I woke up this morning and saw that it was snowing, so my first thought was "I should go for a ride" :)

I had an hour to spend while waiting for my photo to be printed, so I decided to go and explore some new roads. I ended up having a great ride :)

Earlier this morning I went for a ride on my Vespa. I didn't have anything specific in mind, just wanted to take some photos of my bike with some fall colours. Here is what I ended up with :)

I have been riding my Vespa lots, but being busy with other photo shoots, I didn't have time to take any photos on my scooter lately. Today I decided to take my scooter out for a ride with my friend and to take some photos :)

Just before our ride we noticed that my tire's status changed from being "bald" to "completely bald" :) I'm guessing it is never a good thing when you can see the metal "wires" in your tire... oh well, it lasted for 9,850 km. I had to pick up a couple of tires that I had at home and people at Walt Healy Motorsports were very kind to change them for me.

Yesterday I had an engagement photo shoot in Banff, so I rode my Vespa to it. I was short on time so only took a couple of photos of my scooter. Photographs from the actual photo shoot are coming soon :)

On my last trip to Jasper, AB I had some problems with my helmet. I discovered that it wasn't the right fit for me and on the long ride it had some pretty bad pressure points, to the point where I had to stop just to take my helmet off :( Because I do ride very often, and hopefully will go for some more long distance trips... A couple of days ago I had to go and buy a new helmet. As long as I remember, I always heard that Arai helmets are the safest and the most comfortable in the world, so I bought an Arai RX-Q. It doesn't have as many features as my last helmet did, but so far its very comfortable!

Ever since I bought this red scooter, I was thinking of taking it for a trip to Jasper, AB. Well a couple of days ago it finally happened :) Tracy and I went for a short trip, one day there and one day back. I rode 882 km in these two days, and what a beautiful ride! This trip is very easy to do on a scooter, I'm sure it can be easily done on 150cc scooter as well.

Here is a photo of Tracy in the support vehicle :)

For this trip I packed very light, as always, I guess :) The biggest item for my trips is always my camera bag with 15in laptop, 3 lenses, and a camera. I took extra shoes, some warm sweaters, and some spare clothes. For this trip I also took a tire repair kit, all fits very nicely in my GIVI Top Case.

Here are a couple of photos of me in "Action" :)

Here is a Google Map of our trip :)

Just came home from a family photo shoot. Took a couple of shots of my Vespa on the way home :) I will post some photographs from the actual photo shoot in a couple of days.

This weekend Apocalypse Scooter Club of Calgary hosted a scooter rally, so my scooter spent some time frolicking with other scooters :) This was my first scooter rally and I had lots of fun! Each day more than 40 scooters showed up and it was interesting going for a ride around Calgary with such a large group!

I was asked to post some photos and explain how I attached my top-case to my Vespa. I had a minute so I thought I would do a small blog post :) My top-case is GIVI TRK46N TREKKER and I have been packing the case with some pretty heavy items and rode in some bumpy conditions and so far its doing great! It takes only seconds to put it on or to take it off. I don't ride with it all the time but so far I ride with it more often than I thought I would :)

To attach the top-case to the scooter I purchased GIVI Monokey plate for Kawasaki KLR 650 motorcycle. Not necessary the best plate to use, but it was the only one they had at our local motorcycle shop. I used a couple of U-bolts to attach it to my Vespa rear rack. I had to cut the U-bolts a little to make them shorter, and file some plastic from the plate to get a perfect fit.

Here is a photo with a large full face helmet and a large motorcycle jacket fit nicely in the top case :)