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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Buying Chinese Motorscooters
The Ethical Pros and Cons of buying a Chinese Motorscooter
Many express concern about buying products produced in the near slave-labor environments common in Chinese factories. There is certainly food for thought there. Psychometry aside, there is still an understandable stigma about owning and using an object produced within such unpleasant exploitative surroundings (See Motorscooter Choice […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Types of Motorscooters, General Scooterism by Ludwig
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Motorscooter Memories
One day a family Friend, Gerry Kuehner dropped by our house with his new acquisition — a motorscooter. It was the first time I had ever seen such a thing and I was absolutely enchanted. I was probably about 12 years old at the time and ownership of a vehicle of my own was not […]
No Comments » - Posted in General Scooterism by Ludwig
Saturday, August 4th, 2007
Women on Scooters
Women Belong on Scooters
Unlike the motorcycle, a woman on a motorscooter is not at all out of place. Far more often than is the case with motorcycles, the woman takes her place at the helm (See Motorscooter Lib.).
At the same time the most practical and the cheapest form of transportation, the scooter is, in many […]
No Comments » - Posted in Motorscooter News, General Scooterism by Ludwig
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Motorscooter Touring
A tour of Online Motorscooter Enthusiasm
Motorscooters mean many different things to different people, of different ages, in different places. To some, particularly in the states, the scooter is just a wimpy motorcycle. To others, it is a symbol of style, nonconformity, elegance, emancipation, perhaps even virility. To much of the world, however, it is simply […]
No Comments » - Posted in General Scooterism by Ludwig
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Legislation-Happy California Shoots Itself in the Ecological Foot.
A Global Transportation Solution
Thanks to Motorscooter Muse
Cheap and fuel efficient transportation “available in all states but California”
Around the country commuters are finding what Europe, Asia, much of the world has already discovered, that the cheapest form of private transportation to acquire and to drive is the motorscooter, moped, or small motorcycle. The smaller street-legal motorscooters […]
21 Comments » - Posted in Motorscooter News, General Scooterism by Ludwig
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
A Left Handed Scooter?
A Left Handed Scooter?
Left Brake
When I first drove my TANK 150 Sporty, I noticed quickly that the brake handles were not the same; one had a spherical knob on the end and the other did not. My initial assumption that something had been broken off proved erroneous. The brake handles were clearly of differing […]
No Comments » - Posted in Types of Motorscooters, General Scooterism by Ludwig
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
The Scooterdoc, a success story
A Success Story
Motorscooterists in the Los Angeles area are blessed with access to excellent maintenance service. Rich (Scooterdoc) Proffitt runs a mobile scooter repair service out of Pasadena. Specializing in newer Vespa models, he will maintain your scooter at your location or will cart it off to his workshop.
I had been to a number […]