26. been scooting for 3yrs.
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started tearing things apart shortly after birth. started putting them back together age 5.
![Twisted Evil :twisted:](./images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif)
before scooters, my hobby was offroading in subarus, which i've had 5 of (of which i still own 3). anything with an engine and wheels facinates me, and being that the spree is the smallest street legal thing i could find, i HAD to have it.
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scootering has spread like an infectious desease. i used to beone of the only people who rode a scoot, aside from my friend who drives a stella, a vespa replica, 125cc manual transmission scoot w/ a sidecar. one day i went for a ride in the sidecar (at this point, i looked like a circus act, my 6'2" * crammed into a scooter sidecar
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), and i got the scooter bug. now there are six sprees around the car audio shop i work at
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
(my friend, the owner of the shop, finally broke down and got a spree, shortly followed by another spree...
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
), and a scooter built when old bear was but a child, my precious allstate which is torn down and scrambled up in my basement.
i ride with 9 other guys, the youngest is 18, the oldest 37ish. and we're all like little kids when we get on our scoots. weekly 40+ mile rides, drafting and leapfrogging the whole way. there's a few of us that even try to flip each othe'rs kill switch on a pass
![Twisted Evil :twisted:](./images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif)
good cheap fun, not to mention increadable scenery. miles of road following the lake michigan coastline. and some wicked big hills.....