Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Scooters, scooters everywhere

My boyfriend and I once discussed scootering in Key West and we both thought it would be nice if the world was more like it, with scooter shops everywhere and everyone able to rent one for cheap to get around.

That hasn't exactly occurred anyplace else that I've been too, but I thought it notable that Greensboro, NC, which we are currently visiting has its own little slice of Key West cool - Scooter Nerds. It's a shop on one of the Main Streets in the city and offers an array of scooters of all engine capabilities, including what looked like an off road scooter to me called The Rattler withh some high front forks offering some major clearance.

They don't rent, unfortunately, so I was stuck riding around town on a bicycle that was much too big for me and feeling way to intimate with it.

We also didn't luck out on new carboratuer jets, which we seem to have trouble finding.

The guy in charge of the shop said they didn't make anything for Geely anymore, but then my boyfriend spotted a scooter that was EXACTLY like our Geely, the same seat and fender style, even the exact same speedometer. The brand was Keeway.

So I guess that's what we should be looking for. Funny enough, when I looked up the Keeway brand I found a Web site saying it was owned by Quangjing in China, (looks like still made with the same Geely parts). The model that's like our Geely is the Venus.



As you can see from this "borrowed" photo, the Keeway Venus has the exact same seat as our Geely, the same headlight, well, the same everything.






Here is our Geely.