TheScooterScoop

Cyberscooter.it covers the Paris show

Saturday, October 6, 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. […]

French race car legend Matra returns as a green bike

Thursday, October 4, 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 […]

What has 125ccs and can suck up 10 liters of dog poop?

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

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(note, I didn’t add the fuzzy box around the scoot, it came that way… makes it look prettier) The Carre Galopin “Le Citadin” or “The Townsman”, that’s what. Jaqian, our eagle-eyed reader, picked up it’s scent (so to speak) from an image posted back in February. We wondered who would add a vacuum to a […]

Being privileged has its… privileges.

Friday, February 2, 2007

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We all hate scooter thieves and we don’t have it HALF as bad as they have it in France. According to Charles Bremner at the UK Times “Small scooters account for three quarters of the 85,000 motorcycles stolen annually in France. Only 8 per cent of the thefts are solved.” What?! Over 63 THOUSAND scooters […]