Im interested in purchasing a scooter because I live right near cameron village and school and think it would be much easier than a car.


I dont know alot about them.

I was wondering what my limit should be on mileage.

One honda (50cc) that I was looking at has 3000 miles but its only a few years old.

I dont really know if that is a pretty high mileage for a scooter or not.

Any advice would be appreciated

3/13/2007 12:07:21 PM

get a bike, or be a man and get a motorcycle. Scooters are for chicks.

3/13/2007 12:42:08 PM

I've got a Honda Metropolitan with 6500 miles, but it leaks oil like a champ. I just picked up a factory service manual for it and I'm going to rebuild it with new crank bearings and a fresh top end.

[Edited on March 13, 2007 at 1:11 PM. Reason : s]

3/13/2007 1:05:48 PM

If you are interested in your personal safety at all get something un-powered that you can ride on the sidewalk. If you are that close it will be good excersize and you will be off the road. Cage drivers are morons; they WILL hit you, and IMO the campus area is very risky. Lots of intersections and lots of people numb-mindedly doing their day to day. Motorcycles are great for bombing around in unpopulated areas but I will not use one for back and forth around-towning again.

3/13/2007 1:21:03 PM

i've seen an old black drunk in my dads shop with over 150k on a three year old tomos 2 cycle

3/13/2007 1:27:27 PM

150k? Did you mean 15k?

3/13/2007 2:00:10 PM

no, 150k

3/13/2007 2:07:33 PM

mopeds are like targets. the more you hit, the more points you get.

3/13/2007 2:08:32 PM

i think scooters are fun but tey sure they can be dangerous aroudn campus. and with the new laws where scooter DUI = car DUI i dont have any more incentives to be getting one.

3/13/2007 2:28:15 PM

I know they are dangerous but I would probably take back roads and avoid hillsborough as much as possible.

Also what are the rules as far as using them in the brickyard/ paths. Im sure you are not allowed to accelerate, but can you coast on them/ idle and are you allowed to hook them up to bike racks?

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"get a bike, or be a man and get a motorcycle. Scooters are for chicks."

Get a life, Goldfish are for chicks.

You look like Miss Swan on MadTV.

3/13/2007 3:07:20 PM

If you could average 25MPH it would take you 6,000 hours to rack up 150k on a scooter. That's like riding the thing as a full time job...8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year for three years.

3/13/2007 5:11:54 PM

he would ride it out to emporia and down to ahoskie from franklin every day, thats a few hundred a pop

3/13/2007 5:28:43 PM

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"scooter DUI = car DUI"

FUCK THAT

3/13/2007 5:29:39 PM

^^^ thats only about 4 hours a day actually

3/13/2007 5:30:15 PM

well he is an old black drunk.....

3/13/2007 7:27:12 PM

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"If you could average 25MPH"

shit, on mine you can average the speed limit.

3/13/2007 8:02:02 PM

^ what kind of scooter did you say you had ????

3/13/2007 8:06:41 PM

there is no name to it. it started out as some stock chinese-made crap but after the engine swap, manual tranny conversion, and everything else i've done to it, it's actually a fast ass scooter.

3/13/2007 8:26:45 PM

hahah that is cool shit is it a scooter or like a moped with your feet on the side?

3/13/2007 8:34:06 PM

it looks like this except it's a dark cherry red.



in fact, mine is an exact copy of that one.

[Edited on March 13, 2007 at 8:43 PM. Reason : -]

3/13/2007 8:42:37 PM

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"Also what are the rules as far as using them in the brickyard/ paths"

i'm not sure, but i rode my bike (pedal version) alot when i lived on campus as well as to and from my vehicle when i lived off campus and used to see mopeds/scooters at the bike racks pretty regularly.

even if it's illegal, as long as you don't act like a jackass you'll probably be fine. especially if you don't have classes at the "peak" brickyard hours. i wouldn't sweat it any time at other buildings.

[Edited on March 13, 2007 at 8:58 PM. Reason : .]

3/13/2007 8:56:03 PM

i used to have a vento 50 cc. that thing was the shit. then i sold it to some kid that blew it up. 2 stroke. thing runs for evar if you take care of it

3/13/2007 10:59:40 PM