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« Reply #2534 on: August 17, 2021, 01:13:00 PM »
Is that Honda a 2 stroke or did they all get eliminated?

I looked it up.

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« Reply #2535 on: August 17, 2021, 01:46:59 PM »
Most of Honda's bikes are for the global market so they would have to meet Euro 5 emissions as well as the US standards.
If the bike has small sales, some exceptions are made here in the US.  An example is the Suzuki DR650 dual sport, which is what I ride



My 2000 is very close to the 2021 shown below.  It still has a carburetor and no ABS or traction control.  Around 98% of the parts interchange between 1996 and 2021 models.  It is sold in the US, Australia, and some South American countries.  Every year DR riders expect it will have to be discontinued but it looks like it will make it to 2022.

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« Reply #2536 on: August 17, 2021, 07:03:33 PM »
My dad drove a scooter in Okinawa, ca. 1957-60.  I think it was a Lambretta.

In my childhood memory, it looked like this.

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« Reply #2537 on: August 17, 2021, 07:31:41 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on August 17, 2021, 07:03:33 PM
My dad drove a scooter in Okinawa, ca. 1957-60.  I think it was a Lambretta.

In my childhood memory, it looked like this.



Nice.  I've been thinking about buying an old scooter and restoring it.  

It would be a lot of work, but less work than a 26' Airstream, plus it would fit in my garage, so...
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« Reply #2538 on: August 17, 2021, 07:35:03 PM »
the Cushman Eagle scooters are popular around here


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« Reply #2539 on: August 18, 2021, 08:26:49 AM »
These little scooter things are popular around here, and dangerous when folks zip by on sidewalks (which is illegal apparently).  I've started not moving out of their way.  It's my sidewalk.  
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« Reply #2540 on: August 18, 2021, 09:32:53 AM »
giv'em a shoulder, forearm or elbow
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« Reply #2541 on: August 18, 2021, 11:30:32 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on August 18, 2021, 08:26:49 AM
These little scooter things are popular around here, and dangerous when folks zip by on sidewalks (which is illegal apparently).  I've started not moving out of their way.  It's my sidewalk. 
Is it worse than the swarms of scooters in a lot of large European cities?  I'm amazed watching them fly around in all directions.  I've seen a few funny wrecks, but I'm honestly shocked and impressed that it doesn't happen a LOT more often.

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« Reply #2542 on: August 18, 2021, 01:16:36 PM »
Whatever happened to the Segway?

That was going to revolutionize transportation.
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« Reply #2543 on: August 18, 2021, 01:20:22 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 18, 2021, 11:30:32 AM
Is it worse than the swarms of scooters in a lot of large European cities?  I'm amazed watching them fly around in all directions.  I've seen a few funny wrecks, but I'm honestly shocked and impressed that it doesn't happen a LOT more often.
It is for folks walking on sidewalks.  I wondered if the Parisian scooters were 2 strokes, they sound like it, tinny and polluting like crazy.

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« Reply #2544 on: August 18, 2021, 02:43:23 PM »
We don't have any full-sized scooter on sidewalk issues.

For a while, we had an issue with those stand-up electric scooters that you can rent by the minute.  Companies like Lime and Byrd and whatnot, dumped off thousands of them all over the city sidewalks.  People were causing all kinds of problems for pedestrians, and also crashing into folks on the street.  And they'd just leave them lying around all over, basically trash on all of the sidewalks.  Some folks got so mad they'd go around at night collecting them and dumping them into garbage dumpsters, or creeks, or the lake.  

That was pre-COVID-lockdowns.  When all the people disappeared from the city streets for 6 months, so did all those scooters.  
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« Reply #2545 on: August 18, 2021, 02:52:20 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 18, 2021, 02:43:23 PM
We don't have any full-sized scooter on sidewalk issues.

For a while, we had an issue with those stand-up electric scooters that you can rent by the minute.  Companies like Lime and Byrd and whatnot, dumped off thousands of them all over the city sidewalks.  People were causing all kinds of problems for pedestrians, and also crashing into folks on the street.  And they'd just leave them lying around all over, basically trash on all of the sidewalks.  Some folks got so mad they'd go around at night collecting them and dumping them into garbage dumpsters, or creeks, or the lake. 

That was pre-COVID-lockdowns.  When all the people disappeared from the city streets for 6 months, so did all those scooters. 
We had some scooters like those.  They were being left around too.

Enthusiasm for them seemed to wane after a kid took his little brother on a ride on Riverside Drive after dark and they got hit and killed.
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« Reply #2546 on: August 18, 2021, 02:59:31 PM »
Yeah I could see how that might put a damper on things.  

As far as I know, nobody here got killed, but LOTS of broken bones and hospital visits.  

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« Reply #2547 on: August 18, 2021, 03:04:42 PM »
Just saw an ad for these.



Aventon e-bikes.
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