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I looked at my right hand; slowly I lifted it to the throttle, gently does it now, I gripped the rubber hand grip and slowly tightened my knuckles. I moved...
It seems the chaps at SYM have got wind of my habits. See normally I begin most SYM reviews with a bit of an easy laugh about the name of...
8.7 seconds…that is exactly how long it took for me to become a big fan of the 2008 Yamaha Jog 50. That my fellow scooter riders is exactly how long...
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8.4 |
Scooter Reviews » PGO
Written by Ketzal Sterling March 30, 2009 Hits: 28585
Written by Ketzal Sterling March 30, 2009 Hits: 28585
First off let’s get something sorted. Do not ride this scooter naked! See I tend to take things literally, so I ripped my clothes off and went for a...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Vespa |
| Model | GTS 300 |
| Engine Size | 300 |
| Year | 2009 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
Being cool is somewhat complicated. See if you were Fonzi you were cool, however...times change. If you were to continue wearing a leather jacket and saying “Aaaaayyyyyy†while sticking your...
For as long as scooters have been available they have suffered from somewhat of an image problem. "Scooters are for people who can't ride real motorcycles" is something I've often...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | SYM |
| Model | Citycom 300i |
| Engine Size | 300 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • Oceania |
There’s a guy, his name is Bob. Bob wants to buy a scooter. Bob wants a full size scooter that will travel well on all roads including freeways. He searches...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Yamaha |
| Model | TMAX |
| Engine Size | 500 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
For as long as I can remember (about four minutes on most days) the Yamaha T-Max has been the sports orientated maxi scooter of choice. In fact, it’s really been...
So, do you ride an all singing all dancing 1 million horsepower motorcycle on weekends, but want something for your daily commute? Or perhaps you are an urban Valentino Rossi...
I wasn’t sure we would see a direct and strong competitor for the winner of our 2008 50cc Super Battle…Yamaha’s Jog. By competitor of course I mean a budget priced...
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8.3 |
Scooter Reviews » Piaggio
Written by Ketzal Sterling January 29, 2008 Hits: 18720
Written by Ketzal Sterling January 29, 2008 Hits: 18720
Does anybody actually know what the definition of a maxi scooter is? I mean it…I’ve asked lots of people and I constantly get conflicting answers; some say storage, some say...
Well I might be out of jokes... you see I promised the Daelim agent that I wouldn’t make any of the obvious (to me at least) Banana or Madonna...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Vespa |
| Model | S 50 |
| Engine Size | 50 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
Now if you’ve read any of my 50cc reviews before you’ll probably know that I’m not really a 50cc guy. Obviously some people love them. I can’t see how anybody...
Sparks flying, plastic exploding, the brand new Honda Dylan converts into a high speed crayon drawing a long metallic blue line on the damp tarmac.
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Yamaha |
| Model | Cygnus X125 |
| Engine Size | 125 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Europe • South America • Oceania |
The Swan like Cygnus X 125 is not your traditional scooter, sophisticated with clean compact lines. Cygnus exudes a stylish self-confidence that you might only expect to find in a...
BeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeWeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, it’s obviously a competition we don’t know about; that’s right scooter manufactures are in a heated battle to come up with the world’s daftest names. Yamaha are now in...
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7.9 |
Scooter Reviews » Gilera
Written by Ketzal Sterling June 26, 2008 Hits: 51863
Written by Ketzal Sterling June 26, 2008 Hits: 51863
Forecast…cold, rain and thunderstorms in the area with winds gusting up to 50kph (30mph). Sounds like the perfect time for a camping trip. Really that’s what I did. I loaded...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Vmoto |
| Model | Milan JX50 |
| Engine Size | 50 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Oceania |
The sun is shining, the weather is clear, I am drinking a latte at my favourite caffeine establishment gazing at my latest steed… an Australian scooter that goes by the...
Testosterone is a steroid hormone that promotes libido, increased red blood cell count and more. To me it is a chemical that floats around in the body; the highest concentrations...
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7.9 |
Scooter Reviews » Honda
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 22, 2008 Hits: 22215
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 22, 2008 Hits: 22215
New from Honda, the ‘Tomorrow’, not to be confused with the ‘Yesterday’ or the ‘Day after tomorrow’, and certainly not the ‘Today’ which will become the ‘Yesterday’ ‘Tomorrow’. Now don’t...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Vespa |
| Model | LX 50 2T |
| Engine Size | 50 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
The Vespa LX 50 2T is one of the best selling scooters on earth, partly because it’s a Vespa and partly because it’s Vespa’s entry level model. So why do...
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7.7 |
Scooter Reviews » Daelim
Written by Ketzal Sterling September 30, 2008 Hits: 19148
Written by Ketzal Sterling September 30, 2008 Hits: 19148
If you just want a quick summary of Daelim Cordi, here it is. It’s small light and about average for a 50cc scooter. Now if you want a bit more...
Of all the scooters I’ve ridden I wanted to like this bike the most. Straight up, the idea behind the Nexus is totally me. A sporty looking scooter with reasonable...
Imagine a baby scooter born in the regimented, structured world of Japan, then whisked away to live in Italy raised by an old couple, say, Mario and Gabriella. He is...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Vespa |
| Model | GTS 250 ie |
| Engine Size | 250 |
| Year | 2007 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
Vespa’s flagship model the 2007 GTS IE is a smooth number, whether you are cruising along in the summer sun, battling the traffic to work or on a weekend road...
