Slaughterhouse/MVD Training Ride
2025-08-17 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Vespa Club of Chicago Clubhouse, 5610 W Bloomingdale, Chicago, 60639, United States
Whether you’ve volunteered to help with the SH31/MVD group rides, you’re new to riding in a group, or you just want to ride, please join Vespa Club of Chicago on Sunday, August 17.
We’ll start at 11am at our clubhouse, 5610 W. Bloomingdale to over group riding basics (handouts!) and talk through our procedures for the rally.
Then we’ll put our plan into action, for a group ride through the city to Twisted Spoke (501 N Ogden Ave,) for lunch (1pm-ish).
“The Spoke” hosted its share of Slaughterhouse rallies, and is closing for good soon, come get your last “Fat Boy” burger, while you can.
After lunch (2pm-ish), we’ll ride again, to Life on Marz Community Club (1950 N Western Ave.) for All Mod Chicago’s Amplified dance party, which starts at 3pm.
When Labor Day weekend comes, you’ll be a valuable part of our so-well-oiled-it’s-leaking group-riding machine.
All scooters, all scooterists, all skill levels are welcome!

Ride Out with Your Buddys (Chicago)
2025-09-27 18:30 - 21:00 | Scooterworks Chicago, 5410 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Scooterworks Chicago for Genuine Scooter Company’s national “Ride Out with Your Buddys” event!
The Chicago event will start at Scooterworks Chicago (wheels up at 6:30) for an evening ride up Sheridan, ending at Superdawg.
All scooters welcome!

The Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival Ride (North Suburbs)
2025-10-05 13:00 - 18:00 | Metropolis Coffee Co., 1039 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL, 60660, United States
One more chance for a group ride up Sheridan Road to Lake Bluff, then back towards Highwood (north of Highland Park). The Highwood Pumpkin Fest is a free event , you can create your own jack-o-lantern to be displayed on the scaffolding.

Kickstands up around 1:30 pm, ride is 50cc friendly.

Skootoberfest 2025 (Lake Geneva, WI)
2025-10-11 | Lake Geneva, WI, Lake Geneva, WI, United States
From facebook event page:
The annual Scootoberfest fall ride will be either A: fall colors ride to Holy Hill (warmer weather) or the Ten Lakes ride if it’s chilly. The ride will start at the Kwik Trip on 896 Wells street, and end at the downtown Lake Geneva Scooter Tours Scoot Jockeys shop, 529 W Main Street, walking distance from the lake Geneva Octoberfest celebration.

CANCELLED: Open House Chicago 2025
2025-10-19 09:00 - 19:00 | The Common Cup, 1501 W Morse Ave, Chicago, IL, 60626-3306, United States
Sorry, this ride has been cancelled because of rain expected most of the day.

Join Vespa Club of Chicago as we explore Open House Chicago!

What is Open House Chicago?For one weekend every year, locations of historical and cultural importance around Chicago open their doors for a completely free event where you can tour places you might otherwise never see and learn all about the history, humanity, and industry of the City of Big Shoulders.

We’ll meet at Common Cup (9am, kickstands up 9:30-9:45am) in Rogers Park for a pick-me-up before moving on to the following Open House Chicago stops, in order:– Emil House– Colvin House– Chicago Magic Lounge– Starshaped Press– Diversey House (lunch stop)– The Weaving Mill– Willie Dixon’s Blues Heaven/Chess Records– Wheeler Mansion– Glessner House– Ignite Glass StudiosWe then will end for drinks and food at District Brew Yards

