Butchered: An insane custom Vespa scooter from Russia

Butcher Garage is not a familiar name around these parts. But they specialize in a genre we’d love to see more of: extreme custom scooters. And judging by this pseudo-scrambler Vespa PX 150, they've got the imagination for it, too. Based in Saint Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, Butcher Garage is run by three friends: Alex, Mitya and Miha. They’ve been operating for eight years now, repairing, tuning and tweaking scoots. The crew rely heavily on the German scooter parts specialists SIP Scootershop. “In our country, you can’t just go to the store and buy everything you need,” Alex explains. “We...