August 20th Boston Strangler Gathering Coverage

From this article at Boston.com comes coverage of the August 20^th gathering. There is a lot of talk about the vintage scoots there as well as some mention of newer bikes that folks use for commuting.

Scooter enthusiasts from as far away as Nova Scotia will be riding along the Emerald Necklace this afternoon. They'll start in Kenmore Square at noon, then cruise around Jamaica Pond and through Franklin Park. The tour of Boston's parklands is the pinnacle of New England's biggest scooter rally, which started Wednesday and runs through tomorrow.

It's an annual event hosted by the Boston Stranglers, a group that's been scooting around the city since the 1990s...

Take Wallace V. French III. He uses his 2002 Vespa to commute from his East Boston home to his job at the O'Neill Federal Building on Causeway Street. It takes him 15 minutes.
 

Previously he owned a 1966 Vespa. He bought it while living in Italy, where ''everyone has a scooter." In that country, you must be 18 to drive a car but only 15 to drive a Vespa. Unfortunately his vintage ride didn't survive for long. ''It blew up on me, and I didn't want to deal with it," said French, 35. So he bought a modern model and had it shipped over from Italy.