TheScooterScoop

What’s so good about a tiny scooter?

Monday, December 11, 2006

You should always lend a fellow scooterist a hand. Here, one young man on a Piaggio Zip tows another sad young chap AND his Yamaha Razz. I don’t imagine this going nearly as well with Fred on his Burgman 650 hauling me with my Honda Helix in my lap. A tiny scooter is definitely on […]

A real scooter find… Lambretta excavation

Monday, November 13, 2006

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scooter_clarkieOriginally uploaded by eam31. Poking around flickr.com and saw the dirtiest Lambretta I’d ever laid eyes on. What was she DOING?! Mud-bogging?! I had to send Ellie a message asking for an explanation and here’s what she said: We were digging out a new bed (gardening), and the spade hit something which turned out to […]

Burgman’s "magic button" cure for scooter-haters

Monday, November 6, 2006

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(Thanks for showing us the “POWER”, Pete! Does anyone make an aftermarket flip-up cover and a glowing red “Power” button? That would be cool, then add a full-throttle nitrous switch?! Doesn’t someone make a bolt-on turbo kit?) Gizmag did a pretty lengthy piece on the Burgman 650 recently and in that article they mentioned the […]

Tokyo mirror repair

Sunday, October 29, 2006

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Tokyo Originally uploaded by olivepixel. Thanks for sharing olivepixel! Nice bit of rigging with the chopsticks I must say! PS> Stay tuned tomorrow for what is RUMORED to be heading our way in 2007… All I can say is “expect a LOT of excitement at the Milan show in a couple of weeks!”

Now what does that tell you about moped riders?

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

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(original photo by sea star… spray paint by yours truly… and it stinks in there!) hehe… Had to take a little jab at the moped riders after I read this piece from the UK. Wrote-a-song-about-it-like-to-hear-it-here-it-go: A SPONTANEOUS street party almost broke out among long-suffering residents when police closed a crack house. The three-floor house in […]