TheScooterScoop

(Amy Wells of Tampa, Fla., takes in the sights and sounds of the Amerivespa Scooter Rally, one of two national scooter rallies in Denver this weekend. (Post / RJ Sangosti) This is our first view into Amerivespa going on this weekend. I can’t wait for the report from 2StrokeBuzz!

Here’s a nice feel-good article on why scooters rock. (Click the title link to get the whole story)

DenverPost.com – Scooter Nation: “They’re inexpensive. Great for the environment. They save big on fuel consumption. But the real reason for the recent vrooooom in scooter sales isn’t so much reducing greenhouse gas:

Scooters are a gas.

Motorized bicyclists, as most scooter drivers are legally known, will never be mistaken for hog drivers. But for a growing fleet of wannabes, harnessing 50ccs of pure power is satisfying enough. And they are rapidly turning America into the Scooter Nation.

There are an estimated 10,000 scooters on Denver-area roads, a number propelled of late by $3-a-gallon gasoline. But Denver, host to two national scooter rallies this weekend, has averaged seventh of 210 U.S. metro-area markets in scooter sales for three years motoring – remarkable given the region’s cold-weather months.

Cathy Reinking of Denver rides a Malaguti 50cc and has since decided, ‘I will never go back to having a car.’

Reinking, 46, switched for financial reasons. She has no more car payments and reduced insurance, fuel and maintenance costs.

‘But I love my scooter now for so much more than practical reasons,’ she said. ‘It’s just fun. It gives me a sense of freedom, and I love the style elements. Not to mention that I hate this war in Iraq, and I love that I’m not contributing to our need for more foreign oil.’”