TheScooterScoop

Soviet Vespa clone?

Sunday, September 7, 2008

(In Soviet Russia, you don’t fix scooter… Scooter fixes YOU.) Ilya Vinarsky sends this photo of a scooter you THINK you recognize. No, not a Vespa but a Vyatka-Molot. Vyatka, possibly referring to “a sturdy breed of workhorse from the Vyatka Region” if you look it up on Wikipedia. You can get the whole history […]

Can you buy a new Honda Reflex for $1950 shipped?

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

22 Comments

Today I was asked about a brand called “Viva”. What did I think about it. Well, frankly, I’d never heard of it so I decided to do some digging and found THIS. The Viva Roadster Moped 250cc Water Cooled or the MP250RO… Catchy. I couldn’t find the pedals on this moped, but that’s beside the […]

I remember when R&D didn’t mean Rip-off & Duplicate

Monday, May 28, 2007

3 Comments

Digging through my latest issue of TAG Magazine and I saw this little tidbit. As it says here, “this photo shows an R&D department in Vietnam where they’re putting the finishing touches to a prototype of a new 125cc air-cooled SYM. Tisk-tisk (shakes head). I guess it just doesn’t pay to innovate any more. I […]