Sunday, July 27, 2008

Different Scooter Manufacturers

So, there are a ton of different scooter manufacturers to choose from when looking to buy a scooter. There is the most notable scooter company, Vespa http://www.vespa.com/, who is owned by Piaggio, which originated in Italy. However, today, even Vespa outsources its manufacturing to Asian countries. The most involved of these countries in the scooter manufacturing industry are Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China. Honda www.powersports.honda.com/scooters and Yamaha www.yamaha-motor.com/sport are two notable Japanese companies, which both began by producing cheap "knock offs" of the European designs. But, today, they have become dominant players in the motorsports industry, moving up the ladder in quality. There are also a robust amount of scooters that can be purchased online, including Tank http://www.tank-sports.com/, Vento http://www.vento.com/, Lance http://www.lancepowersports.com/, SUNL http://www.sunl.com/, Baron http://www.baronmotorcycles.com/, CF Moto http://www.cfmoto-usa.com/, Roketa http://www.roketa.com/, Ricardo http://www.ricardo.com/, Jonway, Lifan, Motofino, QLink, Schwinn, ZNEN and many more. We will not go into details of these brands because we do not reccomend that anyone purchases these products. There have been many lawsuits regarding injuries caused from individuals riding scooters of these various manufacturers. Some have reported brakes locking up, throttles sticking, brakes failing, headlights failing when riding at night, tires blowing out, etc. Those only include some of the problems that lead to injuries, which is our main concern. The list goes on for other non-injury related problems and failures. There are a few other new companies that have good products, but we will have a future blog regarding these.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

The Scooter World

So, there are many scooters out there these days, including Vespa, Yamaha, Honda, Piaggio and Kymco to name a few. Scooters are becoming popular once again. They are moving into mainstream like the Toyota Prius did a few months back. Before it was not unlikely if you heard people refer to them as "gay" or "hippy mobiles". But today, people say, "where can I get one". Are they in stock? Because in most cases, there are so much demand for scooters, the top producers cannot produce enough.