Electric Scooter in the Works as smart Joins Forces with Vectrix
Rider Magazine Staff
November 29, 2012
By cooperating with the two-wheeler specialist Vectrix, smart is expanding its portfolio of electrically driven vehicles designed for urban traffic In addition to the smart electric drive and the smart ebike, in 2014 the smart scooter will be launched on the market. With the introduction of a zero-local... Read more »
2013 Honda PCX150 Review
Donya Carlson
November 12, 2012
Good things may come in small packages, but Honda’s pint-sized PCX just got bigger…and better. Honda has upped the PCX125’s liquid-cooled, 125cc single-cylinder engine to 152.9cc to make it highway legal in most, if not all, 50 states. In the process, Honda improved the PCX150’s seat comfort,... Read more »
2013 Vespa Sport Special Edition Models Now Available in U.S.
Press Release
November 6, 2012
Three 2013 Vespa Sport Special Edition (SE) models are now available in the United States. The SE models embody the style, comfort, safety and sportiness of the most widely recognized scooter in the world, while citing legendary models such as the 1955 Vespa GS 150, the 1965 180 SS and the T5 “Pole... Read more »
Scooters: BMW C 600 Sport and C 650 GT Review
Mark Tuttle
May 31, 2012
By Mark Tuttle, photography by Arnold Debus If you live in a large city, it doesn’t take much thought to figure out why BMW is jumping into the scooter market now. Traffic congestion and parking restrictions are escalating, and in the new economy some of us just can’t afford to waste time with either—we... Read more »
2010 Kymco Xciting 500Ri vs. 2010 Yamaha Tmax
Rider Contributor
October 20, 2010
photography by Scott Hirko [This 2010 Kymco Xciting 500Ri vs. 2010 Yamaha Tmax road test was originally published in the December 2009 issue of Rider magazine] 2010 Kymco Xciting 500Ri and 2010 Yamaha Tmax in action The first time I took one of these scooters out with my riding buddies they were holding... Read more »
2007 Kymco Xciting 500 Road Test
Rider Contributor
October 24, 2007
[This 2007 Kymco Xciting 500 Road Test was originally published in the May 2006 issue of Rider magazine] The Kymco Xciting 500 weighs 529 pounds fully fueled and carries its weight low. Scooters were big back in the 1960s when I was in high school, and began making a comeback in the ’90s. Today,... Read more »
2005 Kymco Venox Road Test
Bill Stermer
January 1, 2007
I know what you’re thinking. To answer your first obvious question, Kymco is an acronym for Kwang Yang Motor Company, a Taiwanese firm that now has five manufacturing plants in Asia and distributes its products in 63 countries. At this time Kymco claims 400 U.S. dealerships, and its powersports... Read more »
