Probably more like $6 now — a 1½-gallon tank at $4 a gallon — but Brucks gets a pass on the math. After all, she hasn’t been to the gas station since June.
Nobody is ready to predict that U.S. cities will soon look like Rome, where scooters have filled streets for years, but a 25 percent spike in scooter sales nationally so far this year indicates that Americans seem willing to try something new if they can park their cars and SUVs.
A Northland dealership said this week that it was sold out of scooters.
At Scooter World in downtown Overland Park, many units are sold before they get off the truck, and Reno’s Yamaha Aprilia in south Kansas City is out of some models and a salesman said business was “crazy.”
Who’s buying? Everybody: Young and old. College students, blue-collar workers, retirees and professionals. And even some who might have been thought least likely to hit the streets on two wheels.
If you live in Olathe, you probably don’t want to ride to a job in Blue Springs. New York City weather can be an issue, too. Scooter Store