I rode motorcycles for 35 years. Gave them up around a year and a half ago……………thought I had them out of my system……………….BUT, today, I bought a new Vespa, GTS 250cc scooter to putt around on.
jpinpb: A piece of well-seasoned advice: Whatever you do, DO NOT put a sidecar on your Vespa scooter. The frame will probably crack and you will wear out your CVT parts every 2k or less miles. We have owned seven sidecar rigs over the last 35 years (my wife preferred driving a sidecar rig rather than riding solo) and our children grew up, riding in them. We took a couple of NorCal vacations where we took our three children and a dog on two sidecar rigs (one of them pulling a small utility trailer).
Sidecars are great but you really only want to put one on a larger motorcycle……………..never a scooter.