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I never got the scooter stigma, either. Like motorcycles, they go on two wheels, are steered with a handlebar, the throttle makes it go, etc. So it's a step-through design...some of us have bad backs and can't swing a leg over a tank constantly.

I saw a funny Harley commercial once where the main chant was "We believe..." Eventually, the many voices starting sounding like The Borg (nothing against Harley folks; it was the video that amused me). This is it --

Here in SoCal it doesn't really get that cold, but the wind chill can freeze you when riding if you don't dress to protect yourself from it.

I wear a wool undershirt and keep the lining in my Darien jacket.

I've learned to use a baklava to protect my neck from the windchill, which seriously helps a lot. Also protects against the wayward wasp/bee hits.

I wear cold weather gloves, which also cuts down on the windchill. I switch to summer gloves when it heats up.

I've noticed a few times when giving it a little throttle at a very slow speed (just barely enough to keep it upright) that it will sometimes tremble. It goes away, but seems odd. Anyone know what I'm talkin' about?

Went out to bring the Yager in from the street to park it in the garage. Frakking thing wouldn't start! I cranked the engine multiple times...nothing! It would crank and crank, but the engine just wouldn't ignite. Finally, pushed it into the garage, which is on an incline. Thank goodness it wasn't my old Piaggio X9 or I wouldn't have made it up the incline at all. Finally got it in the garage, put it on the center stand, left-locked the steering and yanked the keys out. Went to flick the engine kill switch off and...oops. It was already off. I did one of those loud forehead slapping things where you move your hand down from your forehead to your chin.

Specifically, I was on a two way street that has three lanes in each direction. My particular move was to move past the second car in line who was signaling to go right, but who was blocked from doing so because of the car going straight at the head of the line. Because I was smaller and able to fit between the cars and the curb, I slipped past and turned right. Normally here, it isn't against the law to turn right on a red while passing a car at the head of the line waiting to go straight as long as there is room to do so safely. I guess my concern was that by bypassing another vehicle waiting to turn right simply because I was able to do so while he was stuck broke some sort of etiquette rule or something...

I'm a bit rusty on some of my road etiquette, so perhaps someone can clue me in...

I'm in far right lane and going to turn right at signal. Car ahead of me signals to turn right as well. Car ahead of him (the first one at the stop light) is going straight but we are all stopped by a red light, so the head car forces us to wait until the light turns green so we can turn. Car in front of me has plenty of room on right between him and the curb, so instead of waiting, I squeeze by on the right between him and the curb and past the car at the head of the line and make my right turn on red. less than a minute later (I presume the light turned green seconds after I turned), the car who was in front of me, zooms up right behind me and rides my behind all the way until he finally turns. I presume he was mad at me for what he perceived as my cutting ahead of him. But he was stuck there, I wasn't!

Should I have waited behind him for the light to turn green just because he was turning right, too? Or was I okay to squeeze past him because I could?

Thanks for the input. I think my only issue is that that the Kymco Yager user manual says to use an octane of 91, and the Supreme has here in Calif is 91 for the Supreme stuff (80-somthing for regular unleaded). But if it doesn't really matter, I'd opt for the cheap stuff over the boutique gas any day.

Thanks, jp...you've given enough info for me to do some research on it. Appreciated.