The Scooter Bible: The Ultimate History and Encyclopedia

** *The Scooter Bible* is an entertaining, colorful, and authoritative history of the little motorbikes that could. Beginning with the first motor scooter in 1902 **, Eric Dregni is your guide to everything from the postwar American scooter boom to the golden age of Italian and European scooters, the rise of Mod scooter culture in England . . .** right up to modern electric scooters**. Today, nostalgia for vintage Vespas, Piaggios, Cushmans, Lambrettas, and other top brands drive a new thirst for retro-inspired scooters in showrooms around the world. This **revised and updated edition** of *The Scooter Bible* brings the story up to date with the drive for zero emissions via **electric vehicles**. Throughout, author Eric Dregni offers you a wealth of **historic black-and-white photos** , evocative **period advertisements** , **manufacturer photos** , and more—over 500 images! Along the way, he also shows you scooter **evolution** , changing **technologies** , and scooter **appearances in popular culture**. And as the **most comprehensive scooter book** ever, *The Scooter Bible* also includes the world’s most **exhaustive encyclopedia of scooter brands** , from Puddlejumper to Piaggio, Ducati to Doodlebug, and Zündapp Bella to Genuine Stella. *The Scooter Bible* is all you need before kick-starting your scooter engine to life and praying for ever more speed. Indeed, scooters are **mechanical marvels on two wheels**. Streamlined spuds. Mutant oddballs of Jet Age styling gone berserk. Innovative inventions shoehorned like sardines into miniaturized monocoque bodies. Engineering and styling enigmas (the stranger the better). They are **the weird and the wonderful**. And they are **all here in *The Scooter Bible***.