TheScooterScoop

Oldschool Scooter Gymkhana

7. November 2006

This video comes from the British Pathe Video Archive (www.britishpathe.com). If you thought the scooter see-saw was brutal, check out what they used to do back in the day. Scooter Jousting! I don’t see that floating today unless the riders were on cheap, Chinese automatics. Come to think of it, THAT sounds pretty good! MUCH […]

Burgman’s "magic button" cure for scooter-haters

6. November 2006

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(Thanks for showing us the “POWER”, Pete! Does anyone make an aftermarket flip-up cover and a glowing red “Power” button? That would be cool, then add a full-throttle nitrous switch?! Doesn’t someone make a bolt-on turbo kit?) Gizmag did a pretty lengthy piece on the Burgman 650 recently and in that article they mentioned the […]

Honda Helix rider impressions… Makes me sorta miss Uhura snif

5. November 2006

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(An ode to “buttercup” from a couple of Burg fans) Susan loves her new Honda Helix. She bought it as a learner scoot on her way to a Burgman 400; but, now that the Helix has shown her the joy of scootering I wonder if she’ll really trade up. To make sure she was making […]

Momo gaining availability in the USA!

3. November 2006

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Poking around my Amazon today and look what I found! A dealer selling Momo Buckets! Is this a sign of things to come? I still want some Tucano Urbano gear… and a bigger bank account. Don’t forget about VespaSF’s Scootlids.com

BMW C1 avail to US buyers!

3. November 2006

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(I love the looks… If you don’t love the looks, you might atleast love the crashtest video) I got an email from Detlef out in Florida. Good guy. He was the first to get SMART cars in the US and let me check it out in person about 6 years ago. Well, turns out that […]

Pushing the boundaries of "what is a scooter?"

2. November 2006

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Walking down the interweb, past Motalia.de today and bumped into THIS oddity from Sans0n (somehow related to Moto-Guzzi). Needless to say I was taken aback with it’s confusing design. Looks like a 750cc step-thru sports cruiser. It was apparently shown at the 2002 Intermot show in Munich and from there kept in a cold, dark […]