Piaggio Vespa 150GS, A friend owns this and doesnt like it that much. Waiting for Tata Nano, or Maruti 600.
The reasons are as follows
Tough to drive a two wheeler, the balance has to be there on hands
If you have a fat rider on the back (like me) it wobbles
pain of carrying 2 helmets
Mileage is OK
What about Rain or Sun problems
I dont think there is an air cooled scooter
4 cannot travel (but Ratan Tata has seen 5 travelling, so Nano came into being)
Lifters/Robbers get away with Scooters/Bikes very fast.
Now a Scooter Joke
How many times have you woken up in the morning after a hard night of drinking
and thought ’How did I get home?’ As hard as you try, you cannot piece together
your return journey from the bar to your home.
The answer to this puzzle
is that you used a beer scooter. The beer scooter is a mythical form of
transport, owned and leased out to drunks (without their knowledge) by Bacchus,
the Roman god of wine. Bacchus has branched out since the decrease in the
worship of the Roman pantheon and bought a large batch of these magical
devices.
The beer scooter works in the following fashion:
The
passenger reaches a certain level of drunkenness and the ’slurring gland’ begins
to give off a pheromone. Bacchus or one of his many sub-contractors detects the
pheromone and sends down a winged beer scooter.
The scooter scoops up the
passenger and deposits them in their bedroom via a trans-dimensional portal. It
is not cheap to run a beer scooter franchise, so a large portion of the
passenger’s in-pocket cash is taken as payment. This generates the second
question after a night out ’How did I spend so much money?’
Beer scooters
have a poor safety record and are thought to be responsible for 90% of all UDI
(Unidentified Drinking Injuries). An undocumented feature of the beer scooter is
the destruction of time segments during the trip. The nature of
trans-dimensional portals dictates that time will be lost, seemingly unaccounted
for. This generates the third question after a night out ’What
happened?’
With good intentions, Bacchus opted for the EMIT (Embarrassing
Moments In Time) add on, that automatically removes in descending order, those
parts in time regretted most. Unfortunately one person’s EMIT is not necessarily
the EMIT of another and quite often lost time is regained over a suitable
period.
Independent studies have also shown that beer goggles cause the
scooter’s navigation system to malfunction thus sending the passenger to the
wrong bedroom often with horrific consequences. With recent models including a
GPS, Bacchus made an investment in a scooter drive-thru chain specialising in
half eaten kebabs and pizza crusts. Another question answered!
For the
family man, beer scooters come equipped with flowers picked from other people’s
garden and Thump-A-Lot Boots. These boots are designed in such a way that no
matter how quietly you tip-toe, you are sure to wake up your other half. Special
anti-gravity springs ensure that you bump into every wall and the CTSGS (Coffee
Table Seeking Guidance System) explains the ring marked shins.
Most
useful of all is the on-board heater which allows you to get home from the bar
in sub-zero temperatures wearing just a T-shirt. The final add-on Bacchus saw
fit to invest in for some scooters is TAS (Tobacco Absorption System). This
explains how one person can apparently get through 60 Marlboro Lights in a
single night.