Scooterworks USA is a Chicago-based retailer which operates through mail order and a local storefront. Its primary business is parts and accessories for motorscooters.
The company is a local dealer for Kymco, SYM, and Genuine Scooters brands of motorscooters; it is a sister company of Genuine. The service facility does repairs on most makes of vintage and modern scooters. The mail order business sells parts and accessories for vintage and modern Vespa scooters, as well as accessories and performance items for many other brands of modern scooters such as Yamaha, Honda, Kymco, Malaguti, Aprilia, TN'G, and Genuine.
Scooterworks was started in 1990 by Philip McCaleb, a Chicago native who had become familiar with Vespa scooters while living in Europe. Piaggio, the manufacturer of the Vespa, had left the US market in 1985, leaving a market opening to supply parts and support the scooters. The company began by buying and selling vintage Vespa scooters locally, doing repair work, and eventually publishing a black and white catalog. The mail order business proved to be very popular, and has continued to be the mainstay of the operation. Scooterworks quickly grew to be the largest scooter-based business in North America.