http://scootrs.com/ scootRS Lambretta Vespa Scooters and Parts. We manufacture cool~ en-us Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:03:00 +0800 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:03:00 +0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 720 http://scootrs.com/images/box_logo.gifhttp://scootrs.com/ scootRS http://feeds.scootrs.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~3/F7lgGGfI2yM/moreinfo.cfm http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=972 <p>Here's a random item for you:</p><img src="http://scootrs.com/images/lambretta/l09041_hub_stud.jpg" hspace="5"><p><strong>Lambretta Hub stud</strong><br> $0.85 (&#163;0.57 | 0,63&#8364; | CA$0.87 | AU$0.93 | &#165; 77)</p><p>(Use the item link for more details onsite.)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~4/F7lgGGfI2yM" height="1" width="1"/> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:03:00 +0800 Lambretta http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=972 scootRS http://feeds.scootrs.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~3/G1YwptoAqjM/moreinfo.cfm http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=2131 <p>We've added the following new item:</p><p><img src="http://scootrs.com/images/lambretta/thumbs/piston_57_th.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"><strong>Lambretta Piston 150cc 57mm</strong><br> $27.00 (&#163;18.02 | 19,88&#8364; | CA$27.71 | AU$29.59 | &#165; 2,432)<br><br>Includes rings/pin.</p><p>(Use the item link to see a larger photo and more details onsite.)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~4/G1YwptoAqjM" height="1" width="1"/> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:00:52 +0800 New Items Lambretta http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=2131 scootRS http://feeds.scootrs.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~3/8FKQNa-OpcE/moreinfo.cfm http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=2130 <p>We've added the following new item:</p><p><img src="http://scootrs.com/images/lambretta/thumbs/piston_62_gp_th.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"><strong>Lambretta Piston 175cc 62mm conversion type</strong><br> $36.75 (&#163;24.53 | 27,06&#8364; | CA$37.72 | AU$40.27 | &#165; 3,311)<br><br>Includes rings/pin. For non-TV crankshafts (LI/SX/GP cranks)...</p><p>(Use the item link to see a larger photo and more details onsite.)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~4/8FKQNa-OpcE" height="1" width="1"/> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:56:05 +0800 New Items Lambretta http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=2130 scootRS http://feeds.scootrs.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~3/2bE2mbrc5Ko/moreinfo.cfm http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=2129 <p>We've added the following new item:</p><p><img src="http://scootrs.com/images/lambretta/thumbs/piston_62_th.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"><strong>Lambretta Piston 175cc 62mm</strong><br> $27.00 (&#163;18.02 | 19,88&#8364; | CA$27.71 | AU$29.59 | &#165; 2,432)<br><br>Includes rings/pin. For original TV crankshaft rods.</p><p>(Use the item link to see a larger photo and more details onsite.)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~4/2bE2mbrc5Ko" height="1" width="1"/> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:52:07 +0800 New Items Lambretta http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=2129 scootRS http://feeds.scootrs.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~3/HkII6Pomxfw/moreinfo.cfm http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=2128 <p>We've added the following new item:</p><p><img src="http://scootrs.com/images/lambretta/thumbs/piston_66_th.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"><strong>Lambretta Piston 200cc 66mm</strong><br> $38.75 (&#163;25.86 | 28,53&#8364; | CA$39.77 | AU$42.47 | &#165; 3,491)<br><br>Includes rings/pin.</p><p>(Use the item link to see a larger photo and more details onsite.)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~4/HkII6Pomxfw" height="1" width="1"/> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:36:35 +0800 New Items Lambretta http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=2128 scootRS http://feeds.scootrs.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~3/6hjJRt4iqmc/moreinfo.cfm http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=2127 <p>We've added the following new item:</p><p><img src="http://scootrs.com/images/gp200/thumbs/gp200_17_9_th.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"><strong>Lambretta Panel GP right</strong><br> $89.00 (&#163;59.40 | 65,53&#8364; | CA$91.34 | AU$97.53 | &#165; 8,018)<br><br>New machine stamped panels!</p><p>(Use the item link to see a larger photo and more details onsite.)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~4/6hjJRt4iqmc" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:13:33 +0800 New Items Lambretta http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=2127 scootRS http://feeds.scootrs.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~3/I6aoYG_XKtA/moreinfo.cfm http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=2126 <p>We've added the following new item:</p><p><img src="http://scootrs.com/images/gp200/thumbs/gp200_17_1_th.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"><strong>Lambretta Panel GP left</strong><br> $89.00 (&#163;59.40 | 65,53&#8364; | CA$91.34 | AU$97.53 | &#165; 8,018)<br><br>New machine stamped panels!