If you’d like to save some money on your scooter purchase, consider used or cheap gas scooters to get you from point A to point B.
Choosing A Gas Scooter
People today have started looking for ways to save money, especially when it comes to transportation. Money spent on gas accounts for the majority of costs to operating a vehicle. To help reduce those costs, you want to look into smaller vehicles. Compact cars and becoming more popular because of there better gas mileage, but you can achieve the best gas mileage with a even smaller vehicle like a scooter. Scooters have increased in popularity due to their high fuel efficiency. Scooters can vary in cost depending on size, features and manufacturer. If you are just looking to get into something at a low cost, then you can find an number of cheap gas scooters.
Some inexpensive scooters include brands like Go Ped and X-Treme. Go Ped has a few different lines to choose from. The City Sport is one of their cheap gas scooters. This scooter is a stand on scooter that is gas powered. Its tank will hold 1 liter of gas which can take you about 26 miles. It can reach top speeds of about 20 miles per hour and costs only about $510. If you are looking for a scooter that you can sit on, then the Go-Ped Riot may be a better match. This scooter can go about 30 miles per hour and has a furl tank capacity of 1.5 liters. This scooter costs a bit more at about $1120.
X-Treme makes an electric start gas powered sit down scooter for less then the Go-Ped City Sport. The XG-470 scooter costs only about $416 and can traveling at speeds up to 30 miles per hour and will go about 20 miles on one tank.
If you want something more than just a cheap gas scooter, then you should be looking at scooters like the Honda Silver Wing or a Kawasaki Scooter. The Silver Wing is a great machine that looks really nice. In fact you won’t feel like you are driving a scooter at all. It can go up to 110 miles per hour and one tank of gas will take you about 130 miles. This scooter will cost you almost $8000.
You can compromise with a mid-level scooter like a Q Link Scooter. The Matador 150 has a 4 stroke 12hp engine and gets good gas mileage. This scooter will cost only about $2100.
The gas scooter you will choose will depend on what you want it for, how much you are willing to spend and what you want it to look like, so shop around wisely for the best option.