Motor Scooter Warehouse

If you haven't had a chance to see the 2008 Aprilia Sport City, this is a great scooter!  Positioned somewhere between a sport scooter and cruiser, this is one motor scooter that will certainly make a lasting impact on the scootin world.

The first thing that you will likely notice about the Aprilia Sport City is the size of the wheels.  With 15 inch wheels, this gives the Sport City the ability to drive at highway speeds in comfort and also gives it great handling.  With a 244cc engine, the Sport City can easily keep up to traffic and give you lots of power to spare all the way up to an impressive 79 mph top speed.  Suprisingly, even with all this power, the Sport City is able to achieve a respectable 61 mpg fuel economy, which is vitally important with todays fuel prices.

Beyond all the practical stuff, this is one great looking scooter!  Sporty yet elegant is the best way to describe it.  For around $4,700, the Aprilia Sport City offers a lot of value.  Of course with the recent rise in motor scooter purchases, I'm sure you will have a chance to see one of these great scooters cruising around your town or city very soon.

Check out this video of the 2008 Aprilia Sport City.

Sorry I haven't written in a while.  I've been busy...and lazy I guess you could say!  Went on vacation and lets just say, high fuel prices suck!  Sometimes you just can't take a scooter everywhere and you must drive a car and pay the high price for fuel.

I went on a short trip, maybe 2 hours away from my home for a week.  Guess how much I spent on fuel for the drive there, around the small town I went to and back?  $100!  Can you believe that!  I just can't get over how much money it costs for trips that once cost only $20.  It's getting out of hand.

It doesn't look like the U.S. automakers are listening to consumers so I don't think we'll see cars getting 50mpg or more coming out any time soon, at least not a lot of the.

All this high gas price talk is great for the motor scooters though.  There's no other vehicle that can offer so much for so little.  There is one downfall though - Not everyone is the U.S. or Canada can ride a motor scooter all year.  The weather, especially in the northern parts of both countries make it hard to ride all year.

Scooters are cool; Sounds like something that you would read on the fender of a motor scooter, doesn't it.  The truth is, scooters are cool and are gaining in popularity as gas prices continue to rise.  Prior to the high gas prices, SUV's, luxury cars and pickup trucks were the "cool" vehicle to drive and "The Big Three", Ford, GM and Chrysler were banking on sales of lucrative SUV's to continue.  But what we're seeing today isn't something that we have seen in a very long time.  Drivers are turning their cheek to large, gas guzzling vehicles and are quickly jumping on the small car bandwagon.

Even the humble motor scooter has seen an amazing growth in sales, mainly due to high fuel costs.  If you're like most of us, parking your wheels and just avoiding driving is not an option.  Public transit is great if it works for you, but for many it just won't work.  Motor scooters are now a very viable option for those looking for an economical way to get to work.

I found this article to be very interesting.  Apparently even wealthy luxury car drivers are changing their minds!

With the fairly recent rise in motor scooter sales throughout the United States a new problem has surfaced; Motor Scooter accidents.  A recent story which can be found here, states that motor scooter accidents are on the rise.  Likely the reason for this is because of the number of inexperienced scooter drivers on the road.  Because of high gas prices, many who would never have owned a motor scooter are now buying them as a means of saving money.

So how do you drive a scooter safely?  First thing would be to make sure that you wear a helmet.  Some states have laws that require helmets, while other states do not.  Whether or not you are allowed by the limits of the law to ride without a helmet, I would suggest that you always wear one.

Another safety concern is that many are driving without ever having taken a scooter safety course.  Beyond that, many have never driven any other motorized vehicle other than a car; This is a big mistake.  If you are going to set out on the road on a scooter, take a safety course first and learn how to drive it properly.  Many just go to the store, buy a motor scooter and drive away, without any training or knowledge of how to operate the vehicle safely.

This unique little scooter has a great combination of fuel economy, functionality and versatility. The first thing you'll notice is that the C3 looks to have been built out of a box and this is somewhat true.

