scooter meets

One of my favorite trips is to go to a scooter meet. But the meets I attend are not like the Mods and Rockers over in England, and certainly not The Wild Bunch.

This is sort of like a social event where everybody has the same hobby. We all collect antique motor scooters. We sit around and talk about just about anything, and we also discuss old motor scooters. We enjoy good food, good company, and with some luck, good weather. We sometimes have musical entertainment, an auction, a banquet, a scooter show, and even a few rides. The average age of the people in attendence is about 55 or 60. A great many are retired.

The one I am going to this month is The Southeastern Cushman Club's Spring Scooter Week, which is held in the picturesque little Southern town of Cochran, Georgia. The meet is planned so that Cochran is in bloom. Half an hour to the north, the city of Macon is having a cherry blossom festival.

This meet is a family thing. Most bring their wives and some bring children. Almost everybody brings more than one scooter.

If you would like to learn more about this hobby, or see some scooter pictures, go to http://scooterplace.blogspot.com/ or look at the Southeastern Cushman Club's website at http://www.southeasterncushmanclub.com

Oh. That picture up there. The scooter in the foreground is one of mine. It's a 1953 Allstate, a scooter that was made by the Cushman company and sold by Sears.