Bought another scooter...

[GeoffH]

We've got a Vios in CDO and the family have the Avanza in Ozamiz and SWMBO has a Mio 125 so I'm not really sure I needed a scooter as well (ignore the blue scooter in the mirror, that belongs to SWMBO's brother).

For a while I thought about buying a 'big bike' but I don't think I'll get much use out of it and I'd worry about leaving it unattended if I used it to go to the shops.

But I've been riding bikes with manual gears and foot pegs since I was belting around the farm on a Bombadier 50cc when I was a kid and I've owned almost 50 motorbikes since then, currently my ride in Oz is a 2017 HD Street Glide.

I just can't get used to sitting with my feet on a flat floor and just twisting a throttle (like with the Mio), it's easy enough... but it just doesn't feel right.

But when I was young and broke I rode an early Honda Cub with semi-auto and it was unbreakable and whilst it didn't have a clutch it didn't feel 'wrong' like full auto scooters do to me.

 

So... to make an already long story shorter... I just bought a Honda 125cc Wave Alpha (underbone semi-auto with 4 gears) which is the spiritual successor to the old Honda Cub.

I'm sure lots of HD riders wouldn't be seen dead riding something like this but I'm too old and fat to care what people think of what I look like LOL.

 

Right now I'm in Australia sorting out a lease for a property I own here but I'm back in CDO next week., and of course the bike (which had to be ordered) arrived when I'm not there yet so SWMBO took great delight in sending me a photo of it and saying 'your baby has arrived'

 

 

 

 

Edited July 20, 2018 by GeoffH

[Dave Hounddriver]

19 minutes ago, GeoffH said:

I just bought a Honda 125cc Wave Alpha

Good choice.  I'd ride that as a commuter.  In fact I once took one on a road trip around Cebu and Leyte.  Reliable bike.

[Old55]

I haven’t been on a bike since 86. Never thought about it but there are automatic transmission scooters now. You’re right Geoff that would be very strange.

Sweet scooter!

Edited July 20, 2018 by Old55

[robert k]

I had a Suzuki GD 110, reliable economical little beast. Hand clutch as they say here. I let the gf ride it and that's how I learned it would run upside down.

[virginprune]

I have just recently bought a Mio Aerox, with it's 155cc engine it has good acceleration. The body is quite a bit bigger and heavier than the basic 125cc model. The last bike I rode was a number of years ago in the UK, that was a Kawasaki 500. Having never really been a serious biker I find the twist and go works for me, especially at my age, 63.