New scooter book launched

Well, it took a while, but the scooter book is finally finished. It's available now in print and electronic editions (see the sidebar for details).

"Half a Step Ahead: Learning My Way Around a Motor Scooter" is mainly about my experiences tinkering with one and then another Yamaha CV80, plus some other vintage scooters.

The book is a personal and practical guide intended to be accessible enough to encourage a novice, yet sufficiently technical to offer insights of value to even the most practised scooter mechanic.

There's also some historical detail about Yamaha's early scooters. That, and accounts of some of my ridiculous misadventures while learning to rebuild a couple of CV80s, might be of interest.

I hope you'll check it out. Scooter season's almost over for many of us. It's OK to put your feet up now with a book!