Modern Buddy

This summer I've seen scoots everywhere in Lakewood, OH and vicinity--no surprise given gas prices. Compared to last year it seems like an explosion of scoots here. Just today I saw 4 Buddies and a three wheel Piaggio. Of course, we do have POC (Phil's Pride of Cleveland scooter shop) in Lakewood now. Business must be good!

Maybe it's time for a Lakewood scoot group to form for meet-ups and rides?

I was just having dinner on the patio of Latitude 41 on west 63rd & detroit and saw at least 6 scooters pass by in 1 hour (3 buddies, 2 vespa, and one stella)
Used to see maybe one a week (i live on the lakewood/Cleveland border), but your right, Westside is the Bestside, and a great scooter boom is underway.
I feel guilty about wanting the gas prices to continue to climb.... but I so want people to slow down, reintroduce themselves to their local neighborhood shops, restaurants, bars, and start using common sense transportation. I hate that businesses (other than scooter shops) are taking some hits financially with delivery and natural gas prices) but I think that there is a cultural shift that is going to take place and the suburb/city/exurb paradigm is really going to twirl. from an urban planner/sociology perspective it will be interesting. And as an avid
bi-wheeler all the more so.

The Peaseys are all over OH too... www.epsp.us I'm the lone CT member in there

Redrider wrote: I feel guilty about wanting the gas prices to continue to climb.... but I so want people to slow down, reintroduce themselves to their local neighborhood shops, restaurants, bars, and start using common sense transportation. I hate that businesses (other than scooter shops) are taking some hits financially with delivery and natural gas prices) but I think that there is a cultural shift that is going to take place and the suburb/city/exurb paradigm is really going to twirl. from an urban planner/sociology perspective it will be interesting. And as an avid
bi-wheeler all the more so.

agree completely! I do feel awful people are suffering with the high gas, but the silver lining is $4-5 gas will knock some sense into us and hopefully we can make some lifestyle, infastructure and transportation changes before it hits $15 a gallon. Detroit Shoreway/Gordon Square is scooter central. I try to stop at Gypsy Beans when I have time...I always see that white Vespa out there. I live in the inner city in Cleveland and have taken a lot of snide remarks for my choice...whose snarky now.

Rode down Hilliard today and saw 2. A red buddy like mine and a Metropolitan. Dude on the red scooter didn't see me. SEE, dude.

Hiiliard is a great road, BTW. Not a ton of traffic and silky a smooth road. But I'm sure my fellow westsiders know that already....