Scooter 101

Welcome to the first day of class everyone. This is the beginning of the future for most of you. This is probably going to be the shortest of the classes in the curriculum. Before the Serpents there really isn't much to speak about regarding scooting. However, I promised to bring forth the best knowledge possible so I guess I will. The following is a collection of information that I found from several different websites. So here it is. I really want to get the nuts and bolts of the course out of the way so we can focus more on the 3 S's...Steez, Stuntz, and Speedz. Feel free to comment.

Scooters trace their ancestry back to France with the Auto-Fauteuil mark in 1902. The Vespa, originally manufactured by Piaggio in post-WWII Italy, quickly popularized motor scooters. Despite Vespa's dominance of the scooter market, they were not without competition. Lambretta offered models that rivaled those in the Vespa product line. In the 1980s new versions of scooters began to be released and become popular, especially in Japan and Far-East Asia. The classic styling of the Vespa remains the most popular and most imitated scooter design. Almost all manufacturers now carry both a classic/retro model and a spacy/modern model.