The seat sits on top of a box that is actually a very large storage compartment which boasts 9 gallons of cubic storage.  As for gas mileage it reportedly gets 115mpg and with a 1.2 gallon gas tank, it's not going to cost much to drive the C3.

One of the first things you'll also notice is the simplicity of it's design.  With fat rugged tires and a simple instrument cluster, the Yamaha C3 is as simple as it gets for those that just need inexpensive, basic, yet functional transportation.   With a 49cc engine it's obvious that fuel economy was in mind when Yamaha made the C3 and given todays gas prices, that's just fine with me.  If you're looking for one of these you're going to have to wait until October 2008 when they hit showrooms and retail for around $2100.

Here is a video review of the 2008 Yamaha C3 Scooter.

Don't confuse this with Honda's previously popular Silver Wing Motorcycle or its Gold Wing series motorcycles; This is a scooter!  Full of options, the Honda Silver Wing Scooter just might be the ultimate in luxury scooting. Packed with a whole host of features, these motor scooters are sure to satisfy even the most sophisticated rider.  With a 582cc engine, the Silver Wing will provide more than enough power for long trips on the highway all while doing it in comfort.  The Silver Wing comes in 2 different models almost identical except for the addition of Anti-Lock Brakes.

The Honda Silver Wing Scooter is so full of options and offers extreme comfort that you might think you're just riding in a convertible!   The Honda Silver Wing scooter is most likely to be compared to the Suzuki Burgman or the Piaggio Atlantic which are similar in options and size.  Speaking of size, this scooter is much heavier than the small scooters we normally see.  Weighing in at 582lbs, you may need some help picking this one up if you drop her.

The bad news is that all this luxury does come at a price.  A new Silver Wing Scooter is likely going to cost somewhere around $8000 to buy, but there are many good used Honda Silver Wing scooters available on the market today.

2007 Honda Silverwing FSC600A7 SILVER WING ABS)    US $5,900.00

2008 Honda Silver Wing (FSC600)    US $2,850.00

2009 Honda Silver Wing Brand New O Miles Full Warranty!    US $6,500.00

2009 HONDA SILVER WING 600 SCOOTER NEW WARRANTY RED    US $4,899.00

2005 Honda Silver Wing FSC600 FSC 600    US $202.50

New 2008 Honda FSC 600 Silver Wing Scooter OTD    US $6,685.00

Roketa Scooters have emerged as a leader in offshore motor scooters.  Built in China, these inexpensive scooters just might be a good option for your next scooter purchase.

The model pictured here is the Roketa MC-70-150.  Featuring a 150cc 4 stroke engine this Roketa scooter combines economy and comfort all in one.  Scooters with engines of around 150cc are perfect for driving at higher speeds and with the 16 inch tires on the MC-70-150, you'll get a nice smooth ride.  This particular Roketa scooter comes with an advanced ABS braking system and an alarm system.

The best part about this gas scooter and any gas scooter really, is the fuel economy.  For example, the Roketa MC-70-150 scooter has a gas tank that holds just 2.34 gallons which at todays gas price would be somewhere around $10 to fill up.  I think that's a bit easier to deal with than filling up even a small car at $50!

If you visit Yamaha's website and look at the details for a 2009 Yamaha Zuma, the company states that it can achieve mileage of 123mpg.  If this is the case, everyone should get one of these!

Yamaha started building the Zuma, a 49cc gas powered motor scooter in 1997.  They stopped producing them for 2006 and  2007 and returned to the market in 2008.  Now I'm not sure if 123mpg is the maximum mileage that could be achieved only if a 100lb girl was riding it, with a strong tailwind, or if this is for real.  I suppose if Yamaha states that it can get great mileage, they  have the tests to prove it.

I have read reviews of the Yamaha Zuma from actual owners and they claim to get between 75 & 85mpg, which is still great.

I've been driving a fairly small car for the past few years now and it can only achieve about 40mpg, and a fill-up now costs about me $55.  Imagine the joy of owning a Yamaha Zuma and pulling up to the gas station beside a huge SUV.  You glance over at the numbers on their pump and you see $110,$111,$112 and so on.  You begin filling your Yamaha Zuma and within a few seconds, you're done.  A grand total of $6.10!!

