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Sounds like a great deal Thunderkat! Good luck and I hope you find a taker.

Give some of those folks a shout over on Maxiscoot forum. Lots of them have stables of both scoots and m/c's. Thats www.maxi-scoots.com for the link.

Karl

Thanks very much you guys! I will go over to that Maxi-scoot forum-- I have come to the realization that I am/and have been a scooter person for a while, not going to fight it anymore, lol. The mighty BMW deserves to go to someone who will appreciate it. Thanks again for replies . . .

My Xciting had quite some issues. It's made in 2006, has over 26000 miles on it:

Repairs:
- It always leaked cooling fluid, even after installing a new waterpump.
- Hosingclamps are of inferior quality so they will fail on you (leakage)
- The base gasket just recently broke which is a huge pita to repair
- Replaced rear breakcaliper (known issue)
- Issues with bearings in steering wheel
- vital electronics are poorly protected (right side under saddle)
- saddle springs are broken so saddle won't stay open
- speedo broke
- fuelpump broke

Cons:
- very heavy
- On my 2006 model the rearviewmirrors are a joke; very fragile too
- On my 2006 model the fuel gauge is off by at least 30 miles
- the speedo is very fragile and prone to cheating and off by 7 miles
- Dual-breaking never worked properly, brake hose is too long so it will never give you a stiff break
- small tank (12,5 liters) combined with relatively poor mileage
- suspension is mediocre
- sparkplug very hard too reach
- saddle too high for smaller people (tiptoeing)
- breaklights are too weak
- clunky parking break design

Pro's:
- unbeatable price (half the price of a T-max)
- powerful engine
- fairings are reasonably solid
- turnlight audio signal
- very comfortable ride; solid feel
- large saddlespace
- clean design
- maintenance is relatively easy

Wow . . . That's crazy!
I didn't think ANY bike could have that many problems in this day and age!
Did Kymco help at all?

I dunno, I might rethink this Xciting purchase. reading the stuff I have is not
inspiring confidence.

I had an '08 400 Burgman and regret getting rid of it. There was nothing exciting about it, but it did everything well. When I lived in Florida, I had to ride sections of I-Deathrace 2000, or I-95 as it might otherwise be known, and it was perfectly manageable playing Moto-Frogger with Semi's and caroming Cadillac's at 75 or so. Riding sportily, it would drag stuff a little sooner than I would have liked, but that is not intent of that machine. I miss things like carpet in the trunk and little finishing touches like that.  Some of the 'Cons' for me was, a little cumbersome in urban traffic. I missed not being able to circumvent some traffic issues due to mass that I might on a smaller scooter. A little hard for me to wrestle up on the center-stand. (Im 155# and weak), and weirdly enough, it had sort of cruiser style 'layback' ergo's, so in extended urban traffic, it became very uncomfortable to keep putting my feel up down from floorboards to road at an angle that was not a good one for me, personally(33" inseam). You probably won't have that issue(?). Another oddity was how many rpm's it took to spool up before it would start to move, but no big deal.  I don't know about an X-Citing, but you cant really go  wrong with the Burgman  Best wishes for happy miles on whatever you decide . . .