TheScooterScoop

And I thought free parking was nice. Scooters in Spain get the pole position!

Thursday, May 29, 2008

My homeboy from Normandy, Mike Werner, reports that in Spain the authorities have begun marking special areas in front of traffic lights just for motor bikers. In other words, when the light turns red you would get to scoot around the other cars and roll right up to the front of the line because motorbikes […]

CELEBRATION! TheScooterScoop hits another important milestone.

Friday, January 18, 2008

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Tonight, by the time you’re having your after dinner mints, we’ll have made the ONE MILLION HIT mark. That’s right, just 3 months short of 3 years on the web. It’s probably a bit hard to wave your rally banner when we’ve been slackin’ here at The Scoop for the last couple of weeks. I […]

The most exciting scoop I’ve ever posted

Friday, January 11, 2008

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This month I’m so excited I can hardly stand myself. In case you haven’t been counting, in the next couple of weeks we’re expecting to reach our ONE MILLIONTH HIT! Woohoo! 1,000,000 total hits since we started back in April 2005, can you believe it? No seriously, who reads this crap?! ;) I’m kidding. I’ve […]

Rise of the electric – Japan’s wild EV-X7 and talks of a 2008 product release

Saturday, December 1, 2007

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Our good friend Jo B. wanted to scoop us on some new developments from Japan’s Axle Group. You may remember their electric / magnetic hybrid scooter (above) from back in the day. Looks like a sweeeet electric and I’d love to see it on the road… the question is “will we?”. No word on the […]

Impact Jackts save their first life!

Monday, October 15, 2007

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(photo from AMADirectLink.com‘s 2006 Indi Dealer Expo coverage) Eddie H. alerted us to this exciting bit of news. Impact Jackets (who’s website is having some issues at this moment) have come through for Joseph McPhatter. The news coverage goes like this: BALTIMORE — While motorists who have been in car crashes often attribute the help […]

Yamaha pulls out the stops for the Tokyo Motor Show

Saturday, October 6, 2007

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Yamaha makes the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show fun again with a boat load of new prototypes. Continuing with their tradition of flashing fanciful scooters during the Tokyo show and doing a damn good job of taking the spotlight away from Honda, Yamaha has some real eye-candy for you this year starting with their take on […]