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Japan’s Big Scooter scene is being replaced by…

27. October 2010

BEHOLD, the great Japanese Big Scooter – massive, futuristic and fantastically gaudy; Japan’s super custom scooter is slowly vanishing from the Tokyo landscape where it found it’s birthplace. The two-wheeled offspring of the Dekotora (Decoration Truck) of the mid 70’s, and inspired by the 70’s Kamen Rider (and others), the Big or sometimes called Baka [...]

Mini continues to tease – E Scooter

23. September 2010

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The Paris Motor Show is scheduled to kick off in another week and a half and already, one of the big discussions, is about a new electric concept scooter from WHO of all people? Mini. What you see above is a leaked shot of the throughly pimped out scoot with it’s green to gold [...]

Epic movie inspires epic scooter

3. August 2010

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If you don’t keep up with the UK scootering culture, you may not know about “the theme scooter”. We rarely see them here in the USA (luckily) but it’s been a favorite past-time of many Brits since the Mod Revival and gets a regular feature in Scootering Magazine. Most of the Motown and Northern Soul [...]

Wanna make your MadAss sound the part?

24. July 2010

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OMG! I just installed new pipe on our shop MadAss 125. It’s the AssPipe from Moto-Scoot. We haven’t done anything else to it yet, so we aren’t getting all of the benefits… but we ARE getting something. Watch the video to find out what. Shout outs to Austin Armstrong for the assistance today.

Tiny post: The Stretch Motocompo

1. July 2010

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This one is a bit unusual. You might not catch it the first time you look, but once you get past the obvious stuff like the top case and wind deflector, then you start to notice that this thing’s got two seats! And two sets of foot pegs! (and two pipes, I don’t know what’s [...]

How to make a Hummer more efficient than a scooter

8. April 2010

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How to make a Hummer more efficient than a scooter

On Sunday March 8th 2010 Jeremy Dean took his totally pimped out Hummer, entitled Futurama, out for a spin. Dean has pimped it out with silver chrome, working LED lights and a booming audio and video system. Even though the modded Hummer only gains 2 HP of forward momentum, it’s still tons better than [...]