| Focus: as means of leisure travel | | | | busy traffic jams, where a moped or scooter could |
| Last time you went to a popular football match or ball | | | | get them there in a fraction of the time for a fraction |
| game in your car did you have to sit in a traffic jam? | | | | of the cost. They are also, many people are finding |
| Did the walk from the car to your seat take for ever? | | | | out, very good fun. |
| Were you stuck in really bad traffic on the way | | | | The increasing use of mopeds and scooters for leisure |
| home? What was your travel time compared with the | | | | activities is a product not only of the fact that they are |
| time spent at the stadium? Did you notice people | | | | now much more freely available in the USA than they |
| whizzing past your almost stationary car on mopeds | | | | were, but that more and more people, enjoying the |
| and scooters? Did you notice these same machines | | | | experience of going to work on them, want to use |
| parked-up just next to the entrances to the stadium | | | | them in the evenings and at weekends too. |
| itself? | | | | The example of the football/baseball/basketball |
| Mopeds and Scooters are becoming more and more | | | | ice-hockey matches is only one of a cornucopia of |
| popular in the USA as their availability is now | | | | uses that the modern rider puts their machine to. A |
| countrywide. The original mopeds and scooters of | | | | day out of town with the freedom of the open roads; |
| Europe and indeed the rest of the world are at last | | | | a trip to the beach or your local beauty spot, with or |
| available in quantity with quality in the US and many | | | | without a friend; a trip to the city if you live out of town, |
| people are taking advantage of this cheap and stylish | | | | without parking hassles; even just popping round to |
| option not only to get to work and back but for fun as | | | | see friends the other side of town. |
| well. | | | | All these, and of course more, are easy if you have |
| Gone are the days of kick-starting your bike and it | | | | your own personal form of transport. Often at 60 or |
| starting on the 24th attempt. Modern technology | | | | more miles to the gallon (some even do 100 mpg) you |
| combined with stylish lines and 'all the extras' have | | | | can travel where you want at a fraction of the cost of |
| brought the modern mopeds and scooters we see | | | | 'motoring' without the aggravation or expense. |
| today into the new millennium with a bang. They are | | | | Mopeds and scooters are more and more featuring in |
| more popular than ever in a society who has suddenly | | | | people's leisure time because they are good fun. Why |
| realised that gas is becoming pretty expensive, | | | | be bottled up in a car in a traffic snarl when you could |
| particularly for larger cars. | | | | be on the open road? You will see more of them in |
| Many people are beginning to realise that they don't | | | | the future so why not try one sooner rather than |
| need their 6 litre car to take them 3 miles to work in | | | | later? You won't be disappointed. |