What to know:– 50cc friendly, All scooters and scooterists are welcome.– All locations are street parking only– We will be walking a LOT so wear comfortable shoes!– Proper riding gear is highly recommended.– Diversey House offers food so if you’d like to grab a bite for lunch, this is the place to do it – or pack a lunch!– Not expecting a large group but standard VCOAC group riding will be practiced. See https://vcoachicago.com/group-riding-guidelines/ for more information (under Keep the Group Together, we’ll be utilizing the first option).– I’ll do my best to post updates in the VCOAC WhatsApp chat whenever we arrive or leave a location in case you’d like to jump in the middle. However, I make no guarantees that I’ll remember
Want to see more locations?We’re limited in the amount of time we have available so unfortunately we had to trim off a lot of really cool stuff. However, Open House Chicago is a full weekend event so if you’re available on 10/18, please feel free to check out https://www.architecture.org/open-house-chicago/ and plan your own itinerary to check out more fantastic Chicago gems! If you’re interested in anything Downtown (and also Near North and Near West) I recommend arriving early and anticipating long lines.

Tail of the Fox III (Geneva IL)
2025-10-26 10:00 - 14:00 | Bad Guys Bagels, 11 Woodlawn St, Geneva, IL, 60134, United States
Tail of the Fox (a ride along the Fox River in the western suburbs is back for its third year! here’s info from the Facebook event page
This year we will be scaling back the length of the ride. It’ll probably start at Bad Guys Bagels in Geneva and end Wild Onion in Port Barringtion. Probably go to the top of Johnson’s Mound somewhere in between. Also looking to get some new roads along the river tossed in.
As always, this ride is intended for 150+ as we will be hitting stretches of roads with 55mph limits. If you have a 50cc, you’re more than welcome to join us, but when we’re going, we’re going! You can try to catch up or meet us at the end. We’ll work on the full details (meetup in the city for the ride out, etc)

Small Displacement Sunday (Niles)
2025-11-09 09:00 - 11:45, 2026-01-11 09:00 - 11:45 | Grind N’ Gears, 8030 W Oakton St., Niles, 60714, United States
Small Displacement Sunday is a meetup for scooters, mopeds, and small-displacement motorcycles (all bikes are welcome!) every second Sunday of the month from 10-11:45 at Grind n Gears Cafe in Niles.

If you’d like to ride up to Niles with Vespa Club of Chicago:
Meet at 9am in the parking lot at the NW corner of Independence Park:

Ride departs at 9:30am
It’s an easy 30-minute ride
50cc friendly
Route: Irving Park to Milwaukee to OaktonAll scooters and scooterists that can do a minimum of 35mph are welcome to join – motorcycles, trikes, etc, too.

We can ride back as a group, too, if there’s interest.

Note: We have a couple regulars who will do their best to be at Independence Park every month to lead the ride, but there is no guaranteed ride. if you’d like to be added as a back-up ride leader, please reach out to Renee.

This ride will be open year-round, as long as it isn’t frigid and/or snowy. If it rains, the ride may go on, depending on how heavy it is. You can always meet at SDS via car if you prefer!

CANCELLED … a daring ride to Schaumburg!
2025-11-09 12:00 - 20:00 | WI
Small Displacement Sunday is happening, but this follow-up event is cancelled (too cold!), sorry.
From Second City Scooter Society:
After Small Displacement Sunday at Grind’n’Gears in Niles, we’ll ride to Frato’s Pizza in Schaumburg for a late lunch. Frato’s trains future chefs and reportedly serves Chicago’s best (maybe biggest?) fried mozzarella cheesesticks. With our stomachs full, next stop will be Cycle Gear in Schaumburg, in case anyone wants to shop for a new jacket or helmet. Next stop will be at dusk in Rolling Meadows to relax w a beer by a firepit.

This ride is weather-permitting and 50cc friendly.

Small Displacement Sunday (Chicago - Niles)
2025-12-14 09:00 - 11:45 | Grind N’ Gears, 8030 W Oakton St., Niles, 60714, United States

Amerivespa 2026 and Slaughterhouse 32
2026-09-02 - 2026-09-06 | Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL, 60707, United States
Chicago will host AMERIVESPA 2026 concurrently with Slaughterhouse 32, Labor Day Weekend 2026
