Scooterama - Café Chic and Urban Cool
A car is transport, a motorcycle is fun, but a scooter is a Roman Holiday on wheels
This beautiful book looks at the impact of the scooter on the second half of the twentieth century as a transport and style icon, as well as a symbol of popular culture.
Originating shortly after the turn of the century, by 1962 scooters were the best-selling two-wheeled vehicles in the UK, and now they are back: Aprilia, BMW, Gilera, Honda, Ital jet, Peugeot, Yamaha and many others have joined Vespa and are launching new models that appeal to every trendy teenager, the glitterati and commuters.
Scooterama tells the story of the style and design icon that is the scooter, from its early popularity to the resurgence of the scooter as the transport choice for traffic-choked cities in the new millennium. Café chic and urban cool embrace the buzzing two-wheeler again, almost a century down the road.