MATT DRISCOLL: FUCK YEAH SCOOTER RIDE CONCLUDES AT THE JIVE >>>

Is it possible to look cool while riding a scooter?

As gas prices continue to wreak havoc on budgets everywhere â€" even at an ultra-cheap $2-something a gallon â€" and scooters and scooter riders multiply like fruit flies on the road, it would seem that question is being answered for me.

If hipsters, those who realize the terrifying repercussions of our country’s dependency on oil, and those just looking to have a good time and zip around on two wheels have found peace â€" and a way (at least in their own minds) to look cool riding a scooter â€" than who am I to doubt them?

It’s a very good question, but still my cynicism persists.

Tucked up knees. Lawnmower power. Rain gear. All of these things come with traveling by scooter, and all of them â€" at least in a traditional sense â€" are basically the opposite of cool.
But maybe that’s it. Maybe one can look cool on a scooter because of the irony â€" the same way that indie dude with the mullet I see at all the Tacoma hipster shows rocks it?
Or maybe I just need to check myself. What does it mean to “look cool?” And who the hell really cares?

I would say: not the Tacoma Fuck Yeah Scooter Club, who will celebrate their inaugural ride and get-together today and tonight. But then again, for a gaggle of scooterists who â€" assumedly â€" don’t give a flying you-know-what about looking cool, these guys are actually pretty, well, cool.

And they know how to throw an event.

The Tacoma Fuck Yeah Scooter Club's inaugural ride and get together will culminate tonight at Bob's Java Jive, and Lava 3 - the monthly tag team effort between the Weekly Volcano and Bob's Java Jive to put on one hell of a show and invite everyone and their brother out to fall down and get drunk with us. Bands at tonight's Lava 3 will include Waves and Radiation and Bandolier.

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