WNYC reporter, and fellow scooterist, Jim Colgan, has spent the past two weeks interviewing local riders culminating in a short video piece that draws attention to the frustrations of scootering in the Big Apple.

The delayed US debut of the new four stroke Genuine Scooter Company Stella has hit another hitch. At least this time we know why. Read on inside.

In this third and final part I leave Cambodia behind and finally hit what I’d been looking for – vintage scoot pay dirt in Bangkok’s old town.

It’s with sadness that I learned that while I was out of the county fellow scooterist Aileen McKay-Dalton was struck and killed while riding her Vespa LX in Fort Greene on Thursday July 8th.

This past weekend was the Usual Suspects Scooter Club’s second annual rally, “Sloppy Seconds” up in the Kittatiny Mountains and Delaware Water Gap region of New Jersey.

Retro Vespa are a Manhattan based importer of Indian restored classic Vespas VBBs from the 60s. While Asian restored scooters have caught a lot of flack, this importer at least is going to some length to share the process.

Autotalk.com has the news that Piaggio has concreted plans to get the Vespa back into the Indian market after a long hiatus.

Local NYC rally-rats, and all-round two-wheeled ner’ do wells, the Usual Suspects SC are having their second annual rally this time next month at Cedar Ridge Campground in Montague NJ.

Take a short scooter ride into Jersey and you’ll find yourself in the company of two of the nicest folks in the business – Gene and Andrea of Scooters Originali.

Three local scooterists Eugene, Carlos and Jeremy, under the moniker Scooter Adventures with sponsorship from Piaggio, Leo Vince, Corazzo and Vespa Brooklyn set out from NYC last Monday heading for Florida’s Key West.