Two new dealers, a sidecar ride, and the winner is…

Great news today…we’ve had two new dealers join the California Scooter family…one in St Louis, Missouri, and one in Portland, Maine!  And, I took a ride with our sidecar rig today!  And, we’ve got a winner for our photo-captioning contest!  Read on, loyal CSC fans! 

Dave Mungenast, AMA Hall of Fame Motorcyclist

Mungenast Motorsports (800 445 6559) in St. Louis is a dealership with a rich heritage, having been founded by the Mungenast family all the way back in 1965.    

Dave Mungenast was one of motorcycling’s luminaries, having been an ISDT competitor nine times (with several wins), a Baja racer, a US Army Ranger (the real “best of the best”), and an AMA Hall of Fame member.   Sadly, Dave Mungenast left the party early, but his legacy lives on at Mungenast Motorsports (you can read about Dave Mungenast here) and in several other automobile dealerships he started in the St. Louis area.  If you’re in St. Louis, make sure you visit Mungenast Motorsports.   

Cumberland County Choppers is a brand new dealership up in Portland, Maine.  Maine is a magnificent state, it’s beautiful country, and Portland is a fun city.   Cumberland County Choppers opened about a month ago, and they’ve added CSC   

Our newest dealer, Cumberland County Choppers in beautiful Maine

motorcycles to their Ural and Royal Enfield lines.   I envy the folks in Maine who will get to ride California Scooters up there.     

There’s a bunch of CSC motorcycles headed toward Cumberland County Choppers, so do drop in and see them for yourself.  You can reach Cumberland County Choppers through the link posted here or by calling 314 649 1266.   

I’ve spent some time in Maine, and it’s magnificent country for motorcycling.  Rolling hills, tree-lined two-lane country roads, lots of lakes, the odd moose or two, and incredible seafood.    California Scooters will be right at home on those magnificent roads.  I gotta get up there for some seat time.   

Speaking of which, earlier today I felt like cruising over to Merendero’s for lunch.   They make an absolutely bodacious burrito, and while I was thinking about it, I looked outside and there was the CSC sidecar rig.   Hmmmm….   

We’ve talked about our California Scooter sidecar rig on the blog before, and I thought to myself…hey, it would be great to hit Merendero’s for lunch and maybe grab a photo or two in the process…ah, but I would need a passenger to work the camera, and that’s when I turned to Lupe.   Yeah, I know…what I gotta go through so I can write the blog for you guys…  

A chicken burrito at Merendero's

The new CSC Firefighter Special motorcycle...

Our buddy Tom

Oh, and our battle Vespa caption contest (see the blog from this past weekend)…we’ve had quite a few entries come in via e-mail, the blog, and Facebook (you are a California Scooter Facebook friend, aren’t you?).  The winner is our good buddy Tom Maoli, with his suggestion:   

“Are you sure I was speeding, Officer?”   

We thought that was a pretty good one, but so were the rest of the suggestions we received, which included…   

“1956 Darwin Award Nominee” from my buddy Peter Blair.   

“Do you think each tube has a different harmonic tone as the scoot rides?” from our Facebook friend Fernando Vasquez.   

“I’ve seen better bazookas on cows…” from our Facebook friend Robert James.   

and…   

“Vespa’s traffic solution,” from our buddy Gary Johnson.   

They were all great captions, guys, but Tom takes home the bacon…in the form a CSC T-shirt.   Tom’s a good guy, I’ve known him for years, he rides a Triumph Tiger, and he once tossed me the keys to his Subie WRX STI, but that’s not why he won…we just thought his caption was cool!