I was a bit poor when i bought the scooters. one was 25 quid and the 2 year old Vespa was 50 quid. I had to give up my car due to running costs so the scoots got me to work.
Little Vespa 90 was a great piece of slow transport though but the LI 150 series 1 could go at about 55 mph. In order to run them even cheaper, i was mixing petrol and paraffin but it did stink and smoke a lot