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Post by bandito2 on Aug 2, 2015 16:14:40 GMT -5
On a 50cc or 150cc scooter that may be the case just like on a 50cc or 150cc motorcycle which is what I experienced on my 150cc 8 hp Lance. Once you get past 20 hp its minor adjustments on the scooter too. The Aprilia 250 is between 23 and 25 hp depending on what your reading and it cruises quite stably. The 500cc bikes like the Aprilia Scarabeo or Piaggio BV 500 once cruising are more like a direct drive on minor throttle changes. The speed once cruising is more responsive to throttle because the variator is at its max with no further up gearing available and any up changes in speed are a direct result of rpm increase from the engine's throttle response. The smaller scooter's HP may plateau or even drop off at higher rpms so it takes them a little bit longer for their speed to top out. This will happen to the bigger scooters too, but with more HP to begin with, there generally is still enough to give maybe at least adequate acceleration above cruising speed and so acceleration lag would not be as noticeable. |
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Post by beenriding on Aug 6, 2015 21:48:23 GMT -5
Traffic light sensors....nuff said Just this year they passed a state law that allows motorbikes to make a left turn on red if the light doesn't change for you. It's supposed to be TWO cycles of lights but I know which lights will never turn and go after the first. I know this doesn't help if you're not turning left but it really helps if you are. They decided that sitting at a red turn light while everyone else flys by you is more dangerous than turning left on red. I agree. |
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Post by jtron on Aug 6, 2015 21:59:30 GMT -5
What state? I thought only a few states allow it. Im in california. At least Im allowed to split lanes that I do know.
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Post by beenriding on Aug 7, 2015 9:08:16 GMT -5
What state? I thought only a few states allow it. Im in california. At least Im allowed to split lanes that I do know. Right next door in N.V.... We don't get to split lanes yet, but I'm not sure if I would, seems scary whenever I visit your state. |
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Post by novaraptor on Aug 7, 2015 9:09:32 GMT -5
Nevada is one state that passed the left turn law. Problem is that if you are making a left turn from a street that doesn't have a left turn lane, the light doesn't "cycle", so you will never get to two cycles, so I wait a "reasonable" time, check traffic, and go.
Hi, Beenriding, your post filed while I was typing mine... I'm not a fan of lane splitting either, and, though not legal here, you see lots of it..Good riding to you, and if you are in Vegas, watch the rain slick roads today..
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Post by beenriding on Aug 7, 2015 10:41:56 GMT -5
Nevada is one state that passed the left turn law. Problem is that if you are making a left turn from a street that doesn't have a left turn lane, the light doesn't "cycle", so you will never get to two cycles, so I wait a "reasonable" time, check traffic, and go. Hi, Beenriding, your post filed while I was typing mine... I'm not a fan of lane splitting either, and, though not legal here, you see lots of it..Good riding to you, and if you are in Vegas, watch the rain slick roads today.. Rain in Reno too! Yea, there's some lights I know wont turn green for me, try to avoid them but if I must I'll wait till it's safe and go. I think that's better than, turn right, make U turn, make right again for sure. Been in the Bay area where they split lanes at 40mph, just crazy, and they don't realize not everybody expects a motorbike to come blazing past them at a stop light. Even if I could don't think I would. |
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Post by jtron on Aug 7, 2015 12:19:09 GMT -5
Haha. Yeah some people are sketchy when they split. Technically you're supposed to go no more than ten miles n hour faster than traffic. Its completely safe if done safely but a lot of ppl just dont really care and risk it. I see a lot of shoulder riding too to get past traffic Lol. I regularly see motorcycles in the bike lane, and Lil I saw one dude happily cruising on the sidewalk for like a mile one day.
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Post by lain on Aug 7, 2015 16:52:35 GMT -5
People who see you using the bicycle lane (legal in MA) that drive into it to block you during traffic, then pretend not to hear the annoying pitched horn blaring at them as they try to pretend they didn't just do that... -_-
And when you don't have a lane to escape the traffic sometimes a person either being a dck or just not knowing how far they are pushing your scooter forward (usually a truck or other large hooded vehicles) as they attempt to gain a couple inches closer to the red light... -_-
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Post by wheelbender6 on Aug 7, 2015 17:59:24 GMT -5
"People who see you using the bicycle lane (legal in MA)"
Wow. I didn't know that either. We could ride motorized bicycles
in bike lanes in Arizona if we didn't exceed 20mph. No scooters
or motorcycles allowed in bike lanes in AZ.
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Post by beenriding on Aug 7, 2015 18:32:32 GMT -5
Something what annoys me is when you get to a four way stop and the drivers think you don't know how to drive, or maybe you don't have a DL cuz your riding a scooter. So they sit there, sometimes wave you on when it's their turn to go.
First you stop, then you go. And pedestrians that tell you to go ahead of them, but if a cop see's it they'll cite you for failure to yield to pedestrian. I really try to watch for the peds., there's been a few times where I didn't see them till I had to lock up the rear drum brake....... Embarrassing, and once it went sccrreeeeeecchh!
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Post by Paladin on Aug 7, 2015 20:31:11 GMT -5
...At least Im allowed to split lanes that I do know. Right next door in N.V.... We don't get to split lanes yet, but I'm not sure if I would, seems scary whenever I visit your state. The idiots are scary. They are also why people say motorcycles are dangerous. I don't trust cagers to not change lanes, so I do not split lanes until they are down to 10 mph or less. And I look to see that I have at least four feet of space sideways. On city streets I mostly don't bother, but I sometimes filter to the limit line at a red traffic signal. |
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Post by Paladin on Aug 7, 2015 20:40:32 GMT -5
... So they sit there, sometimes wave you on when it's their turn to go. ... pedestrians that tell you to go ahead of them .... Yeah, right. Like I trust either to go and hit me after I started moving? HA!! I'll fold my hands over my helmet and wait for they to go. |
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Post by onewheeldrive on Aug 7, 2015 22:15:16 GMT -5
It would make sense for every state to have a law pertaining to traffic lights not changing. Is there a state that doesn't??
There are only a couple around town that don't change for me and that's only an issue late at night when no traffic is out to change the light for me. What annoys me is at that same light(s) is when the one-and-only oncoming car at the light gets in the turn lane instead because that doesn't change my side at all--- it just gives them the arrow when the light finally turns and the other lanes on that side the green light.
With that being said, I'll run those lights if they don't turn once whatever traffic there is gets out of the way.
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Post by spandi on Aug 8, 2015 9:05:35 GMT -5
How about redneck nut jobs (in a pickup truck) trying to run you off the road  |
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Post by novaraptor on Aug 8, 2015 13:21:29 GMT -5
Oh, I do truly hate the drivers who yield their right of way to me at intersections, waving me on and assuming that others will, too. That does put us in harms way..
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