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Recommended Motor Scooters

RoadRunner Touring Scooter

Please see Basic, Classic, High-performance, Luxury , Minimalist, stand-up, and Electric Motorscooters for the best values on inexpensive scooters through the internet.

The recommendations given here are necessarily incomplete and biased in accordance with available experience, research and data. We are also assuming that price and practicality are major factors in the scooter decision. For those to whom money is no object, who are willing to pay about five times as much, or to whom the image bestowd by an authentic classic scooter outweighs all other factors, the parameters used here will be inappropriate and Vespausa.com may be the place to go (See Vespa Motorscooters). For those, however, who would simply like a very economical, practical, durable, and stylish machine, read on, for that is our goal. The genre of machine we chose was a 50cc, 150cc, or 250cc scooter with the classic four-stroke engine. I drive a Chinese TANK Urban Sporty 150cc and am very happy with it. See Basic Scooters). These low-end scooters tend to range from $800 - $1000 for 50cc models, $1000 - 1400 for 150cc models, and $1900 - $2200 for 250cc models. Roketa scooters, The Roadrunner I-scooters, and Chaunl scooters also fall into this category.

GT Sport 150cc
See Global Trailer Scooters

A company with a long standing reputation is Global Trailer, which sells, among many other things, a very nice line of Chuanl motorscooters, one of the more high quality inexpensive Chinese scooters. The Lance Motorscooter line however, is of somewhat higher quality with a higher price.

Again, we were not considering vehicles from Vespa, Honda, and Yamaha, which had two to five-times the price tag as they were outside the scope of this study. For a very high quality scooter for a somewhat more reasonable price, see Kymco Motorscooters. Made in Taiwan, not China, they rank with the best.

The 150cc RoadRunner Classic I-scooter. .

A dealer-supported machine is only slightly more expensive than the most inexpensive ones available ordered on the net and shipped to your door. After shipping charges are paid and assembly time is taken into account, there really is no difference in price. We recommend Jacar Motorscports (909) 596-9582 (909) 399-5116 (1260 W. Holt Blvd. Ontario, CA 91762) and their online Allpro Powersports store. There are no doubt many other to be added to this list, but Allpro is the only one we can endorse from direct personal experience. .

There are many and varied online sources for excellent (and not-so-excellent) scooters. We spoke with a researcher who had visited a number of Chinese factories with widely varying quality control policies and procedures, ranging from horrid dirt-floor workhouses to the very high-level quality control of the TANK factories. It was this information that aided us in deciding to go with TANK, which decision seems thusfar to have been a very sound one. A number of other Chinese Motorscooter brands with excellent quality/price ratios are now also available.

For other support equipment and ideas, our Essential Scooterist Kit is the result of much study and experimentation with items chosen for price as well as quality.