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7.6 |
Scooter Reviews » Kymco
Written by Ketzal Sterling January 17, 2009 Hits: 44858
Written by Ketzal Sterling January 17, 2009 Hits: 44858
First off let’s clear something up. I’m not a huge maxi scooter fan. I do enjoy them to varying degrees but like most scooter riders who also ride motorcycles I...
The Honda Forza 250 gelled with me instantly… once I learnt to ignore how… well… slow it was that is. I liked it straight away. I think it was because...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Vespa |
| Model | S 125 |
| Engine Size | 125 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
Imagine this…it’s a beautiful sunny day and you cruise briskly by the seaside. Small puffy clouds hang motionless above the beautiful azure sea and the sun glistens off the tranquil...
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7.6 |
Scooter Reviews » Suzuki
Written by Ketzal Sterling December 27, 2007 Hits: 17521
Written by Ketzal Sterling December 27, 2007 Hits: 17521
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Suzuki |
| Model | UZ125 Address |
| Engine Size | 125 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Oceania |
The UZ125 Address? What kind of name is that, who’s address is it? Mine, someone I know; is it where I’m going or is it where I’ve been? Is it...
LuxoBarge… This is a term, derived from the words Luxury and Barge (large wallowing boat for transporting heavy stuff) usually reserved for large, European (or occasionally Japanese) sedans. They are...
conundrum/ku nun drum/ • noun (pl. conundrums) 1 a confusing and difficult problem or question. 2 a riddle.
To me the Vino 125 is exactly that… a confusing problem… a...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Suzuki |
| Model | Burgman 650 |
| Engine Size | 650 |
| Year | 2005 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
This must be a dream…but it feels so real, the smell of sawdust on the floor, the crowds, and the breeze blowing through the big top. I look in the...
Sometimes, the decision of which 50cc scooter to buy is an emotive rather than logic driven procedure. The problems arise when there are many choices and most of them fit...
So, your empire has crumbled, your state of the art space battle station has been blown to kingdom come. You have to sell off what remains of your assets so...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Honda |
| Model | Silver Wing |
| Engine Size | 600 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
Here’s a question for you. When are you old? Are you old at fifty years or is it more like sixty? Many years ago you were old when you were...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Vespa |
| Model | LX 150 |
| Engine Size | 150 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
Riding the LX 150 back to back with the LX 50 turned out to be the perfect setup. I remember getting off the LX 50 and saying… “perfect…keep it all...
Restricted 50cc scooters really are the bain of a reviewer’s life, this is for a very simple reason… They are Horrifically, Horrendously, and Dangerously slow… The pace of a restricted...
Things are going to get a bit whack…you’ll need to hold on to your hats as there’s a lot of stuff about to happen in this review and virtually none...
Comparisons between dissimilar items always struck me as an odd concept. In theory comparing apples with oranges is a bit pointless… however what if these different items happen to achieve...
It’s hard being a macho dumb male sort in scooter land; there’s basically nothing you can do to prevent the inevitable snigger from the usual cave dwelling male. “Cute scooter…wimpâ€...
If you go to Sym’s website the Mio 100 page begins with the tagline “The ultimate urban scooterâ€, strange because I thought all scooters were by definition “urbanâ€, anyway…after poking...
Chitalian? No, sounds too much like some kind of spiced tea… We shall settle for Eurasian then… Confused? Ok let me explain, this little 125cc machine from Italian manufacturer Piaggio...
First off I’ll tell you right now I’m not going to make fun of the SYM Jet Euro Xs name. I do it all the time as it’s an easy...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Honda |
| Model | Big Ruckus |
| Engine Size | 250 |
| Year | 2006 |
| Region | North America |
Perhaps the designers at Honda were bored. Perhaps there was a military contract they were trying to attain; I can just picture it now, the phone call from a ranking...
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7.2 |
Scooter Reviews » Suzuki
Written by Ketzal Sterling May 06, 2008 Hits: 8116
Written by Ketzal Sterling May 06, 2008 Hits: 8116
It had finally come; it had been building for a long long time…years actually. My first ride on a Street Magic, yep all this time and I’d never ridden one....
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7.2 |
Scooter Reviews » Adly
Written by Ant Stead February 11, 2008 Hits: 27599
Written by Ant Stead February 11, 2008 Hits: 27599
Raised in poverty, thrust into a life of service in the revolutionary underground movement. Later this gentleman warrior turns his counter intelligence and search and destroy techniques toward less noble...
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7.2 |
Scooter Reviews » Piaggio
Written by Ketzal Sterling December 20, 2007 Hits: 19715
Written by Ketzal Sterling December 20, 2007 Hits: 19715
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Piaggio |
| Model | MP3 |
| Engine Size | 250 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
Now…what if you were born with a third arm? Would it be good or would it be bad? I guess people would point and stare and that I imagine could...
10 teaspoons is about equal to 50cc of gas and that is all that’s needed to run a 50cc scooter. Not much, in fact that is nothing in today’s world...
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7.0 |
Scooter Reviews » Lifan
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 13, 2008 Hits: 17871
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 13, 2008 Hits: 17871
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Lifan |
| Model | Metro 50 LF50QT-2A |
| Engine Size | 50 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
So get this, I’m happily scootering along the sea-side on a pleasant sunny day when suddenly all hell breaks loose! I panic and my life flashes before my eyes, (turns...
Before I even start this review I have to get this out the open… This will properly shock you, but….The Piaggio Zip ‘08 off the showroom floor, is so slow...
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