Portland Zine Symposium

Here's some photos from last weekend's Portland Zine Symposium. This was the biggest year for the symposium so far, with over a hundred and thirty tablers. The symposium's location was moved to the PSU Stott Center due to the increased amount of tablers this year.
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The PZS organizers did an awesome job and even allowed me to display Olive at center court. Had a great time and met some other zinesters who happen to ride scooters. One couple even rode their Stella with sidecar all the way from Seattle for the event.



Above photo: Cynthia Graham surprised me and volunteered to be my Bumpstart spokesmodel. While Cynthia pitched the zine, I was able to check out the other tables.



Above Photo: Kevin Cross of Monkey Mod and tablemate Green Monk.


Above Photo: Droppin' The F-Bomb


Above Photo: Allie and Jeremy, owners of Guapo Comics.

Bump's First Tee

Today I received one of the coolest's birthday gifts ever: Bumpstart's first t-shirt. I feel so legit. Bumpstart's a real boy.

Here's Johnny P. of Modified modeling the Bumpstart logo t-shirt available in serene green. They'll be at the Portland Zine Symposium and available online when I get back from Cannonball Run. Thanks Ben, Johnny, and Tori for making this a really great birthday.

Copper, Caddies, and the Kang

On Saturday I scooted to Vespa Milwaukie to photograph their top dog, Copper the Airedale for an upcoming Bumpstart ad. Copper was a pro and hit his marks without much hassle.

Above photo: Copper checking out the inventory.

I bought Olive, my Vespa GTV from Copper's owner, Bill Place and have been happy with the treatment my scoot and I have received so far from his shop. They will even come to your house and pickup your scooter for service. This was a big help when I scooted back from San Antonio and had to get Olive serviced from the long trip and to finish up some remaining repairs from my Texas-size concrete chunk highway mishap.

Above photo: Amerivespa San Antonio, The Motorcycle Shop

Vespa Milwaukie is my latest Scooter Cannonball Run sponsor and couldn't be happier to have them in my corner.

When I was scooting home I noticed a vintage Cadillac show going on at Hot Rod Pizza and pulled over to check out the show. Lots of pristine restoration jobs and fins for miles.


At the show an Elvis impersonator took a liking to Olive. How could he resist. After all, she is the Cadillac of Scooters.