MOCS Member Pete Trippel Spotlighted

Pete was born in Mount Healthy, Ohio ( Cincinnati ) in 1948 and still resides in the area. Pete works for M&H Equipment as a Forklift Technician.

Pete and wife Leah currently live in Mason, Ohio and whenever they can they spend a lot of time working on their Log Cabin retirement home in Rising Sun ,Indiana.

MOCS club had a 2-day ride this fall starting from Pete’s Cabin and the place is sweet, very much like home. Nestled deep in the woods about 6 miles northwest of Rising Sun.

Pete’s first motorized ride was a bicycle with a motor he installed in the frame when he was about 14 years old. His next bike was a Whizzer and a Sears Moped he and his friends buzzed around town, trying to stay out of the city cops sight. {He wasn’t quite old enough to ride a motorized bike}.

Pete’s first car was a Ford model A that he drove to high school. Then he moved on to a 1956 Ford Victoria.

His first Cushman was a 1958 Cushman Eagle, he had this one in high school.

In the mid 1990’s Pete went to the Portland Ind. Vintage scooter meet, this was the year they banned people from riding golf carts on the grounds. He saw a man riding a golf cart on the grounds, with a for sale sign on it. Pete asked him about it and that’s when he met Dale Adkins, Dale asked Pete to come to the MOCS meeting that day at Portland and the rest is history, Pete joined the club. Pete has turned out to be a very loyal, hard working and fun club member.

He currently owns 1961 Cushman Eagle, a 1948 Cushman allstate, a 1958 Cushman Eagle with a Kawasaki 450 motor that is setup with a system that shoots fire out the rear exhaust. But I think his pride and joy ride is his 1962 Cushman Eagle with a sidecar and some of the time you may see his dogs Jane and June going for a ride.