Four Efficient Gasoline Scooters
What we consider today as mopeds is pretty close to what the original scooters and mopeds looked like. Basically, a bike with a motor attached to the front or rear wheel in one way or another. These forms of transportation have been around since the beginning of the 1900’s.
It was not until the 30’s that scooter manufactures started putting casings around the motors. Team that with an automatic transmission and you got the look and feel of what we think of today as scooter. Let’s take a quick look at some of the more popular manufactures of scooter today.
#1 Vespa — These became popular in post war Italy in the 1940’s and continue today to be very popular scooters. They offer multiple models with one of the top one’s sporting a 250cc fuel injected engine, capable of 80+ mph.
#2 Honda Motor Company — The Honda Motor Company, the maker of more engines than anybody in the world, had been in the scooter business a long time. They introduced the Super Cub back in the 1950’s and have never looked back. In, fact the Super Cub is the best selling scooter of all-time worldwide.
******The 582cc liquid-cooled four-stroke parallel-twin Silver Wing can easily go a 100 mph.
******The popular Fusion model, or Helix in some countries, easily will get you going 70mph and great gas mileage rates.
#3 Yamaha Scooters — Yamaha has a small scooter called the Vox. You will find this vehicle only in Japan. It will get you going just under 40mph, but if you need to go a little faster you can jump yourself up to the Zuma.
#4 Suzuki Scooters — Suzuki has two Burgman models: a 400 and a 650. These are fast and a couple of the more expensive scooters you can expect to find on the market today.
“Fast” does not mean these scooters are not good on fuel. Most of these scooters can easily get between 50-80 miles to the gallon. The fast gas scooter may be a little bit more expensive than the slower 49cc bikes, but hey, you got to have some fun sometime, right?
If you don’t need to haul a lot of stuff and you live in a warm area, a scooter is something you have got to check out.
More info about a fast gas scooter and other awesome stuff about things like Honda scooter parts.
Look Great On my Magna
