VOL. 56 ISSUE 15 APRIL 16, 2019 P107
SOLANDO
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here's a strange sensation you get when
riding a Vespa. It's like a cross between
sheer enjoyment and a feeling of con-
nectivity to a movement, for a Vespa represents
European transportation at its finest. You'd have
to be a pretty sorry person indeed not to at least
smile after you've ridden one.
Scooter riding doesn't get the praise it de-
serves in the U.S.—it's a cheap, reliable and for
the most part, fashionable way to get around, and
if you live in a built-up city like NYC, unparalleled in
its efficiency to get you from point A to point B.
Vespa is unquestionably the first name in scoot-
ers. They fashioned the urban mobility trend in
the midpoint of last century, and now they have
two new models. We swung by Milan to check out
the SuperSport and the much-hyped Electtrica,
Vespa's first foray into all-electric propulsion.
THAN
