Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Street Legal Gas Powered Scooters.

By Owen Jones


So, you have been thinking about purchasing a gas driven two-wheeler? If you have, gas powered scooters are probably the best choice to start with. The majority of people who purchase gas powered scooters are worried about whether a gas powered scooter is street legal in traffic. This is not surprising every motorist has had the bad luck to get stuck behind a slow gas powerd scooter at some time or another and has wished that the scooter would pull over.

The speed of those gas powered scooters was virtually non-existent. However, modern gas powered scooters can keep up the traffic. It may not be street legal to take a gas powerd scooter or any scooter on the highway, but they do have the power to travel at high speeds, although the speed necessary to keep up with the flow of motorway traffic may overwhelm a gas powered scooter. They are just not designed for sustained high speed travel.

Having said all this, gas powered scooters are almost the same as smaller versions of motorcycles. They can get up to a top speed of about 75 mph. That is not too disappointing, is it? But it is ideal for zooming around town as they were designed for doing.

As far as fuel economy goes, most gas powered scooters can accomplish 65 mpg, which is really quite exceptional millage. Furthermore, they usually have a fuel tank that can hold about three gallons of gas, which gives them a range of about 200 miles.

Put another way, if you used your gas powered scooter every day, every month you would probably have to fill the scooter up 3 to 4 times say, once a week, if that. If you compare that to a cars mileage per gallon, it is probably between a fifth and a quarter the cost, less if you are talking about big cars like SUVs. That is a massive economy with the way gas prices are sure to be headed.

Gas powered motor scooters are so very easy to operate too. Owners will not have a problem with changing gears like with a motorcycle, as they are mostly automatic or semi-automatic these days. All the owner will have to do is: get on, switch on and twist the handle for gas. That is it and the scooter will smoothly take off in the direction you point it.

The maintenance of a gas powered scooter is pretty much like the maintenance of a motorcycle, car or truck. The motor scooters oil should be dumped responsibly and changed every 2,000 miles or so and a complete tune-up should be done every 5,000 miles. This may vary slightly according to the manufacturers manual. It is recommended that one of the higher grade fuels be used for gas powered scooters.

It is of course up to you, but a general guideline is that 87 octane fuel is cheaper than all the other choices because the lower the number the less refined is the gas, so it is not as clean as 91 or 93 octane fuel. 93 octane has an agent added to the fuel that will guard the moving parts of the engine and help to keep it clean over your gas powered scooters long lenth of life.

Last but not least, change the fuel filter often as this will help keep muck and sludge from getting into your engine thereby causing friction and check the spark plugs every 2,000 to 3,000 miles and, as necessary, adjust the gap with feeler gauges. This should help preserve your gas powered scooter and keep it on the road giving great, inexpensive service for many years to come.




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