NYCS spends a few days in Sydney and Melbourne and checks out the local scooter scene past and present. Click on inside to read up and see some snaps.

After a rocky couple of years scooter sales in the US are seeing sales on the up-and-up once again as gas prices rises. Summer 2011 figures are just in and, from a scooterist’s perspective, there’s plenty to be happy about again.

New York digs out after the snow. Let’s just hope as the digging happens, your neighbors know that your beloved scoot is under that Vespa shaped snowman.

If you’re a Honda Metropolitan owner then you’ll appreciate these YouTube videos from the fine folks at the Urban Scootin’ forum.

Some of you may be old enough to remember these Honda Elite scooter ads when they ran in the Eighties. You have to assume that the advertising folk behind this idea were snorting a lot of something.

Customized with all the treats you expect for a pimped Ruckus. $3500 gets you a very tight bike providing you’re a fan of riding within inches of the ground beneath you.

This episode of the popular BBC auto show, “Top Gear” has been doing the rounds for some time, but given my recent trip to Vietnam, it felt time to post it here.

In part two, follow my adventures from Southern Vietnam and onto Cambodia in my quest for scooterist’s paradise.

Ride a Honda Cub? Or any Honda 50cc for that matter then photographers James and Tracey at Tribble and Mancenido need you.

Earlier this month I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit a region of the world many Scooterists call two-wheeled heaven: South East Asia. What did I find there? Read on inside…