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Old 01-24-2006, 07:08 PM
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Default gas powered scooters? NOT MOPEDS!

n e of you scooter riders own a evo 2 or 2x??
i am planning on getting the 2x with the pipe and fully loaded and everything cuz i got one of them ripoff scoots from china (unfortunatly i fell for it, poor me) [:'(][:@]
well this time im not so i plan on gettin either a goped trailripper or this
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I have a GoPed
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Default RE: gas powered scooters? NOT MOPEDS!

Totally different categories, trail ripper is for offroad while the evo is for on-road hehe that 2 speed is sweet.
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Me and one of my friends have Yamaha Zuma's. Its fun to ride around town. DIRT cheap on gas. Im getting close to about 60 miles to the gallon. It runs right around 45mph stock. Its great for those short trips to go pick up dinner or something at the hobby shop. Super reliable..it just runs and runs and runs. Ive got about 5000 miles on mine, and its never missed a beat. You can park it just about anywhere. Its comfortable to ride on too. I even did a huge harley poker ride on it as a joke. It was 50 miles round trip, stopping off at different places picking up my cards. I didnt win, but it was alot of fun, and hilarious. All those harleys riding down the street, and me on my scooter putting along with them.
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Default RE: gas powered scooters? NOT MOPEDS!

yea i know
i am prolly goin wit the evo 2x
theres no dealers around here (there is one about 2hrs away, not wroth it!)
but the evos are crazy
my friend said he saw one shift in person and it FREAKIN LIFTED UP THE FRONT END!!! wow i love scooters lol!
plus where my dad works has a huge parking lot and its fun to ride around in (i did it once, pure priceless fun!)
and its not just a parkin lot it goes around the whole lot so theres plenty of room for speed and all kinds a stuff!
thanks all!
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Default RE: gas powered scooters? NOT MOPEDS!

bdavidson, my old Honda Spree got close to 150 (70 miles per half gallon tank) mpg. my 550cc Suzuki that I have NOW gets close to 60 mpg and will do 110 easily:P

what's the displacement on that Yammi, it looks nice. I've been thinkin about becoming a Scootard again.
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It's just a 50cc. It was getting 80mpg when I got it, but it needs a tune up probably...got a lot of miles on the scoot.
Vespa has a fantastic new scooter called the Grand Tourismo that will do 80mph, and runs great...about $3600 bucks though.

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ORIGINAL: ThunderbirdJunkie

bdavidson, my old Honda Spree got close to 150 (70 miles per half gallon tank) mpg. my 550cc Suzuki that I have NOW gets close to 60 mpg and will do 110 easily:P

what's the displacement on that Yammi, it looks nice. I've been thinkin about becoming a Scootard again.

Dude...walking would be better than being a scootard
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lol, it's not like I'd be getting rid of anything to get it, and it'd be an old cheap beat up used one. i'm sure as hell not droppin $3500 on a scootard, I can get way too much other fun stuff to do that:P
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yea that is a nice moped
but $4000? dang the one im talkiin about isnt even a moped its just a scooter with a highperfoamcne 50cc motor on it
its like $1350 shipped
but it does like 50mph max
man this hobby is just crazy
everyday it gets worse!!
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Default RE: gas powered scooters? NOT MOPEDS!

mayhem...yeah but for $900 I got my old Zuki 550 that'll do over 100, and i've got the old SACS 750 (paid $250, runs nice too) ready to be torn apart for a Wiseco big bore kit and Yoshimura cams.

for $4000 you could buy a real nice early water cooled GSXR750 and kill yourself REALLY effectively
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lol i dont know much about mopeds but a 750cc moped? thatts crazy didnt even think they went higher than like 600ccs
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Default RE: gas powered scooters? NOT MOPEDS!

a Suzuki GS550 is a motorcycle, not a moped same with a GSXR750. AFAIK the Burgman 600 is the biggest scootard in production. the SACS 750 is a type of engine from an OLD GSXR750 or Katana 750.

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