I’ve been looking online for good deals and found a lot but i would like to know whats a good brand of scooter and I also found a website http://www.gsmotorworks.com/index.cfm and the deals sound to good to be true can anyone help me out?
i have a yamaha fino in thailand, been very good for 2 yrs, only had to replace battery. i agree with the other poster, buy something that is from a quality known company. if your scooter needs service you have someplace to take it, get parts…mostly somebody that knows how to work on it. you’ll save money in the long run.
be careful and learn to ride it…those small wheels are different at first.
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Pick up a copy of Consumer Report. They will rate all scooters and give an unbiased recommendation on which is the best. Sells are really down right now all across the country so you should be able to find a good deal. Have you tried your local motorcycle store? If they do not have one they may know of a individual that wants to sell one.
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If it sounds too good to be true, most likely it is not true.
There are a LOT of people selling junk on the Internet.
Buy online? First check WHO you are buying from. For the above site, gsmotorworks.com:
The contact is GSMotorWorks.com, no name, at 6510 Jimmy Carter Boulevard, Norcross, GA. You can go to Google Maps and see, actually see as they have a street view available, that that address is a drop-ship warehouse, not an actual store.
The Better Business Bureau report on gsmotorworks: not a BBB Accredited Business.
So who owns the website? WHOIS takes us to:
Registrant:
yaoyao lu
1641 mcgee
carrollton, Texas 75010
United States
Google Maps shows a very nice country club estate on the Coyote Ridge Golf Course. Someone is making a LOT of money off the suckers.
Assuming you are still thinking of getting one of these Chinese PoS, consider — no where on the site does it say that the scooter is DOT or EPA compliant. You get to assemble the scooter yourself. You get to take it to the DMV and try to register it for the street. BWHAHAHAHAHA. What the heck, you can make your own license plate and stick it on, eh?
How much *quality* and *care* in construction do you think you get in a scooter that costs less than half of the competition. Really, think!! Is someone doing slave labor in a windowless sweat box factory in China going to CARE if it is assembled correctly, a part is cracked, missing?
They CLAIM you can get parts from them. No parts catalog, you know it is not coming with a factory service manual. Please give part number you want…. Snicker.
You can spend the $700 on that scooter, try to get it registered, and in three months when it breaks toss it into the dumpster. And *then* get a Yamaha or a Honda or a Vespa from a local dealer who sell you a registered street legal scooter with the local dealership parts and service standing behind it.
Or you can skip the Chinese Junk and go directly to the Brick and Mortar store where you can talk to a real person and get a scooter that will last for decades; thus saving $700.
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i have a yamaha fino in thailand, been very good for 2 yrs, only had to replace battery. i agree with the other poster, buy something that is from a quality known company. if your scooter needs service you have someplace to take it, get parts…mostly somebody that knows how to work on it. you’ll save money in the long run.
be careful and learn to ride it…those small wheels are different at first.
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Honda or Yamaha don’t buy some off brand there are not parts available like the established brands.
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