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Motorcycles aside at what age did you start riding scooters?

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The PCX is the first scooter I've ever owned. I love it! I'm not sure if i will go back to motorcycles again. Simple to run and maintain. Inexpensive. What more could I want?

Heh. 47. But I only started driving cars when I was 37 as I'd always lived in capital cities.

40, but I still ride "proper" motorcycles.

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Rode motorcycles from 19-30, by the time I started riding a scooter 31 years had passed, so I put the never forget to ride a bike to the test. Had to go through a bit of a learning curve for sure.

IvyGodivy wrote:Motorcycles aside at what age did you start riding scooters?

0600 21st June 1977 for motorbikes.

Around 2004 for scooters

So 16 for bikes and around 43 for scooters.

Motorbikes 15 (illegally)
Scooters 24

Just a few years ago. . ..

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The only time I have ridden a motorcycle was to do the MSF course last year. It was two days and on the second day they allowed me to use my scooter. Not that the bike was a problem (it was actually lighter than my scooter), but because I was more comfortable on it.

I was 33 when I bought my first scooter, but my first experience with scooters was in college, when I was 19. A buddy had an old Honda Aero 50. it topped out at 25mph, but it was a blast to ride even so.

I got my own scooter when the gas prices hit $3 a gallon here back in 2008. That was a Yamaha Vino 50, and while it was a nice little machine, I soon found that motorists have no respect for anyone else on the road and a 50cc scooter is a death sentence in suburbia, so I upgraded to a 150 after 5 months of that nonsense. I had both the 150 and a 750cc Honda Sabre for a while, but got rid of the big bike and kept the scooter. About three years ago, I swapped it out for the 2013 PCX I enjoy so much now.

I've given up the motorcycle in my 30's.
This spring, at 59, I've purchased my scooter and can't get enough of it.

Rented Motorcycle @ 17. Brought me my first down. Aren't they meant to ride on the sand?
Owned several Cycles afterwards.
Scooters came much later @ 51.
I'm Done calculating

Thanks everyone

These replies just reconfirmed my decision.

IvyGodivy wrote:Thanks everyone
These replies just reconfirmed my decision.

As in, you are never too old to get a scooter?

I have been riding motorcycles for 50 years but when I was diagnosed with Leukemia my wife said no more motorcycles, so I bought a Burgman 400 scooter. That was when I was 65. It has been said that you step down to a scooter when you get old, but with the power that some of them have now the lines are blurring between motorcycle and scooter. Honda even has a motorcycle with an automatic transmission now.

Honda have made a few bikes with auto transmission, going all the way back to the CB750A of 1976.

Lets not be in any doubt, a scooter is very definitely a motorcycle, its just a motorcycle with a different body shape.

Its neither a step up or down, because its really all the same thing.

i just started riding and im 63 i just signed up for a training class i might be the oldest person in it by a few decades

I got my licence 4 years ago at age 72. The next oldest student was 38.

started at 17

I had a couple of Yamaha T80's when I was 17. 1 was a runner and the other one was for spares!