April 2, 2009

Thank you very much to all our customers for helping Modern Suede celebrate our third anniversary. Much appreciated!

We started April 10th, 2006 with 16 designs and now we have over 150 and counting. In celebrating this occasion we’ve lowered the price of what’s left of those 16 original designs by 50% until they sell out.

As always we continue adding new designs. The latest ones can be seen on the right. More are on the way, including large Lambretta and Vespa back patches.

Moira finally has her own scooter, an all-original 1961 GS 150, which we were fortunate to find in Oregon. You can see some photographs in the “About Us” section.

Our first rally of the season was the High Rollers Weekend in Las Vegas, March 18th – 22nd, which was a stunner! Solid people, (well, for the scooter crowd), solid soul all-nighters, The English Beat, come on, killer scooters. Such an amazing time. Moira has some photographs up on our Facebook page.

There are a couple of shops we want to tell you about. We just picked up four Michelin S83s from Vespa Kelowna. Always helpful, they sent them along with a local scooterist to save us the shipping. Thank you so much. In Las Vegas our booth was situated near “Aggro,” a clothing company that specialized in mod apparel. (Moira picked up a red Harrington). On the technical side, our scooters are serviced by Benzina. With over 25 years of mechanical experience in top shops, they know scooters inside and out and are very reasonable to boot! We are incredibly lucky to have them around.

Our eBay store just passed 600 positive feedback posts with a 100% rating, (well, the new one – the old one was broken into by someone trying to sell a car, a Honda, and eBay shut them down and made it a serious pain in the ass for us to sort out along the way. It was sitting at over 1,700 and now that we have it back, it carries on, but we have something else in mind for that eBay store…).

As always, we love to receive photos of you with our patches sewn on your parkas, jackets, vests and so on.
Check out our "Discounts" section, as well as our breakdowns for "Custom" orders.
At this time we have managed to sell our patches to customers in over 40 countries, all 50 states in the USA, all 10 provinces in Canada and even two of the three territories!

Best,
Moira and Todd
Modern Suede Patches