Fast Gas Scooters

By Hassan Ouda

Fast Gas Scooters - A Great Way to Save Money and Help the Environment!

A good fast gas scooter is a great way to cut your fuel costs and to help the environment at the same time. There are two main types: ride-on scooters and stand-on scooters.

Ride-on fast gas scooters are compact and so they only need a small amount of gas compared to a car and they are real easy to park! I have a RoadRunner iScooter 2009 model (RR50SBM) Gas Saver Scooter and it's a really cool, fast way to get around in the city. Compared with electric scooters you'll see that they're faster and have a much better distance range.

The RR50SBM is a fast gas scooter because of its 50cc one-cylinder, four-stroke engine with automatic choke, which give it a top speed of about 35 mph. This is faster than electric scooters which only have a maximum speed of about 20 mph. And I get quick acceleration which is important on the road because sometimes you need to be able to move fast to avoid idiots. It's also got front disk brakes with an ABS, which you never know when you're going to need.

One of the best things about owning fast gas scooters is at the end of the week when you look in your wallet and see that you haven't spent all your cash on gasoline for a car. I get a fantastic 102 miles per gallon and that makes me feel real happy. I've got a trunk at the back so I can carry things with me and a good, strong anti-theft disk lock which, let's face it, we need on everything these days.

My RoadRunner fast gas scooter came with a 12V/7Ah low maintenance battery and charger included in the price, which was also low. It cost me only 799 dollars which was a real good price, considering the list price is 1,299 dollars! If you buy online like I did, you can get good prices on discount gas powered motorized scooters because it's easy to compare all the different offers.

If you want a fast gas scooter just for driving around your neighborhood I reckon a stand-on scooter would do the job. The cheapest I've seen are from the X-tremens XG range and their prices start from 374.00 dollars which is a pretty good price for something that's going to save you money on the gas you waste using your car for short journeys!

The fast gas scooter XG-550 is a two-wheeler with an EPA certified 2-stroke 50 cc gas engine which comes with an easy electric start and a back-up pull-up starter. Its top speed is 35 mph and it can keep this up for distances over 20 miles, so it's a pretty useful gadget to have around. This model from the XG range of fast gas scooters has 10" aluminum mag wheels and a dual front shock suspension system to give you a smooth ride.

It has front and rear disc brakes and is easy to fold and the variable twist grip throttle is a handy safety feature, because if you fall off it stops. There are plenty of stores on the internet so you can take a look at all the different types of gas motorized scooters. My neighbors keep a fast gas scooter on their RV and use it a lot when they go on trips, kids use them to get around campuses and now seniors are starting to use them too.

When people started to talk about the way that cars were polluting the air and that we would have to stop driving so much, I couldn't see any way that would happen. But now that these fast gas scooters are getting so popular, I reckon that things are changing and we are starting to see that you don't need a whole car when you only want to go on a short trip. Who knew that one of the solutions to global warming would be to get us all riding around on fast gas scooters!

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PIAGGIO Liberty Elle (2010) specifications and wallpapers download

Written by pakdenono on Feb-6-10 4:15pm

From: scooterwallpapers.blogspot.com

Over the next week or so, we’ll be bringing you a scooter a day, with the 2010 scooter models available kicking off today with the lovely Piaggio Liberty and Liberty “Elle”. Future model profiles will include scooters from Aprilia, Peugeot, Kymco and more. The Liberty is a successful lightweight, high-wheel scooter for Piaggio, maintaining its 2009 looks and technology, and is available in 50cc, 125cc and 150 cc four-stroke versions. There is also a 50cc two-stroke available.

The Liberty “Elle” 2010 version is designed specifically for women, with a lower seat height of 765 mm for the 50cc, and 775 mm for the 125 cc, which is 20 mm lower than the standard versions. The Liberty Elle comes in pink colour, with a dedicated top case and “Elle” branded helmet.

The Piaggio Liberty has a tubular steel frame, and ten spoke alloy wheels measuring 16 inches at the front and 14 inches at the rear. They are shod with 90/80 and 110/80 tyres. The rear has a 140 mm drum brake and the front has a 240 mm front disc with a double piston calliper.

The Liberty engine range includes the powerful 125 and 150 cc versions with seven litre fuel tank, while the smaller 50cc versions are great for city riding for younger and female users, with the choice of either a two-stroke or four-stroke.

Style
The frontal view is defined by the handlebar mounted headlamp - with its subtly triangular design a reference to the headlight of its extremely successful and imposing high wheeled big brother, the Beverly - and the highly protective leg shield which an elegant chromed accent bearing the Piaggio logo.

