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Friday Moment of Zen

Friday, June 26, 2009

Believe it or not, this is a mid-80s Honda Aero 50 scooter: It started out looking something like this:

The Scooter Scoop is about “Scooter and Microcar News, Reviews, Commentary and the Celebration of Wheeled Oddities.” Then truly I have found the Scooter Scoop Holy Grail™ – The Moonbeam: The Moonbeam is a microcar made from two scooters and certainly a wheeled oddity. The Moonbeam was created by Jory Squibb for a measly $2500 […]

WTF of the week: Check out the windshield on that P!

Monday, February 16, 2009

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If you’ve studied any UK rally photos, you’ve likely seen some aftermarket add-on windscreens for the Vespa. I’ve seen plenty of gaudy examples, but this thing stops just short of being a 2-wheeled automobile. The only details I have is the description from the scigacz.pl (title link) website that says: “the Paris motor scooter delivery […]

1983 Honda Beat makes my heart skip a beat

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

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(image source) I was looking at some recent images captured by our man on the Tokyo streets, Kuroneko and saw a shot that blew my mind. Thinking it was some sort of far out mod I googled it… “Honda Beat” and found this thing! This cherry example is from the Honda Collection Hall and if […]

Wooden Vespa = Pure genius

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

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This came to me from my wife while I was on the road, then over the course of the next 24 hours I received a flood of emails, IMs, text messages, and twits telling me to check out this wooden Vespa. I finally got to see it this morning and now I see what all […]

When a scooter IS a moped

Monday, April 14, 2008

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(finding a good image of a Vespa V5A with the pedals attached is about as hard as finding a photo of Sasquatch with his hair combed.) I remember seeing this in a book once. It was a GREAT photo of what is definitely one of the oddest Vespas ever made. Apparently this rare bird was […]