What can I say? High Rollers was crazy awesome. Old friends, new friends, old scooters, cold drinks and fun rides. And that was just Thursday!
I wanted to sum up my thoughts about the weekend. If you think I'm being verbose, well, don't read any further.
Pros
* Taking a little more than a short four hours to get to Vegas and even less time to get home
* High fiving Chino while waiting to check in at the hotel not five minutes after arriving in town
* Hotel rooms that looked like crime scenes
* Meeting Rudy
* Meeting Todd, Nate, Art, Durgan, Adam, Trina, Mellissa and her man, Dan, Julie, Mike, Roni, Neil, Aaron, Haley and a score of cool hundreds
* Having the wonderful BF meet all those crazy old friends and all the new ones as well
* Meeting "The" English
* Meeting Brit DJ extraordinaire Pete Kelross and his friend Andy
* Seeing friends I haven't seeing in 20 years and friends I haven't seen in two weeks
* Hanging with Gur, one of my favorite people
* Absinthe. The real shit. Smuggled in personally by a couple Brits
* Handing out invitational "Save The Date" cards for the Central Coast reunion the last week of September
* Fremont Street and Booster Shots
* G-Spot Gerald on the back of my bike
* Seeing Monica dressed to the nines
* Sluggo actually looking sharp ... no cargo shorts!
* Riding slow out to Red Rock with the San Luis Obispo folks
* Sitting on the side of a dusty desert road in the middle of the day for almost two hours with the SLO folks and Greg and Marlee. Great time to debate, daydream and dance. Who knew breaking down outside cell phone service could be so much fun?
* The many riders and car drivers who stopped to offer assistance
* My Lambretta starting on the first kick almost every time
* A line of fine LDs ... and mine among them
* Breaking bread with Bennie, Christine, Darma and Jay
* Shooting the shit with Josh, Gabe, Who Bike Mike,
* Seeing Marv and Jumbo kiss and make up
* Congratulating the lucky couples on their nuptials
* The Tiki!
* Witnessing a full-on battle of "I'm More Mod Than You" between Kev and Mike Burns
* Already knowing full well who's more mod
* Riding 2-up and getting to be just the passenger
* Drunk-ass drag queen bartenders rubbing their breasts on bald heads.
* Dancing. With everyone. To Victoria's and Guillermo's sweet soul sounds
* The Instigator. (That's the scooter that won best rat bike at CNP.)
* All those beautiful build-off bikes. Don't know who won, but based on the rules and the final product, I hope it was Rudy.
* All those beautiful vintage scooters, which outnumbered the plastics by a huge margin
* Winning a little sumthin' in the raffle
* Almost getting run over by a runaway wheelie rider
* Drinking beers in the back of a cab
* The fucking Aggrolites. Fantastic show!
* Cunt jokes with Becky
* GaryLee's Huell Howser impression
* Taking Lee (innocenti) down a few pegs. Funny how the Lambrettas seemed to be running a thousand times better than the Vespas this weekend.
* Watching Kristian work his magic on just about everyone's bike and at the Blackjack tables
* Dinner at Battista's
* Ice cream at Sonic drive-in on scooter
* Having one of the last three scooters in the parking lot Monday. Yes, I am hardcore.
Cons
* The Deuce. People who ride a bus named after shit deserve to be stuck on said bus for hours.
* Aruba Bar. Sorry, I know people like it. But I couldn't find anyone, it was too hot, impossible to get a drink and there was no great place to hang and chat, unless you like basking in overly bright fluorescents,
* Sweaty skinheads pushing against you in front of the stage at the Aggrolites show
* Losing my voice by Sunday morning. What the hell? I wasn't screaming or anything.
* Interminably long traffic lights. It's like they're daring you to ride on the sidewalks.
* That fucking plastic Barbie abomination
* Windy, windy winds!
* Finally having to leave Las Vegas
I love those summer - scooters .
Posted by: San Diego Beaches | May 20, 2009 at 06:35 AM