Tag Archive | "US Availability"

2010 Sachs MadAss 125 Reviewed

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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Over the Thanksgiving holiday we wrapped up another long awaited review.  This is actually our first motorcycle review!  The MadAss has always been of those hard-to-classify designs.  It has elements of a trials bike, a BMX, a mountain bike, a moped, a scooter.  I was expecting this one to come in as an automatic.  It […]

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A new Honda 125cc that gets 117 mpg! (gets worse mpg in USA)

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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Honda is gonna be gracing us with a new 125cc scooter (the PCX 125) in 2010! WOOHOO! Do you believe it? Looks really nice; almost like a tidied up Gilera Runner. This baby has SOOOO much going for her, I hope they don’t screw it up… wait, what’s that? They are introducing it with a […]

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Peak oil – Optimist vs. Pessimist

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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(Wha? Wait! No, I said “PEAK” oil, not “PEEK”. Oh well… Ladies and gentleman, Kim Peek.) When I saw the name of the blog, I didn’t understand the connection. Why would a blog called PeakOilDebunked be talking about scooters? I was expecting to see a lecture on how scooter riders where a bunch of crybaby […]

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The Sachs Madass 125 has landed!

Friday, August 7, 2009

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Just got word that the long overdue Sachs Madass 125s are now on showroom floors! You might recall, back-in-the-days, that we reviewed the Madass 50, distributed by Tomberlin. With so much potential and so little performance our next question was “how can get one with a larger engine?” Well, prior to today, the answer was […]

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Cubs to begin arriving in three weeks

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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(You can stop staring at your scrapbook because the cubs will be landing soon. Image source) Many of you have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the first new cub type scooters in the USA since Honda discontinued the Passport back in 1983 (actually, there have been others but nothing worth mentioning). Well my friends, […]

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Cows come home, hell freezes over, fat lady sings, Honda brings SH to USA.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

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With mouth agape, we read this news from Honda. The SH150i is coming to the USA as a 2010 model in just about 3 months. No, it’s not the SH300i that is completely dominating the Italian scooter world, but it’s better than say… nothing or worse, removing their three only remaining scooters.Here’s some of the […]

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