Month: January 2002

Happy New Year!
Vespa leaves the unsettling shirtless guys and pony behind, for a return to good oli hot chicks. I gotta admit, I like the design. From motorino.

Scooterworks has some good stuff on sale, including new complete fork sets, new Sprint-style frames. and a good deal on wheel rims and tires.

A thoughtful letter from reader James Ballot:
Continue reading “Up with Plastic!”

Rumor on the boards today is that Vacation Village, HQ for the High Rollers’ Vegas rally, is closing its doors before the rally. The Gold Spike (downtown) looks like a likely replacement, but there’s apparently no official word yet.

Our local Target store has huge banners at the entrance featuring a girl on a red vespa with a sidecar full of packages, they also have banners with racing Mini Coopers. Suck up to a Target employee and see if you can get one for the garage…

Elvis’ kid’s scooter drawing, as promised. If we get one more, we’ll equal the turnout for the quadrophenia contest.

Pilot Jeff tells us, “The rumors are true. Swank Wicker Park will soon be host of a second scooter shop called ‘Scooter World Cafe and Sales’ located across the street from Jinx at 1656 W. Division. Not only will they be the exclusive dealership for both Aprilia and Italijet scooters, they also have a cafe with a lunch menu! They are not quite open yet, but they did have two exotic, unrestored, vintage scooters leaking oil on their hard wood floorOe”

WhizWheels is a new scooter racing site looking to compile information on American scooter racing.

The “Just Shoot Me” cast visits our troops at Spago, where yet another dumb waif pays almost $10,000 for two Vespas.

Akyana sends us three vaguely scooter-related links: bath-in-a-field features a bathtub sidecar, Ananova reports phone company follies in SIL’s hometown Lucknow, India (no wonder they have manufacturing problems), and Milan bank robbers escape on a scooter.

Jeremy and Derrick at Minnescoota.com have put together a good buyers’ guide.

“Op deze site wordt beschreven, hoe je je standaard PK 50 automatica kan omtoveren in een Bruut monster.” Rich claims that’s dutch for “You can make your PK50 go faster with some creative Dremeling.”

A 1967 story about the Arthur Francis 250 Special is scanned and posted on racinglambrettas.com.. Thanks for the link, Elvis!

Our neighbor and friend Fiona drew this picture of our scooters in the garage, waiting for the snow to melt. Happy New Year!