Friday, October 8, 2010

Top Scooter safety tips: How to maintain your Scooter and ride responsibly

Bought a brand new scooter? Congratulations. Suddenly chicks are looking your way? Great. You look back at them? Now we’re talking! Hey, that blond girl is giving you the look! But watch out for that tree…

There’s nothing like scooters if you want to save time on parking and money on gas and insurance. But when riding a scooter there are a few things to remember. If you didn’t notice, a scooter has no windows or doors or body or even a seatbelt - it’s only you and the road. Which is fine, but you don’t want to get to know the road face to face.

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Scooter Performance Tips

Whether it's a classic scooter or a modern one, plenty of options exist for you to improve its performance. Handling, speed, power, torque --- all of these can be addressed. As long as you're willing to spend the money, time, and effort, you can increase your scooter's performance significantly.

1952 Terrot VMS1 Scooter 98cc

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With frame number 068, this particular Terrot VMS1 scooter is the earliest known surviving example of this iconic marque

1976 Vespa 100CC




1975 Vespa Sprint Veloce 150 CC


1973 Modified Super Vespa 150 CC


1970 Super Sprint Vespa 90 CC


1962 Vespa 150 CC

Vespa Scooter for sale, rebuilt, restoration, repaint, modification

1961 Modified Vespa 150CC

Vespa Scooter for sale, rebuilt, restoration, repaint, modification

1961 Vespa 125CC

Vespa Scooter for sale, rebuilt, restoration, repaint, modification

1960's + Sidecar (Flame Airbrush)

Vespa Scooter for sale, rebuilt, restoration, repaint, modification

1955 Vespa 125CC

Vespa Scooter for sale, rebuilt, restoration, repaint, modification

Vespa 125 (1952 )


On the 1952 model, the only change with the 1951 model is the strengthened front suspension