We all love scooter pics, right?

[bluegoatwoods]

I've got quite a few. And I ought to share at least some of them before I lose them.

One correction, though. I don't have many pics of true scooters. But I have quite a few of 'scooter cousins' such as mopeds and early motorcycles. Close enough, right?

So here goes.......

The first one is silly, but fun.




And, being something of an old hippie, this is my kinda girl!



A colorized version of the "Quadrophenia" cover.



A 1942 Sachs



A Raleigh.

[bluegoatwoods]

A 1956 Heinkel.



An NSU. I don't remember, but I'll bet it's the model called the "Quick".



Oooohh........and how about this little beauty from NSU?



And now for something completely different:



A 1964 Hercules



Did you know that Triumph made an upright twin 2 stroke? I definitely didn't know it until I found this pic. It's a pretty obscure bike.

[aeroxbud]

That 64 Hercules is so nearly a Honda cub!

[Senna1Rossi]

Cool!!

[bluegoatwoods]

Feb 28, 2017 4:46:37 GMT -5 aeroxbud said:

That 64 Hercules is so nearly a Honda cub!

Yup. It's pretty clear they were trying to get a piece of that Cub action, isn't it?

[bluegoatwoods]

Let's see what else I got here....

I have a few that are identified as "NSU Lambretta". I wonder if it's not a mis-ID since I have some doubts that NSU and Lambretta ever shared a platform or distribution or anything like that. But I don't really know.

The bikes in question really don't look like Lambrettas to me. So I think of them as NSUs. Here's one from 1960.





A 1960 Heinkel.







A 1960 Simson.




A 1953 Maico.








And another scoot ID'd as an NSU Lambretta. This one from 1953.

[Senna1Rossi]

^^ Those are way cool! I suppose many company's designs were similar in the 50's and 60's...


Goggo scooter:








and this is OSA Scooter:

[bluegoatwoods]

Interesting....

The Goggo seems kinda familiar. I suppose I've seen pics before. The OSA is, I think, completely unfamiliar to me. And it's not a bad looking scooter at all. At least from the side. From the front it's a bit clumsy. Though that's not necessarily bad. Some very loveable scooters had a 'clumsy' appearance.


Hey, I notice that that magazine cover has a price of 3 Zlote.  Zlotys?  Is it a Polish bike?

[bluegoatwoods]

Here's some more.

A 1955 Zundapp.



A 1955 Puch.






The next one is a 1954 Progress Thug. But I have doubts about the brand and model names. I think someone put a new name on it. But that makes it 'unknown' to us.




A 1955 Heinkel.







A 1954 Goggo. Plus we get to see the engine.













A 1954 Duerkopp Diana. You know....a nice feminine name for a scooter model suits me just fine. But there really weren't all that many German bikes with that sort of grace. So many of them had that 'heavy metal' look. That's not a bad thing. But it certainly doesn't remind me of a woman.





A 1954 Achilles.







A 1952 NSU Quickly. They're more moped than scooter, actually. But they're still cool.




A 1955 NSU Prima.







Another NSU. It's from 1954. But I didn't catch the model name.












A 1954 Moto Guzzi Galleto.




A 1955 Maico Maicoletta 250.







A 1955 Heinkel Tourist.







There's nothing at all 'scooter' about the next one. But I've included it for it's mere oddness. It's a 1954 Victoria Burgmeister. A sideways-mounted, 350cc V-twin.

I don't know much about Victoria's history. But they were a German maker of light and ultra-light motorcycles. Many models used the venerable Sachs 98cc 2 stoke engine. Victoria seems to have had some credibility with the public since you can still find quite a few of them in the antique bike market. Their hey-day seems to have been the 1940s.

And that's a bit curious to me. Their logo is the face of a woman wearing a crown. Add that to the name and they were obviously nodding to Queen Victoria. Victoria was the Kaiser's grandmother, so it's not surprising from that angle. But one would think that the Nazis would have discouraged them from using such British iconography. Maybe they had bigger fish to fry?

In any case, the Burgmeister from the early 50s is that last Victoria that I've ever been able to find. This seems to have been the end for them. I don't know if the Burgmeister killed them or if they were on the edge anyway. But they did build some nice looking stuff and I'm sorry to see them gone.

And if I ever want an Art Deco V-twin, then this one is going to right up at the top of my list.










Here's a 1952 NSU (?) Lambretta (?). It's another one of those that's labelled NSU Lambretta. I don't know.....maybe there was some sort of collaboration between those two.










And here's a 1951 Vespa.

[aeroxbud]

I still see quite a few NSU scooters riding round in the summer. I think they are quite cool. Not stupidly expensive for a rare bike either.

[bluegoatwoods]

Mar 2, 2017 5:06:32 GMT -5 aeroxbud said:

I still see quite a few NSU scooters riding round in the summer. I think they are quite cool. Not stupidly expensive for a rare bike either.

That's cool. 


You're in the UK, aren't you? I had gotten the feeling that NSU had sold a number of bikes there. Way back when I had assumed they were a British company, as a matter of fact. Until I learned better.


You don't see them in the USA. I doubt if anyone even imported them here. 

[aeroxbud]

Mar 2, 2017 8:04:55 GMT -5 bluegoatwoods said:

Mar 2, 2017 5:06:32 GMT -5 aeroxbud said:

I still see quite a few NSU scooters riding round in the summer. I think they are quite cool. Not stupidly expensive for a rare bike either.

That's cool. 


You're in the UK, aren't you? I had gotten the feeling that NSU had sold a number of bikes there. Way back when I had assumed they were a British company, as a matter of fact. Until I learned better.


You don't see them in the USA. I doubt if anyone even imported them here. 

Yes in the U.K. I'm lucky as Portsmouth probably has the biggest classic scooter scene in the U.K. The isle of Wight scooter rally, the biggest in the world is only about a mile away. If you can swim