Wheels 2008

Wheels weekend grows a little each year. This year was helped by better-than-forecast weather. If anything it was too hot. Or maybe that was because the addition of scooters to the event! This line of Italian-styled goodness was courtesy of the SPB Scooter Club of Lancaster. Mostly made up of vintage Vespas, there was one modern GTS and a couple Stellas thrown in for good measure.

The SPB Scooter Club is an informal club dedicated to vintage and/or metal scooters, with the purpose of keeping them on the road in running condition. If you own one these beauties and it's not so beautiful, they'll help you bring it back to life. You do the work, they provide the expertise. Just drop by most any Wednesday night, in the alley between the 500 blocks of State and Race.

Tom of SPB was at Wheels, acting as the Skooru, answering questions. That is if you could hear him over the Elvis(es?) providing the afternoon's soundtrack. The Lancaster Parking Authority also had a table set up, signing up people for the free scooter parking around the spiral ramp of the Prince Street Garage. I heard somebody refer to the ramp as "the Guggenheim", which gave me a chuckle.

A Harley Davidson Topper showed up to prove that metal and vintage doesn't have to mean Vespa. It caused quite a stir because you don't see a lot of these, let alone being ridden.