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: brad pitt and angelina jolie, scooting in ho chi minh city during thanksgiving 2006.
scooter pic of the day: steam-cleaned recycled scooter tire, repurposed as unbreakable bowl. mostly, it makes me want to find wicker hubcaps for my car.
scooter pic of the day: a pretty funny photoshop job, spotted on waterford scooter club’s fb page.
scooter pic of the day: more crafty things. the pattern for these is available from leah sutton.
scooter pic of the day: yarn bomb! this was done a few weeks ago in perth, australia.
scooter pic of the day: spotted on the the scootin’ old skool fb page, this recent pic of a few of nypd’s piaggio scoots.
scooter pic of the day: some vintage racing ‘brettas at druidale.
scooter pic of the day: the new york times profiled scooter bottega (a scooter service shop in red hook) yesterday, as well as their owner, robbie rhodes. nice to see that the scooter scene is growing in brooklyn!
scooter pic of the day: outside of jammu, india, a scooter rider stops to feed monkeys. this may or may not be good for the monkeys, but it sure is cute!
scooter pic of the day: not a real simpsons intro, but still pretty great.
scooter pic of the day: in 1962 two university students on a trip around europe met salvador dali in cadaques, spain. he decorated their scooter with his signature and the name of his partner gala. on display at the museo piaggio.
scooter pic of the day: i saw this very nice vespa gt200 parked outside the gym at my school in chestnut hill last week. i’ve never seen it on campus before. is it a student’s? a parent’s? another staff member’s? i hope it didn’t get hit by an errant lacrosse ball. i like the larger frame vespas; they’ve got a little more power, but they don’t look like big clunky maxi scooters.
scooter pic of the day: a sym hd200, parked on a saturday in late april at boston haymarket.
scooter pic of the day: a few tailored messages to potential customers, from speed city scooters in indianapolis.
