My first Razor scooter was a JD Bug brand. I do not have any pictures of it currently but I still have it. Later I purchased another razor scooter. The new one did not have the springs on the front tires but it rode as smooth as silk. After one of the camps I was riding down a street in New York and hit a pothole. The scooter went one way and I sorta did one of those end over end cartwheel type of crashes. As I lay there, face pointed to the New York Night sky I started to think. At camp I had to mostly stay on the road because it was the only smooth pavement around the Resort which ruled out a lot of the grounds. I had to make a change. This is when during a shopping trip, while at camp, I saw the answer to my problem.

It was an upgrade of my razor scooter. The tube frame was more bike like and a great improvement over the block frame of my razor. Now, for the life of me I can not remember the original color of the scooter but it was a great scooter. The handlebars were chrome and the wheel’s chrome shined like a new diamond. After camp I brought the scooter home and then I decided to paint the scooter. I think it was mostly due to the motorcycle build shows on the Discovery Channel. So after a few months I dis-assembled the scooter and then ….. it pretty much it stayed in pieces. The weeks before camp I finally began the build on the scooter.

First thing was basic and simple, to strip the new paint off the frame. I used basic sandpaper and my little muscles and after a hour the paint was all but gone. I then began to think about what color I was going to paint my little scooter. I took a field trip to Home Depot in search for a cute pink color. I found it in the Rustoleum line of pinks. It was perfect pink. Not too loud or neon but at the same time being very soft. I brought the paint home and after suspending the scooter off the back porch, I began to paint the scooter. After a few coats with 30 minute drying time in-between coats I had a great looking scooter. Assembly took longer that I thought. But after a few hours my scooter was setting fully assembled on the workbench.

I was going to get another scooter and do it all over again. Can’t let life keep yah down and this girl wasn’t going to let someone put a dent in hr LG joy. So I went to EBAY and went on sorta same determination that I used to go on with Girl Scouting items. After searching EBAY and not finding any scooters available I returned to a local Wal-Mart and sadly found that the scooter was discontinued. My heart was starting to fall down but I returned to EBAY and just waited. After a month a scooter came up for auction, almost a hundred dollars. I could not risk it, so I bid on it and won. So after a week I was picking up a box containing my new scooter. Now like my first such scooter it pretty much stayed un-assembled in the box. To be honest, as of this writing it is still in the box.

Which brings me to this scooter. Well, after moving out on my own I found myself looking for a kitchen table. Since I am not a rich little girl but an orphan I decided to check in local Good Will stores for a dining room table. As I was leaving one of the outlets I noticed tucked in behind a bunch of raggedy bikes was this mostly green, scraped up scooter. The footboard was dirty and the decals were very scrapped up. The brakes looked as if someone had attempted to stop a locomotive with them. I just dismissed it and continued to head out the door. Half way into the parking lot I thought to myself, if I fix the new scooter for camp and something happens to it I will feel stupid for not buying this one as a backup. So I went back in and asked how much was…. well…. That scooter in the window…. giggle. I almost passed out when she said, seven dollars. So out of the GoodWill Store I walked out with my scooter. One flat tire, gooseneck not clamping, and..oh yeah …no brakes.

So here she is. I wanted to call her Spirit of Maryland II but I think she deserves her own name. So I named her Annapolis Nights. Since then I have had to replace two inner tubes and one dry rotted tire but I love that I feel a bit freer to ride around on this scooter. The third scooter I still have, under a bed at my house. I think she will return to the pink color of my first scooter. Her name will be Calvert Girl.