TheScooterScoop

What’s next for Piaggio? Flight?

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Flying scooter Originally uploaded by yhancik. The Zantajet from Belgian comics writer Franquin and his comic strip Spirou and Fantasio, except for REAL! This little baby will hit 130mph at a height of 100 feet! :D just kidding. This photo is from yhancik, who took some photos from Franquin’s exhibition. For me, it’s just one […]

The bastard child of a sportbike, quadrunner and riding lawnmower?

Friday, February 9, 2007

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I’m not going to waste too much of your time here because it’s not a scooter. What you’re looking at is the Triazuma by Ludovic Lazareth. I just wanted to give you the eye-candy part of this story… It’s like a racing MP3 sittin’ on 22′s. Most of all it’s confusing. If you want an […]

Lambretta… Restaurant?!?

Monday, December 18, 2006

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Recently I ran into a photo titled Lambretta and it was what you see here. It appears to be Lammy rear ends used as lighting. Nice, though I can feel the groan of a thousand Lambretta owners as they stare on in horror at the misuse of these spare parts. The photographer known as mashimom […]

Winner of the WTF?! Scooter of the year for 2006

Friday, December 15, 2006

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Wow! We have a winner! Samuel from Albany, CA directed us to this image from Makezine.com. Shot in South Korea, it looks like NO other scooter mod I’ve ever seen before. Pinky & The Brain couldn’t have done it better (or worser). We’ve got some angle-iron scaffolding, and a 2-wheeled drawn cart, and some industrial […]

WTF!? Scooter of the week – Revenge of the four legged oddity

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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Seems like yesterday when we posted on a gas-powered, 4-legged oddity. This one isn’t quite as mythical looking, but it’s so funny you might tinkle in your pants a little bit. Thanks to Motoblog.it for the tip!

The Detonator Heart racing… cannot… contain…self!

Thursday, November 9, 2006

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(Daniel Simon has BLOWN me away with this bike that looks like a cross between a chopper, an automotive welding robot, and a industrial pizza cutter.)The cool thing about fantasy is that it is normally fantastic… a push of the imagination beyond what we think is possible. It’s a creation that forces you to briefly […]