This puff piece over on Slate (Get Your Motor Runnin’) leaves me shaking my head. ‘So, are you tired of pumping $4+ gas into you Hummer? Then the ‘solution’ is to go out and buy the largest, most fuel inefficient motorcycle that you can afford’. Yeah, that’s the ticket! Idiot. Apparently, anything under 650cc is ‘less-ambitious’.
My own experience is that a 250cc Vespa scooter is more than enough for commuting to/from work and running errand around town. My scoot will do over 70 MPH, it rarely sees 50. I am not planning on driving across the country or entering a race. Why would I ‘need’ anything more?
Knucklehead even recommends a big bike for city dwellers overlooking the fact that a smaller, more nimble scooter would do better in city traffic, city hazards and parking. Overall, scooters get short shift in the article that is nominally supposed to be about fuel efficiency, but instead points the reader at the ‘bigger is better, more expensive is better’ right wing dream.
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