I have been out of the scooter scene for over a decade and even back then it was limited to a few pillion rides on the back seat of my Friends. My then girlfriend (now wife) used to ride a good old Chetak. After years, she has expressed a desire to go back to the riding scene and I was planning to help her buy a nice funky geared scooter. I was in for a rude shock when I realised that of all these fancy bike companies - none of them has an established geared scooter brand. Imagine my shock when almost all bike companies in the world have launched Superbikes and I can name several over 1000cc bikes that are available here, I can't find one good scooter. Or am I missing something. I remember Kinetic planning to launch something called an Italiano series of which Blaze was the first bike with several amazing looking bikes to follow,I remember downloading some pictures in 2007 from the about to be launched range. Today google informs me that Kinetic was bought by Mahindra, and blaze has been discontinued.
There was some news on Piaggio planning to launch Vespa in Mar2010, the website of Piaggio however is silent. Eterno has been discontinued by Honda?
My Questions are pretty simple:
Are there few good geared scooters left in this country?
If yes, any recommendations?
Are there any confirmed launches worth waiting for?
Or should I give it up and ask her to buy a scootie?
Or even better, teach her to ride the electra???????

Please help!!!!!