Planning to Buy a Scooter

Mk

Your analogy makes no sense whatsoever.

How do you compare hot dogging down a mountain on a motor bike while doing stunts to driving my car to work?

Cyrus

Pete, meet repeat.

Hello repeat

wolram

Sorry to hear that Jason $800 does sound ridiculous, over here a learner driver can buy a second hand car for say 1000 pounds but the insurance
in some areas can be more than that
I had not ridden a bike for 30yrs yet my insurance is 108 pounds.

JasonRox

It's not a motor bike.

How do you not see the analogy?

How likely is it that someone dies in a bike event? Hmm... probably less than people those who die in CAR ACCIDENTS!

JasonRox

I live in greedy North America with corrupted politicians who put their money into insurance companies.

A new young driver who wants to drive a 10 year old car with minimal coverage will pay about $3000CDN to start. (Car is under your name and you are primary driver.)

wolram

Crazy old me is going on a motorbike ride today, there is a 50% chance of rain but the sun is out now, things to remember, it has been raining for 3 days so loose gravel, i will be using country roads so muck left by tractors
exiting fields, there will be cars on the road so loony car drivers, i may have
to ride an isolated area so ufos.

JasonRox

No scooter for me. :(

The insurance prices are just INSANE!

A scooter can't even get a speeding ticket because they don't go fast enough and insurance is sky high!

Anyways, I wrote a message to the Provincial Minister and will be writing him a formal letter soon. I'm also going to go talk to our Local Provincial MP and will be writing an editorial to a newspaper about this problem.

How can we reduce smog when they are charging an arm and a leg on scooter insurance? Like, come on!

scorpa

That is absolute stupidity that insurance on a scooter would be so high, I mean come on it is a tiny little 50cc engine not a sportbike. Anyway sorry to hear its not going to work out for you, hopefully something good will come out of the letters you write. Good luck.

JasonRox

Let's hope the Prime Minister of Ontario can read.

wolram

[QUOTE=JasonRox]Let's hope the Prime Minister of Ontario can read. [/QUOTE
If he/she is any thing like ours he/she will have a plethora of underling to
do the reading, save your ink Jason, however i do know of a guy who had
the right idea.

JasonRox

I'll post the letter for the editorial soon. I'd like to have some CONSTRUCTIVE opinions of it when I'm done.

Cyrus

Why would insurance be cheap on a little scooter? You can't go fast enough to get out of a cars way, and if you do crash it's not going to be nice.

At least a bike can zip out of danger. The best you can do is pray.

Why do you need full year coverage for a bike you only ride in the summer?

scorpa

I don't know how it works in Ontario, but in Alberta you can save a lot of insurance money by taking a motorcycle training course....I don't know if the savings would also be for scooters as well though, you would have to check it out. The programs are very good though if you can get into one where they teach you the skill and then you test for your license at the end. Something you can look into anyway.

rcgldr

A coworker got an electric scooter. In the USA, these are legal on bicycle trails. This was one of the faster scooters, with a top speed near 25mph. The co-worker commuted by train, then use the scooter to commute from the train station to work and back to the train station.

It's called anabolic steriods.

peejake

The possiblility of it being stolen......Insurance is a must unless you are very sure you are not going to carsh or get your bike stolen....

Mk

Something I don't have.