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You live in the UK, and don't own a car?
Do you have very good public transport?
A few yrs ago I refused further repairs to a 25 yr old Jetta (great car BTW!) and decided to work commute in Ohio with a LIKE200I. We have nearly no city bus service - snow mornings meant poor wife driving me in to my work - interrupting her preparing for work! Then bussing to within a mile of my house after work....and lovely, brisk walk on road's berm.
Dumb plan.
Father-in-law eventually tried to sell me his nearly new Chevy truck. I refused to cave on my dumb plan. A year later he handed me the title & keys to the truck - gratis.
The family concensus was that I would be found frozen in a snowbank come spring thaw.
My family envies anyone living in a city which has good public transportation!
The USA sorely needs it!
Stig

As Viper has already said Stig, it depends where you are in the UK.  Here in rural Cheshire, I am lucky enough to have a bus roughly every hour into the two nearest towns so, in extremis, I do have an alternative and it's free as I'm now of retirement age! 

That said, I did have 20-odd years of my working life where I only owned a motorcycle and travelled the length and breadth of the UK in the course of my management duties.  My best year saw me clock up 45K miles on a Triumph Daytona 900.  Getting to meetings in a sharp suit, collar & tie took logistics of an interesting nature sometimes.  The worst being getting changed on a public car park behind a parked car - fortunately in the days here before the proliferation of CCTV cameras!

Welcome Paco to the forum. I have driven scooters for years in Rome and now I continue to do so in the US. It is much easier on the hands, back and legs...lol

Dean

That's so true Dean.  My back plays me up on occasion such that I found I was riding my scooter far more than my racing crouch Daytona 955i!  Forced a reappraisal, after which I reluctantly traded in my 20 year-old Triumph in for a Street Triple and I find the more upright stance on that much more to my back's liking 

Day long comfort on either mount now which suits me fine.

From Japan days, I remember little Japanese girls on 50cc scooters, smoking Macho Man Marines on their Harleys in traffic. Funny.

That I would pay to see!!   

Thanks Stig and yes, they are.  Kymco UK say this is the first such occurrence, but then they would say that wouldn’t they? [emoji1787]


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Pretty much on the money there Stig!  Turns out the nut on the variator hadn’t been torqued up right (presumably) and had worked loose wreaking all sorts of havoc.

Still, credit to Kymco UK the warranty claim was honoured immediately and all being well I get it back in one piece on Tuesday.

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Sounds like QC at Kymco is going downhill fast.

Maybe Karl, but I'll hold judgement on that front until I know.  If it is the Variator though, then I guess it's either poor work in installing or a faulty part and if either's the case then your argument on QC is valid.

Now as most people in US, scooter or motorcycle do not ride very skillfully (MSF?) using rear brake as balance aide not important to them or is gas/clutch/rear brake in real slow speed stuff important to them....they just chug and jerk thru.

Not just the US unfortunately John   

Surely ANY time spent on two wheels emphasises the need for skills acquisition, even if only as a survival tactic?  I rode for a year or two before taking my first advanced training and regard it as one of the best biking-related things I ever did.  To anyone reading this who is thinking about it, but hasn't yet done it, just get out there and DO IT.  You won't regret it.