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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...
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...
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8.4 |
Scooter Reviews » PGO
Written by Ketzal Sterling March 30, 2009 Hits: 28616
Written by Ketzal Sterling March 30, 2009 Hits: 28616
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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7.7 |
Scooter Reviews » Daelim
Written by Ketzal Sterling September 30, 2008 Hits: 19149
Written by Ketzal Sterling September 30, 2008 Hits: 19149
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...
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...
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 | 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...
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...
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...
I find it a bit tough now after writing many reviews to write about a scooter that is well… a scooter. You see after a while unless something stands out...
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...
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...
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 | 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...
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7.9 |
Scooter Reviews » Gilera
Written by Ketzal Sterling June 26, 2008 Hits: 52180
Written by Ketzal Sterling June 26, 2008 Hits: 52180
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...
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...
The more scooters I review the more I see trends develop. One trend I’m seeing is that 50cc scooters seem to be getting bigger. But not by sitting at home...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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: 8120
Written by Ketzal Sterling May 06, 2008 Hits: 8120
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Now if you google “Monzaâ€, the first result returned is a Wikipedia reference to a town to the north of Milan, this town surprisingly enough is called Monza and is...
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6.4 |
Scooter Reviews » Vmoto
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 22, 2008 Hits: 11266
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 22, 2008 Hits: 11266
I spent a long time trying to come up with a comparison of the VMoto Monaco 125 to something in other industries, something that would give readers a better and...
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7.9 |
Scooter Reviews » Honda
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 22, 2008 Hits: 22277
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 22, 2008 Hits: 22277
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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6.4 |
Scooter Reviews » Lifan
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 14, 2008 Hits: 12195
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 14, 2008 Hits: 12195
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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7.0 |
Scooter Reviews » Lifan
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 13, 2008 Hits: 17875
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 13, 2008 Hits: 17875
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...
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7.2 |
Scooter Reviews » Adly
Written by Ant Stead February 11, 2008 Hits: 27631
Written by Ant Stead February 11, 2008 Hits: 27631
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...
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...
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6.7 |
Scooter Reviews » Aprilia
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 08, 2008 Hits: 39922
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 08, 2008 Hits: 39922
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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6.6 |
Scooter Reviews » Hyosung
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 08, 2008 Hits: 23675
Written by Ketzal Sterling February 08, 2008 Hits: 23675
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...
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