TheScooterScoop

Scooter reviews in… Consumer Reports?

Monday, February 2, 2009

(Note the actual cover of the March 2009 edition, but you probably already knew that.) For the first time in 27 years, Consumer Reports has put scooters (and small motorcycles) in the line up. It’s exciting to see that last year’s scooter fever seems to have inspired others in the mainstream media to take them […]

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

Monday, May 28, 2007

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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 […]

Richmond represents for the moped population

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

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get_image-3 Originally uploaded by toaprock. Here’s a photo from Kimberly Frost and shared by toaprock. It’s a motley bunch of hipsters on mopeds that were part of a fashion photo shoot for RVA Magazine. http://www.rvamag.com/ What do you think Lester? (Lester is our local Ped Peddler here in Austin at, where else? Austin Mopeds!) http://austinmopeds.com/ […]

Scoot! #37 is in the stores!

Thursday, August 31, 2006

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(We would have let you know sooner, but we were below “Peace in the Middle East” on Josh’s To-Do list.) Picked up my copy last week so you may wanna head down to your local scooter shop / bookstore / Walmart and pick up a copy. Nice Big review of the Big Ruckus is in […]