Upcoming Event

The town of Creskill NJ has been selected (out of many clamouring for our presence) as our venue for Earth Day, April 24th. Metro Scooter will be exhibiting a selection of Vespa scooters and will endevour to inform everyone as to the benefits of using a scooter for short local trips instead of jumping into the gas guzzling SUV.

My wife Lisa will also be in attendance to demonstrate the A2B electric bicycle and may do the one hour bicycle tour. With a range of 20 miles at a speed of 20 mph I would guess she will not be particularly tired at the finish!!

Bergen County Blue Law to be repealed?

Governer Corzine is currently pushing to have the law that prevents certain stores from opening on Sundays in Bergen County repealed. At this time we are unsure if this relates to motor vehicles. If we ARE allowed to sell on Sunday, I would appreciate if you were to let us know if you would want us to be open Sundays.

We are here for you, our customer, and will amend our hours if this suits the majority. Please email us at metroscooter@optonline.net and let us know your thoughts.

Alan.

Metro Scooter takes over Rockland County

I may be tempting fate as the ink is not yet dry on the agreement, but with the closing of Vespa Rockland in Congers, Metro Scooter is being given exclusive rights to the Rockland County sales territory by Piaggio USA Inc. As we are located merely three feet from the Border between Bergen County and Rockland County, our ability to serrve the area is assured. We look forward to being the official dealer for Rockland and helping new customers with their scootering needs.

Winter hits; time to put on the Superman cape!!

Sorry for not posting anything for soooo long but things got quite hectic towards Christmas and have only just settled down. The winter storage program hit high gear when the first big snow storm came in. The trusty Metro Scooter enclosed trailer (towed by our indestructable Toyota 4Runner) did two runs into NYC on the Saturday before the storm. It snowed hard that night and come Sunday there was a solid foot of the white stuff to contend with. I had called all my Sunday pickups to inform them that NOBODY would be riding that day and Metro Scooter would be doing individual pickups for safety reasons.

Armed with warm clothing and I snow shovel, I set off to pick up another four scooters, starting with A Vespa LX 150 and a GTS 250 on the Upper West Side. Traffic was light and thanks to 4x4 power, I made the trip down Broadway from the GWB with no problems. Getting the scooters into the trailer however was not easy as there was a two foot wall of snow by the sidewalk and the ramp into the trailer was as slippery as a New York politician! I had to actually run the motors to get them in.

Half an hour later after dodging snow plows and taking detours I was in the East Village. This time the scooter (A Chinese no-name) would not run and it took several runs to get it up the ramp.

The day was rounded off with a Kymko People 150 in the West Village then home through the Lincoln Tunnel and back to the store to unload. Easy, or so I thought. I got back to the store to find the plow guy had plowed everything onto our ramp. Out came the snow shovel again and almost an hour later I had cut a path into the store. Mission accomplished! And it was well worth the effort just to here my customer Kathleen Durkin express her gratitude and tell me what an amazing service we provide. Thanks for your kind comment Kathleen. It kept me warm that day :)

Winter Storage Program, extended pick-up schedule.

The winter storage program explained lower in this blog and elsewhere on the Metro Scooter web site www.metroscooter.us is having additional pick-up dates added due to popular demand. We will go right up to the Holidays, with pickups every week as follows:

• Saturday 10:00am, St Clair Place @125th St, upper West side, NY NY
• Sunday 10:00am, corner of River St and Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn NY
• Sunday 1:00pm, Brass Monkey Tavern, Little W 12th St, NY NY

Have you been tagged yet?

Our team of scooter spotters have been hard at work around NYC getting the word out about our winter storage program and the program is starting to bear fruit. As they roam the streets of New York tagging scooters with our special 'winter storage' business cards. We look forward to hearing from anyone who'se been tagged and if you, like us, think our program is the best bang for the buck in winter storage.
Alan.

Electrifying News!

Metro Scooter is now the purveyor of quality electric bicycles from Ultra Motor. The A2B Metro is a beautiful piece of kit and cruises at 20 mph with a range of around 20 miles. At just 10c to recharge the lithium battery this is cheap to run and cool to ride. Stop by for a test ride today.

http://www.ultramotor.com/us/product