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Re: What makes it a scooter.
« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2013, 01:07:28 PM »
Anything with a cover over it.Or a hood is not a moped scooter or mototrcyle.

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Re: What makes it a scooter.
« Reply #16 on: May 17, 2013, 01:23:49 AM »
Anything with a cover over it.Or a hood is not a moped scooter or mototrcyle.

then what is it?  a car?




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Re: What makes it a scooter.
« Reply #17 on: May 17, 2013, 02:38:50 AM »
No, scooter with extended windshield! ;)

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Re: What makes it a scooter.
« Reply #18 on: May 17, 2013, 02:43:41 AM »
To me a scooter has a small displacement and a single speed automatic (or cvt) transmission.

I was thinking that scooters are a subset of motorcycles, whereas bicycles and motorcycles are mutually exclusive.

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Re: What makes it a scooter.
« Reply #19 on: May 17, 2013, 09:55:47 AM »
Until just know I didn't even knew about Middlesbrough. ::)
I live in Germany.

Naja, est tut Mir leid! Dien name ist die gleiche wie die postfach nummer fur dieser stadt.
Ich war sechs jahre in Deutschland bei der army stationeirt.
Ich kann deutch, aber nicht zo gut wenn schrieben Oder buchstabieren!
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Re: What makes it a scooter.
« Reply #20 on: May 17, 2013, 12:13:57 PM »
Okay, my 2 cents.  The CVT does not make it a scooter.  The first scooters were also manual transmissions.  CVTs did not really become standard on scooters until the early 80's when Honda and Yamaha introduced them with their "new, modern" scooters.  Traditionally scooters had small wheels, step-through design and engines mounted on the swingarm suspension of the rear wheel.  Most of the early scooters also had a brake pedal for the right foot as the clutch and shifter were often on the left handlebar.  They were designed to be cheap transport following WWII.

Like noted early - I may not be able to define it, but I know a scooter when I see one - most of the time.  LOL.
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Re: What makes it a scooter.
« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2013, 02:02:04 AM »
scoot n.
Regional Note: Scoot comes from a Scandinavian verb related to the verb shoot and, borrowed into Scots dialect, originally meant "to squirt with water." Two derived senses, both intransitive verbs, have become even more common: "to slide suddenly across a surface" and "to move quickly": The mouse scooted across the floor. In the American Midlands, there is a phrasal verb scoot over, meaning, in its transitive sense, "to push (someone or something) to the side to make room."


If it can't "scoot", then it's a motorcycle....

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Re: What makes it a scooter.
« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2013, 08:36:48 AM »
what it's not
scoots!

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Re: What makes it a scooter.
« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2013, 09:02:05 AM »
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