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From: kehoe@reed.UUCP (Dave Kehoe)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: motorscooters
Message-ID: <1833@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 15:20:43 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 24 15:20:43 1985
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Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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"Cycle World" magazine compared the Honda Elite 250 scooter
with the Honda 250 Rebel motorcycle a few months ago.
In sum, the scooter was very easy to learn to ride --
supposedly easier to ride than a bicycle even.  But in
handling, accelaration and braking the motorcyle was better:
0-60mph in 14 seconds vs 18 seconds, 60-0mph (braking) in
112 feet vs. 144 feet.  This compares to a typical 500cc
motorcycle's 0-60 time of around 6 or 7 seconds and braking
around 120 feet.

I suggest that you buy your 16-year-old daughter an old
Honda CB450.  First, they're cheap (I paid $100 for mine);
second, she'll be 18 by the time she gets it running.
-- 
He still remembered hearing Andy Warhol say, "No, the best
was when this guy bit off this guy's nose.  That was the
best sex."  And William Burrough's answer: "I heard about
that." -- "Wasn't that the best sex, Bill?" -- "Ah, yes, I
imagine so." -- "The best."
Dave Kehoe   tektronix!reed!kehoe   (503) 230-9454