Vespa Obsession

I recently got this email from Jen Sharp of Vespa New Orleans:Here’s a hand painted GT that Vespa New Orleans and the Arts Council of New Orleans are going to raffle off October 7th. Only 250 tickets are going to…

Thanks to everyone who replied with your mileage numbers. A reader, Harv, posted this in the “comments” section, and I thought it warranted a post. I’ve only used high octane in all my scooters, so I can’t answer his question:…

Don’t miss the travelogue recently posted by David Westman about his group’s trip up to the top of Mt. Evans in Colorado. It doesn’t need an intro, just start reading: When you live in Colorado, there’s always an adventure awaiting…

Mark your calendars - next Wednesday, July 19, is the 15th Annual Ride to Work day for motorcyclists and scooterists. Held every year on the third Wednesday of the month, Annual Ride to Work Day has the mission to advocate…

I am glad that June is over. It’s been a bizarre month. It began with a bang but went out with a bust. That’s the reason you haven’t heard much from me of late. There is an unspoken rule on…

I heard about Shreve Stockton’s scooter adventures on a new forum, dcscoots. Stockton, a 29-year-old writer and photographer, decided to move from San Francisco to New York - and did the trip on her Vespa ET. The site, Vespa Vagabond,…

By now, you’ve probably heard about the Vespatition, part of Vespa USA’s new Vespanomics campain. I’d been hoping Neil would post about it, since he’s much better at political pundicity than I am. My initial reaction was that the Vespanomics…

Wow, you’d think that both of us must really suck at this blog stuff if we can’t come up with any posts for this long! Well, Neil has a good excuse: He’s one of the founders/event planners/coordinators for the New…

Yes, I am still around. Trying to get my lazy hands to click on my blogger link and start posting to Vespazine again. A lot has happened since my last posts. Vespa turned 60, the Piaggio MP3 was released, some guy from the Sopranos (sorry I don’t watc…

DO NOT buy a Vespa from Vietnam. Instead, enjoy this news story about The Vietnamese Vespa Club celebrating the start of the World Cup with a Vespa parade including jerseys and matching decorations to represent each country participating in the World C…