NHSC ReBirth! Organizational Meeting

Don't forget Meeting this Tuesday (7/5/05). We need to finalize Ride plans.

I just found your website tonight, and I'm interested in attending the next meeting. Any thoughts as to when that will be?



Stephen Phillips

Is this coming Tuesday, June 7th our next club meeting and get together at KC's Ribshack?

I will be there....is anyone else planning on it?

Thanks,
-Quentin

There is supposed to be a meeting tonight. Anyone going?

Is this coming Tuesday, June 7th our next club meeting and get together at KC's Ribshack?

I will be there....is anyone else planning on it?

Thanks,
-Quentin

>
> There is supposed to be a meeting tonight. Anyone going?


Sorry I didn't look here for your message....I looked in the YAHOO group, and of course received the calendar mailings.

I did show up at about 7:20pm.....with the new scooter. I waited around until about 7:55pm, and took off to practice up at the DMV. (I still have to get licenced)

The ride around Manchester was fun. I'm still a newbie, but I just paid extreme attention to everything I did, and of course kept the speed down as I am still in the break-in phase of the scooter.

I have done about 55 miles on the new scooter so far.....quite a few from the mandatory 600mile break-in period.

It looked sort of like rain, but it never so much as tried.

I hope to see you at the next meeting.

-Quentin

I found this site the other day and I am interested in getting involved in a scooter club like this. I have recently purchased a vintage Vespa and would like to meet some other scooter owners. My scooter is in transit so I won't be ready for any group rides immediately but would like to make a meeting.
Thanks
Elizabeth Chasse
Rochester

For those who are interested. At the meeting last night we thought it might be nice to create a yaahoo group for club related information. Please come over check it out and start posting. I just created it so there is nothing there yet.

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/nhscooters/?yguid=80145031

Rhodri,

Very nice.....thanks for setting that up. It is a good addition to the club website.

-Quentin

>
> For those who are interested. At the meeting last night we
> thought it might be nice to create a yaahoo group for club
> related information. Please come over check it out and
> start posting. I just created it so there is nothing there
> yet.
>
> http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/nhscooters/?yguid=80145031

I was just wondering as I had one on my YAHOO calendar.

Oh....BTW....website log-ins do not have secure connections. I would recommend that your password not be one you care about in case it is scooped.

We are supposed to have a meeting. I know Brian is gone. If we are going to do a ride in two weeks we need to do some organizing.
>
> I was just wondering as I had one on my YAHOO calendar.
>
> Oh....BTW....website log-ins do not have secure
> connections. I would recommend that your password not be
> one you care about in case it is scooped.
>
>

I will be there....at 7:30PM, right?

I am still w/o scooter, but I understand that it might be shipping from South Carolina today for arrival in Nashua perhaps Monday. (all unconfirmed)

We can talk tonight....we should also exchange email addresses.

-Quentin



> We are supposed to have a meeting. I know Brian is gone. If
> we are going to do a ride in two weeks we need to do some
> organizing.
> >
> > I was just wondering as I had one on my YAHOO calendar.
> >
> > Oh....BTW....website log-ins do not have secure
> > connections. I would recommend that your password not be
> > one you care about in case it is scooped.
> >
> >
>

I know this isn't perhaps relavent to people in our area, but I wanted to get a sense of why people would join a scooter club.

I have posted this poll in only the Kymco Yahoo Group, but if the info is interesting, I might place it in several other scooter-centric groups as well. (any other suggestions?)

Since many of you might not be members of the Kymco forum, I have done a screen capture and you can see the results from only 42 votes at:

http://tinypic.com/4qkkrr

Can you think of any other "answers" I should add to the list I already have? (or any other changes)

I know this means NOTHING to the people we will eventually attract to the club...but I thought I would try to take the temperature of others to see if there were any surprises.

Please tell me what you think,
-Quentin

PS: I will update you on the results as they "roll in".

I thought I would post the initial numbers I have in the short time it has been up. (2 days?)

I placed it in 10 Yagoo groups related to scooters.

So far, I have received 219 votes. They look like this:

Q) If you were to join a scooter club, what would you like to do as a member? (what would make you join?)

