Introducing Sponge

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Well, I made an introduction post on the old forum, but just days after that it went down.. So I'll try to somewhat remember what I wrote there to (re)introduce myself :lol:

On Youtube I go by the name of Sponge1310, so some may already (in a way) know me a bit :) In real life I go by as Jeroen, but sometimes friends call me Sponge or Spons (Dutch for Sponge).
Currently I'm 24 years of age and live in The Netherlands, but sadly enough don't ride a motorcycle (yet). I did do a trail lesson at a local motorcycle school and it was awesome! Just got to ride around a parkinglot but it made me want to ride even more than before! However, I just got word that I might be able to buy a scooter :D Just no word yet on what price they want for it, but I then at least can get some motorized two wheeled experience while I safe up some more money to start motorcycle lessons :D (hopefully next year)

Anyway.. if you want to know more stuff about me, feel free to ask!

youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Sponge1310
 
Sorry for the HUGE bump but just wanted to post a little update :oops:

The scooter thing finally happened, last September i think it was. And got it for free too :)

So here's the story of how I got it home :) (sorry if it's long and boring :oops: )

The day I picked it up at my dads place the center stand snapped off when my dad took it out of the shed :( That kinda sucked because I had to ride it back home ~80/90ish km (~50/55 miles) so If I would need to stop and get off, it had to be somewhere I could lean it against something. Also the speedo and fuel gage don't work.. well.. the fuel gage only when it feels like it :| It had a full tank when I left but I knew that about halve way I would enter a 'in the middle of nowhere' bit... so to be sure I wouldn't run out of fuel I tried to find a gas station, which is pretty hard on a Sunday.

Anyway, I left kinda unprepared, I knew most of the route I had to take because I had taken it many times, but that always was in a car. I figured I could take most of the same route, but not the highway part. I did have a navigation app on my phone, but since it only does car routes and you can't take a scooter on every road, it was a bit useless (in The Netherlands you can ride a scooter on some roads and have to take a bicycle path on others).

So I found my way to the highway because I knew there was a bicycle route next to it, but when i got to the highway I had to venture in to 'unknown territories' :P Luck was on my side as I spotted a sign that marked a 'scenic' bicycle route to the place I had to go were I knew I could cross the highway and get back on the known route home :D But then luck turned against me as I came to a closed road, they did put up signs to follow an alternative route, but somehow I either missed one and took a wrong turn or they just stopped half way, so I got a bit lost. I tried to get going again using Google maps and after taking a few more wrong turns I finally found my way out (got lost in a village with very confusing roads).

I was about 2 hours in when I finally arrived at the place I could cross over the highway and was about to enter the previously mentioned 'middle of nowhere' bit so I had to find a gas station, just for peace of mind and make sure I wouldn't get stranded.
When I arrived at the gas station there were a bunch of bikers there with big BMW GS bikes, and I felt pretty stupid with my tiny 50cc scooter and looked even more of an idiot when I struggled to get the buddy seat open to put the gas in while keeping it upright with my leg, they were looking even more funny at me when I had to lean it against a pole to go inside and pay. But I guess they would be jealous if they knew I only had to pay like €8,- for a (well almost) full tank :lol: :P

Anyway I finally found my way to the known route and with a full tank I knew I wouldn't get stranded :) From there on it was a pretty easy and very boring ride for the last 30ish km. Almost went down a couple of times because of wet leafs and once because I somehow got off the road and in the grass, but managed to keep my calm and recover, but my heart was going like crazy :P

I guess I did the trip in about 3,5 or 4 hours and just made it home before the sun went under :) It was my first time ever to ride a scooter, so I really wanted to make it home before dark.

It maybe wasn't such a good idea to do a long trip like this having never ridden a scooter before, I did ride a motorcycle during the trail lesson but that was totally different and somehow I felt more save riding a motorcycle for the first time ever than riding a scooter for the first time :?

Compared to the (long) trips most riders here have taken on their motorcycles, my trip seems like nothing, but in my opinion it was quite an 'adventure' :D Seen pretty landscapes, had some hairy moments but enjoyed every second of it and felt proud of myself when I got home 8-)


So I would like to get in to the whole vlogging thing, but hope it's not going to be too boring for people to watch a dude on a scooter. I bought a used Sony Bloggie(/Webbie) camera off of a auctioning site for only €40,- I know the video quality may not be the best possible but it's a nice and not too expensive solution to get video and audio both at once :)

I look forward to -hopefully- post some video's pretty soon :D

Thanks for reading and hopefully it made some sense :P
 
:D Thanks 8-)

My camera should come in tomorrow and a wide angle lens is on order too.

Can't wait! :D (and hope i don't suck at vlogging too much)
 
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