There’s a surprisingly strong debate long-swirling around the term “moped.” For a word that started as a simple mashup of “motor” and “pedal,” moped has caused an outsized amount of contention. Now, ...

There was a time when the word “moped” actually meant something very literal - MOtor plus PEDal. For many young riders of old times, those little machines were not just transport. They were free on ...

Roger Thompson, of Flower Mound, Texas, straps his moped down in the back of his pickup truck outside of Kyle's Scooter Shop in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday, August 20, 2014. Most mopeds top out around ...

Not too long ago, the Peugeot 103 was ruling the streets of France. These were "pedal-and-pop" bikes, meaning they required the rider to pedal them for the two-stroke 50cc engine to kick in. And you ...

The moped, once an emblem of youthful mobility and high gas mileage, is making a cultural comeback, and the timing couldn't be better, according to members of the San Francisco-based Creatures of the ...