7 Hills Scooter Club | Rob Sterling

Rob Sterling commented on the post, First Sunday Ride, April 2012 1 month ago

Yeah, but the photographer’s a real dick.

Rob Sterling wrote a new post, Easier Rider 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Check out Easier Rider, starring members and friends of the Seven Hills Scooter Club. The video was filmed on March 24, 2012, in and around Scoot Richmond, by Christina Chern, Nick Marx and some of their friends […]

Rob Sterling wrote a new post, First Sunday Ride, April 2012 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Seven Hills Scooter Club headed out today on its monthly ride. After a quick warm up in Hollywood Cemetery, we raced eastward to Roxbury in Charles City County via Darbytown Road/Charles City Road – a long, […]

Rob Sterling wrote a new post, E15 Approved by EPA 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Today comes news that the Environmental Protection Agency has approved E15 – 15% ethanol gasoline – for sale at gas stations. Currently most gasoline sold in the United States is E10 – 10% ethanol – and that won’t […]

Rob Sterling wrote a new post, Amphiscooter 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Brighton, England – 1965: One of Baron Bomburst’s Vulgarian spies pilots a modded Lammy – rigged with two surfboards and a water wheel – into the English Channel. The archival video description makes a point of […]

Rob Sterling wrote a new post, Tacky Light Ride, 2011 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Check out our Google Calendar link for the 2011 Tacky Light Ride details. Short version – Thursday, December 15th at Northside Grill at 1217 Bellevue Ave., Richmond, VA 23227. We’ll ride out at 7pm and tour a few […]

Rob Sterling wrote a new post, FYBO in Durham 1 month, 3 weeks ago

This past weekend the Seven Hills Scooter Club went on the road to Durham, NC for The Incriminators Scooter Club’s 13th annual “Freeze Your Balls Off” rally. There were five of us in total – Ed, Anthony, Dwayne, […]

Rob Sterling wrote a new post, First Sunday Ride, August 2011 1 month, 3 weeks ago

No hard-set plans as yet, but keep your Sunday open for the Seven Hills Scooter Club First Sunday Ride, scheduled for August 7th, 10:30am kickoff, 11:30am ride start. Check out the calendar link and subscribe to […]

Rob Sterling wrote a new blog post: First Sunday Ride, September 2011 8 months, 2 weeks ago

We’ve got a big ride planned for this Sunday! Check out the Google Calendar event, and be at Crossroads Coffee & Ice Cream on North Morris Street in Richmond’s Fan District before 11am if you want breakfast, and by 11:30 at latest.

Rob Sterling wrote a new blog post: Colonial Beach Camping Trip 9 months, 3 weeks ago

I rode up to Colonial Beach, VA on Saturday to scout locations for a camping trip/meetup with some of the folks from DC. I shot some video while I was up there, showing the southernmost beach in the town, a ride up the Potomac shore, a bar deck, Monroe Bay Campground and Westmoreland State Park. [...]

Rob Sterling commented on the blog post Mods vs Rockers! 9 months, 3 weeks ago

OK, the Durham rally looks like the winner for me.

Rob Sterling wrote a new blog post: Starbucks VIA Lambretta 9 months, 3 weeks ago

I make it a Lambretta Jet, mid-1970s, on the packaging for the Starbucks VIA Italian Roast. Am I right?

Rob Sterling wrote a new blog post: Boston Globe Scooter Homage 10 months ago

Nice tribute to scooters in today’s Boston Globe. The article describes a group ride on the South Shore and looks at the benefits of scooter ownership:

Across the country, scooter sales have been rapidly rising for the past decade, according to the Motorcycle Industry Council, as this fuel-efficient and compact mode of transportation, hugely…

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Rob Sterling commented on the blog post Mods vs Rockers! 10 months ago

Oh, wait – I thought this was about the Baltimore Mods vs. Rockers, which is two weeks later.

http://charmcitymodsvsrockers.com/

Actually, both might be worthwhile.

Rob Sterling commented on the blog post Mods vs Rockers! 10 months ago

I’d like to go.

Rob Sterling wrote a new blog post: First Sunday Ride, July 2011 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Just ten-and-a-half hours from now the legendary SEVEN HILLS SCOOTER CLUB will assemble at Crossroads Coffee & Ice Cream in Richmond’s edgy-yet-accessible Fan District for another scintillating episode in the continuing series of our First Sunday rides. Where will we go!? No one can say with certainty. Where will we end up? Probably some place [...]

Rob Sterling wrote a new blog post: Los Angeles Scooter Exhibit 11 months ago

From Friday’s New York Times :

The image of scooters often includes the cool (think Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in “Roman Holiday”) and the quirky (almost everyone else), and now the entire spectrum is on display in Los Angeles. The Petersen Automotive Museum is showcasing nearly 100 scooters of many shapes, sizes and eras during its exhibit…

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Rob Sterling wrote a new blog post: Will Daniel Day-Lewis Do the 1st Sunday? 11 months, 1 week ago

Style Weekly wonders where Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis will live when they’re filming Lincoln (a movie about some Yankee politician, I’m told), but what I wonder is if Daniel Day-Lewis will show up to scooter events? In Eversmile, New Jersey (a movie about some Yankee dentist, I’m told) he rode a motorcycle across South America, but…[Read more]

Rob Sterling wrote a new blog post: First Sunday Ride, June 2011 11 months, 2 weeks ago

June’s first Sunday ride with the Seven Hills Scooter Club is tomorrow! Meet at Crossroads Coffee at 6 N Morris Street by 10:30. We hope for an 11am departure from there with our ultimate destination being the Broad Appetit food festival:

Over 60 of Richmond’s very best Chefs will prepare $3 mini-dish favorites for you to enjoy. Each [...]