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Scooter Reviews » Honda
Written by verticalscope October 29, 2011 Hits: 122569
Written by verticalscope October 29, 2011 Hits: 122569
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Honda |
| Model | Silver Wing ABS |
| Engine Size | 582 |
| Year | 2011 |
| Region | North America |
Balance. That’s the word that springs to mind after some prolonged riding on the 2011 Honda Silver Wing. In a category — scooters — that seems so compartmentalized, the Silver...
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Scooter Reviews » Suzuki
Written by verticalscope September 09, 2011 Hits: 135043
Written by verticalscope September 09, 2011 Hits: 135043
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Suzuki |
| Model | Burgman 400 ABS |
| Year | 2012 |
| Region | North America |
There are a lot of labels to describe the niche that Suzuki’s Burgman aims to fill: Touring scooter. Maxi-scoot. Super scooter. But there’s one brand that the Burgman 400 ABS...
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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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Scooter Reviews » Aprilia
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 08, 2008 Hits: 39891
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 08, 2008 Hits: 39891
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Aprilia |
| Model | Mojito Custom 125 |
| Engine Size | 125 |
| Year | 2007 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
A loud booming voice can be heard for miles and miles…window pains shatter, plates fall from shelves and older buildings crack and disintegrate. The booming voice comes from the Aprilia...
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Scooter Reviews » Belladonna
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 04, 2008 Hits: 30905
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 04, 2008 Hits: 30905
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Belladonna |
| Model | RV150 |
| Engine Size | 150 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Oceania |
Now before we get into this lets get a few things cleared up. If you’re looking for the most economical, most cutting edge hyper super maxi turbo piping hot like...
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...
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...
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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...
A scooter that uses no petrol, runs virtually silent and can kill you with a bolt of pure lightning... like some sort of ninja, wizard camel that comes to kill...
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...
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...
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Scooter Reviews » Gilera
Written by Ketzal Sterling September 16, 2006 Hits: 23605
Written by Ketzal Sterling September 16, 2006 Hits: 23605
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Gilera |
| Model | Runner 180 SP |
| Engine Size | 180 |
| Year | 2003 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
Back in the day two strokes were the only way to go if you wanted a quick scooter and the Gilera Runner 180 SP was the king of the hill,...
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Scooter Reviews » Gilera
Written by Ketzal Sterling June 26, 2008 Hits: 51839
Written by Ketzal Sterling June 26, 2008 Hits: 51839
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 | 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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Just before the guy from Honda hands over the keys to the Honda Ruckus 50cc. He gives me a rifle and screams that I’m a useless maggot, and orders...
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...
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...
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Scooter Reviews » Honda
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 22, 2008 Hits: 22206
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 22, 2008 Hits: 22206
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...
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Scooter Reviews » Hyosung
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 08, 2008 Hits: 23664
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 08, 2008 Hits: 23664
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Hyosung |
| Model | Prima Rally |
| Engine Size | 50 |
| Year | 2007 |
| Region | Oceania |
What is a Prima Rally? Well Prima means first in Italian and Rally, I imagine in this context is alluding to some sort of off-road on-road motorsport event. So the...
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...
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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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...
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Scooter Reviews » Lifan
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 14, 2008 Hits: 12190
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 14, 2008 Hits: 12190
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Lifan |
| Model | Matrix 125 LF125T-6 |
| Engine Size | 125 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
I’ve written a few reviews now and they’re starting to get a little samey, (That’s a word or at least it should be) the following review is going to get...
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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...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | PGO |
| Model | PMX 50 |
| Engine Size | 50 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Europe • Asia • North America • South America • Africa • Oceania |
I wonder if the PGO engineers had a major disagreement about the development of PMX scooter. Half of them wanted a 50cc motorcross bike, one that could rip up the...
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Scooter Reviews » PGO
Written by Ketzal Sterling March 30, 2009 Hits: 28579
Written by Ketzal Sterling March 30, 2009 Hits: 28579
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...
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...
Scooter Reviews
| Make | Piaggio |
| Model | Liberty 200 S |
| Engine Size | 200 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Region | Oceania |
A HUGE man walks out of a tattoo parlor; his fresh and bleeding tribal tattoo encircles one gigantic bicep. He looks tough… very tough. This is precisely what he wants...
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Scooter Reviews » Piaggio
Written by Ketzal Sterling December 20, 2007 Hits: 19713
Written by Ketzal Sterling December 20, 2007 Hits: 19713
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...
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...
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Scooter Reviews » Piaggio
Written by Ketzal Sterling January 29, 2008 Hits: 18719
Written by Ketzal Sterling January 29, 2008 Hits: 18719
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...
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...
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 | 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...
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Scooter Reviews » Suzuki
Written by Ketzal Sterling May 06, 2008 Hits: 8115
Written by Ketzal Sterling May 06, 2008 Hits: 8115
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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Scooter Reviews » Suzuki
Written by Ketzal Sterling December 27, 2007 Hits: 17520
Written by Ketzal Sterling December 27, 2007 Hits: 17520
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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