You’ll be hard pressed to find many more photos of the B-Bone “Self Evolving Scooter” anywhere on the web. I think I found it on two sites… The Daelim Korea site and ScooterRace.co.kr (see title link). Oh, and more recently Korea’s BikeMagazine shot a host of riding shots with a GIRL rider no less (thanks BikeM!).
The B-bone, not to be confused with the b-bone network or Bizzy Bone (whose birthday is September 12th) had a ‘birthday party’ on April 27th to celebrate her announcement. When you see the stylings the first thing that will come to mind is “RUCKUS“. Exposed tube frame being the giveaway. After that it’s different. Powered by a liquid cooled 125cc 4-stroke and stopped by dual discs the B-Bone is a step up in this class.
Details are still a bit thin, but if you like looking at Korean owners manuals you can check it out here. From what I can make out, it’s chock-full-of useful tips like this one:
Which, from what I can tell, says “Be sure to pull a sweet stoppie if some little brat throws a ball out in front of you.”
Or there’s THIS useful tidbit:
Which, from what I gather, means “Ride off a skyscraper to activate the temporary ‘fly like a bird’ option”. I reckon.
Anyway, another important piece in Daelim’s puzzle is that they plan on making the B-bone highly accessorizable (not a real word… maybe I should use Pimp-outable). As you can see from their concept drawing, there are plans for a rear top box, an under seat mesh box, a front fender, an air dam, headlamp protector and more.
Oh here’s the specs (gotta love the Google translantion! HAHA!):
10. May 2007 at 1:33 am
(Insert mandatory rant about how we never get the cool scooters in the states here.)
Seriously though, that is one sweet looking scooter.
10. May 2007 at 1:48 am
I hope that makes its way over here.
10. May 2007 at 6:27 am
That box behind the headlight is hideous, and apart from that i see nothing that sets it apart from Honda’s design. It’s just a collection of parts that resemble a Ruckus. Maybe the owner’s manual is the most interesting.
10. May 2007 at 6:51 am
That little dude from the manual is my hero! What else does he do? Strap rockets to the scooter? Jump over Godzilla? I’m sure he appreciates the “swing cancer” suspension if he has the “poem sprouts” to pull stunts like that.
11. May 2007 at 3:22 am
This bike is way better than a Honda Ruckus. It has a 125cc, 4 valve, oil cooled engine as opposed to a wimpy 49cc 4T engine.
It seats two and has a bitch’n trellis frame. I really like this scooter.
20. May 2008 at 7:54 pm
I make the bigger mistake of my life when buiyng this scooter daelim 125.I bought it new, after 2 month it was offered nearly half the price payed.SO IF YOU PLAN TO BUY A SCOOTER CHOOSE ANOTHER BRAND ANY ONE “”BUT NOT DAELIM””.PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID. René V. Switzerland
5. September 2008 at 2:05 am
125cc? Yeah but how fast does it go 50-60mph
Danny
5. September 2008 at 3:14 am
Well, according to this review:
http://tinyurl.com/08b-bone
It tops out at a MAX of around 77mph. That’s downhill on the highway. One thing they did say that worries me is that the B-Bone is “not safe”. I’ll have to read the poor translation once again to find out why.
10. April 2009 at 12:49 pm
May have seen one of these outside DC recently. Thought it was a Ruckus at first, but displacement and wheelbase were both obviously larger. Had been really kitted out…a nice looking machine-punk scoot.