Commanding Officers:

Commander Stanton (Stan) Orelove
commander, scooter operations (CSO)

Nickname: tftdguru

Scooters: 2004 Genuine Stella "Quicksilver"

Occupation: Technology Marketing and Sales Support

Other Hobbies: technology, guitars, reading, movies and TV dramas

Favorite Music: Led Zeppelin, Gomez, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, East Village Opera Company

Favorite Drink: Iced Tea with Splenda and lemon

Your Scoot History: two wheeler since 1969, Quicksilver is first scoot, purchased new

Interesting Fact: living with diabetes

Favorite Quote: "Where you stand depends on where you sit."

Commander Todd Gross
first officer (number one)

Nickname: Skoot

Scooter: '65 Vespa 150 VBB, '79 Vespa P200

Occupation: Sales and Marketing

Other Hobbies: Radio DJ (WFIT/www.theshuffle.org), photography (wink-wink, nudge-nudge, say no more!)

Favorite Music: All. No, really. Give me Classical, Techno, Acoustic Folk, and I'm happy. Actually I'm not happy when there is silence. Drowns out the voices in my head, you know!

Favorite Drink: Another, please, and make it a double.

Your Scoot History: First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat so they all died, and they turned into oil. And then the Asians came and they reanimated a bunch of old Vespas!

Oh, and now I've added a rat-bike P200 to the mix.

Interesting Fact: A cat can't walk if you loosely tie a bandana around it's waist. Really, try it! Or so I've, uh, heard...

Favorite Quote: Joey, do you like movies about Gladiators?

Squadron Leader Joe Russell
250th Decepticon Occupation Forces

Nickname:Joe

Scooters:The latest, my trusty 2005 Honda Helix Decepticon scooterbot

Occupation: Market Research; Entertainment(not the adult variety!)

Other Hobbies:Inline skating, playing the drums, singing, antiques, studying pagan spirituality, mountain biking, racquetball, politics, hiking, things Japanese, travel

Favorite Music: Hmm, tough one. As a musician, I like it all, really. But some that make it on my tops list: JOY DIVISION, The Damned, The Stranglers, Sex Pistols, Bauhaus, PIL, VHS or BETA, Kasabian, Coheed and Cambria, Dead Can Dance, The Smiths, ABBA, Rush, Morrissey, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, New Order, Judas Priest, The Carpenters, The Beach Boys, Blondie, Interpol, Fergie (she's Hot!) The Phantom of the Opera soundtrack, etc, etc.

Favorite Drink:Chambord or Grand Marnier, neat of course; With fizz: BEER! preferably something Belgian, say St. Bernardus Abt 12 blue label

Your Scoot History: My first scoot was an red 85 Honda Elite, which a van kindly put an end to(and almost my left ear!) I drifted towards mopeds for a while, owned me a snappy little metallic purple Puch. Back to scooterdom, I ended up with a blue 90 Honda Elite LX, and of course my 05 Helix, the scooter love of my life! 22,000 miles and going....

Interesting Fact: I once rollerbladed backwards down the Vegas Strip! Hows that for interesting,..or ridiculous!

Favorite Quote: "For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. The choice though, must be our own." President Lyndon B.Johnson, January 20, 1965

Captain Geoff G.
Chief Engineering Officer

Nickname:HelixGeoff or Gee-o

Scooters: Honda Helix "NightRider"

Occupation: Sales Engineer

Other Hobbies: Frisbee, Guitar, Wakeskating, Barefootskiing, Snowboarding

Favorite Music: Rock and Fuckin' Roll, Man

Favorite Drink: Agua - Straight Up

Your Scoot History: Honda Aero 80,Honda Elite 80,Honda Elite 150

Interesting Fact: I was not born in Florida.

Favorite Quote: "So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. " - Pink Floyd, Time.

Mission (over)Analyst - Louisa L.
Technocrat of Ms.-direction and Ms.-information

Nickname: The Human GPS

Scooters: 2007 Piaggio BV500

Occupation: Lab Rat (Biological Scientist)

Other Hobbies: "Jane-of-all-trades, but master of none". I'm in to a lot of things, though not particularly good at any of them. But, I'll try almost anything at least once. Some hobbies that stuck: knitting/crochet, rollerblading, photography, being a lazy slacker and hanging out all day at home with the dogs, etc...

Favorite Music: Everything! Current faves: They Might be Giants, Vampire Weekend, Lady Sovereign, Tom Petty, The Clash, Bill Withers, I could go on....

Favorite Drink: Chocolate Milk

Your Scoot History: 2004 Honda Metropolitan, 2004 Honda Shadow Aero, 2006 Vespa LX, 2007 BV500

Interesting Fact: When you are sniffing a flower, you have your nose in a plant's genitalia.

Favorite Quote: Music self-played is happiness self-made

Nathan's 2005 Suzuki Burgman 650

Bob's Silver Wing

Jim with his Ruckus "Little Hummer"

John and his Honda Silverwing

Jack on his Honda Helix

Linda on her Honda Silverwing

Ron and his Honda Silverwing

Rhonda and her Burgman 650

Nancy and her Vespa GT200 "the grasshopper"

Tony on his Vespa GT200

Andrew

Louisa's Piaggio BV500

Skip's Vespa

Melissa on her Honda Reflex

Lois on her Burgman 650