The 2025 Scooter Cannonball is on NOW. Help support this event!
- Randy Reek, The Great Out There
- Jun 26
- 2 min read
Updated: 7 days ago
What is the “Scooter Cannonball”?
The Scooter Cannonball is a competitive, multiday, point-to-point touring rally for street-legal vintage and modern scooters.
The event’s name, “Scooter Cannonball,” pays homage to Erwin George “Cannon Ball” Baker who completed 143 cross-country, motorcycle speed runs between 1910 and 1930. Baker is the inspiration for the vintage Motorcycle Cannonball transcontinental journey as well as two automobile races: The Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash and the Cannonball Run Challenge.
The Scooter Cannonball adds the challenge of a transcontinental rally limited to scooters with motors with 300cc or lesser displacement – or minimoto cycles with smaller than 150cc motors.
The SC organizers emphasize, “It is not a race. It's a test of endurance and navigational skills.”
However, the route has multiple daily checkpoints and points are awarded based on miles completed and the ability to maintain the standard pace. At the end of each day, “leaders” are determined based on elapsed time and bonus points earned. At the completion of the route, a “winner” is named.
While many participants participate for the experience and satisfaction of crossing the country, many others are definitely “in it to win it”!
The Scooter Cannonball is held every two years, taking place over eight to 12 days, beginning one coast of the United States and ending on the opposite coast. The route is different each time, and since 2010 the direction of travel has alternated between east and west. The timing of the event has been as early as May and as late as September.
For 2025, the rally runs for eight days from Seaside, Oregon on the Pacific Ocean to South Padre Island, Texas on the Gulf of America!
There is no monetary cash prize or reward for finishers of the event. The title of “Winner” is entirely honorary!
The Scooter Cannonball is entirely volunteer-organized and operated without corporate sponsorship or financial backing.
As the owner of the GreatOutThere.online blog I am another volunteer supporter. As my contribution, I have collated a collection of decals for the 2025 Scooter Cannonball. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of these decals will offset the operating expenses of the Scooter Cannonball.
This collection consists of FOUR decals all printed with the official logos of the Scooter Cannonball on the highest quality vinyl. (The sizes vary, depending on the shape – see the attached images.)
The retail value of these decals is $2.50 each. The decals are available as a SET of FOUR to supporters of the Scooter Cannonball for ONLY $8.00 – which includes First Class Mail in the U.S. Please place your orders through Ebay: (The listings also show the actual size of each decal.)
Please also visit the Scooter Cannonball store for logo mugs, T-shirts, caps, postcards, and more!
Σχόλια