Chrome accents also enhance other elements, such as the turn signals with clear lenses, the oddments storage compartment and the fork stanchion guards. A chrome surround also graces the large, clear and easily readable instrument panel, designed to match the looks of the vehicle and featuring a speedometer, odometer and fuel gauge. Completing the instrumentation are a comprehensive array of indicator lights (fuel reserve, dipped and full beam headlamp, turn indicators and oil warning light) and a practical clock with calendar function.

In addition to chrome accents, the style of the Liberty is further enhanced by number of sophisticated details emphasising the outstanding quality of the vehicle, such as the painted rear grab handle, the body-coloured platform spoiler and the heat shield for the silencer, with its more modern, sporty design.

The low saddle (only 785 mm on the 50 and 795 mm on the 125 and 150) allows riders of all statures to reach the ground with ease, and it’s is also longer for greater passenger comfort, while the passenger also gains sturdy and ergonomic fold-out footrests.

Chassis
Liberty it’s equipped with a high strength tubular steel frame and 10 spoke alloy wheels, measuring 16” at the front and 14” at the rear and shod with 90/80 and 110/80 tyres respectively.

The brake system is composed of a reliable and modular 140 mm drum brake at the rear joined by a 240 mm diameter front disc, stopped by a new double piston calliper. The result is powerful braking ensuring short stopping distances and offering great modularity.

Engines
Piaggio Liberty stands out as one of the most versatile scooters on the market with a comprehensive choice of proven engines: ranging from the sparkling 2-stroke 50 cc and the economical 4-stroke 50 cc to the classic, perfectly balanced 125 cc and the modern 150 cc, both of which 4-strokes.
The 2 valve air cooled 150 cc unit gives the Liberty a decisive character and eager responsiveness in city traffic, while offering remarkable versatility, making this the ideal scooter for both longer urban routes and extra urban commuting.

With the 125 cc 4-stroke unit, the Liberty strikes the perfect compromise between performance, accessibility and economy. Boasting the same chassis features as its bigger 150 cc brother, Liberty 125 is the easy solution for metropolitan mobility whether riding alone or with a passenger.
Liberty 125 and Liberty 150 both come equipped with a 7 litre tank: together with the extremely economical engines it offers an even longer range than ever before.

The two 50 cc engine variants offer younger and female users the choice between the verve of a 2-stroke and the impressive efficiency of the extraordinarily economical 4-stroke version.

Equipment and accessories
To match the urban vocation of the Liberty, the Piaggio design team focused particularly on versatility and ease of use. Liberty comes as standard with a rear luggage rack and fold-out passenger footrests. In addition to the large and practical flat footrest platform, a compartment under the saddle large enough for a demi-jet helmet and an additional compartment at the rear of the leg shield offer even more space for carrying objects.

Engine specifications 50cc:

Single cylinder 4-stroke
Piaggio Hi-PER4
49.9 cc
39 mm / 41.8 mm

or

Single cylinder 2-stroke
Piaggio Hi-PER2
49.4 cc
40 / 39.3 mm

Starter Electric and kick starter
Cooling Forced air cooling
Transmission Automatic CVT continuously variable transmission with torque limiter
Clutch Automatic centrifugal dry clutch
Frame Single cradle tubular steel structure with die cast reinforcements
Front suspension Hydraulic telescopic fork
Rear suspension Hydraulic mono-shock
Front brake 240 mm Ø disc with double piston (2 x 30 mm Ø) floating calliper.
Rear brake 140 mm Ø drum
Front tyre Tubeless 90/80-16”
Rear tyre Tubeless 110/80-14”
Length 1935mm
Width 760 mm (at brake levers)
Saddle height 785 mm (765 mm Liberty Elle 50 4T)
Wheelbase 1320 mm
Fuel tank capacity 6 litres including 1 litre reserve
Euro homologation Euro 2

Transmission for scooters

Honda Motor Company, Ltd. (Japanese: 本田技研工業株式会社, Honda Giken Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha?, Honda Technology Research Institute Company, Limited) listen (help·info) (TYO: 7267) is a Japanese multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.

Honda is the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year.[3] Honda surpassed Nissan in 2001 to become the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer.[4][5] As of August 2008[update], Honda surpassed Chrysler as the fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the United States. Honda is the sixth largest automobile manufacturer in the world.

