CSC Blog

Steve, Ian, and the boys are out riding today, and I stayed home.  I probably should have gone with them, but I had too many things going on here at the house, not the least of which was getting ready for the next secret mission.  Ian is our CSC distributor in Australia (he owns Magnum Performance), and it would have been a fun ride.  I asked Steve to grab a few photos, and I’ll post them here on the blog for you in the next day or so.

Speaking of photos, I received a nice email from Arlene Battishill over at Go Go Gear.  Arlene just turned 10,000 miles on her California Scooter, and she sent an odo-photo to me showing that super-cool accomplishment.  I believe Arlene is our highest mileage rider (if I’m wrong and any of our readers have racked up more than 10,000 miles, please let me know).

Arlene on the Baja ride...in a restaurant in Todos Santos at the southern tip of the peninsula, on the road just south of Tijuana, and in front of the best loncheria in Nueva Chapala!

We first met Arlene at one of the International Motorcycle Shows, and my boss asked me to invite her to visit (we’re both in So Cal). We did, she did, one thing led to another, and Arlene quickly signed onto the California Scooter lifestyle. I got to know Arlene a bit better on our Baja trip. She’s a hoot!

Arlene racked up 2,300 of her 10,000 CSC miles on our September 2010 Baja trip...I grabbed this shot of Arlene on her California Scooter just south of La Paz...we were on our way to Cabo San Lucas!

Arlene is out there living large.   She’s an entrepeneur creating jobs, her company makes things that protect folks who ride, and she’s a real rider!

PS:  Wow, a small world indeed!

Just after I posted this blog, my good buddy Brad posted this photo on his Facebook page…it’s none other than our very own Steve up on Glendora Ridge Road on his personal ride, the “Sarge…”

Steve on the "Sarge" up on Glendora Ridge Road just a few minutes ago...what a small world!

Saw this posted by my good friend Art over at Douglas Motorcycles showing the grandest of all motorsports! Enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!   Wow, what a year this has been!  And that new development I promised?  Well, boys and girls, here it is…take a look at our motorcycle maestro on his latest creation!

The Master of All Things Mechanical...Steve on his latest CSC masterpiece!

Yep, our very own trike.  You can’t buy it yet, but come this Spring, you’ll be able to purchase the entire CSC trike kit and it will be a 100% “bolt on” package.  No welding, no cutting, no painting…just nuts and bolts.   Steve and the boys spent a lot of time on this one, and it’s a honey! 

The California Scooter Trike....available in Spring 2012 as a bolt-on accessory for your favorite motorcycle!

Steve told me about the plans for this unit, and it’s going to be great.   We won’t sell complete trikes…you’ll have to buy a CSC motorcycle and the accessory trike package, but it sure looks and feels cool!  Steve even let me fire it up and take it for a ride…and my smile is real!

Our engineering development prototype trike unit isn’t finished yet…it’s just the bare bones right now.   But it’s fully functional, and I’ll tell you what:  It works!  Steve wants to work on getting the gearing perfect, finishing a few minor engineering details, and developing a family of trike accessories. The accessories list sounds super cool…a pickup bed…a polished wood stake bed…a rear seat option…a service compartment…and the list goes on!  My guess is that a lot of folks will want to buy the bare bones trike kit, and design their own package for it.   Maybe we’ll even do one with a monster auxiliary gas tank and use it in the next Hell’s Loop Rally!

Yep, this is our 400th blog! 

It sure is fun doing this…

I’ve got a bunch of cool stuff to share with you over the next few days, and then I’ll be off on another secret mission to the other side of the world (so my entries may not be appearing as often as they sometimes do, depending on where I can get to the Internet).  But for now, well…take a look at these!

This first awesome photo is Carefree John Schwamm’s absolutely gorgeous yellow CSC motorcycle with a matching Grumman Widgeon…what a cool pair of machines these classics are!

Check out the hand-painted Mustang logo on John’s California Scooter…it sure looks good! 

The Widgeon is an airplane with an interesting history.  Originally intended to be a civilian airplane and manufactured from 1941 to 1955, it saw use by the US Navy, the US Army, the Civil Air Patrol, the US Coast Guard, and Britain’s Royal Navy.  During World War II, one of the Coast Guard’s Widgeons actually attacked a German submarine!  Grumman only built 276 of these beautiful airplanes, so what you see here is a pretty rare animal.  

John, thanks for sharing this dynamite photo with us…your California Scooter and its Mustang heritage look right at home with that classic airplane!

Let’s fast forward 60 years, and take a look at the latest in high performance police motorcycles.  Here are two more cool photos…these show the ST1300 motors used by the Titusville, Florida, boys in blue.   My good buddy Ken Streb sent these photos to us, and I gotta tell you, the bikes look good!

Ken, thank you for sending these in…they look great!

And hey, let’s roll the clock back again…in looking at that gorgeous Grumman Gosling above (“Gosling” was the Widgeon’s nickname), I remembered a photo I grabbed a year or so ago at the Chino Airport.  It’s one I posted a few hundred blogs ago (wow, it sounds cool saying that!) showing my Baja Blaster in front of another World War II seaplane…

And that one brought to mind two more photos of our California Scooters in front of World War II warhorses…these were in the blog maybe a hundred or so entries back…

That last one above, of course, shows the Boss with a couple of interesting Mustangs…one is our Greaser, and the other is a P51.   I grabbed another shot of Steve today on a very, very interesting new product…but I’m getting ahead of myself here…

Keep an eye on your favorite blog, folks…there’s more coming your way!

Hey, check these out!  Yep, it’s a polished solid stainless steel kickstand, it’s only $49.95, and if it takes you more than a couple of minutes to install it on your California Scooter you’re doing something wrong!

You can buy this direct from Steve and Lisa, our Arcadia Cushman buddies, and you can reach them at (317) 984-2874!

Wanna know what it was like riding in the Hell’s Loop Endurance Rally a couple of weeks ago?  Well, here you go…check out Alan Spears’ video, brought to you directly from the pilot’s seat!

If you sit in a freezer while you’re watching the above video, you’ll pretty much have it!

What in the world are those boys up to….???

Whoa, check this out!   Bling-a-mundo!

Between now and the end of the year, all CSC motorcycle accessories are 20% off of our retail price! That’s quite a deal!

Take a look at this quick collage we put together showing just a few of the dynamite accessories we offer…but please recognize our holiday sale is not limited to these items…it’s 20% off of every accessory in our catalog, and it’s good between now and the end of the year!

And one more thing, boys and girls…I don’t know if it’s the holiday spirit or if TK’s been breathing too many nitromethane fumes from the NHRA dragstrip across the street, but he’s cut some deals on new bikes in the last few days that have absolutely blown me away!  If you’re thinking about a new CSC motorcycle, now’s the time to give TK a call at 800 884 4173!

Yep, March is right around the corner, boys and girls.   Check out the fun MSILSF has in store for us this time!

Folks, these events are a lot of fun.   If you want to do something a bit different…well, okay…a lot different, you’ve got to check this out.  I had a blast at the last MSILSF endurance rally, and you can bet I’ll be at this one, too!

Will we see you there?

Go ahead…click on the link…make sure you’ve got a cup of coffee and some time.

http://www.go-faster.com/SS100.html

Gotta love it!