... and at much higher speeds than with scooter.
Um, no.
Every scooter or motorcycle I got for more then a few hours I went to the same
roads and used my Kawasaki as a reference of when the rear end starts wallowing
around, and there's no hard accelerating out of corners involved here, just going
rather fast.
I could more then match the speed of my kawasaki on the the same corners, usually
taken at 60-70mph on ALL of the maxi scoots I had there except the Beverly 500 which
felt a bit too detached from the road at those speeds.
The Downtown felt more planted on the same road then my kawasaki, doing the same
speeds. Everything up to 80mph and the DT was fine, the frame starts bending after that
when the throttle is wide open at speeds around 80mph and above, and that's almost
at the bike's top speed. IMHO, that's a lot more performance from the suspension then
I expected.
The People 300GTi was usually comfortable at 5mph less then the DT300 at any given
corner. After that, the flat floorboard (IMO) comes into play.
The only maxi scoot that was a bit worse there then the DT300 was the Peugeot Satelis
500, which didn't like when you opened the throttle when leaned over. The Geopolis 400
was better, and every single of the scoots mentioned had better suspension at the back
then my Kawasaki.
But ok, the Kawasaki could take some corners at 100mph and still accelerate out of them,
even if the rear suspension wasn't acting the way I wanted it too. It was never unsafe,
but it was way below any other bike from the competitors in this segment, and I did not
expect being able to outhandle it on a mid-range scooter.