Honda was the first Japanese automobile manufacturer to release a dedicated luxury brand, Acura in 1986. Aside from their core automobile and motorcycle businesses, Honda also manufactures garden equipment, marine engines, personal watercraft and power generators, amongst others. Since 1986, Honda has been involved with artificial intelligence/robotics research and released their ASIMO robot in 2000. They have also ventured into aerospace with the establishment of GE Honda Aero Engines in 2004 and the Honda HA-420 HondaJet, scheduled to be released in 2011. Honda spends about 5% of its revenues into R&D.[6]

From a young age, Honda's founder, Soichiro Honda (本田 宗一郎, Honda Sōichirō) had a great interest in automobiles. He worked as a mechanic at a Japanese tuning shop, Art Shokai, where he tuned cars and entered them in races. A self-taught engineer, he later worked on a piston design which he hoped to sell to Toyota. The first drafts of his design were rejected, and Soichiro worked painstakingly to perfect the design, even going back to school and pawning his wife's jewelry for collateral. Eventually, he won a contract with Toyota and built a factory to construct pistons for them, which was destroyed in an earthquake. Due to a gas shortage during World War II, Honda was unable to use his car, and his novel idea of attaching a small engine to his bicycle attracted much curiosity. He then established the Honda Technical Research Institute in Hamamatsu, Japan, to develop and produce small 2-cycle motorbike engines. Calling upon 18,000 bicycle shop owners across Japan to take part in revitalizing a nation torn apart by war, Soichiro received enough capital to engineer his first motorcycle, the Honda Cub. This marked the beginning of Honda Motor Company, who would grow a short time later to be the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles by 1964.

The Case For Gas Scooters - Why your family should consider owning one

Sure gas powered scooters are noisy, a bit smoky, require maintenance and dogs love to chase them. But they can also give your kids an often overlooked advantage when they go out to make it on their own.

It was about a hundred degrees, with no air-conditioning in a control room still under construction in Saudi Arabia. I was in my early 20's, there to start up a pair of 50MW gas turbines. Laid out in front of me was the internals of a hydraulic ratchet used to keep the hot, turbine shaft rotating when it shut down so it wouldn't bend as it cooled. This particular timing valve wouldn't work properly, would take months to get a new one, and we were due to make power in a few weeks. The massive customer manual advised "Not field serviceable. To be disassembled only by factory service technician".

In less than a day I had totally disassembled this 25 pound mass of intricate valves, springs, electro mechanical actuators, cleaned it up and reinstalled it using basic hand tools from a cheap tool kit. I never had a doubt I could make it work. Why? In part because I had the opportunity to own, and continually repair a go-kart that I made way back in Junior High School. A go- kart that taught me how to fix seal leaks, grind valves, clean carburetors, set spark timing, pull flywheels and set torque values. A go-kart that taught me a valuable lesson on gear ratios when I managed to get it up to 35MPH one memorable afternoon and well exceeded my braking capacity.

Until you pull a casing apart and hear a few random parts drop and then have to figure out where they go. Until you work out how to preload the kick-start spring in the guts of a Honda 50 scooter. Until you diagnose a partially sheared key in the fly-wheel of your go-kart engine you don't won't develop that I-Can-Fix-Just-About-Anything confidence that carries over to your work, reaching your financial goals, your personal relationships and your self confidence. Don't let your children miss that golden window to develop their mechanical skills.

Fixing things, being handy, call it what you want, can be picked up by younger kids just like they learn to play musical instruments, learn languages and develop computer skills faster than we adults. But you have to provide the platform. You have to provide something beyond a few Lego toys or an Erector set. That's where an inexpensive gas scooter comes in.

Gas Scooters are incredibly fun to ride. They have all the elements that appeal to kids. A sense of speed; the noise, the closeness to the ground, the wind on your face all make you feel that you are going faster than you are. The command of a power source; such a small effort to accelerate and brake strongly. And for kids that own gas scooters the ability to learn how to fix them. Fixing something that was previously broke is even better than doing great magic tricks because you have created value where only hours before there wasn't any.

Fixing a gas powered scooter gives you the confidence to work on your car, to take care of your pool, to start up power plants, to pursue a mechanical engineering degree, be a civil engineer, architect, the list goes on. Watch your children dive in to figure out what's wrong when it won't start, longing to hear that engine sputter back to life as reward for their efforts. Small gas engines are a wonderful incentive mechanism. You cannot imagine the feeling of satisfaction you get when a "dead" engine roars back to life as a result of your efforts.

When I look back at what brought me to the point where I am now four things stick out clearly in my mind:

• I learned to juggle while in the 8th grade.

