Just gotten your hands on your first two-stroke manual scooter? Congratulations. Need to know what all those shiny (rusty?) bits do? Thanks to Bob Hedstrom at Scooterville, Minnesota we have answers.

The Honda Ruckus and Genuine Scooter’s Buddy battle it out in Motorcycle.com’s 2009 scooter satisfaction top-ten.

With just 680 miles on the clock and a couple of Big Apple required dings and scrapes, it’s the NYC equivalent of buying a nice comfortable broken-in pair of pre-worn Levis.

Everyone’s favorite US importer, Chicago’s Genuine Scooter Company has begun it’s answer to the government’s now ended “Cash for Clunkers” program.

Here’s your chance to get one of the best scooters on the market right now for half the MSRP of a new model – 1500 beans.

Continuing the trend of Genuine Scooters showing up on CraigsList, today Williamsburg poster Jonathon has an orange 125cc 2007 Buddy for sale at a very reasonable $1300, that’s half the MSRP and only 2300 miles or so on the clock.

Every wonder how that scooter you’ve been hungering over arrives at your local dealership?
Chicago’s Genuine Scooter Company has a copy of its dealer preparation video posted on Vimeo featuring its best selling Indian Vespa clone, the Stella.

Bart Madson over at motorcycleusa.com has recently posted his review of the latest in Genuine Scooters line-up – the Buddy Black Jack.

Bart gives the scoot a balanced review sharing his delight with the scoot’s distinct looks, roomy storage and impressive (if less than posted) mileage; but fairly positions these highlights against some of the places where it misses a beat.

Two Genuine Scooter beauties up for grabs on CraigsList today. Both at $2500 a piece. A near-mint black Stella up for grabs in New Hyde Park and a custom two-tone in Williamsburg.

2005 makes it one of the first shipments of Stellas before they made improvements to the breaks and powder-coating, but it’s an opportunity to save some dough.