The Mystery Scooter
by Jim Zeiser
(Deposit, New York)
Two Asian Scooters
Recently I was out on a ride and I noticed another scooter parked in a lot. I'm not up on identifying the significant patterns that separate one Yamaha Riva from another so I couldn't tell what year or size it was.
Only that it was white and came from Camrod Motors in New York City, a name I'm familiar with having lived on Long Island all my life. I went looking for the owner, but lo and behold he was nowhere to be found.
He wasn't carrying his helmet in any of the nearby stores and no one had any employees that they knew of riding a scooter. I took a picture of mine next to the Mystery Scooter since it was the first time since I've had it that another scooter was around.
It is funny though. They accuse the Chinese of copying things, but this Riva looks an awful lot like an old Honda Elite. I wonder who the Japanese copied.
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