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These are the accumulated points for riders that have posted that they attended an event up through May 15, 2012. This month includes the Valley Chapter Covered Bridges ride, the Puget Island ride, and the Beaverton Motorcycle/OSC event. Please remember to post on the page that you were there, so that your points can be awarded.

Anderson, Bob                        2

Anderson, Melody                   31

Castle, Steve                           29

Clayton,…

The ideal weather on May 3^rd brought out 20 scooters for the Puget Island Ferry Ride.  We had one first time OSC ride, Trail Member Caro Helbig on her Hoysung 250.  As a part of our new Ride Sergeant program in support of new OSC riders, Ride Sergeant Dave Kenny accompanied her on the ride.  As a Ride Sergeant Dave was responsible for leading the new rider and providing navigation support so that she could ride at her own pace and not feel pressured to keep up with any particular…

The event is being rescheduled for another Saturday for staffing availability reasons. Information will be published in the OSC event section the first of next week. (5/1 or so)

After lunch with a friend today, I thought I'd take a long way home, maybe half an hour.  I ended up going to Oxbow Park, then tried to find Dodge Park, but got lost, and ended up going home through Boring and Damascus and down Foster.  But who cares?  It was a beautiful day to get lost.  My half hour ride ended up two hours.  Hope people got a chance to take advantage of these last three days of great weather!

Had a great time on the ride, but I hope I was not slowing everyone down. Still need to work on cornering, all in all a great ride.

Glad to meet some of you this morning and ride.

Thanks Bob for getting me there and back safely and for your time  :)

Here is the status of the 10 OTR Points as of 4/15/12. I'm sorry this is a little late, but I was in the hospital for a few days.

Anderson, Bob                        2

Anderson, Melody                   25

Castle, Steve                           21

Clayton, David                        2

Collins, Arden                         5

Dillard, Teri                            1

Fletcher, Rick                         …

The Fred Meyer Fuel Center (formerly Wilsonville Chevron) will be our new meet-up location for rides departing from southern Portland.  Click here for a map of the location and a click her for a press release about the opening of the Fred Meyer Fuel Center in Wilsonville.

The Fred Meyer Fuel Center provides…

This ride had a casual start with homemade blueberry muffins and coffee at Rick and & Christie’s home.  A total of 12 scooters with 13 riders showed up for the preride function.  A few could not participate today, so at about 12:30 PM kickstands were up for Christie’s first ride on her Kymco Xciting 250 with 9 scooters joining her.…

The weather was great and I met up with my brother at the hospital to visit with Dad and then we rode to Brownsville and he headed off for Keizer and I headed back home through Marcola. He left me in the dust on the corners, but he knew the road and I had not been on that road before. We went through Coburg and on up to Brownsville. I was doing 55 to 60, but when it came to corners, I slowed down. He has a 150cc scooter and I have a 250cc scooter, other than the corners I stayed right behind…

Join us for the April 2013 Open Ride – The Blockhouse Ride.

Check out the ride details, including maps, by visiting the Blockhouse Ride event page.…

It was a day that tested the dedication of OSC riders.  16 members and guests showed up for breakfast at the Bomber Restaurant and before heading in to eat the weather was looking good.  After breakfast and for ride departure – Rain.

After a pre-ride discussion lead by President Castel, 8 riders mounted…

The April 1, 2012 Breakfast Social and Ride Meet up are at the Bomber Restaurant in Milwaukie.  We will return to the Overlook for our May 6, 2012 breakfast and ride.…

OSC rides maps are now iPhone compatible.  Just click on the April 1, 2012 Cedar Crossings Covered Bridge ride, or any ride in our ride library, and follow the instructions as to where to find the iPhone map.

Our future monthly rides will have iPhone map links posted over the next few weeks.…

The OSC Ride Library now has a dozen rides posted in both MapSource (Zumo) and GPX Exchange formats.  

Check it out today by clicking the Ride Library tab on the home page and come back often as we will post even more rides.

OSC Spring Vendor Promotional Events

Our riding season is rapidly approaching and it is time to schedule a couple of OSC Vendor promo events. We will set up in the Parking lot of a few select Scooter dealerships for 5 hours of visiting with customers and talking Talking up OSC. We will be handing out OSC information and talking about the…

With the nice weather that we have had, there has been wonderful participation in the breakfasts and rides for both the Portland Chapter and the Valley Chapter. If you participate in an event that has points, please be sure to post a comment that you were there. It's the only way we have of tracking everyone's points.

Here are the 10 OTR Point totals as…

Keep your eyes open for a new OSC member cruising in the Salem area on a Majesty 400. It is Norris Jackson!

Norris comes to the OSC with about a year of scooter riding experience. With all the great activities offered by the…