TheScooterScoop

Engadget: Virginia Tech students create "smart" brake lights

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Oops! I found this scoop under the fridge. Sure it’s a bit old and crusty, but if you blow off the dust bunnies it’s still tasty. Since I luv Engadget and their quip-ridden blurbs I’ll just say… Take it away Engadget! It’s only taken about a million years, but someone has finally decided that improvements […]

The Hysyrider – When a scooter has TOO much fairings

Monday, June 11, 2007

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(looks like a double bladed Zyliss pizza cutter)Well… I say that now, but I’m sure it adds to the aerodynamics of the thing (perhaps a vehicle’s personality is inversely proportional to it’s aerodynamics). From what I gather in the Google Translation, there is an Eco-show going on in Turin and the Hysyrider hopes to make […]

Hrm… A new Honda scooter design. Maybe the Helix is getting a face lift?

Friday, April 27, 2007

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She looks long and low… like some competition for the Yamaha Morphous. You notice it has a dash of “Griffon” on the front end. Here again you can see she’s pretty low profile and sporty.From the top she looks sweet. I dig the fat pipe.Look around back to see that pipe up closeAnd now from […]

Before the MP3 and Fuoco there was the… Vespa PK 3!

Monday, April 16, 2007

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Woah! Stop the press! Sure, a tilting 3-wheeler is nothing new from a design standpoint, a full-production tilting 3-wheeled scooter IS… BUT, before Piaggio went all out they had to develop some prototypes and THIS baby is more than 20 years old! Check out the 1984 Vespa PK3 Prototype!No, it’s not a photoshopping, it’s the […]

Fan gives THEIR rendition of the Modern Lambretta

Friday, December 29, 2006

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(Here we see the modern “Game of Death” and the neo-classic paint schemes) The details are scant, as is often the case with images picked up amongst the ether, but it looks like Lambretta fan Robledo has put together what he thinks the new CMSI Lammys should look like. The images have found their way […]

WTF!? Scooter of the week – Porsche motorcycle hybrid?

Friday, December 29, 2006

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(This is just a teaser. To see Brenda Priddy’s actual photo click HERE) No… this isn’t the vile offspring of a Porsche 911 and a sport cruiser. It’s a spy photo of a Bombardier 3-wheeled prototype from Canada. The specs are impressive, but I’ll let you get the details, specifications and speculations from this site […]