This last Sunday was the annual LALO Rally in San Francisco. LALO - the "Loose Association of Lambretta Owners" - has a rally that is really low key and always a ton of fun. Last year, we hosted part of the LALO across the bay in Oakland, but this year was San Francisco only. It is always great to see old friends, since this is usually the first scooter rally of the year. The weather this year was typical for SF. Half of the city was sunny and wonderful, and the other half was foggy and cold.
The photo above (taken by Pelayo L.) was a shot of us riding over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco into the Marin Headlands. You can see the fog totally covering the bridge... which is pretty normal. I'm the guy on the right side of the photo on the white Lambretta
Ford M., had a camera strapped to his helmet, and got a nice video of the ride across the bridge. I have it linked below. You can get a sense of what it was like to ride with the 40 or so of us die-hard Lambretta folks. It is hard to imagine how there can be such a huge amount of nice open space just 10 minutes outside of San Francisco. The video below gives you an idea. As we get over the bridge, we ride into the Marin Headlands, which used to be a military base, and is now open hiking trails and wonderful vistas.
Tons and tons of photos of the LALO below the jump
Here is about half of the scooters at the meeting site. You can see the SF to Oakland Bay Bridge in the background.
More scooters
Yup, more scooters.
More scooters.
Jordan L.'s sweet Lamby.
Nice Li 150 Special
I loved the color scheme of this GP. Very "Gulf Oil Racing" from the 60's.
Kirk H's tidy DL150.
Very sweet Jet 200.
The "Super Bee" GP 200.
Jim H. and Barry S. preparing to ride.
Getting ready for a photo.
Lot's of nice scooters.
Photos do not do the paint job on this scooter justice. It is a copper color, but it just looks fantastic in person.
My humble white Lambretta next to Barry's purple beast. Barry's scooter a many-time veteran of the Moto Melee.
I love this scooter!
Barry G's very clean TV175 Series II. I'm a big fan of these scooters. They just look fantastic. I'd love to own one someday.
David L's Li 150 S I. He has done some very serious motor modifications. SF Scooter Center put their expertise to this motor, and installed a 186 Mugello conversion, among other tuning. This thing is quick.
Another shot of the 150 Special at the end-point of the ride.
Pelyo is suited up and ready to roll!
Rod M's Lamby in the foreground and a shot of the parking lot.
Christopher W. talking trash!
My scoot next to a original condition GP 125. I like the turquoise color that they came in.
A close up of the DL 125.Battle scarred, but still rolling strong.
The svelte rear end of a TV 200.
Scoots in the parking lot.
This year's LALO was a lot of fun. Thanks to John Quintos for taking the lead and organizing this every year. Hopefully we can get it together to have a fall version in Oakland!