• I learned ball room dancing in the 9th grade

• I learned to type in the 10th grade

• I had a home made go-kart, motorcycles and model airplanes in junior high school.

By far, gaining proficiency in mechanical repair has helped me the most. I encourage you to provide your children a means to develop this skill set, and what better way to do it than by owning a gas scooter.

How to Build a Gas Scooter

originated by:Anonymous, Sondra C, Matt, Flickety (see all)

Using an old plain scooter and a chainsaw engine, you can build your own gas powered vehicle.

Steps

1. 1
   
   Get a scooter with hand brakes and inflatable tires.Scooters with hand brakes have the best stopping power. Inflatable tires allow for the vehicle to handle rougher terrain. Child scooters such as the "razor" are not suitable for this project, because they use hard rubber wheels with pre-pressed bearings. One may also build a scooter frame (requires welding).
2. 2
   Prepare the chainsaw engine by removing the bar and chain from the machine. Leave the rest of the chainsaw intact. Leaving the motor in the chainsaw housing makes it easier to attach to the scooter’s deck.
3. 3
   
   Unscrew the chainsaw’s centrifugal clutch from the crank shaft. The power from the motor will be transmitted through sprockets and a bicycle chain.The obvious problem with this approach is that you will never be able to "idle" with the engine running and the scooter stationary, and you will have to lift the rear wheel off the ground to get it started. One may also keep the clutch, and use a chain that can fit to the sprocket on the clutch bell. If your chainsaw uses a 2-stroke motor (you have to add oil to the gas) make sure to leave the centrifugal clutch on. Coasting down a hill without the clutch will eventually burn out the motor, since the motor will be forced to move without the lubricating fuel-oil mixture.
4. 4
   Bolt the other sprocket to the rear axle of the scooter. This may be easier said than done--carefully select your scooter knowing that you may have to modify the rear wheel mount, and fix the sprocket onto the rear wheel.
5. 5
   Place the motor on the rear of the scooter platform to ensure the sprockets are in-line.
6. 6
   Drill holes through the platform and chainsaw motor housing so that they can be bolted together. Note that most modern chainsaw housings are made of plastic and you will need to be very strategic about where you are attaching bolts, and the size of washers you use (to keep them from just pulling through the plastic).
7. 7
   Wrap the bike chain around the sprockets. Remove the necessary amount of links so that the chain is tight.
8. 8
   Attach the hand accelerator to one of the handle bars.
9. 9
   
   Wire the hand accelerator to the ‘on and off’ wires on the chainsaw motor. This allows the rider to control when the engine will power the scooter.

Columbia company offers designated driver service with scooters

Posted: Dec 30, 2009 11:06 AM

Updated: Dec 30, 2009 8:09 PM

By Jordan Sandler - bio | email

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - As New Year's Eve approaches, officers say it's important to remember common sense like calling a cab or having a designated driver if you plan to drink.

Oddly enough, there's a service in the Capital City that you may not be aware of when you are too impaired to drive.

It might remind you of the movie 'Dumb and Dumber.'

"We use foldable scooters, FLEXI foldable scooters," explained Hall Todd, from Valet-US.

Todd started his scooter service three weeks ago.

"Originally the idea came from London," said Todd. "If someone goes out and decides they can't drive, they give us a call. We dispatch a driver on a foldable scooter. They fold it up, put it in the back of the customer's car and drive the customer and their car home."

It's convenient and comfortable for you. For Todd and his drivers, the ride back is the sacrifice.

"Oh yeah, it does get cold, for sure," he says.

Todd says the scooters are completely street legal, equipped with turning signals. They get up to about 35 miles per hour and an impressive 60 miles to the gallon. Todd bought six of the scooters at $1,300 apiece.

But any new idea will have it's skeptics.

"I think I'd got to the traditional taxi route," said Howard Yale. "Do they stay with you? Do they spend the night at your house or whatever? I'm not with that."

"My car's a mess," said Garrick Turner. "I can't not imagine anywhere in my car that someone could put a scooter."

"Whoever came up with it is a genius," said Parker Melton. "It's gonna save a lot of gas also."

"It can fit in just about any car," Todd explained. "It folds up to about a two-by-two cube."

Todd says if the scooter doesn't fit, he'll call an actual car help get you home for the same price.

Valet US operates Tuesday through Saturday 8pm – 3am. They can drive you 10 miles from the downtown Columbia area. They do not drive on freeways.

The cost is $10 for a pick-up fee and then $3 a mile after that. It's a $10 flat rate for students.

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