Two-wheeler: Easy Rider

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Easy Rider

  • Winfried slice

The motorcycle boom runs out. Only one type continues: the scooter as second vehicle

It used to be simple: there was a great, Italian brand – Vespa -, and there was their drivers: a limited community mostly teen driver’s license owners who did not carry their wild time in front of family and autobesitz by motorcycle – but with the scooter.
Anno 1995 everything has become more complicated. Two-wheelers with body are always encountered more frequently under the name "Scooter". They have to do it, with trend and zeitgeist to do: Scooters today are today fashionable-spacy therefore as the spaceship from the "Muppets Show" or – Remember the Fifties – rather nostalgic shaped.
So classic antique, as some manufacturers shape the pieces of their new collection, the good old Vespa has never been. Against the Italian inventor of the "Wasp" (so called the narrow waist), now competitors from Germany and France, from Japan, Korea, Taiwan and India.
Around 120 different models Press the German market alone this year: the scooter promises shiny shops.
While the general boom in motorcycles rather flatten, the scooters record sensational sales increases. In the "Great Class" over 80 Cubiczenti meters, the sales figures increase by 50 percent annually.
Even better, the vehicles roll with a displacement up to 50 cubic centimeters. "The absolute winners", so Wolfgang Rauser from the market leader Vespa, "of which sells 75 000 per year."
16-year-old beginners, for whom this mokick class was once thought of, are likely to form the minority in the club soon. Vespa seller Rauser: "Roller are used by the whole family – for shopping, for the trip to work or as a fun maker."
The admission and tax-free fifties, to have from around 3,000 marks, swim with their maximum speed of 50 hour kilometers easily in city traffic with. Polite foods usually tolerate where parked cars are banished.
Easy Riding for Papi: Even motorists who so far knew motorized two-wheelers only from the shop window of their Honda dealer come up with modern, easy-care mini bladers right away. The electric starter saves the embarrassing bouncing on a kickstarter; A fully automatic control has replaced the joint-wearing manual circuit as well as the maintenance-free belt drive the sticky, gladly tearing chain. Windscreen brakes and modern lighting systems guarantee security.
Even refueling is no longer a problem: instead of spend the two-stroke oil on an extrasamer expensive into gasoline, the driver – as well as from his car checks the oil level on a separate tank and fills as needed.
Stummer Error: The trend for environmentally friendliness does the manufacturers seem to miss. The fuel consumption of the small two-stroke is high with around four liters to 100 kilometers – compared to cars – unacceptable high.
And only a fifth of the current models is equipped as standard with catalyst – exclusively with unregulated and thus less effective systems.
So the roller user escapes the chance of this summer: if under Hot Summer Mog actually driving bans are imposed, scooters have to stay the same way as old cars without regulated three-way catalyst. Unless the roller fan has an electric vehicle. This offers several manufacturers: maximum speeds up to 40 km / h and ranges up to 50 kilometers make the electric drive in scooters – in contrast to the situation with cars – for the useful alternative to the two-stroke engine.
Disadvantage: The comfort that a remote power plant takes over the production of energy and exhaust gases costs over 6000 marks.
Class question: Who goes what
Class new price tax / driving license insurance
Mokick roller with a displacement of from 2600 marks tax-free / class 1, 1a, 1b, less than 50 cc. Maximum Maximum 150 Mark 3, 4 Speed 50 km / h (from 16 years)
Lightweight troller with a displacement from 3100 Mark 14 Mark / Class 1, 1A, 1B to 80 CCM (from 1996: up to 125 CCM). Max. 480 Mark (KL. 3, 4 to maximum speed 80 km / h (from 16 years) 1.4. 80) *
Vehicle troller with a displacement from 3300 marks from 20 Mark / KL. 1, 1a over 80 CCM (from 1996: over 125 CCM). 140 marks from 18 years
Hyundai Cab 50 Displacement 49 CCM Power 5.5 hp Brake Front Slice Kat Unregulated Price 2999 Mark
Italjet Velocifero displacement 49 CCM Power 4.1 hp Brake Front Drum Kat No Price 4490 Mark
Hercules gipsy displacement 49 ccper power 3 hp brake front slice kat no price 3990 mark
Sanyang Duke 125 Displacement 125 CCM Power 10 hp Brake Front Slice Kat No Price 5200 Mark
Honda 250 Helix displacement 244 CCM Power 17 hp Brake Front Slice Kat No Price 10 470 Mark
Aprilia scarabeo displacement 49 ccper power 3 hp brake front drum kat unregulated price 3750 mark
Vespa Storm displacement 49 CCM power 4.2 hp Brake front slice KAT Optional Price 4450 Mark
Honda SJ 50 Bali displacement 49 CCM Power 4.5 hp Brake Front Drum Kat No Price 4440 Mark
Simson Gamma E power 2.3 hp. 40 km / h. Max. 50 km brake front slice Price 6435 Mark (2000 Mark more than corresponding. Gasoline model)
Eco-news
BMW proves: two-wheel drive and environmental awareness do not have to exclude. As the world’s first motorcycle manufacturer, Bayern now install the regulated catalyst as standard in all current models (exception: unregulated Cat at the small F 650). Motorcycle boss Walter Hasselkus hopefully: "We expect motorcycles to be excluded with Kat at Sommersmog from driving bans."
Who wants to move over 80 cubic centimeters, must be 18 years old and possess the motorcycle driver’s license – still. In 1996, 16-year-olds are also allowed to drive in 125s. Problem: Then the insurance premiums in this class will rising dramatically.
Electric scooter
Without exhaust gases through the city: Electric scooters make possible. The streamers are now offered by many renowned manufacturers: Hercules, Muz, Simson. Vespa even offers a hybrid vehicle: as a two-stroke gasoline engine, the "Zip" rolls 50 km / h; Switched on electric drive to the 25 km / h slow moped (Price: 5495 Mark). Disadvantage: The electric scooters drive – like e-cars – with outdated, heavy lead-gel batteries.

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