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Post by mikestib1 on Jul 29, 2015 15:10:38 GMT -5
Last scooter I owned was a 1964 Vespa. Picking up a Bintelli Prime 49 Friday. I'm totally psyched. The info on this site helped me decide to scoot. Thanks to all of you!
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Post by cyborg on Jul 29, 2015 23:23:07 GMT -5
Good luck Mike!!! Man I love new stuff
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Post by oldchopperguy on Jul 30, 2015 0:08:58 GMT -5
Mikestib1,
Welcome to the site! And have a bone on the old chopper guy...
Sounds like you're from my generation. Got my first bike in 1962... You will be AMAZED at where scooters have come in the last half-century. No more complex gears, finicky engines, and little "stigma" attached to riding a scooter instead of a big bike. Today, folks know scooters make good sense.
And, as you enjoy the new ride, you'll also find scooters now cover the gamut from the oh-so-handy 50's like yours, to 250-600cc multi-purpose city/highway rides, all the way to 700cc+ 100 mph highway cruisers: things we NEVER envisioned years ago.
Today's 50cc scooters are better than 100cc motorcycles from my youth. 250-300cc scooters are better than the old 500cc bikes, and the 600-750 road-scooters are far better than the big motorcycles of the past.
I built choppers and rode bobber and bagger Harleys all my life. Now, old age and arthritis makes it too hard for me to climb on and off the big bikes. So I re-discovered scooters! Now, I'm hopelessly hooked! Big or small, it's scooters for me from now on... GREAT transportation, AFFORDABLE, EASY to work on, and even easy to customize if one wants to.
If you've been off 2-wheels for many years, just be careful until you get used to riding again. Don't let a pothole, loose-gravel, wet leaves, a careless driver, etc. give you a "bad hair day" until you find riding 2 wheels "second-nature" again.
Enjoy that swell new scoot!!!
Leo in Texas |
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Post by mikestib1 on Jul 30, 2015 9:07:28 GMT -5
I'm sure this is heresy but may sell my Triumph 900 Scrambler, teach my wife to ride a Bintelli 50, and buy a 150 Bintelli Scorch. Yeah, I'm losing it at age 65. My first bike was a Honda step thru 50 my Dad let me buy so he didn't have o drive me to my Summer job at 7am 6 days a week. Now that I live in a small city, scooters make a lot of sense.
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Post by cyborg on Jul 30, 2015 11:25:29 GMT -5
What heresy??? I've ridden big bore sportbikes my whole life,,, now my big bike is a 350 dualsport and a stella 4 speed shifter scoot that's the go too ride,,, all good fun,,, and on top of it all 100+ mpg with the Stella ,,, can't beat that,,, not in my neck of the woods with gas north of $4.35 a gallon.
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