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Baton Rouge is becoming a scooter town

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

A feature in The Advocate this morning in Baton Rouge:Students at LSU might spot a flash of purple (or, plum, really) on their way to morning classes. That would be Patricia O’Neill, zipping along on the new Vespa the opera…

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A Vespa GT for the Wee

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Peg Perego announced the ride-on Vespa Granturismo in the Toy Show Interactive Preview, and reportedly showed it off at the recent American International Toy Show:Only the best for your child! Picture the most stylish ride around, with your little one…

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A Vespa GT for the Wee

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Peg Perego announced the ride-on Vespa Granturismo in the Toy Show Interactive Preview, and reportedly showed it off at the recent American International Toy Show:Only the best for your child! Picture the most stylish ride around, with your little one…

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Piaggio going public in Italy

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

The business telegraph is reporting that due to the rise of gas prices, increase in traffic and overall affordability of scooter owership, Piaggio is doing just fine and are going public in Italy. Piaggio plans on adding two new models to their lines, …

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Read up on scooters

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

A new publication from our friends across the pond: If you fancy finding our more about scooters, then the sixth book on the subject by afficionado Eric Dregni should be up your street. Everything you need to know: Scooters is…

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Meet Frances - Walking dogs, riding Vespas.

Monday, February 13th, 2006

One of the benefits of making scooter seat covers is that I get to “meet” so many cool people. One of my recent customers, Frances Gentile, 51, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, not only loves Vespas, she uses her 2006 Diamond…

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Las Vegas High Rollers Rally

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

A quick reminder to everyone that the Annual Las Vegas Scooter Rally is days away! February 16th-20th! I won’t be able to attend the entire thing, but I will be there for the weekend. How many vespazine readers will be in attendance? I’ll be there on …

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Scooter.

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

Yeah, I have a myspace account. Sad. Apparently aquafina is sponsoring some type of independent films on myspace, and I found this one titled “scooter” featuring a vespa.

Link.

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Vespa New Orleans reopening

Friday, February 10th, 2006

before - Vespa New Orleans last August sitting in 5 feet of water. after - The new showroom in New Orleans. Congratulations to Vespa New Orleans in advance for the successful reopening of their store. This arrived in my…

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Get Well, Justene!

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

I hope Vespaquest readers will help me send a big batch of Get Well wishes to my co-blogger Justene - just add them to the “comments” area here, since she’s online and can come visit the blog. Besides the angst…

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