# Votes (% total) Answer
--------------------- ---------
53 (24%) Scooting education: Lean about my scooter repair, upgrade and service

48 (22%) Going to and having Motorcycle / Scooter related events & rallys

3 (1.4%) Other interest (Please note in message)

53 (24%) Going on group rides with others. (two wheels good, four wheel bad)

32 (15%) Social contact by going to BBQs, Music clubs or Fairs

4 (1.8%) Party, party, party!

15 (6.8%) I'm looking for an upgrade, and I want to learn about other owners scoots, maybe even take a spin myself!

7 (3.2%) Meet people of the opposite attraction....

I understand that this might not be the best set of choices....and that my poll itself might be far from perfect....AND most important....these people are NOT in our area, or in our club....so they might have their own bias that would not exist around here.

Anyways....the poll is young, but I thought I would report on the current results thus far.

-Quentin





> I know this isn't perhaps relavent to people in our area,
> but I wanted to get a sense of why people would join a
> scooter club.
>
> I have posted this poll in only the Kymco Yahoo Group, but
> if the info is interesting, I might place it in several
> other scooter-centric groups as well. (any other
> suggestions?)
>
> Since many of you might not be members of the Kymco forum,
> I have done a screen capture and you can see the results
> from only 42 votes at:
>
> http://tinypic.com/4qkkrr
>
> Can you think of any other "answers" I should add to the
> list I already have? (or any other changes)
>

> I know this means NOTHING to the people we will eventually
> attract to the club...but I thought I would try to take the
> temperature of others to see if there were any surprises.
>
> Please tell me what you think,
> -Quentin
>
> PS: I will update you on the results as they "roll in".
>

Well, it was a good meeting tonight, even though all of us were sans-scooter. (Mine still has not arrived at the dealership)

Anyways, it seems as though we might have some momentum around a ride scheduled for May 14th.

The details are in the works, but we were talking about a ride starting at say 10:00am from Naults Honda in Manchester....riding about Manchester then out to a BBQ perhaps at a members home, and then a post-BBQ ride.

All details will be released here. We will also be "spreading the word" in other ways.

So what do you think? Post your suggestions and ideas!

-Quentin

Quinten,
You have a typo on your other post. DCSC Rally is July 2. The 14th works for me if you want to push it back to May 21st That still is fine with me. We need to lock down a date so we can start getting the word out.
Rhodri
>
> Well, it was a good meeting tonight, even though all of us
> were sans-scooter. (Mine still has not arrived at the
> dealership)
>
> Anyways, it seems as though we might have some momentum
> around a ride scheduled for May 14th.
>
> The details are in the works, but we were talking about a
> ride starting at say 10:00am from Naults Honda in
> Manchester....riding about Manchester then out to a BBQ
> perhaps at a members home, and then a post-BBQ ride.
>
> All details will be released here. We will also be
> "spreading the word" in other ways.
>
> So what do you think? Post your suggestions and ideas!
>
> -Quentin
>
>

Oh...It appears that the Diner Scooter Club ride (Summer Scoot) is June 2nd....NOT May 24th as we had thought. (or was that another ride?)

Just an FYI....should we consider a later date for our event?

-Quentin

>
> Well, it was a good meeting tonight, even though all of us
> were sans-scooter. (Mine still has not arrived at the
> dealership)
>
> Anyways, it seems as though we might have some momentum
> around a ride scheduled for May 14th.
>
> The details are in the works, but we were talking about a
> ride starting at say 10:00am from Naults Honda in
> Manchester....riding about Manchester then out to a BBQ
> perhaps at a members home, and then a post-BBQ ride.
>
> All details will be released here. We will also be
> "spreading the word" in other ways.
>
> So what do you think? Post your suggestions and ideas!
>
> -Quentin
>
>

If my calendar is correct, then this coming Tuesday, April 19th, is the 3rd Tuesday of the month.....it's scooter club time!

So as I recall, the specifics are as follows:

CLUB MEETING & RIDE:
Tuesday, April 13th, 2005 @ 7:30pm
Meeting will be held at:
KCs Rib Shack
837 Second St.
Manchester, NH

I believe the plan was a small meet & greet followed by a ride around the area.

Does this sound right?

This is correct... Although I may be a little late. I have some NHSC pins for anyone who attends.

