Lots of good stuff happening here, folks!

There sure is a lot going on in the California Scooter world.   Can you believe that when we started this blog a year and a half ago I actually worried about not having enough stuff to post?  Now it seems like it’s exactly the opposite…there’s so much going on I’m afraid maybe I am posting too much.   You guys let me know if I’m overwhelming you…there’s just so much good stuff happening, and I’m having so much fun writing about it, that it’s hard not to put it up here.

Steve Lorenz of Arcadia Cushman

For starters, I got a real nice email from our good buddy Steve at Arcadia Cushman last night.  He loves our bikes and he was one of our very first dealers.   Steve wrote to tell me that Arcadia Cushman will be at Plain City, Ohio, from May 5^th through the 7^th for the mid-Ohio Scooter Show and Swap Meet.   Man, that sure sounds like fun!  Steve will have the California Scooters on display, and if you want, you can buy one at the show and take it home with you!

Steve had some great things to say to us about these motorcycles…

I haven’t talked with you much but I think the California Scooter is the greatest thing to come out in a long time. I truly believe that this little scooter will be the next Mustang or Cushman type collectable 30 years from now.  People will remember someone having one and they will want one because they didn’t take the time to get one themselves.  But what makes a collectable?  I have found it has to be good the first time, it has to be cool, it has to be bulletproof, and if necessary it has to be repairable and then rebuildable (not disposable).  Hey isn’t it cool that our little scooter has all of these things going for it?

I’m with you on that, Steve, and after the Baja trip down to Cabo and back, I can tell you these bikes are most definitely bulletproof!  We ran 1,100 miles coming home flat out in 103-degree weather, and the bikes didn’t miss a beat!

Eddie Brown and his 1939 Ford, winning the 2010 Texas Rock-N-Rumble Best of Show award!

Eddie Brown (of Brown Ford, in Cordell, Oklahoma) called to let us know that he is going to be in Lubbock, Texas, this weekend for the 13^th Annual Blue Ribbon Rally Car and Bike Show.   That’s a one-day event, boys and girls, and it’s going to be from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 30^th.  The event is in Lubbock’s Depot Entertainment District.  Eddie will be there with seven California Scooters, so if you are in the area it will be a good place to visit to check out the latest from CSC Motorcycles.  

Eddie is a cool guy, and just in case you didn’t know, Brown Ford is our Numero Uno California Scooter dealer in terms of sales volume.  Imagine that…a Ford automobile dealer in Oklahoma is our largest dealer!   Maybe it’s the name, and those guys are just used to selling Mustangs!

Both of the above events really sound like fun.  Wish I could get out there, but there’s a lot going on here, too.   In addition to our normal production, we are working several custom bikes.  We just finished the Victor McLaglen Motor Corps bike for Jim Swanson (that’s a Classic in police colors), and we had a lot of fun with Jim Watson of the Upland PD shooting photos of it last week.   The Military Series bikes are getting a lot of attention, too.   They are great looking motorcycles.

That's what a burger is all about!

Our current custom efforts are focused on the next In-N-Out bike.  You’ll recall the bike we did for the In-N-Out corporation last year.   This year’s In-N-Out bike is going to be even more fun.  

The 2011 In-N-Out bike is coming together with Tony, Lupe, and bunch of other folks weaving their magic on it.  This bike is going to be even more special than the one we donated for the In-N-Out Charity Foundation auction last year.   Everything that is black on a stock CSC motorcycle has been powder coated red, and this year’s In-N-Out motorcycle will have a silver engine.  We can provide engines in either silver or black,  and a lot of our customers specify one or the other for a special look.  It’s a pretty cool way of personalizing your motorcycle.

But on the In-N-Out bike, we’re not stopping with just a few red parts and a silver engine…we’ll add a bunch more custom touches with guidance from the In-N-Out people.  We love doing these special bikes, and this one will be special!  Stay tuned, as there’s lots more to come!