GasSavers_Ryland |
09-05-2006 10:27 PM |
vespa's, at least the new ones are 4 stroke fuel injected, with a catolitic converter, and I beilve meet simaler standerds as a brand new car.
I belive it's true about the stop on importing 2 stroke enignes on road vehicles, but I beilve things like chainsaws are still being imported.
there are a few scooters that have been made as 4 strokes, and only 2 true mopeds ever made and sold in the US that were 4 strokes, with the scooters, stay away from unheard of brands that are made in china, unless you only want to use it for a year as they don't work well.
scooters and mopeds are required to use an automatic tranny, or to be a single speed because they want them to be simple for less restricted licenses, because automatic trannies are horbly inefficent you are either stuck with something that robs your energy, or something that is a single speed, and there for the engine is tuned for a wide range of speeds, and going a normal crusing speed is wound almost all the way out there, burning up alot more gass then needed, and even with a two speed automatic tranny they are still running near wide open 90% of the time, mopeds sometimes get better mileage then a scooter, normaly around 100-120mpg because they have lousy acceleration, thus the peddals are very useful to get up to 5mph, and mopeds are restriced to going 30mph, and a 50cc engine, imagine if we had something like that here for cars, kind of like japan with their little car law, a 660cc engine, under a size, weight, and speed, anyway, I rather like mopeds, but the 4 stroke scooters are really appealing too if you want to go the scooter rout, but nothing beats a little motorcycle.
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