Our electric Vespa has a battery range of 65 miles and goes up to 30 miles per hour. For a full charge, you need at least 4 hours with a power of 220 V. Our gasoline scooters are designed in different models and can meet different needs (for example, I have included all the questions I had about buying a scooter, the questions I get asked all the time (“What do you do when it rains? and “How many miles per gallon do you get? they are, by far, the most common), in addition to some additional things that I would not have known to ask, but that I think are important or interesting about life on a motorcycle. My Vespa fits some basic tools, a battery charger and all my equipment (jacket, gloves, scarf, a small towel to clean the seat after rain and my apron cover). But right now I'm feeling more 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.
My next car was totaled by a person who was not insured, and the payment was not enough to buy a new car, but enough to buy a new Vespa. I use the Vespa a lot with skirts, because that's what I wear most days. I have a cover for the Vespa that fits me like a lap blanket that use on skirts and dresses. You can honk the horn to get another driver's attention, but a Vespa's horn is very nice and friendly, so it won't convey how pissed you are.
The Vespa has some pretty ingenious ways of transporting things, and I've found a few more (some smart, some ridiculous, some unnecessarily dangerous). I usually get 65 mpg; my Vespa holds two gallons of gas and that usually lasts me about three weeks. It's usually hard to get a traditional company to tow a Vespa because the cranes are so big that it's hard secure the motorcycle. My first helmet was made by Vespa, but regular motorcycle helmets are great and cheaper (almost everything is cheaper without the Vespa logo).
You can usually put a car and a Vespa in one lane of the road, so in the worst case scenario, if you stay alert and don't move to the next lane of traffic, you'll probably be fine driving next to the car that didn't see you and accelerate or fall behind from there. 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. My current Vespa was stolen a couple of years ago, but they found it a couple of streets from where it was They took her. This is practically my favorite thing I've ever bought for my Vespa (in fact, my parents bought it for me).
There are scooter clubs that travel together; one of them was very active when I first rode a Vespa years ago, and it was common for one of the members to wait for me next to my motorcycle when I arrived at the car park to invite me to join. Fifteen years later, I have owned three scooters (two Vespas and a Yamaha Vino), and each of them has been my main vehicle for at least a few years.
