Gas price=Motor bike purchase

[dakotamouse]

Hey guys, if anyone is thinking about riding a motorcycle or scooter please take the ABATE motorcycle training course. It is well worth the money. You learn a lot and it will prepare you for taking your motorcycle license test. I love to ride but safety comes first.

[southpennrailroad]

Here is the bike I have on hold and will get out next week. Just when the weather changed to winter.

[southpennrailroad]

I can absolutely understand your frustration with gas prices, but you need to sit down with a calculator before you do this.

If you drive around the average 15,000 miles a year, four dollar a gallon gas puts you spending about eighty dollars a week in gas. If you can use that scooter for half of your driving, you can knock off 30 bucks a week in fuel cost. For a 1600 dollar purchase, that means you break even in a little over a year.

Me, I won't trade $30 a week for being that exposed and that slow getting where I am going. I'd skip some fast food, walk to the store a few times a month or something similar first.

The bike is not just for work but my hobby as well as going on camping trips and exploring the countryside for my research as well as store. I get 15 miles per gallon in my truck. Using my truck to travel back country roads is a waste and it can't get me deeper into the cleared railroad bed like a bike will. Many benefits compared to the truck. I am also stuck sitting in my trailer when I can get out using $40.00 worth of gas compared to using that much in gas just to get to a site and parking it and using that same amount just to explore. Trust me I spent all winter thinking about the advantages compared to just sitting around.

[CarlLaFong]

Be careful of those generic garden center and lawnmower shop Chinese made scooters. Most are of notoriously poor quality and there is little or no support when parts or service is needed. If they tell you that any motorcycle shop can work on them and supply parts, run away and don't look back. You could end up grounded because of a simple thing like a broken throttle cable

[dakotamouse]

Be careful of those generic garden center and lawnmower shop Chinese made scooters. Most are of notoriously poor quality and there is little or no support when parts or service is needed. If they tell you that any motorcycle shop can work on them and supply parts, run away and don't look back. You could end up grounded because of a simple thing like a broken throttle cable

I don't want to be a kill joy but I have to agree. Quality on some of these low cost scoots can be dicey. I think it was the state of Ohio that banned the sales of Chinese scoots because of serious safety issues.

[southpennrailroad]

Be careful of those generic garden center and lawnmower shop Chinese made scooters. Most are of notoriously poor quality and there is little or no support when parts or service is needed. If they tell you that any motorcycle shop can work on them and supply parts, run away and don't look back. You could end up grounded because of a simple thing like a broken throttle cable

I am purchasing this bike from a auto dealer who every time I go to see is working on one on a dedicated lift in their shop. Leiberth & Sons in Oakmont Pa. They have been selling them for years as I drive by them every day. I have watched them take them apart and like their service. They have a dedicated tech. I think I chose wisely.

Thanks