Holiday Gift: Knit Scooter Gal

Ladies and gentlemen, start your needles! 

If you have a gift for knitting, have some time, and want to give a handmade gift to a scooterist on your list, consider this knitting pattern for a girl and her scooter. I don't knit, and I can't vouch for how easy/hard this may be, but the finished result looks pretty cute!

Pattern available from etsy for $4.50. You can also check out other views of the project.

Show Us Your Scoots!

I'm soliciting submissions or our popular Show Us Your Scoots section of the magazine where readers send in snapshots of themselves on their scooters. I'd like to make the next issue's SUYS BIG!

What do you need to do to submit your photo?

• Scan your pic or submit a digital pic at the highest resolution possible (minimum of 300 dpi if you can select it)
• Include a caption for the pic which included the names of the folks in the photo, the bike (make model) and where you are from (City, State, Country)
• Email it to april (at) scootmagazine (period) com

Were you a mod way back & want to submit before/after pics? Go ahead!
New to scootering & want to show off your new bike? Do it!
Got some vacation photos from your scoot excursion in Hawaii or Greece? Share your story!

Our readers like to see what other scooterists are up to around the globe.

Show Us Your Scoot: Blog-style!

Another older submission that wasn't high enough res to make the magazine:

"My name is Jeff Cleaveley and I am the editor of the quarterly newsletter of the Zundapp Bella Enthusiasts Club here in the UK. We have 85 members, mainly in the UK, but also from around the world, including the USA. Our website is www.bellascooters.co.uk"

Thanks for sending!

Show Us Your Scoot: Blog-style!

I occasionally get photos of readers' scooters that are not of high enough resolution for print in the magazine. These usually languish in my email box, so I decided to start posting them on the blog instead. Duh! I've only been doing this for 2 years and I just figured it out? Oh well...

This bike belongs to Mike McGrath who writes:

April-

I wanted to send you a photo of my scooter. After years of riding Harleys and street bikes your magazine has really turned me on to the scooting world. After buying the scooter which was real plain jane, I decided to give it a more aggressive look to fit my tattooed lifestyle. So this is what we came up with. I am going to send a few more pics and with any luck you could publish them and open up the eyes of a different crowd. You can scoot and still have a bad boy image. Thank for your time.

I'm all for custom muraled bikes. I wish the US had more. Thanks for sharing, Mike.

And if you want your bike featured in the print version of Scoot! send digital images that are in either .jpg or .tif format at a minimum of 300dpi.

Don't forget about our Scoot! flikr pool

Earlier this month I started a Scoot! Magazine specific pool where you can link your Flikr photos. If you want to share your rally pics or even upload photos of you bikes for submission to the Show Us Your Scoots section, it should be a fun, useful way to share your scooter pics.

I uploaded a few to start, but will go through my iPhoto for more.

Show Us Your Scoot: Blog-style!

Edward Moniz of Titusville, FL sent us a photo of himself with his '66 Vespa SS that he restored himself and rides daily.

Nice bike, Edward!

If you've got a bike you want included in the magazine's Show Us Your Scoots section, send us an image at the highest resolution possible (at least 300 dpi) to my email address (see previous post). We really enjoy seeing & sharing our reader's scooters.


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