Modern Vespa

33. Went in to get a Piaggio Fly and came out with a Vespa LX150.

Oh and for me 42 for the first ride. Didn't much care for the first mile either however things have certainly changed.

SDG

14. Delivered papers on a nearly new VNB and "motocrossed" on it with friends while they rode their Honda C-110s. Hard to remember that far back.

21, on holiday in greece, in a bikini and flip flops

You are a damn tease. Can't a brotha get a picture, haha.



Best,
SDG

40. Got my GTS a few months ago and I am loving every minute of it. Wish I had done it sooner.

I had one just like that...at about the same age. Mine was green. Sears-Roebuck special.

50. But inside I"m 23 and that cute.

I test drove a Honda Met when I was 44. But I rode a mini-bike as a kid....does that count?

Got in to mopeds at about 13 years old because the police would not bother you on them. The first registered was a riva jog at 15 and 9 months which was the state minamun with driver training. I was legal and put on 3500 miles that one summer. I am now 36 and love it like I was a kid.
Chris

i rode my friends italjet round the fields when i was about 4 does that count ... it was something like this cant ereally remember it but it was yellow i was only 4

that's rad.

myself ... 15.

I was 14yrs it was my mates scooter. The back roads of London were so quiet back then. I'd to borrow it from time to time. Then not on a bike again until a motorbike at 29 for a year. Then the Vespa (mine,) at 37yrs.
Good times

24.

That's a pretty awesome smile on your Dad's face: ear to ear.

I was 19 when I first rode a scoot. It was about 2 hours after my boyfriend and I bought it... a brand new '01 Yamaha Razz. I'm 27 now and still haven't kicked the habit (nor have I ever driven a car more than a total of 3 hours in my life). I did upgrade significantly.

I didn't discover the joy of riding a scooter until I was 35. I really don't know why I waited so long!

70, two years ago. I should not have waited so long. Wasted all of those years driving Porsche's.

16 on my new 70cc Honda Passport.

It was nearly identical to this one.



What a great scooter that was...

I was 23 when we rented a scooter on Cozumel and rode around the entire island. I don't think we had any helmets or anything.

First time on a motorbike at 47. Never ridden one before then. When I went for my test it was only the third time I had ever been on a motorbike (the previous times were in training courses). I passed!

I'm now 48 and riding my wonderful GTV 250.

My wife was initially against it. At one stage she asked if I was having a mid-life crisis. I was tempted to ask, "Do you mean 'again', or 'still'?"

What I actually said was if I was having a mid-life crisis I would be wanting to get a Harley. Since what I was desperate to get was a Vespa it could only be described as a mid-life 'situation'.

Now I'm encouraging her to get a scooter. She doesn't like mine-she feels it's too big for her.

I was 15 and my dad bought me a 74 primavera 125 . It was beat up but we fixed it together and I rode it for a few years till I fell and broke my collar bone doing some hairbrained thing with it.. Well, I admit, I was looking at pretty girl and not paying attention..wound up with a body brace for a few months..

I gave it up until recently...

39 now.... 8)

At 13 I rode a Honda Pasport out in Grandview, WA. I was 21 when I took my friend's P200 around the block in Berkeley, CA.

44 for a scooter, 8 for a motorcycle (mini bike)

I was 14.

A very young and stupid seventeen and in constant watch for the fuzz (didn't have a license till almost 20 years later).

I rode my first scooter when I was %^&%*^% years old. I am still riding a scooter only this one is very quick and she purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs.

The oldest I've ever seen was at my local grocery store. A Guy who is about 80 (or a hard-ridden 70) rides an old MC with a handicapped parking sticker duct-taped to his gas tank! Ya gotta love it!

Thank you all for speaking up, this was fun to do wasn't it. Have a nice week and ride as much as you can. 8)

I was 17 years old when I bought my brand new Yamaha Riva 180cc for $1800 out the door. I think I remember putting $500 down and paid $55 a month for a few years. That was 24 years ago. 8)

I was 51. It was the past May. I test rode a TNG Milano. It was a piece of *&^$. I bought a Genuine Buddy two weeks later. That wasn't it for me. I had to have Vespa. There is a certain "curb appeal". Not to mention that it drives like a dream.

56.

Now 57 with 32,000 miles and counting.

Rode my first scooter when I was 20, a '67 Vespa Sprint, bought it from a local bicycle shop in 1982 for $90.00, back then no one in town knew what it was, rode it like this (except when it wouldn't start and I had to push it home) for 2 years before storing it away, I still have it, looks exactly the same now as when this photo taken was taken in 1983, still have the chick on the back as well, she is now my wife we don't look the same anymore!

Like Doc I was a late bloomer with scooters...started at 67, and also rode motorcycles for many years prior!