YouTube Archives - Scooter in the Sticks Exploring life on a Vespa Scooter and Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle. Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:40:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 71084491 Riding and Getting Older https://scooterinthesticks.com/2025/06/riding-and-getting-older/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2025/06/riding-and-getting-older/#comments Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:40:02 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=11371 Responses from an Aging Population of Riders The 2001 Kawasaki W650 motorcycle continues to prove it’s mettle as I wander the backroads of Pennsylvania. I’ve noticed that riding and getting older have begun to intersect and have raised at times some uncomfortable questions. There’s some truth to the idea that when old men get together […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2025/06/riding-and-getting-older/feed/ 19 11371 Scooters, Dogs and Motorcycles https://scooterinthesticks.com/2023/08/scooters-dogs-and-motorcycles/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2023/08/scooters-dogs-and-motorcycles/#comments Tue, 29 Aug 2023 04:33:00 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=10920 Riding in the Rain There has been ample opportunity to ride my scooters and motorcycles in the rain this summer. In past years everything would be dry and brown in August from hot weather and too little rain. But rain this summer has kept everything lush and green. I have to confess that my normal […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2023/08/scooters-dogs-and-motorcycles/feed/ 11 10920 Change and Choice https://scooterinthesticks.com/2023/01/change-and-choice/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2023/01/change-and-choice/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2023 19:33:26 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=10804 Riding Panacea Looking over the blog posts of the past year reveals a steady decline in the production of stories, essays, and messages along with the attendant photographs that have been a stable of Scooter in the Sticks for 15 years. Any deep investigation of this trend has been avoided, passed off to the realm […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2023/01/change-and-choice/feed/ 38 10804 Sorry About the Swearing https://scooterinthesticks.com/2022/02/sorry-about-the-swearing/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2022/02/sorry-about-the-swearing/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2022 14:19:50 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=10626 I’ve uploaded a new video to my YouTube channel. I found myself engaged in an impolite exclamation. Sorry about that. Shit happens. I follow the Itchy Boots YouTube channel as she rides around the world in all sorts of challenging situations. And perhaps what surprises me most is that she never swears. Not when she […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2022/02/sorry-about-the-swearing/feed/ 16 10626 Winter Vespa Riding Video https://scooterinthesticks.com/2022/02/winter-vespa-riding-video/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2022/02/winter-vespa-riding-video/#comments Wed, 09 Feb 2022 05:01:00 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=10598 I just uploaded a new video to my YouTube channel filmed during the recent ride shared in the last post. I’m uncertain as to how, or if, to share the videos here. They seem so different that the essays I write about rides and riding. Perhaps I’ve not given enough time or thought to the […]

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