Piaggio continues to offer deep discount incentives to clear last season’s stock and keep local dealers afloat during a tough sales year. Could their loss be your gain? Click on inside for details.

Vespa continues to move from strength to strength with the recent announcement of three new colors for the 2011 line-up. Celeste Blue on the LX50 4V and LX150 i.e. Metallic Bronze on the GTS 300 and Titanium on the GTS 300 Super.

PiaggioGroup Americas have begun their latest promotion. This time to encourage new riders for the 2010 season while allowing local dealers to work through their stock of retired carbureted models.

We’ve heard rumblings of a fuel-injected upgrade to the various flavors of Vespa’s current 150cc line for some time, but this month Piaggio made the announcement official.

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.

I’m not quite sure which marketing guru decided there was simpatico between Vespas and video game workouts but Piaggio have announced their holiday offer, and anyone buying a new Vespa this holiday season will get a free copy of Active Personal Trainer for the Nintendo Wii.

Vespa Brooklyn have just announced an amazing deal commencing Columbus Day. Take $1000 off all 2009 Vespa LX150s, S150s and GTS250s in stock.

Following last week’s pod mod, it’s time for mod number two – adding some “go faster stripes” to my new scoot.

The hardest thing about riding my brand new Vespa S150 was not taught on my Basic Rider Course – getting the damn thing on its center-stand.

I’ve spent the first few days of modern scooter ownership working on a hernia until I found out that lugging a 250lb metal body dead-weight onto its center stand is, like many things in life, more about technique than brute strength.

Last year, NPR posted a great article for the potential scooterist looking to buy. But for our money, the most helpful part of the article was the section on matching a scooter to the rider’s height, something that doesn’t get discussed as much as it should.