Beschreibung:
The Scooter Bible is an entertaining and authoritative photographic history of the little motorbikes that could, beginning with the first scooter in 1902 and continuing right through to modern electric scooters.
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. Thisrevised and updated edition ofThe Scooter Bible brings the story up to date with the drive for zero emissions viaelectric vehicles. Throughout, author Eric Dregni offers you a wealth of imagery:historic black-and-white photos, evocativeperiod advertisementsmanufacturer photos, and more—over 500 images! Along the way, he also shows you scooterevolution, changingtechnologies, and scooter appearances in popular culture.
And as themost comprehensive scooter book everThe Scooter Bible also includes the world’s mostexhaustive 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 aremechanical 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 arethe weird and the wonderful. And they areall here in The Scooter Bible.