After twenty years of wistful pining, I treated myself to a 35th-birthday present:  a 1963 Vespa VBB, my first and as-of-yet only scooter.  But what's that? ... shiny chrome, two-tone paint, all mod cons?  Yep, she's a ScootRS tart, and fiercely proud of it, thankyouverymuch.

Three generations of scooterists in the family (scroll down)....