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I thought it would annoy me, but I have a HUD and nav on my new ride (car) and it is awesome. Gonna try a new restaurant? Just press a button and say "navigate to 4827 4th street, Minneapolis MN" Bing, bang, boom....voice directions and nav queues on the windshield.

I don't own a cell phone so I don't care about phone calls, and really don't want one in traffic on a scooter.

But I agree that the cost of this is going to be ridiculous. I suppose the rear view is kind of cool but my mirrors are pretty good and I watch them relentlessly. It seems like it is for the guy who has a bunch of cash and like to show off the coolest toys.


I would be more interested in a couple helmets with an reasonable two way communications setup for rides with a friend. A couple of nice fm walkies can be had for $20 at Menards, but if you want that built into a helmet, the price goes up ten fold. Ridiculous.

I don't use any gas treatment in my scooter's tank, don't know if that will be a problem or not.

My state has a 10% year round ethanol mandate, and on all my power equipment like snow blowers and mowers and such, the general rule to avoid ethanol crud is to drain the tank and run the engine dry until you can't get it to fire anymore when you are going to store it. With this method, my last snowblower went 20 years as a hand me down from my father and my mower is going on 11 years without issue and starts on the first pull. The ethanol can not gel if it is all burned and gone.

The scooter is only two years old, and gets mid grade gas.
The only additive I use periodically in my car is Techron concentrate every 10,000 which I read is an excellent fuel system cleaner included in Chevron Gas, but we don't have Chevron stations here. I suppose next time I do the car I will put a splash in the scooter perhaps.

I have stored my summer cars and a boat with a mercruiser inboard for about 20 years without any additive and without fuel issue, but they only sit for five months in between use at the longest and have noticed no issues with either.

On a side note, I have not owned the scooter long enough to see any drop off in performance due to fuel issues (it has 1300 miles on it) but I have never seen any evidence of better running or mileage out of using a fuel system cleaner on any car, even with high miles. What I HAVE seen better running and mileage from was using carb cleaner spray to clean out air flow meters, throttle body butterflies, sensor elements attached to the engine. and other related parts that get lots of carbon and gunk. Fuel treatments did not seem to do anything to these because the fuel was injected downstream of most of these parts.

But I think additives to reduce gum and varnish are not necessary if you use quality gas and use regularly. If you are going to store it, my advice is drain and run dry. But if you don't want that, the stabilizer might be good for you.

It is so dead it will need the zombie virus to come back.

It is so dead, even Lazarus could not pull off that kind of resurrection.

It is so dead, it needs a cemetery plot.

It is so dead............

Ok, I gave it a shot.

Congrats. Kymco makes a nice product. That People GT you mentioned is a pretty fast scooter. Mine is the same engine with about 3 extra pounds and I have had it up to 86 mph and still pulling a bit and that was more than enough for me. It has a very accurate speedo so I was probably doing in the range true speed. It gets me 72-76 every tank, yours should be as good or better.

Looks like you got a great deal.

Mine is a Tour Master Intake Air 2, I think the Intake Air 3 is the current model. But if you can't find that model, just go to a big store and try on a bunch of different ones, sooner or later you will find one of those on closeout online.

Tour Master Intake Jackets are generally small so look at the sizing chart and buy one size bigger than recommended or find a store to try them out.

I have a couple armor jackets. I bought the Xelement from leather up for $50 and it was ok. It was protective but not super comfortable and decent for hot weather. It is certainly worth $50.

But I went into a local motorcycle store and tried on some of the spendy ones. I liked a Tour Master, it was a great jacket but it was around $250. Great armor, soft other padding, great fit, zip in and out rain AND insulated liners so it was all season. Still did not want to spend $250. Did a google search on the Tour Master and the jacket model (can't remember) and a bunch of ads came back for closing out the last years model. The color choices were limited, and so were sizes, and the exterior pattern was a little different but basically the same jacket for $80 shipped. Awesome jacket, great deal.

It has armor on the spine where the Xelement has terribly cheap foam, and it has extra padding patches where the Xelement has none. The shoulder and elbow armor pads in both are level three and feel about the same to be honest, but the Tour Master is a FAR better jacket for the extra $30. I would not tell somebody to skip out on buying an Xelement over nothing, but the extra money for a closeout was worth every penny.

If you try on a couple of the spendy name brands ones for fit and to see what you like, you can still get one cheap if you look around and get really good quality for not that much more than the ones on Leather Up. So many motorcycle gear closeout places online it is silly.