Welcome…

We are The Hornets Scooter Club of Long Island NY. Our sister club is The Long Island Vespa Club. We were first formed in 1999 as The Long Island Scooter Club. We have been scootering in the NYC/Long Island Area for over 25 years. We meet once a week on Sunday, 52 weeks a year,…

Scooter Shops on Long Island…

There are none. Zero. Zip. Nada. The closest thing we have is the dealers in Nassau & Suffolk and there are not many of those. We do have an excellent Scooter Shop in Maspeth Queens called Zoom Scooters. They specialize in Chinese & Asian imports. As for the dealers, they usually just work on their…

The Sunday Swarm…

It is Spring time and a young man’s attention turns to… Scooters! The weather however is a strange mistress and does not always cooperate. In these early days of Spring, your judgement should be your guide. A short ride may be bearable for a short time, but your still need to bundle up for longer…

SAFETY…

We are about riding safely. Period. Make sure you know how to ride that thing before coming out to ride with us. Please. We are not about Stunts & Endos and we ride Legally. that does not mean we are riding around at the Speed Limit either. There is this rare thing called “Judgement” they…

Twenty Five Years…

I had to type it out to believe it. Twenty Five Years? A Scooter Club? On Long Island? That is hard for even me to believe and I am the guy that started it. We have had a long and storied history. We have been from one end of Long Island to the other. Sometimes…

Classics…

We are a Scooter Club and a Vespa Club, so it goes without saying that the Classic Vespa becomes the subject of our posts by default. It is impossible to ignore 70 years of history. However regognizing history in a post in a lot different than owning a Classic Vespa. It is not only Vespas….

.com

Our main .com is back. http://www.longislandscooterclub.com has a rich history. For a time it was only available to rich people. Seriously. The value of the .com went up to $1100 due to the popularity of the website. I waited over 10 years for the value to come back down to normal and it was then…