Video: The Vespa Joyride Exhibit Gets Sexy (slightly NSFW)
Artist Richard Scott has created four one-of-a-kind pieces of Vespa art for the Joyride Exhibit, in cooperation with Vespa of South Africa.
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The MINI Citysurfer Concept. Segway + Razor = Awesome!
Our sister site, MotoringFile, has taken the lid off an electric scooter concept from MINI called the Citysurfer, and we’d buy one for the wheels alone.
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The Hero RNT: The Diesel Hybrid Jeep of Scooters
Here in America, scooters are primarily for fun. Sure, we’re aware of their significant capabilities as utilitarian transportation, but that’s hardly the focus. Perhaps that will change here in the near future. Indian scooter manufacturer Hero has created a concept scooter with a utility that can’t be ignored.
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The Decopods: Streamlined Enclosures for Piaggio Scooters
There was a time when we all imagined a future where transportation was romantic, streamlined and glamorous just by sheer virtue of how awesome…
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Kickstart this: The Kobo Cargo Scooter
People are always trying to do more with less, and while the practicality of travel by scooter is well known around the world, there are lots of opportunities to ramp up the utility factor. The clever kids at Lit Motors think they’ve got just the ticket. They call it the Kobo, and it’s an electric hauler scooter with quite the unique shape.
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Video: Watch Scooterspot Amsterdam Custom Paint a Vespa LX-150
Ever wonder what it takes to repaint a modern scooter? Turns out its a lot of work. Yet given how few color options manufacturers give buyers, re-sprays are getting more and more common. In this video, we see how custom shop Scooterspot Amsterdam takes a Vespa LX-150 down to raw, and back up in a custom paint job.
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Custom Honda Cub by K-Speed
While closer to large mopeds, the Honda Cub, Super Cub, Passport, and SYM Symba are all honorary scooters in my book. They’re also a growing platform for interesting customization. Take this gritty, bare metal example.
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Yamaha LMW Tilting Three-Wheeler Heading for Production in 2014
Though various tilting three-wheel models preceded it, the Piaggio MP3 seemed like a radical departure in thinking about urban mobility when it debuted in…
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Paolo Martin’s 1980s Vespa Visions
By the mid-’80s, Vespa was facing numerous challenges to its future in the scooter making business. In the United States, California had passed strict…
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The New Honda Cross Cub CC110 Concept
Looking like the frisky offspring of the late, lamented Ruckus and the Honda Cub 110 (the world’s best-selling motorbike, with more than 60 million versions sold as of 2009), Honda’s new Cross Cub CC110 made its pre-production debut at the Osaka Motor Show. Details are sketchy thus far, but the pared-down chassis and rugged tires suggest this version is game for some off-road action. A red, more street-focused version of the concept was also shown. Will it actually go into production? Will it make it to US shores? Time will tell, but remember, “You meet the nicest people on a Honda.”
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