I was making T-shirt designs for our scooter club this week, when a burst of creativity struck me and I decided to make a few shirts of my own. The results, if I do say so myself, look just plain awesome…

To see these shirts, you can navigate to them directly at zazzle.com/vtscoot, or from my [...]

It was a lovely Saturday afternoon in northern Vermont, so our scooter club (those few who came out, anyway) decided to take a nice ride out to find one of the nearby decommissioned Atlas F missile bases. Back in the early 1960’s our local region was home to twelve Atlas F nuclear missiles, in twelve [...]

Flat Tire – Watercolor pencils on Bristol (11 x 14)
Again, tried to make the color somewhat more subtle in this image, rather than letting it take over the whole image. The scan conveys the nuances of this particular illustration pretty well, though the rust spots on the rim are much more impressive on the [...]

Last weekend was a little warmer, so I was able to finally bring home the new bike I had bought last January…

2009 Yamaha Grand Majesty, rides nice and smooth. Sold my chromey Suzuki cruiser, I’m now officially 100% scooterist.
Incidentally, my partner had thought this was some stock image I downloaded from a Yamaha website – [...]

Moto Strada
11×14 – Watercolor Pencils on Bristol Plate
Another illustration, this one is a couple of months old but I’ve recently added some subtle color to it and I like it much better now. I really love when I can add color as an accent, rather than the principle body of the illustration, though the brighter [...]

Tokyo Scoot: Custom Ruckus
11×14 – Watercolor Pencils on Bristol Plate
My latest pencil illustration, this time the focus is a modified Honda Ruckus. I spent a good deal of care on illustrating the chrome in order to best display this bike’s assets. As usual, these pics all look better live and in-person than they do in [...]

I haven’t worked with color illustration in some time, and this illustration got me back into it. I thought “How do I translate blue LEDs under the scoot into black and white?” and decided I would choose instead to just speak the original tongue instead – color. Here’s the result…

A Japanese study has determined that riding a motorcycle help keep you young, and makes your brain sharper and more perceptive…
Riding motorcycles helps keep drivers young by invigorating their brains, the scientist behind popular “Brain Training” computer software said Wednesday, citing a new scientific study.
“The driver’s brain gets activated by riding motorbikes” in part because [...]

Tokyo Scoot 2
11×14 – Watercolor Pencils on Bristol Plate
Another illustration in the series of custom Japanese scooters. This one is of a stretched and lowered Yamaha Grand Majesty in traffic, its rider in the familiar leaned-back stance that the custom extended handlebars encourage. Some scooterists in Tokyo are leaned back SO far that they’re [...]

Best Buy is getting into the motorcycle business… sort of. Brammo, an Oregon company who produces the Ariel Atom, released news that they will be shipping units of their new Enertia electric motorcycle to select Best Buy locations on the West Coast (read story here).The new bike takes three hours to charge, has a 45-mile [...]