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Lowell Sun Online – Why drive a scooter? How about 75 mpg?: “Jason Ciolfi, owner of Boston Scoot in Billerica, says two types of people own motorized scooters: the casual and the obsessed.

Ciolfi is definitely the latter.

Standing in his shop on Boston Road, he moves among his seven scooters, talking about cylinder kits, exhaust pipes, leg shields and carburetors.

He is part of a growing population of scooter enthusiasts who not only love to ride, but have an appreciation for the scooter’s unique history.

However, with scooters getting about 75 miles per gallon and generally costing less than $5,000, this population is eclipsed by an even larger number of casual scooter owners who are fed up with skyrocketing gas prices and an increasingly tumultuous economy.

Penny Lacroix, director of the Westford Museum, said she falls into the casual-owner category. She rides her robin’s-egg blue 1991 Vespa ET4 to work on clear, sunny days. Wearing a matching jacket and a helmet, the mother of two said she gets quite a few looks from passers-by as she putters down the streets of Westford.”

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