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Scooter upgrade time! Hook up your Vino and Metro

11. July 2006

(Because your Metro could use all the help it can get ; ) (Sweet! Finally a new pipe for the Vino 125.) Speaking of Vino’s (from our last post), check out these new pipes from MRP (Martin Racing Performance) for the Yamaha Vino 125 and the Honda Metropolitan 50. The Metro pipe runs about $250 […]

Vino "BLUE SKY" Version

9. July 2006

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Tomorrow Yamaha will introduce to Japanese audiences the limited edition Vino “Blue Sky” Version. What’s the big diff? Well, there’s the chrome headlight body, grey seat and footboard, different grips and a new color. Only 2000 to be made. Are we getting them here? Don’t hold your breath. They SHOULD bring us the Gear C […]

Learning to Ride

9. July 2006

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Learning to Ride Originally uploaded by jeffb. I just thought this was a good photo.

A scooter in Havana

9. July 2006

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scooter and sidecar Originally uploaded by snapawayoungman. You’ve seen the cars that are in Cuba. It’s like a time machine. Well, same goes for their scooters apparently. Check out this mustard-n-ketchup Czeta with sidecar. When I see a Czeta, I don’t know whether to shutter in disgust or give it a big hug. Gloriously ugly. […]

Peugeot brings more "Compressor" with the Satelis 125

9. July 2006

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(Sexy, no? Click on the title link to get the Italian review that has been masticated by Google Language Tools… and see more purdy pictures.) You know Peugeot, the French scooter company with the hot supercharger technology? It’s back in the slightly more refined Satelis. Although most of the changes are to the aesthetics, it’s […]

Fatboy Slim keeps wheels of steel… drops wheels of scooter

8. July 2006

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Good old Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) is breaking the rules of rockers… Aren’t they usually trying to KILL themselves? Not Norm… Since his son Woody was born he decided to stop riding. He says: “I’m not going to ride my scooter any more because if I got knocked off it and killed, it wouldn’t just […]