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IDK why we call this area "Maxi" scooters ... regular scooters (not "Maxi") are better IMHO!
But hey, just a reminder to all, as I discovered on Saturday, Scooter Season 2023 is open in Texas! Yeah, I know it's also the same as motorcycle riding season, but scooters are different.
You guys who love riding motorcycles as much as possible, you totally need a scooter in the stable. It's not a replacement for your motorcycle, but it's a replacement for your 4-wheel vehicle to turn mundane trips and errands into fun adventures.
Here's an example. I had to go pick up a pound of coffee from a coffee shop about two miles from the house Saturday. I'm not likely to go move cars around and pull one of the Triumphs out to go make this little trip, so normally I'd hop in the Jeep and do this. Mrs72 would have had no interest in going. But since it was glorious weather and mrs72 and I had scooters calling our names, she joined me and we were forced to plot a very scenic route to get there in order to avoid a half mile stretch of 65mph highway so we rolled through 30-45mph back roads about 6 or 7 miles there, even saw another suburban couple out on their scooters (he on a Honda Monkey, she on a 49cc Metropolitan). Then mrs72 got her nerve up to ride the half mile of 65mph road, where her scooter zipped right up near the speed limit and I was wringing my scoot's neck to get it up near 50 by the time I had to slow for the left turn back onto our neighborhood back road.
Here's the thing. This is an errand you would usually just forget. But scooters parked on our sidewalk turned it into an adventure and a story we can tell. The story continues from there after we got back into the neighborhood and elected to swap scooters and keep riding, just tooling around the neighborhood with no destination in mind, not wanting to get off the scooters yet. When's the last time you ran an errand to pick something up 2 miles away in your car and then decided when you got home just to keep on driving around the block a few times just to enjoy the feeling of being in your car?
Seriously, folks, a scooter or two will put joy into your life that you didn't know you were missing out on. And a modern 125-150cc scooter with EFI will get 100+mpg, has $40 tires and holds only one quart of oil, plus it has a built in top-box size trunk that'll carry home a day or two's worth of groceries or a new pair of shoes or whatever other stuff you need to go pick up. That's a lot less cost per mile than your 4-wheeler, and even less than half the cost per mile of your 500cc+ motorcycle. There are dozens of them for sale for under $2500 on FB/CL. Cheap fun, y'all!
But hey, just a reminder to all, as I discovered on Saturday, Scooter Season 2023 is open in Texas! Yeah, I know it's also the same as motorcycle riding season, but scooters are different.
You guys who love riding motorcycles as much as possible, you totally need a scooter in the stable. It's not a replacement for your motorcycle, but it's a replacement for your 4-wheel vehicle to turn mundane trips and errands into fun adventures.
Here's an example. I had to go pick up a pound of coffee from a coffee shop about two miles from the house Saturday. I'm not likely to go move cars around and pull one of the Triumphs out to go make this little trip, so normally I'd hop in the Jeep and do this. Mrs72 would have had no interest in going. But since it was glorious weather and mrs72 and I had scooters calling our names, she joined me and we were forced to plot a very scenic route to get there in order to avoid a half mile stretch of 65mph highway so we rolled through 30-45mph back roads about 6 or 7 miles there, even saw another suburban couple out on their scooters (he on a Honda Monkey, she on a 49cc Metropolitan). Then mrs72 got her nerve up to ride the half mile of 65mph road, where her scooter zipped right up near the speed limit and I was wringing my scoot's neck to get it up near 50 by the time I had to slow for the left turn back onto our neighborhood back road.
Here's the thing. This is an errand you would usually just forget. But scooters parked on our sidewalk turned it into an adventure and a story we can tell. The story continues from there after we got back into the neighborhood and elected to swap scooters and keep riding, just tooling around the neighborhood with no destination in mind, not wanting to get off the scooters yet. When's the last time you ran an errand to pick something up 2 miles away in your car and then decided when you got home just to keep on driving around the block a few times just to enjoy the feeling of being in your car?
Seriously, folks, a scooter or two will put joy into your life that you didn't know you were missing out on. And a modern 125-150cc scooter with EFI will get 100+mpg, has $40 tires and holds only one quart of oil, plus it has a built in top-box size trunk that'll carry home a day or two's worth of groceries or a new pair of shoes or whatever other stuff you need to go pick up. That's a lot less cost per mile than your 4-wheeler, and even less than half the cost per mile of your 500cc+ motorcycle. There are dozens of them for sale for under $2500 on FB/CL. Cheap fun, y'all!
