Leah Stahl said Clark's skill as a mechanic helped bring her into the scooter crowd. Stahl said a friend gave her a broken-down scooter about eight years ago when she was a student at Columbia Art School, and Clark and fellow Gem City Roller officer Ryan France helped her get it running this year.

''We didn't charge her for the work; we did it for fun,'' Clark said. ``We're all about getting more scooters on the road.''

The original 125cc engine of Stahl's 1979 Vespa was replaced with a 177cc engine, and she now uses it to commute to her job as a photography teacher at Sinclair Community College.

Leah's husband Darin took a few rides on the Vespa and was hooked, so the couple recently purchased a new 150cc Stella scooter for him to ride.

The Stahl's next door neighbors were the next on board. Sara Smith rides a new hot pink Stella scooter, and her husband Adam Smith bought and restored a 1959 Allstate scooter.

''I was a chopper man before this,'' Smith said of his days riding Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

Kyra Stahl, Leah and Darin's 2-year-old daughter, completes the set with a two-foot-long, battery-powered, plastic Vespa that she rides on the sidewalk in front of the Smith and Stahl homes.