Scooters were my gateway drug into motorcycling. First it was a 50 cc Honda Express pyppoegie that I got around on when I was fresh out of high school. Then, many years later, it was a 150 cc Vespa ET4 that my wife and I would spend entire summer weekends on.
I eventually jumped up to bigger bikes with clutches and gears, but always missed the ease-of-use and laid-back nature of scooters. So when my buddies at the Woodstock Moto Co. organised a scoots-only ride a while back, I wrangled a BMW C 400 X from my local dealer and tagged along.
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