GILERA RUNNER ST200 Sport Tourer Celebrating 10 years of production, the seductive and fun to ride Gilera Runner range has been completely renewed.  The Runner ST 200 is powered by liquid cooled, four valve, four stroke engine. This exuberant engine is just one of the ingredients of the new Runner, “the scooter that thinks it’s […]

History of Piaggio and Motorscooters

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Bob Darnell and Bob Golfen Small Changes Though updated many times over the years, the shape of every Vespa scooter is basically the same, from its contoured steel apron to its low, rounded-off rear. The steady progression of change in the details and mechanical parts endow every Vespa model with its own character, its own […]

Rebuild or Restore: The Pros and Cons

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Ideally, you want to take your classic scooter, no matter how dented and used up it might be, and transform it little by little into a scooter that is like brand-new. Maybe better than new, with higher-quality paint and internal parts and all the attention to detail that can be accomplished only through a hand-crafted […]

What’s In The Glove Box

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by Eric Dregni Scooter Tool Kit For Mechnically Uninclined – In the 1950s both Piaggio and Innocenti marketed the idea of “trouble free scootering” with there service shops around Europe to help scooterists in need. Innocenti upped the ante against Piaggio by forming the “Blue Angels” a sort of scooter AAA that would zoom out […]