I replaced the back drum brakes on my PX150e last night. All in all the job took about an hour and a half, and certainly went much faster than the front brakes did a couple of weeks ago.

What the hell is a greased brake actuator? Click on inside for our top tips on keeping the drum brakes on your scoot in fine fighting shape and boosting your stopping power.

While the Bay Area is a few hours from NYC (especially by scoot,) we’ve added San Francisco’s excellent First Kick Scooters to our honor roll of links.

Coming from scooterlounge.com, an excellent site we haven’t profiled before, is a great tutorial on replacing worn out brake shoes on Vespa P-series scoots and similar.

Replacing the hand grips on your vintage Vespa is an easy cosmetic upgrade thanks to the nice folks at Scooter Mercato.

NYCS is proud to present its first (albeit low-tech) original YouTube video. A start to finish slide show of the recent PX rebuild.

Click on inside to learn how to change the gearbox oil on your two-stroke scoot. This little extra effort during winterization can prolong the life of your ride.

We’ve covered this simple mod briefly ourselves based on Baksvn’s excellent step-by-step, but who better to give us a detailed step-by-step video walk-through than everyone’s favorite Florida scooter girl, Maureen.

Step 13 proves to be lucky number 13 as I wrap up the restoration and take the PX out on her maiden voyage. Click on through for before and after photographs and more.

A couple of small things to wrap up and then the scoot is ready for its test run. Take a look inside to learn about headset re-assemby and hooking up the front brakes.