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I ordered a few bulbs from this site (not a scoot but they do sell them). They are based in Vietnam although they do have some stock in Europe.
I aced my order and paid including for express shipping via courier (in this case the useless chumps at fedex). I then got an email informing me there may / will be a delay in shipping due to them just finishing a 10 day celebration for new years (I guess they have a better union than I do!). I responded suggesting they place a note of this on their site to warn customers prior to ordering and give a better customer experience and asking if customers who paid for expedited shipping would get expedited packing. I got a rather curt reply back (which I put down to the language barrier) telling me they had a warning on their site whilst they were partying but took it down when they restarted.
The goods eventually arrived after fedex did their usual tricks (apparently they managed to attempt to deliver it whilst I was out, I was sat on the deck at the time so the elven invisibility cloak they give the drivers really works), 5 days was pretty good for vietnam - china - alaska - CA - HI, would have been 4 without the lazy driver.
Goods were very well packed and as advertised. No invoice.
Haven't had chance to test them yet.
All in a 4/5, a mark off for using fedex and being gits on email, but the replies were prompt.
If I needed more bulbs and couldn't find them on fleabay I would order again, maybe even some parts but I don't think I would order a scoot from them.

haha bad flashbacks to having to edit the autoexec.bat and config.sys to get a cd rom to work, or having multiple autoexecs with different memory configurations to get different games to work with enough sub 640k memory. We are spoiled these days, no mfm drives, no configuring loads of dip switches or dealing with token ring networks lol. They still havent made anything as cool as a wolfcreek though Chinese scooters are so much simpler than 1980's pc's.

Sorry but I don't have enough spares to put together a whole system after moving continents but ebay / craigslist can usually bring up some. If you go on ebay and search by zip you can probably find something pretty cheap locally and cut out the postage cost. Theres loads of ex business machines out there for cheap.

Being surrounded by quakes (monthly) and tsunamis (yearly) I tend to get a little complacent, they happen and we all get a day watching bad TV clutching bottled water. I could not imagine how terrible it must be to see this hit and cause so much devastation. I remember feeling very mixed reactions to last years tsunami in the islands, the odd feeling of knowing pretty much for sure our house would be destroyed, but the blessing of knowing that my family was safe. Luckily it came as surges not a huge wave and everyones property was safe as well as themselves.
Mother nature is immensely powerful, its so sad to see such a tragedy NZ has not been having a good time recently.
Re documenting and taking pictures, I totally understand how you feel, but it is important to do it if you can and do not put yourself in danger. Those pictures help people understand the gravity of the situation, they have a special impact words cannot when it comes to relief funds and passing laws on construction regulations in the future. Documenting events like this, odd as it sounds, is a positive thing.
As a fellow ring of fire dweller, I am very glad you and yours are safe.

Racing seems to take a lot of greats of all ages

It was sad to see Peter Lenz pass last year, way too young

Just look for a pair of sneakers over the telephone wires, usually a good indicator the expo must have loads of them outside.

Congrats on the first ride! I did find that when I inflated the tyres to the recommended pressure they became squirrely (as opposed to oppossumy) but I got used to it and managed to scrape the pegs last night. The tyres are probably cheap junk on most sino scoots , what size is written on the side?