The folks at Scooter Swag are featuring the design studio Plexipixel and their amazing swag to be had at AmeriVespa in Seattle this past summer. They report that the above image, and others, are for sale on their website for a mere $25 with just $3.75 shipping. These are pretty cool designs. Being a web designer by trade, I appreciate good design as much as a good motor scooter.

Although this page is in Japanese, you can watch a cool movie of Honda’s new Forza motor scooter with a liquid-cooled 4-stroke 4-valve OHC single engine. Just the latest Honda motor scooter being showcased at the The 40th Tokyo Motor Show 2007 in the Honda Booth.

Wired has a nice article on some freeway legal motor scooters. The scooter above is the
Aprilia Scarabeo 500, priced at $6,300. According to Wired, $6,300, Aprilla trimmed pounds and added power, it’s a lean, mean, street-cruising machine, “more butch than a Vespa and with more cred than a Honda.” The article has great info and beautiful scooter photos.

Beautiful ‘66 Lambretta Li 150 3 on Ebay. According to the owner it’s been modified and rebuilt, masterfully rebuilt by a Lambretta/Vespa expert, and it looks great.  It has original style-look with new White and Blue paint and stainless steel trim. And it “really jams around town as well… turns heads on every ride.” I bet, nice bike.

Vespa will be releasing the last 1,000 Vespa PXs. 2007 is the 30th anniversary, 1977 to 2007, with over 3 million of these beauties sold.

Here’s are the stats from The Scooter Scoop: 25cc 2-strokes, white, lots of accessories (rear rack, chrome hub caps, white wall tires, windshield, numbered traveling case),price is $5,665.00 and they will be available in Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, UK and that’s it. Sorry folks, none will be sold in the USA.

Also, check out The Scooter Scoop’s coverage of P.E.A.C.E Scooter ride, and CNN Video of Peace activist Alix Bryan.

A nice article on the Baldwin County Scooter Club. They are a new scooter club in Southern Alabama. Let’s hope more of these clubs pop up around the USA. From the article:

Scooters start at approximately $2,500 and up and there are about 400 different models. Foley resident Lawson Chapman said saving money on gas is a plus, as his scooter gets approximately 80 miles to the gallon. Chapman has been hitting the roads on his Zuma scooter since last summer. He bought the scooter as a toy, but he has found he has more fun riding the scooter than the motorcycle.

More fun than his motorcycle and getting 80 mpg. Not bad.

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In a revolutionary move, Piaggio is releasing the MP3 motor scooter with two front wheels. According to Fullboost, the Piaggio MP3 provides better safety, road grip and stability levels than a two wheel scooter, also better braking. Especially in bad driving conditions such as rain and gravel roads. An electro-hydraulic tilt-locking system means no kick stand. And the system will operate at any angle so you don’t need to find a level parking area.

According to Piaggio’s Brand Manager Simon Gloyne, “Not since Enrico Piaggio introduced Vespa to the world in 1946 have we seen such a revolution in transport for individual mobility.”

The Piaggio MP3 will be available in two engine displacements, 250 and 400 cc.

It looks like Razor, a California-based importer, is recalling about 20,000 of its E300 electric scooters over concerns the handlebars can break off(Ouch!) according to the U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission. Consumers can go the website www.razor.com/recall for more info.

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The 2008 Yamaha Vino Classic looks just as cool as ever. Again, combining Euro styling with the Yamaha technology, this baby is quite the attention getter. From the Yamaha website: It has a  Four-stroke engine to provide for more power and fewer emissions, electric starting with kickstart option, fully automatic V-belt transmission ensures easy, twist-the-throttle-and-go operation, high-energy ignition system for precise, high-voltage spark for seamless engine performance and reliability and automatic choke which makes cold starting easier.

I also like the Underseat storage compartment for a helmet and the rear rack for  schoolbooks or groceries. Starting at $1,949.

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Talk about a nice looking scooter. It’s slick and cool looking, and it’s liquid cooled 2-stroke motor gives it some impressive power. Peugeot’s New C-Tech R-Cup Scooter has 13” alloy wheels with Pirelli tires and a 226mm ‘wavy’ disc at the front, backed up by a 190mm disc at the rear, for ultimate stopping power.

Man I’d like to take this machine out on some nice winding country roads around my home.