>
> If my calendar is correct, then this coming Tuesday, April
> 19th, is the 3rd Tuesday of the month.....it's scooter club
> time!
>
> So as I recall, the specifics are as follows:
>
> CLUB MEETING & RIDE:
> Tuesday, April 13th, 2005 @ 7:30pm
> Meeting will be held at:
> KCs Rib Shack
> 837 Second St.
> Manchester, NH
>
> I believe the plan was a small meet & greet followed by a
> ride around the area.
>
> Does this sound right?
>
>

Quentin,
I believe you are correct. I am planning on coming, but I will be without my scooter this week. I have a dead battery I am fixing. I will see you there.
Rhodri
>
> If my calendar is correct, then this coming Tuesday, April
> 19th, is the 3rd Tuesday of the month.....it's scooter club
> time!
>
> So as I recall, the specifics are as follows:
>
> CLUB MEETING & RIDE:
> Tuesday, April 13th, 2005 @ 7:30pm
> Meeting will be held at:
> KCs Rib Shack
> 837 Second St.
> Manchester, NH
>
> I believe the plan was a small meet & greet followed by a
> ride around the area.
>
> Does this sound right?
>
>

Good evening.....

I don't remember how we decided to communicate on the website....so I might be posting in the wrong place here.

I wanted to talk about possible rides....perhaps not specific places just yet....but perhaps possible ideas for rides.

So a few obvious things come to my mind:

1) a ride to one or some of the "notches" in the mountains

2) a ride up Mount Washington

3) A ride to and up along the seacoast into Maine

4) A ride down to the Diner City Club trip to the Summer Nationals Car Show
http://www.summernationals.com/index2.html
http://www.dsquared.org/dcsc.html
http://www.dsquared.org/scooters/summer_scoot_pc.jpg

5) A weekend ride or two out to one of the various fairs or festivals. eg:
15th Annual Vintage Racing May - http://www.vintagecelebration.com/
Milford Hot Air Balloon Festival - http://milfordnh.com/highhopes/festival.htm
Laconia Rod and Custom Show - http://laconiarodandcustom.com/
Half Moon Sober Festival - http://halfmoonsober.org/ (not sure what this is, but someone recommended it to me for some reason :-)
Wilton Arts and Film Festival - http://wiltonartsandfilmfestival.org/ (again....I know nothing!)
Laconia Motor Cycle Week - http://laconiamcweek.com/ (oh sure...)
Hillboro Balloon Festival - http://balloonfestival.org/
Great Waters Folk Festival - http://greatwaters.org/
Lowell Folk Festival - http://www.lowellfolkfestival.org/
One of the various Ag Fairs - http://www.nhfairs.com/fairdates.htm / http://www.nhfairs.com/NHDates.pdf
Pemi Valley Bluegrass - http://pemivalleybluegrass.com/
Pittsfield NH Balloon Festival - http://pittsfield-nh.com/
Jaffrey Festival of Fireworks - http://atlaspyro.com/kaboom.asp
White Mountain Boogie and Blue - http://whitemountainboogie.com/

Anyways.....I'm not suggesting that we can go to more than a couple.....but I thought I would throw out some ideas.

The other idea I have is that perhaps each of us could plan one ride. That way the responsibility could be shared.

The only thing we would want to try and do is give as much of a heads-up as to what we are planning so that we can spread the word to other members. (present and potential)

Just some late night rambling thoughts.....what do you think?

