Kymco – Xciting?
Commuting using public transport is becoming a real issue with ever-increasing costs, increasing delays and the overcrowding to contend with. The same can apply to using your own car to commute into cities. The Xciting 400 from Kymco offers a superb alternative to humdrum commuting. Influx rode one for some months and never had a […]
Scooter mania! Teenagers and the Freedom Principle
What does the scooter mean to you?
It depends of course on your perspective. For some, the small displacement, step through scooter (with a skirt) is redolent of mid-century modernism, evoking the smells of Soho coffee bars and the texture of mohair. For others, the scooter is about the punkish teenage pursuit of the freedom principle.
In between and at each extremity it is of course about barely legal high voltage ped-heads buzzing in provincial city centres or the sensible super-commuter with long legs and a twist-and-go technology.
Wherever you sit on the continuum, the scooter has seen an interesting evolution. Here are a fistful of important waypoints to the scooter’s ever-changing identity.
Indonesia’s Scooter Extremists
Huck magazine and Ed Wray on Indo custom culture…