Daughter just bought a Verona 50cc Scooter (Harley, ride, bike)
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Let's hope she is allowed to ride it on sidewalks. It's just as likely to get you killed on the road as a Big Harley. They're in the process of making bike lanes all around our city. Bikes mix better with pedestrians on sidewalks than they do with traffic. In certain areas a scooter like that could be very handy and fairly safe. Busy streets are another thing altogether. I hope she is very, very careful. Oh ......she needs a helmet for sure ...required or not.
The 50cc scooters top out around 30. They're fine for buzzing around a city where traffic doesn't really move that fast and much more limited in suburbs where most traffic is directed onto thoroughfares with speed limits above 35.
And since most motorcyclists kill themselves in single-vehicle collisions, no it's not as dangerous as a Harley. It's too slow to be all that dangerous.... it's just limited in what it can do since it's not really fast enough to go on a lot of streets.
It's a disposable toy. Real 50cc two stroke scooters can do up to 50-60 miles an hour depending on the weight of the rider/wind/road. What that thing is, is just fast enough to be dangerous and unable to get out of your own way. Short of riding in a residential area, it's near useless, except to hurt yourself if you fall off without gear.
The 50cc scooters top out around 30. They're fine for buzzing around a city where traffic doesn't really move that fast and much more limited in suburbs where most traffic is directed onto thoroughfares with speed limits above 35.
And since most motorcyclists kill themselves in single-vehicle collisions, no it's not as dangerous as a Harley. It's too slow to be all that dangerous.... it's just limited in what it can do since it's not really fast enough to go on a lot of streets.
i agree at 24 your less likely to die than going 50 but scooters are not safer than bikes and i would actually argue they are more dangerous.
ill occatonially talk to a 50 year old guy when out on my bike and run across some guy on a scooter. he'll tell me how his wife wouldn't let him get a bike "too dangerous" so compromise was buying a scooter.
scooters sit lower to the ground so your less visible to traffic. scooters have less pickup than a bike so you can't get out of the way of danger as easily. scooters have small tires which can be gobbled up by a pothole where as a motorcycle tire would roll right over, same thing with obstacles in the road a bike could probably run over a 2x4 and keep on riding a scooter your going to be laid out. 24mph is fast enough to kill or maim yourself. flying off a scooter at 24mph and landing on your head or neck will kill you just as easily as at 50mph.
I hate those things, especially when people ride them on the main roads here where the limit is 45. More than once I've come around a bend and damn near killed someone on a scooter. Plus they tie up traffic to no end and cause problems with people trying to go around them.
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