</p><p>(Use the item link to see a larger photo and more details onsite.)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~4/I6aoYG_XKtA" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:02:14 +0800 New Items Lambretta http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_Id=2126 scootRS http://feeds.scootrs.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~3/dFLNy1ti7Og/roadkill.cfm http://scootrs.com/roadkill.cfm?id=945 <p>Check out the <a href="http://www.ridesofmarch.com/">Rides of March Rally</a>, March 26-28th, San Luis Obispo, California:</p> <blockquote> <p>It has been hosted by local clubs since the 80&#39;s including Club One, Middle Kingdom, PushStart, and Strange Brew. It is famous for it&#39;s amazing rides through the Central Coasts wine country, hills, and beaches; Santa Maria style BBQ, out of control raffles (including a custom/restored scooter every year) and most excellent nightlife/parties/live music.</p> </blockquote> <p>Raffle prizes this year include a smallframe scooter with a cool paintjob - and a few goodies from ScootRS for Lambretta, Vespa and modern Vespa.</p> <p>There is also the <a href="http://www.bigeasyweekender.com/">Big Easy Weekender</a> Rally in New Orleans at the same time.</p> <p>It's their 3rd annual rally and promises 3 times the fun - and some ScootRS goodies for a few lucky raffle winners.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~4/dFLNy1ti7Og" height="1" width="1"/> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:40:08 +0800 Roadkill http://scootrs.com/roadkill.cfm?id=945 scootRS http://feeds.scootrs.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~3/tQKvF_kNtaE/roadkill.cfm http://scootrs.com/roadkill.cfm?id=944 <p>As you might have noticed, there is a &ldquo;Starred <img hspace="5" align="absbottom" alt="star" border="0" src="http://scootrs.com/images/star_delete.gif">&rdquo; parts menu item now.</p> <p>Basically we redid our bookmarks feature to make it more in keeping with systems people are familiar with from Gmail and Firefox and such. If you want to <strong>save certain parts for later</strong> just click the empty star <img hspace="5" align="absbottom" alt="star" border="0" src="http://scootrs.com/images/star_add.gif"> and you can then see them all together on the <a href="http://scootrs.com/bookmarks.cfm">Starred parts</a> page each visit.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~4/tQKvF_kNtaE" height="1" width="1"/> Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:51:56 +0800 Roadkill http://scootrs.com/roadkill.cfm?id=944 scootRS http://feeds.scootrs.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~3/g7S2A3CB6w0/roadkill.cfm http://scootrs.com/roadkill.cfm?id=943 <p><img hspace="5" align="left" alt="Vespa GTS mirrors" class="i dynopop" src="http://scootrs.com/images/all/thumbs/mirror_rectangular_gts_th.jpg"><img hspace="5" align="left" alt="Vespa LX mirrors" class="i dynopop" src="http://scootrs.com/images/all/thumbs/mirror_rectangular_lx_th.jpg"></p> <p>Looking to replace the mirrors on your Vespa GTS or LX or other <strong>modern scooter</strong>?</p> <p>Here are some very sleek <a href="http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=2054">scooter mirrors</a> for $8.95, or the same but slightly <a href="http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=2053">bigger scooter mirrors</a>.</p> <p>Black metal. Very nice quality! Solid and stiff. And they are reversible to fit both sides.</p> <p>Perfect!</p> <p>Of course they also fit <strong>classic scooters</strong> and are great for bolting to our disc brake kit master cylinders, Vespa or Lambretta. Here's the bigger version:</p> <p align="center"><img hspace="5" src="http://scootrs.com/images/all/mirror_disc_2.jpg" class="i" height="450" width="600" alt="Disc brake kit mirror"></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~4/g7S2A3CB6w0" height="1" width="1"/> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:28:49 +0800 Roadkill http://scootrs.com/roadkill.cfm?id=943 scootRS http://feeds.scootrs.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~3/VU7SLzX88Tc/roadkill.cfm http://scootrs.com/roadkill.cfm?id=939 <p>A couple recent emails, the first a quick update that Tony O&#39;Brien&#39;s gorgeous new website is almost done - love the logo - which details his SS90 <a href="http://www.green-hornet.co.uk">Green Hornet</a> BSSO racing efforts. We are a proud <a href="http://scootrs.com/reviews_p.cfm#Racing">sponsor</a> of Tony&#39;s scooter.</p> <p>Here&#39;s a nice email from Javier in Spain:</p> <blockquote> <p>Hi ScootRS.</p> <p>First of all, thanks for your work at ScootRS, I like it very much. <strong class="highlight">Good service indeed!! </strong></p> </blockquote> <p>Much appreciated, glad you think so.</p> <p>And finally, an opinion about forums and why intelligent and civil discussion has pretty much been destroyed everywhere:</p> <blockquote> <p>I think <strong class="highlight">the main problem on the forums are the so called &ldquo;internet Gods&rdquo;, always happy to take a new product apart and pick faults and openly criticize anyone who doesn&#39;t share their views</strong>.</p> <p>I do share your unpopular view that <strong class="highlight">the rules are different for faulty parts coming out of England</strong>, I remember a post about a big English dealer (...) That one was proved but was quietly brushed under the carpet!