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Cyberscooter.it covers the Paris show

6. October 2007

(Yikes! The Cargobike is creepy… riding one would be like humping a peep down the road.) Here our super scoop sleuth, Dudel, offers his very brief take of the Paris Motor Show (the first auto show ever was in Paris, did you know that?). Take it away Dudel! Cyberscooter.it has photos from the Paris show. […]

Yamaha pulls out the stops for the Tokyo Motor Show

6. October 2007

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Yamaha makes the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show fun again with a boat load of new prototypes. Continuing with their tradition of flashing fanciful scooters during the Tokyo show and doing a damn good job of taking the spotlight away from Honda, Yamaha has some real eye-candy for you this year starting with their take on […]

French race car legend Matra returns as a green bike

4. October 2007

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One of our friends, FM, sends news from the Paris show that can be found over at CyberScooter.it (title link). This is the Matra, an electric hybrid bicycle that reminds me a bit of the MadAss if it were greener and a hell-of-a-lot more expensive. Here we’re looking at a 60 mile range at 30mph […]

3CR3 Rally is THIS WEEKEND!

4. October 2007

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Publish Postw00t! Tomorrow the denizens of Central Texas will begin to convene on San Antonio for the ever popular Third Coast Rally (of which we are a proud sponsor). The crew in SA are great people and excellent hosts! Last year’s was a blast and I’m sure this years will be as good or better! […]

Honda to show off two exciting new developments in Tokyo

4. October 2007

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Our good friend Aki Hasegawa in Japan caught this press release on the wind today. In it, Honda was announcing some tasty items to be displayed at the Tokyo Auto Show; both were items we had heard of, like the HFT, a newly developed hydraulic transmission system that looks rather spiffy AND the wicked Honda […]

Bugs to squash?

2. October 2007

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(never drink a coke with mentos in your mouth and a helmet on your head… at least I hope that’s what’s going on here… the dog seems interested.) I talked to someone today who told me they couldn’t access TheScooterScoop.com or http://thescooterscoop.blogspot.com. They were using Internet Explorer on both an XP and a Vista system […]