My scooter is in the shop getting serviced. Since I have been doing all the maintenance work for the past year, I just wanted to have a professional look at it to make sure everything is running okay. I need new tires as well, and I asked the mechanic to look into performance parts so that I can squeeze some extra speed out of the bike. I was really leaning towards selling my scoots (my friend said she’d buy it off me for $1,000) and getting a brand new, faster one … but the frugal side of me won over. If I could buy performance parts for a few hundred dollars, that’s a lot cheaper than buying something brand new.