Scoot Richmond Profiled on Richmond.com
The Official Scooter of H&H
Scoot Richmond, located in the old Manchester district, hosts quite a stable of scooters, with prices that range from $1,999 to $6,399. Although a few shops in Richmond have added some scooters to their primary merchandise—Honda House, Velocity Motorcycles, Ultimate Cycle, even Sears and Pep Boys—Scoot Richmond is central Virginia’s only full-service scooter shop.
The showroom features a full spectrum of shiny scooters dressed in vivid colors and cataloguing different styles and eras—vintage, modern, plastic, steel, two-tone, two-stroke and four-stroke.
Unrelated if you haven’t caught it before I’m a bit of D.C. United fan and will take any excuse I can to talk about them. Especially after their 3-1 victory over Columbus this last Saturday and debut of Charlie Davies.
Nice! FYI I did buy my scooter at Scoot Richmond and I am a member of Seven Hills Scooter Club (http://www.7hillsscooterclub.com/) so not only will you be saving gas but you’ll be making all kinds of new friends in the process. I don’t have a parking space at work and I live in the Heights obviously and work downtown. For me, I’d rather be on two wheels regardless, motor or no. New scooters like mine are automatic too so no shifting and learning to ride is pretty easy.
One final thing, there are a lot of “Scooters” for sale these days. I went to Scoot Richmond (even though I did plenty of research on my own and have been “into” scoot culture since my teens) because they sell only the finest scooters on the (US) market today. You may pay double what you would for one of the Chinese “Scooters” being sold what seems like everywhere these days but trust me at $700 your basically paying $1 a mile for one of those things and I wouldn’t want to trust my tail to some shoddy fabrication and construction….my scooter in the picture is made in Taiwan, is very high quality, gets great gas mileage (even when I gun it all around town), has fuel injection so no worries about it starting, electric start, etc, etc, etc. With the right equipment I ride all winter long in VA (but I prefer the bicycle in the winter anyway, better views of the river). Also, I pay around $100 insurance a year and until recently couldn’t put $5 of gas into it if I tried. Finally, the financing rates they have a Scoot Richmond (if they are the same still) were very good (4.9% for me)….the only qualm I had with the financing is I am charged a $10 fee to pay online every month but as long as you don’t mind riding your new scooter to the post office to buy stamps and mail off the payment once a month you are gold.
BTW….I’m kinda a DCU fan too…lol.
How long does it take to get to RFK on that?
LOL……I dunno but I’m trying this season! Next home game is in about a month so I’ll probably leave in a week or two.
But seriously, I’ve never done it because it would totally be against the law to speed, but my scooter can apparently give you a digital readout of 80mph on Chippenham Parkway though if going with the wind…..just saying.