W/NW Mopeds & Scooters

[Sparrow]

It’s Leonard Cohen, song or poem

PS i think

 

[nightfly]

 

[shadowfox]

Scooters are catching on in the US also, here's one in Dallas:



and one in San Francisco:

 

[rpsawin]

Pike Place Market
Post Alley
MP 35/2 Summicron

 

[tedwhite]

Here's a couple of very old ones, yet they are daily drivers in Bisbee, Arizona.

The first is a Motobecane 49cc from the seventies or eighties. It's the owner's sole method of transportation.

The second is a Moto Guzzie 125cc from the mid-fifties. runs good.

 

[Epimetheus]

This is a classic from Finland. I had one of these about 16 years ago and the prices have at least doubled since.

Taken with Bessa-R and 35mm Ultron

 

[thafred]

My first Kodachrome

 

[angeloks]

Yes, it's Leonard Cohen, New Skin for the Old Ceremony - Chelsea Hotel #2. Wonderful poet/singer, from Montreal.

 

[rpinchbeck]

After traveling in Taiwan and seeing many, many scooters, I felt obliged to buy one at home.

 

[tedwhite]

This my latest "scooter" that I got last week. Buddy owns a Kawasaki/Suzuki dealership and was dumping his '07 models to make room for the '08 models. How could I say no?

 

[pvdhaar]

Grain the size of goofballs..

Bessa-T with 50mm/2 Hexanon on tmz3200..

 

[0bli0]

 

[rpinchbeck]

OK, I dredged up another scooter image.

Russ

 

[Hibbs]

"You told me that you preferred handsome men...but for me you'd make an exception."

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Yeah...that is Cohen all right. For many years, there was a lot of conjecture about who the other person was in the hotel room.

Cohen did eventually name Janis Joplin as the guilty party.

~hibbs

 

[tedwhite]

Naughty Janice.

Saw this gorgeous Stella two-stroke in Tucson, Arizona. Dead ringer for a Vespa.

 

[jonmanjiro]

Three girls on the same scooter in Chilung, Taiwan.

 

[Rodinal Addict]

Surf City (Huntington Beach), California

 

[tedwhite]

Rodinal Addict.

Nice photo. I wonder what the cops think of no license plate...

 

[Rodinal Addict]

Don't need no steenking license plate!!

 

[tedwhite]

Nah, yr right. Buena Park? They don't care about nuthin.' Actually, I grew up in L.A. Went to Manual Arts High School, 42nd and Vermont. Today it's not a neighborhood in which you'd want to take a midnight stroll.