If I wear my leather jacket, gloves, my apron cover (more on that in the “What do you wear on a scooter” section) and a helmet, I can walk into my destination fairly dry, even if I got rained on along the way. I’ve certainly gotten soaked on the scooter many times, but good gear can limit that. (My scooter-riding friend Cary calls this “hairdryer weather.”) When it’s raining, you will probably get wet.

There are ways to limit your exposure to weather on a scooter, but none of them are perfect. This is a sarcastic answer, but it’s pretty much true. I’ve included all the questions I had about getting a scooter, the questions I get all the time (“What do you do when it rains?” and “How many miles per gallon do you get?” are by far the most frequent), plus a few extra things I wouldn’t have known to ask, but I think are important or interesting about life on a scooter. But I’m feeling extra sentimental about my scooter right now (partly because I just wrote about using it at our wedding, and partly because it’s with the mechanic this week), so I figured this was finally the time to gather all my Vespa knowledge into a very, very, very long blog.

My grandmother gave us my grandpa’s old car for our wedding, so I own both a scooter and a car now. The question I was trying to answer was whether or not I was crazy to get a Vespa instead of a car, and what driving it everyday - to drive thrus and grocery stores and in the rain - is really like.įifteen years later, I’ve owned three scooters (two Vespas and a Yamaha Vino), and each of them has been my primary vehicle for at least a few years. It’s easy to research how to buy a scooter or to find cute accessories for it, but it’s harder to figure out if a scooter can be a good primary vehicle. I didn’t get a new Vespa then - I was young, and my parents thought Vespas were too dangerous, so I gave in and got a car. My next car was totaled by someone who wasn’t insured, and the payout wasn’t enough to get a new car - but it was enough to get a brand new Vespa. I didn’t get my license until I was 21, and then I had a Volkswagen Beetle that was broken down more often then it ran.

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