What do you think about mobylets?

By mobylette, I mean a small motorcycle with a small engine.

This one for instance:

It has a 50 cc engine. It can go 80 km per hour in a straight way and 30 km per hour in a up way (with one person).


Gasoline is super espensive in Turkey. It is clever to buy small things like this unless you are a rich ass, considering you wouldnt burn much gasoline with that size of engine.


Other advantages that come with it are

First, I am able to ride it with a car lience. I dont need a motorcycle lience.

Second, I dont have to pay for insuarance unlike motorcycles and cars.

Third, I dont pay for tax, unlike motorcycles and cars

The picture of the mobylette:

 

This mobylette is so sweet, isn't it?

 

Nice little bike. I like what's known as doodle bugs. I bought one and wanted to put a 13 horse Honda engine on it that I have, but I was told 100 miles an hour was --well-- not so safe.

 

I once saw a go cart with a Crosly 4 cylinder on it, crossways!

 

its cool I like it....what country is it manufactured in?....how much is it new?

 

i'd ride it.

 

ya these days people who cant drive a car or have dui's are riding those pedal scooters....technically a bicycle so no license needed....but an actual little bike like that would be fun to boot around on....not sure about the chick magnetism factor in this country though

 

My 'Triumph '63 TT120 had dual pipes--no mufflers--just straight through. Wonderful to the ear!!

 

that's a lot better than the old drunks you see riding around town on lawn tractors. pretty sure that's not legal anyway, but they keep trying it.

 

License, enough said

 

I would much prefer THIS thing:

slimsfab blog....: seppuku the trike

 

50 cc thing can be driven with a car licence here, which I had in 2013. You dont need to have a motorcycle licence to drive a 50 cc engine.

 

Kuba RX9

It is chience pieces that are put together in Turkey.

2019 models are sold around 6000 turkish liras.

I believe this thing is only sold in Turkey.

 

Pieces are chience made (china).

 

i've had a couple of those at different times in my life. i like they can get you places that a car won't fit.
i don't like how much noise they make getting you there though. if i could have a super quiet electric one,
quiet enough to not scare away all the little furry creatures, i would absolutely love that.

my first was a 55cc honda on a full hight fraime, back in 63 or 64, when i was in high school and living out in the boonies.
in those years students couldn't drive their own vehicles to school. the schools had no place to park them.
but i could go all over the place. so many back roads i didn't even need to have a license.

the second one i had, sometime in the early to mid 70s, i forget for sure the actual year, was a either a yamaha or suzuki 125.

i see pictures all over asia of people hauling tons of stuff on them. i did a little of that. but not so much like i see in some of those photos.
the one think i like the most, in spite of the annoying noise, that prevented me from seeing all the little critters in the back country,
was how much of it i could wander around in how cheaply. the fuel tanks only held about one gallon, more or less, but on that one gallon,
you could go nearly 200 miles.

where i'm living now i'd be worried someone would run off with it and i'd never see it or what i spent for it again,
but then, if i had one, i would probably not be living where i am now, but back out in the woods somewhere instead.

sadly they are no longer cheap, and the u.s. is no longer a country where poor people can afford to buy anything they want.

 

i'd love to be able to get away with something like that, though again i'd be living out in the boonies somewhere doing so if i could.
which reminds me there used to be something called a wheel horse, which was basically like a powered rototiller, that you could couple a seat on behind, or even a kind of little dump trailer.
this was also back in the 60s or 70s and i think it was made in china or japan or formosa or cambodia or someplace like that, in southeast asia, but it was also sold in the u.s., i remember seeing it advertised in mother earth news, even back in the days before rodale aquired it, and i even had a catalog that had all sorts, dozzens of them, of different kinds of attachments you could get for them, and also i've seen pictures on the net, of farmers and villagers, mostly in asia, using them.

in fact that's what i wish everything on streets and roads were. little machines like that and electric grounds maintainence vehicles, those cushman and i forget what other names.

and for every trip further then to town for groceries or to the station, or one of the many little stopping places, to get on the little narrow gauge trains that would connect lots of little villages so no one would have to live in big cities or indenture themselves to big cars, which don't belong in cities anyway, unless they wanted to.