Missed the Science Channel’s special on how a Vespa is built? Now you have an opportunity to see it online.

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

Changing the oil, the hub oil, and changing a tire are three of the easiest maintenance tasks you can do at home (or on the street) with a basic set of tools and will take you from a scooter newbie to a fully fledged scooterist. So easy in fact, it takes a girl from Florida to show us Noo Yawkers how it is done.

Boston.com today covers the news that the city is cracking down on 50cc scooter owners who have previously registered their bike as a moped under the city’s classification system allowing them to park their ride on the city’s sidewalks, and more importantly use a sticker rather than a full license plate.

Thanks to JayBee over at the Modern Vespa forum for this one. Seems that Vespa have just posted a bunch of delicious photos of the LX150 in Taormina orange, a color only previously available on the S50 and S150s.