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AmeriVespa 2010 Time!

27. May 2010

WOW! I can hardly believe it’s here… the LARGEST scooter rally in the nation and it’s happening RIGHT now in San Antonio. TheScooterScoop will be reporting from the field over the next few days and fill you in on things like: 1) The NEW Kymco Downtown 300i and other great new scoots 2) The most […]

“Swampy” is a scooterist

25. May 2010

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Don’t know if the plaid pork pie hat and gray goatee were a give away or not, but this man is a scooterist. His name? Jeff “Swampy” Marsh. If you’ve watched The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Rocko’s Modern Life, Postman Pat, Bounty Hamster or Phineas and Ferb then you’ve probably seen his work. We’ve […]

Scoot2Texas Kymco is GO!

23. May 2010

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The Scoot2TX Ride has begun and the riders are staying the night in Columbus Georgia tonight. You can watch their progress LIVE right over HERE> and read about their adventures on the KYMCO Blog right HERE> and on GuidoEbert’s Blog over HERE> Safe travels my friends! We shall meet in Austin!

Oh SNAP! China’s IPR Theft under Federal Investigation

15. May 2010

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Oh SNAP! China’s IPR Theft under Federal Investigation

(The header image is not a Can-Am Spyder) Joe Delmont, over at Dealer News, just released a story through their Dealer Alert that discusses a move by the Fed that could spell the end of the cheap clone scooter here in America. Can you believe THAT? (Not a Honda Big Ruckus) Federal Agencies already gave […]

If James Bond were Italian

13. May 2010

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He wouldn’t ride some silly BMW. NO! He would ride a VESPA! The mythical Vespa Alpha, to be exact. Dick Smart 2007 is a low-budget spy film from 1967. It may not appeal to our adult sensibilities today, but you know that somewhere there’s an Italian guy who grew up with this film and longs […]

Vespa, built for jumping?

12. May 2010

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I was talking to a friend of mine about scooter gymkhana and he was saying how he won’t jump a Vespa. Dirt bike? Sure! Vespa? No way. I wanted to prove to him it was no problem and then I ran into this video. Maybe the Canadian Scooter Corporation has convinced me that I’m wrong… […]