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Memories of VME

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While enjoying a meeting up of the Nor Cal Ducati Club this evening in at Cibo, in Monterey CA., the subject of the Seattle VME (Vintage Motorcycle Enthusiasts) came up, specifically the wonderful and wacky “Isle of Vashon” event. The coolest aspect of the bikes you’ll see in these videos, is that they are ALL ridden to and around the island.

What others have posted about the TT

Sample videos shot by others:
VME Isle of Vashon 2011

VME Isle of Vashon 2008

Here are some articles about the event itself:


VME Isle of Vashon
The Northwest Classic Old Bike Event

http://www.soundrider.com

What, you missed it again? VME’s Isle of Vashon? Nooooo? Why? Didn’t know when the date was? Where was it listed?[…]


Motorcycle club appreciates the Island’s support
http://www.vashonbeachcomber.com
The Vintage Motorcycle Enthusiasts (VME) would like to thank the Vashon-Maury Island community for supporting our 29th annual old bike rally, known as the Isle of Vashon TT.

Thanks to the event’s con[…]


Now this is really cool, and geeky.. but a big post about VME on a Gamers forum!!

Vintage Motorcyle Rally (Pic intensive)

Where is this, “Vashon Island” place?

Vashon island is located in lower ventricle of Puget Sound:
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Situated above Tacoma, south-west of Seattle and south-east of Bremerton, Vashon Island is one of the few Puget Sound island that is serviced only by ferry. No conventional roads exist to get to this island, unlike the rest within Puget Sound that are connected via some sort of bridge or another.
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VME events, and the Isle of Vashon in particular, you can find not only a nice variety of vintage bikes, but a number of strange and often amusing customs.

I certainly wouldn’t mind attending another one of these unusual events some time in the near future!

Saturday trip around Puget Sound with kids and cameras.

One of the things I did today, was sign up for ‘foursquare‘, an app that lets you ‘check-in’ to places, and those with participating incentives will send coupons to your phone. It’s and interesting experiment. I’ll see how that works out today.

M.V. Kitsap mid-sound, enroute Bremerton
Passengers on stern pickle-forks of ferry M.V. Kitsap
M.V. Kitsap about to make starboard turn into Rich Passage.
M.V. Kitsap foreground, Olympic National Park, background.

The Washington Winter, will it ever end?

23-March-2009

The rapidly heating earth has caused yet another snow alert to be issued last night.  I’m happy to report that the weather experts were wrong (again) and this time it did not bring us a dawn over streets of white. Will this winter ever end?  Is it finally over, or will tomorrow bring out the snow plows and tire chains?

It has only been 4 days since I last saw snow, and 8 days since it really unloaded on us.  I was starting to think it really was Spring, for Western Washington.

March 15, it's almost Spring!
March 15, it's almost Spring!

A short 8 years ago I relocated the family here from sunny, smoggy, silly Kalifornia.  I knew to expect rain, and boy did we get it, pretty often.  But being on a coastal zone I made the assumption the weather would be mild.  For a few years that was the case.

Lately, at least over that last few years, the winters have become longer and longer.  This years winter season, although technically over, still seems hell-bent on sticking around.

Having grown up on the West Coast, almost entierely in California, when you see something like this, you have to wonder if it’s a harbringer of the end.

What's not right with this picture?
What's not right with this picture?

I hope we don’t freeze during Saturday’s ‘Earth Hour‘.  I plan to turn up my heaters, open all my windows, turn on all my lights and I’ve posted an ad on Craig’s List to hire some people to drive all my cars and bikes around in circles for the event.

Sadly they won’t let me post my ‘Earth Hour’ event on their website.  I want my globe to warm up! I’m tired of the snow!

UPDATE: 25-Mar-2009

Snow is back in the forecast again tonight, really!??!  Mountain passes are seeing heavy snowfall tonight.  And it’s spring.  Now I’m thinking it’s quite possible we’ll see snow on the first day of Summer too.   PLEASE… PLEASE.. let this Winter end!

Temperature: 32ºF / 0ºC

Restrictions:
Traction Tires Required, Chains required on Vehicles over 10,000 gross vehicle weight. Oversize Vehicles Prohibited.

Conditions & Weather:
Snow & slush on the roadway // Snowing

Updated: 12:11 AM, Mar 25, 2009
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