</p> <p>The problems usually start with someone who hasn&#39;t bothered to contact the supplier about a supposed fault and goes straight onto the web to vent any frustrations, the internet gods jump on the bandwagon and everything snowballs from there. The supplier sees the posts by chance a few days later and the damage has mostly been done.</p> <p>I wouldn&#39;t lose any sleep over it, it&#39;s only a few people banging out the same dribble... <strong class="highlight">It doesn't matter how you reply to something like that, none of the internet gods will back down.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>We always thought that there could be some reserve for intelligent and civil discussion in scootering, as in other fields of life, and enjoyed helping people with questions. But <span class="highlight">it seems that most forums are slowly taken over by double standards and a search-and-destroy gang mentality</span>.</p> <p>Being in Asia it is particularly noticeable. Western companies can reply half a year after many posted safety incidents and say they know nothing about it, have not contacted posters, and will just wait for any direct reports to send replacements each time and that is applauded. An Asian company with only 1 or 2 posted incidents over many years quickly replies and discusses their matter if raised, yet is attacked endlessly as a dangerous, uncaring menace. If they disagree with any extreme conclusions or bizarre rumors they are savaged as liars - and when they don't reply they are condemned as deceptive and worse. By the exact same people applauding the Western companies.</p> <p>Even a Western journalist one would assume had been trained to be unbiased will say nothing against Western products while campaigning daily on forums against Asian products with far fewer incidents, or write an article strongly warning people against buying an item from Asia labeled for &ldquo;show&rdquo;, saying it will violate your insurance, then turn around 180 degrees on a forum and applaud a Western company as responsible for doing the exact same thing.</p> <p>If you dare point out that a double standard and a scorched-earth approach is not helpful to anyone, well, good god, you'd think a state enemy had walked into the room with a lit fuse.</p> <p><span class="highlight">That is basically how all forums are ruined.</span> A small group given free rein or even encouraged by the admin starts to shout down anyone who doesn't bow to a certain orthodoxy, everyone reasonable slowly leaves as things get worse and worse, shops can no longer participate unless blessed by the loudest group, the quality of information degrades and finally few turn there anymore in their search for good unbiased help. (The once popular ISBBS is a perfect example, and lucky to get a few posts a day now.) All quite sad really when everyone started out wanting to help.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~4/VU7SLzX88Tc" height="1" width="1"/> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:39:29 +0800 Roadkill http://scootrs.com/roadkill.cfm?id=939 scootRS http://feeds.scootrs.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~3/-oPbCTLBgyY/roadkill.cfm http://scootrs.com/roadkill.cfm?id=937 <p>It&#39;s always fun checking the parts orders to see where they come from. Currently sitting in the inbox from today are orders from <span class="highlight">Italy, Israel, England, The Philippines, Austria, Malaysia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, etc.</span></p> <p>We even created an image that gets updated regularly with the <a href="http://scootrs.com/about.cfm">countries we have shipped to</a>:</p> <p align="center"><img hspace="5" alt="The ScootRS world map" class="i" height="220" src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=t&amp;chs=440x220&amp;chtm=world&amp;chf=bg,s,666666&amp;chco=d0d0d0,66ccff,66ccff&amp;chd=s:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111&amp;chld=AEARATAUBEBGBMBNBRCACHCLCOCRCYCZDEDKDOECENESFIFRGIGRHKHRHUIDIEILINITJPKRMQMTMXMYNBNCNLNNNONZPAPEPFPHPRPTPYRUSESFSGSITHTRTWUSUYVIWLZAGBCNVNKH" width="440"></p> <p>French Polynesia? Who&#39;d a thunk it?</p> <p>OK, we&#39;ll probably never ship to most of Africa, and not many Vespas in the Middle East, but what we&#39;d really like to see soon is <strong>South America</strong> filled in. OK, Guyana and Suriname, we understand, we&#39;ll give you some time to put together an order, but Bolivia and Venezuela? You guys are causing very big holes in our map.</p> <p>So, <span class="highlight">if you are <strong>the first person</strong> to order from <strong>any country in South America we haven&#39;t shipped to before</strong>, we&#39;ll give you <strong>a 20% discount</strong> on your parts!</span> Just mention this blog post in your comment and we&#39;ll refund 20% of the parts cost afterward for you!</p> <p>Surely Hugo has a nephew with a scooter, no? Maybe he&#39;ll put it on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I35zpx4-Zg&amp;feature=PlayList&amp;p=3F48159CA8DE320D&amp;index=0&amp;playnext=1">his TV show</a>. (Seriously, go watch that documentary.)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scootrs_lambretta/~4/-oPbCTLBgyY" height="1" width="1"/> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:24:31 +0800 Roadkill http://scootrs.com/roadkill.cfm?id=937