, and about half are not yet retired. So on holidays, the posting on that site triples. On pig-out holidays like today, they get chased out of the kitchen and land on the computer.

They will complain about it being too cold to go for a scooter ride, and how it's too cool in their shop to get any scooter work done.

A few guys who live in Florida, or some other mild climate, will rub it in, telling about how they went for a ride before breakfast, and plan a really long one this afternoon. Maybe some of it is true, but most of them will eat, drink coffee, and watch football no matter what the weather is outside.

Most of these guys are people that I have never seen, but quite a few are the ones that attend the same scooter meet that I do, Over the years I have gotten to know them quite well. There are some scooter historians, some great mechanics, a lot of average fixers and restorers, and a few people like me who don't know which end of a Cresent wrench to grab hold of. But we all get along fine.

My specialty, if I have one, is identifying vintage motor scooters. Over the years, there have been hundreds of different scooter manufacturers in several countries, and many of them produced only a few scooters and then went out of business. So people are always finding a scooter unlike anything they have ever seem before. If they send me pictures and other clues (lettering, numbers, types of engines, wheel size, etc.)I can usually identify it. Sometimes quickly, but other times I spend a lot of time in books and on the internet before making a positive I.D. As strange as it might be, I have more trouble identifying scooters produced after about 1975.

So I guess I need to hop over to the Cushman forum and see if anybody has found an unidentified a Scooterdoodle of some kind.

Rambled a bit, didn't I.
Howard