Now's the time to jump on the motor scooter bandwagon.  If the media are correct, the gas prices are only going to get worse and we'll start seeing more motor scooters on the road.

Here's a guy that just bought a Zuma and seems to be pretty happy with it!

NEW YAMAHA ZUMA 125 SCOOTER ZUMA125 MOPED MOTORCYCLE    US $2,692.00

2009 YAMAHA ZUMA 125 SCOOTER NEW FULL WARRANTY YELLOW    US $1,809.00

yamaha zuma 2008 (((NO RESERVE)))    US $1,125.00

New 2009 Yamaha Zuma 125 Fuel Injected YW Liquidation!!    US $2,288.00

MSN recently published an article regarding the high cost of fuel and whether gas powered scooters would catch on in North America, much like they have in Europe and Asia.  You can read the article here:

Is a Scooter the Answer?

You know the old term "history repeats itself"; It's true.  Rewind for a minute to the post World War II era.  Italy was facing a fuel crisis as they tried to rebuild the countries economy after the devastation of the war.  At the time, a company named Piaggio was building aircraft for the war efforts and after their own building was bombed, they had to rethink their business strategy.  The high fuel prices at the time were hindering the growth of the economy and something needed to be done.  It was at that time that Piaggio transitioned into building economical gas powered scooters as a solution to the high gas prices.  Their idea worked and within a decade, over 10,000 of the little scooters were sold.

Today we know them as the trendy little Vespa.  Will a Vespa motor scooter or other gas powered scooter be in your future as a way to deal with high gas prices?  You may have no other choice.  It currently costs over $50 to fill up even a small car and if gas rises any further it will become just too expensive to drive a car.

Looking back over in history, most buyers of gas motor scooters were broke college students looking for a way to drive for very little money throughout the summer. This attitude regarding toward scooters has caused their sales to remain relatively low until recently. As gas prices continue to rise, many are viewing scooters as a viable option when shopping for a new set of wheels.  Motor scooter sales are through the roof at many scooter dealers, with many long-time automobile drivers finally getting sick of paying the huge prices at the pumps.  A trip to the gas station is painless.  Many scooters have fuel tanks that hold only 1 gallon of fuel, which means that a trip to the gas station to fill up will only set you back around $4.00 currently, versus $100 or more for many trucks and SUV's!  Recently I even read a news article where the owner of a Hummer spent $2400 on fuel in 1 month!

For middle aged consumers, scooters are a more sensible option than a traditional motorcycle due to their ease in getting onto the vehicle. Because many scooters have pass-through seating which allows drivers to get on without having to lift their legs high, they are popular with those that aren't quite as nimble as they once were.
Gas powered scooters been selling fast lately due to the record high gas prices.  Gas motor scooters are one of the most economical vehicles on the road today with some motor scooters getting up to 100 miles per gallon!.  It's no wonder they are selling fast when gas price are at over $4 per gallon.  Gas scooters are now gaining the attention of many drivers who had never previously thought of driving a scooter. No longer just a vehicle for the poor, gas scooters are catching on with drivers of all stripes from business professionals to business owners.
Scooters offer a relatively smooth, comfortable ride and are fun to drive.  If you have a higher budget and are looking for a larger, full featured motor scooter that has all the bells and whistles, there is a scooter for you as well. With features like radios, windshields and large storage compartments, these big boys will satisfy a more sophisticated scooter buyer. If you are looking for a motor scooter to completely replace your car as your main transportation, I suggest looking at a Piaggio MP3 or Suzuki Burgman.  These large scooters are full of features and have larger engines which make it possible to drive at highway speeds and will be comfortable for longer trips.
As far as being green, motor scooters are one of the greenest vehicles on the road today.  Because Scooters burn very little fuel, they emit significantly less harmful emissions into the air than cars and trucks do. It's a nice feeling to know that you have chosen a transportation option that is environmentally friendly and you're saving a lot of money at the same time!