thoughts on scooters from a boston boy, including scooter reviews, price thoughts about used scooters, and a lowdown on local scooter shops. helpful thoughts from others (related to scooters or other small motorbikes) welcome here, too.
scooter pic of the day: a honda zoomer, better known in the states as a ruckus. folks in japan (and here) are pretty obsessed with modifying them.
scooter pic of the day: while he waits for the missing idle screw to come in the mail from treatland.tv, my student decided to repaint parts of his derbi scooter. that’s me and my rebel alliance helmet checking out his rust-oleum spray paint job.
scooter pic of the day: for sale on scooter99, a piaggio ape. or at least, the most distinguishing parts from one.
scooter pic of the day: vespa bag. i couldn’t pull it off, but it’s still neat.
scooter pic of the day: i’m working with a student who bought a beat-up, non-functional derbi scooter and is trying to fix it up as part of his senior project. we’ve given up trying to get derbi parts, though. on the docket: clean the carb, repaint the scooter, and find some headlights and blinkers and figure out how to affix them to the bike.
scooter pic of the day: the thai yamaha fino (which is probably very similar to the vino here in the states), modified to go off-road. fun!
scooter pic of the day: a 2005 honda wave in the philippines, modified heavily. i think the wave is how the honda supercub is marketed now in some countries.
scooter pic of the day: a 1975 vespa vlb, totally refurbished and outfitted with a custom sidecar by scooter99, a shop in jakarta, indonesia. it can be yours for just $3300 (plus about $1000 in s&h).
scooter pic of the day: italian artist chris gilmour makes sculptures out of cardboard and glue, with no wood or metal supporting structure. pretty cool lambretta.
scooter pic of the day: cute (but angry) lego minifig on a lego vespa.
scooter pic of the day: eugene tan, an architect from singapore, built this life-sized vespa from legos. apparently, it took a year of planning and four months of building. well done.
scooter pic of the day: the rare 1959 rumi formichino, an italian scoot. for auction today in buxton, derbyshire.
scooter pic of the day: so crafty! the pattern for this crochet scooter is available on etsy. you’ll have to make it yourself, or have a friend who knows how to crochet make it for you.
scooter pic of the day: a shot of gwyneth from a few years ago scooting around london on her silver vespa. word has it that she and hubby chris martin now have matching lambrettas, but i haven’t seen any pics of it yet.
scooter pic of the day: not particularly safe looking, but i’m still a sucker for ideas regarding transportation of a dog on my scoot.
