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.

Trust me, from my own experience, learn how to change your scooter’s tires now - at home, in daylight, in the sun - because when you really do need to do it - it’ll be in the dark, in the rain, at the side of a busy road.

I can tell you from personal experience that the reason I run around on a modern Vespa is because I used to do it on a vintage Lambretta. And that wasn’t for show, it was my primary mode of transportation and therein lay my mistake. 9 times out of 10 my bike was either in the shop or the garage for a tinkering. Now admittedly, the bike had “problems.”
My policy moving forward? A modern scoot for the day-to-day, a vintage for weekend glamor.
If, however, you’re a vintage newbie and you’ve …