New York - July 14, 2000

The Vespas Are Coming. . .

Vespa Scooters Online

Sure, the ubiquitous Razor Rollerboard Scooter is fun.

But really, how cool can you look rolling along the sidewalk? Especially when it’s right next to the twenty other guys doing the, well, exact same thing? Folks, we don’t know how else to phrase it: Get yourself a real scooter.

A Vespa.

Vintage ones are coolest, and easiest to find in the U.S. But even a 1964 model will kick some Razor Scooter ass.

Check out ground zero for Vespaphiles, vespa.org which has lots of good links, including a list of stores where you can buy vintage Vespas?or at least get parts.

Need further inspiration?

“Thus the Vespa came to be linked in my eyes with transgression, sin, and even temptation - not the temptation to possess the object, but the subtle seduction of faraway places where the Vespa was the only means of transport…” -Umberto Eco

Would Umberto have written that about a Razor Scooter?

Better yet, would anyone riding a Razor Scooter be reading Umberto Eco?