Well, given that I live in the land of the endless potholed road (sydney) now, will have to commute into work and absolutely detest the public transport system, I've been starting to look into small capacity bikes... mostly around the 250cc ones.
While I was looking at the bikes I came across an ad for a Yamaha Majesty for a touch over $4000. The Yamaha Majesty is a big scooter, or a feet first bike... however you wanna look at it, its not exactly the coolest looking thing on earth. However it is 250cc and its mighty comfortable to ride in (I've ridden one before a long time ago when I was test riding some bikes).
Here's what it looks like in stock form (1996 majesty... about 4 to 5 grand to buy with rego n stuff):
now you can take that... and make it look like this:
or this (blue one):
The black one is the newer majesty and the red one is a suzuki.... which brings me tot he choice of shelling out an extra couple of grand and get the newer majesty which looks a lot better, and has a whole HEAP of aftermarket products for...
Of course there's other large scooters made by Suzuki and Honda (esp the Honda Helix, which is pretty popular in the US, Europe and Japan... which can be imported pretty cheaply as a 1988 and older import).
Anyways... some more pics:
Here's a moderately pimped Honda Helix:
Now... you can take a honda helix, take off all the fibreglass parts... then drop a bodykit that costs about 4 grand or so on it... and get this:
Pretty f**king cool if you're a fan of the anime, although, I'm not really a big fan of the fake wheel cover, esp in this day and age where you can get a wide chopper wheel pretty cheap.
So the question remains... VIP Scooter... yay or nay?