Customer Reviews

The Scooter Book

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While this book makes an earnest attempt to cover the ever-expanding world of motorscooters, it is marred by errors that make it seem rushed and not researched enough.

Mr. Woods should be congratulated for creating a book that gives a good scope and overview of the machines and culture of scootering. His inclusion of magazines like Scoot! Quarterly and a list of scooter clubs will make many new scooterists feel more at ease about joining the scootering scene. The book also contains lots of interesting photos.
Yet, there are many errors. For example, there are quite a few simple errors such as references to incorrect page numbers. One caption lists an illustration as being from the 50's when it was actually created by a current, practicing artist. In his history of Vespa, the author confuses the founder of Piaggio with his son. I list these as examples of how the book escaped some critical editing and thorough fact checking.

If you are a scootering enthusiast, you may find this book lacking. If you are interested in getting into scootering and don't know much about it, you may find this book to be inspiring and welcoming. Amazon has it at a good price, so its worth adding to your collection.

This book consists of a very superficial history of the scooter and its current comeback. Its selling point would seem to be the numerous photos, which dwarf the text. If you typed "scooter club" or "scooter shop" or "scooters" into Google, you would locate most of the useful information. The care and maintenance section is about two pages in length and includes tips such as: "change your oil after 3,000 miles." There are no "how-to" sections, this book will not help you repair your scooter and doesn't offer much in the way of buying strategies, where you might find used scooters, etc. Buy it used if you must read it.

Any book on scooters is a good book. However, comparable to other scooter books I own, this one is superficial and not very informative.

But I wish I did. I bought this book because I've been thinking of getting a scooter for a long while now, but never got round to it. Well now I'm convinced. This is a great book that tells me everything I need to know to decide what to buy, and even where to buy it. It also has lots of information on how to look after it once I've bought a scoot. A fun, hip book.

This book was very informative, especially for beginning riders. Most of it was pretty basic information, but interesting. Overall, an easy-to-read interesting book.

Well! I must disagree wholeheartedly with the review from the ever-so-intellectual Mr. "AmazonSucksAss," above. I'm not sure how to balance their quite stirring arguments against my own experience, so I will just say that I found the book very fun...the way it's laid out, the photos, the content--the whole thing! Definitely worth the price.