Asian scooters that are good?

[SpankMe]

Did someone say Asian girlie on a scooter?

[cowpoos]

Did someone say Asian girlie on a scooter?

isn't it time you up dated your avatar ash?????

[200BUSA]

Kymco are a good brand my Bug scooter i use to go to work is great,no problems at all.My father in law has just bought a new Kymco Hawk 250 and it is very good-nice to ride.
Chinese no go. -Taiwanese get one as OK.

[candyshot]

Whenever a newbie to KB enquires about a good scooter to purchase there is always the call to avoid some asian scooters due to poor quality, reliability etc.

So... what do you scooterists consider to be a good asian brand? For the purpose of the exercise we'll ignore the Japanese variants.

I'm very happy with my PGO and I almost brought a TGB. Hyosong look to be ok as well.

Any other thoughts on good brands? Or comments on the brands above.

Hi Pogo, I have an asian scooter that is made in China (Vmoto Monza). Although its only 50cc, only bought it to ride around on in the burbs. Vmoto is an Australian company who manufacture their scooters in China. The Monza is the top-selling scooter in Australia this year. I like my Monza, it is designed to have a pillion passenger on it, and the bike overall is slightly larger than retro scooters (including the wheels) so it feels somewhat safer, plus it doesn't look like an ordinary scooter. I'm not sure I agree with the 'don't buy anything made in China' crowd, I did a bit of research and read international forums before I bought it and getting parts is easy, and cheaper than the other makes around.

[Timber020]

Worked on Japanese and chinese scoots in the past, and the jap ones are at least twice as good as the chinese ones I worked on. When it came to buying my wife one, I was quite assured any money I would have saved buying a chinese scoot would have been spent soon in parts (if they could be found) or time repairing the little sod.

[Conquiztador]

Something that is worth considering (If not for everyone, then at least for the ones that have a female in their life...)

- You cut corners today and she will whinge about it for the rest of your life after it turned to shit (and it is all your fault!!)

- You pay some extra money today and she will whinge about it for a month. But when whatever you purchased keeps on going and going for years the cost will be long forgotten. (And you will be a champion)

See, years ago I took in a customers ironhead sporty motor to Doug Hayes in Akl. He refused to do a "fix up job". It was a all or nothing job. My customer was not happy. Costed him $2,5K for the motor fix alone. Did se the customer some years ago. Motor was still going and he was happy. The cost? He had forgotten re the cost... Imagine if Doug would have done the "fix up" job. The customer would have said: "That Doug did a shitty job, motor died after 5 thousand K's"....

Same with the chink scooters compared to jap ones.

[Dave Lobster]

Buy cheap, buy twice.

[Hitcher]

Any other thoughts on good brands?

On Asian scooters? Suzuki, Yamaha and Honda have been known to make some good ones.