-Quentin

Quentin,
Good list.
Mt Washington auto Road doesn't allow scooters. We may be able to try to work something out with them, but according to their website scooters are not allowed. It would be cool though. Some more to add to your list.
There is a classic car club that has a car show every Sunday in Amherst. I will try to get details.
There are two Highland festivals. One during the summer and one in the fall.
Also in the fall there is the Keene Pumpkin festival.
Rhodri
>
> Good evening.....
>
> I don't remember how we decided to communicate on the
> website....so I might be posting in the wrong place here.
>
> I wanted to talk about possible rides....perhaps not
> specific places just yet....but perhaps possible ideas for
> rides.
>
> So a few obvious things come to my mind:
>
> 1) a ride to one or some of the "notches" in the mountains
>
> 2) a ride up Mount Washington
>
> 3) A ride to and up along the seacoast into Maine
>
> 4) A ride down to the Diner City Club trip to the Summer
> Nationals Car Show
> http://www.summernationals.com/index2.html
> http://www.dsquared.org/dcsc.html
> http://www.dsquared.org/scooters/summer_scoot_pc.jpg
>
> 5) A weekend ride or two out to one of the various fairs or
> festivals. eg:
> 15th Annual Vintage Racing May -
> http://www.vintagecelebration.com/
> Milford Hot Air Balloon Festival -
> http://milfordnh.com/highhopes/festival.htm
> Laconia Rod and Custom Show -
> http://laconiarodandcustom.com/
> Half Moon Sober Festival - http://halfmoonsober.org/ (not
> sure what this is, but someone recommended it to me for
> some reason :-)
> Wilton Arts and Film Festival -
> http://wiltonartsandfilmfestival.org/ (again....I know
> nothing!)
> Laconia Motor Cycle Week - http://laconiamcweek.com/ (oh
> sure...)
> Hillboro Balloon Festival - http://balloonfestival.org/
> Great Waters Folk Festival - http://greatwaters.org/
> Lowell Folk Festival -
> http://www.lowellfolkfestival.org/
> One of the various Ag Fairs -
> http://www.nhfairs.com/fairdates.htm /
> http://www.nhfairs.com/NHDates.pdf
> Pemi Valley Bluegrass - http://pemivalleybluegrass.com/
> Pittsfield NH Balloon Festival -
> http://pittsfield-nh.com/
> Jaffrey Festival of Fireworks -
> http://atlaspyro.com/kaboom.asp
> White Mountain Boogie and Blue -
> http://whitemountainboogie.com/
>
> Anyways.....I'm not suggesting that we can go to more than
> a couple.....but I thought I would throw out some ideas.
>
> The other idea I have is that perhaps each of us could plan
> one ride. That way the responsibility could be shared.
>
> The only thing we would want to try and do is give as much
> of a heads-up as to what we are planning so that we can
> spread the word to other members. (present and potential)
>
> Just some late night rambling thoughts.....what do you
> think?
>
> -Quentin
>
>
>

Good morning,

I hope you don't mind, but I posted theral scooter websites and newsgroups. I thought I would try to start "getting the word out".

-Quentin

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PRESS RELEASE
April 5, 2005 Manchester, NH

NH Scooter Club re-forms and Schedule Meetings Twice a Month

The New Hampshire Scooter Club (www.nh-scooters.com) had it's first meeting of the year tonight, and decided to meet regularly on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday's of each month. The meetings are at 7:30pm at KC's Rib Shack (http://www.ribshack.net/ ) in Manchester, NH.

These meetings will consist of a group meet-up in the parking lot, and a 30 to 60 minute ride out and about the local area. After the ride, riders will be invited into KC's for friendship, scooter talk, and planning of weekend club rides.

The club is a place for scooter owners (current and future) can come together, talk, ride and generally have fun.

If you are interested in knowing more about the club, our meetings, or scooters in general, you are invited to come to www.nh-scooters.com to check us out.

All are welcome...we hope you check us out.

Email me for more details:
( bigqueue_qlewis@nospam.yahoo.com )
NOTE: remove the "nospam" from the name.

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I can not attend meeting, but I am totally interested in rides that involve the Seacoast area and north of here....Please keep me in mind for these rides...Im in, if you will allow a burgman 400? Diana (Rochester)

Brian,
Is this a formal meeting or can I bring my kids along?
Thanks,
Rhodri

The meeting will be informal... just want to get an idea of how many people are interested in re-vamping the club, and who wants to be involved.

>
> Brian,
> Is this a formal meeting or can I bring my kids along?
> Thanks,
> Rhodri
>

I will be there!

I have it in my calendar, and as of this second, there is nothing conflicting. The time is also perfect as I have to come up from work in Burlington, Ma.

I will see you there.
-Quentin

Great! Look forward to meeting you Quentin.

> I will be there!
>
> I have it in my calendar, and as of this second, there is
> nothing conflicting. The time is also perfect as I have to
> come up from work in Burlington, Ma.
>
> I will see you there.
> -Quentin

I will be there too. I have a couple of coworkers with scooters I will pass the word on to them.
Rhodri

> Great! Look forward to meeting you Quentin.
>
> > I will be there!
> >
> > I have it in my calendar, and as of this second, there
> is
> > nothing conflicting. The time is also perfect as I have
> to
> > come up from work in Burlington, Ma.
> >
> > I will see you there.
> > -Quentin
>
>