TheScooterScoop

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

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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 […]

Behind the scenes of the NPS600 SuperRuckus

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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The most sinister of scooters, the NPS600, was first mentioned on the Scoop back in 2007 with a tiny little video. This Kansas City contraption is the masterpiece of a madman called “PomeRuck” over on the TotalRuckus.com site (see title link). After the video we wanted more. How was it done? What sort of work […]

WTF?! of the week – The Evil Honda Helix

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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Usually when you think “Honda Scooters” it might conjure up thoughts of cuteness (Metro) or oddness (most everything else)… but when you’ve seen what I’ve seen lurking around craigslist, it might change your mind. Check out THIS Honda Helix of DOOOOM! It was an ’86 like my own Uhura back in the day. I think […]

Super Street (car) Magazine covers the RUCKUS?!

Friday, April 11, 2008

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(I had to rub my eyes in disbelief! Scooters in SUPER STREET MAGAZINE!?) First of all, thanks to my fellow Hooligan, Casey, who brought this to my attention. After a failed attempt to find this magazine (April 2008) in my local book store, I resorted to Google. It didn’t take look before I found it, […]

Another lost "star studded" Honda commercial

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

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You could do a search to find the others. I don’t know what the count is up to, but Honda used to REALLY hawk some scooters back in the 80′s. Don’t forget Sandra’s follow up spot:

Sigh… I just never get enough pimped out scooters from Japan

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

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I was over at the Goo auto & motorbike page (title link… and no, I didn’t make up the name “Goo”, that’s what it’s really called), reviewing the 2006 and 2007 Tokyo Motorcycle Show photos and came across a couple of cool / unique ones. First check out the Mastermind Maxam. Lots of black, lots […]