On the way home from work I could have been a good person

[NoDaddyNo]

i see you traded down on that Saab.

They won't allow Saabs here or else I would have tried to get one.
All the men here drive bikes anyways, the women get the cars.
Our car is a total piece of shit - Suzuki Vitara - but here that is the equivalent to a relatively nice SUV in the States - maybe something along the lines of the boxy Jeep Cherokee. All cars here are tiny.

I love the Vespa - pretty good gas mileage too - 46mpg or something - I can go 2-4 weeks on $7 of gas (and that is with gas over $5 a gallon).

 

[DeepZenPill]

where are you from?

 

[WODIN]

The Adverntures of ..

Turkey Man and Goobler boy!

 

[sh4dowf4lcon]

good stuff

 

[NoDaddyNo]

where are you from?

I am from the US, but I live in Bermuda.

 

[Lao Tzu]

Bermuda? i thought you were up with Coloncowboy and Nathan.

How can an 11hp scooter only get 46 mpg when a hyundai with a much stronger engine and a 1000 lb frame gets the same mileage. you'd assume the scooter would pust 100 mpg.

 

[NoDaddyNo]

Bermuda? i thought you were up with Coloncowboy and Nathan.

How can an 11hp scooter only get 46 mpg when a hyundai with a much stronger engine and a 1000 lb frame gets the same mileage. you'd assume the scooter would pust 100 mpg.

Weight and torque - the Hyundai has more power/torque compared to its weight and therefore more easily overcomes the inertia.

Also, nearly all of my driving is stop and go.

That and I think the numbers are likely better than that, but that is what they rate it at. They don't list gas prices here, and I don't know how much my bike actually holds (could look it up).
I know that it costs about $9 to totally fill it up and I only have to get gas every 3 or 4 weeks.
I don't drive very far everday though - I live about a mile or two from where I work, and the gym is about a mile or two from where I live.

They could very much improve the bike if they used aluminum or titainum instead of steel to make the bike. Other companys use a steel frame and then put plastic parts on it - that gets the weight down, but looks like shit and breaks easily.
Also, the steel that is on it now rusts easily once the paint is chipped - which it is since my fiancee dropped it one day and also due to parking wear and tear around others.

If I were rich, I would try to get one just like mine done in aluminum or ti.
As it is now, with a full tank of gas it is near 300lbs.
Some off the 50cc rentals that I've used are crazy light - I would bet somewhere around 50-75lbs since they are pretty easy to lift - the Vespa is liftable, but it is tough.

So if a Hyundai even has a 100hp engine, it has nearly 10 times the power, but only 3 or 4 times times the weight.

When you see serious improvements in economy and speed is in the powerful bikes in the States - those have engines with much much more horsepower, yet weigh under 600lbs in total.

And nope, never lived in Canada - although I agree with their taxation policy on citizens that leave their country - then again, many countries have similar policies.
I think the States is the only one that taxes its citizens regardless of where in the world they live.

 

[The Sun Devil]

are u involeved with off shore banking? or sports gambling?

 

[NoDaddyNo]

are u involeved with off shore banking? or sports gambling?

You aren't the first person to ask me that

I'm technically not directly involved with either of them, but you could argue that I am on the banking side right now (hedge fund stuff), but I have certainly looked into the gambling side before and am starting to look at that again.
I might be playing golf this weekend with a lawyer to discuss that - haven't heard back from the people yet to see if that is still on.

I don't have any sort of pull at all, but I it is all in who you know, and in that area I seem to be doing okay.

 

[The Sun Devil]

You aren't the first person to ask me that

I'm technically not directly involved with either of them, but you could argue that I am on the banking side right now (hedge fund stuff), but I have certainly looked into the gambling side before and am starting to look at that again.
I might be playing golf this weekend with a lawyer to discuss that - haven't heard back from the people yet to see if that is still on.

I don't have any sort of pull at all, but I it is all in who you know, and in that area I seem to be doing okay.

o lol, and you dont like to go out side so this guy has to be involved in something. I want in. Golf is outside and it takes like 4-5 hours so get ready for a whole afternoon outside.

i am in the sports gambling world.....lets say, i am the house around here.