Scooters are much easier to ride than motorcycles because they have a lower center of gravity. It's a little more like driving a. It's a little more like riding a jet ski, so you can probably learn to ride pretty easily. Driving in traffic takes practice. With a moped, you'll climb the hill, but it'll be a slow ride.
My two Vespas have handled the hills better than many of the cars I have driven. After having started with a 125 cc speed Vespa for a few years before obtaining my full license, I can definitely identify it. A recent comment on why I use my Vespa ET4 when I have a Vespa GTS me made us think about that option. The question I was trying to answer was whether I was crazy to buy a Vespa instead of a car, and what it's really like to drive it every day to drive in grocery stores and in the rain.
The Vespa has some pretty ingenious ways of transporting things, and I've found a few more (some smart, some ridiculous, some unnecessarily dangerous). However, that's probably why I recovered my current Vespa: the thieves realized they couldn't drive it anyway, so they just threw it away. It's usually hard to get a traditional company to tow a Vespa because the cranes are so big that it's hard to insure the motorcycle. What makes scooters potentially dangerous is that they are small and open (compared to a car) with very little protection for the driver in the event of an accident.
What attracted me most was the slowness of the route, since I didn't have to change gears or do anything that could divert my attention from the trip. I didn't buy one of these until a couple of years ago and I love it, as it makes pedaling in a skirt much easier. Otherwise, you'll have to get off the Vespa to place the food in your seat, so you'd better get inside. So I wonder if we find joy on routes where the machine and our disposition closely match.
Something to think about. Driving in the rain isn't particularly difficult, it's easy to do it in the rain (if it's just starting to rain, I avoid the center point of the lane, where oil drips from cars). There are skateboard clubs that travel together; one of them was very active when I first rode a Vespa years ago, and one of the members regularly waited for me next to my scooter when I went out to the parking lot to invite me to join. But right now I feel very sentimental about my motorcycle (partly because I just wrote about using it at our wedding and partly because it's with the mechanic this week), so I thought it was finally time to gather all my knowledge about Vespa in a very, very, very long blog.
