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2nd Jan 2008

The New Year has dawned, to tell you the truth I am not really very sure what happened to 2007 it appears to have buzzed by at a serious velocity! Anyway with the closing of ’07 and fuel price and traffic congestion at an all time high I decided it was time to get back onto a scooter, for fun and to generally ease commuting hassle and cost.

Now I know I had a bit of a story about VMoto the other day but I figured as I had a great chat to the boys a few days ago I should let you all know what else is going on. First of all there is a new retro machine coming into the lineup it will be essentially a newer, bigger (125cc) version of the Milan. You may notice some similarity to a scooter originally built in Italy but this is a tried and true game plan when it comes to scooters and if it is anywhere near as good as the hype it is going to be a gem.

Australian scooter company to supply ex-German batteries to power Vectrix scooters... true story as far as I can tell... All of our readers in Australasia and a fair few in Europe and Asia will know about Vmoto, they have been around for a fair while now... slowly growing into a proper grown up scooter company, building massive factories (3 more in the planning) in China and supplying many hundreds of thousands of scooter engines around the globe. Well the latest step in the VMoto quest to take over the world is to secure some future propulsion and that means ELECTRIC. To this end they have acquired the rest (the first 60 odd percent was bought a while back) of German electric scooter company "E-Max" mainly for that companies battery technology, and initially as a simply base for a range of VMoto Electric scooters.

Normally I only publish Mad Bike Boys "Rants" over on www.themotorcyclereview.com but this one was a bit too good not to share with you all. Enjoy:

I have hate in my heart for a lot of things, and for a fair number of people.  Some people are just assholes.  I’m an asshole, I can speak with a degree of knowledge on the subject; but there are people raise the bar beyond rational expectation.

I surround myself with do-ers.  These are the people who get shit done, they start a project and they keep working on it until it’s done.  I like do-er’s.  But I hate the assholes that are Gunna’s.  If you’re a doer, you’d know the Gunna’s – they’re the fucktards that explain to you why you’re wrong, and why their xyz is gunna be so much better than yours.  Gunna do this.  Gunna do that.  Gunna’s are going to be in the queue to be up against the wall when my revolution comes.  They take momentum and throw stones at it until it stops.  They’re the people that stop so much really cool shit from happening.  Gunna’s should be called Never Gunna’s; because they never do.

I’ve got a good mate – he’s a good guy.  A regular nice guy, does the right thing, and he has a project car that’s sat in his garage for many years.  A bunch of Gunna’s have taken the wind out his sails, the momentum out of his project, and the confidence to make decisions.  Building a car or a bike, especially something rare or bespoke – is an iterative process that is fraught with pitfalls and wrong turns.  The Gunna’s sit in the background, hurling stones from their throne of all encompassing knowledge; safe from anything because they never risk anything other than throwaway opinion.