Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

This site is great for elite/spree/aero stuff. Moped Army is the spot for moped stuff. Total ruckus is the spot for GET crap. Treatland and scrappydog are good spots for new stuff. Scoot.net has your Vespa needs.

Is there a good website/forum where there is a lot of activity of people buying/selling stuff for other scooters?

Stuff like Jogs, Zumas, Kymcos, stuff like that.

It used to be everytime I would pick up a Vento Triton or a Yamaha Jog I could go on ebay and find a decent used expansion chamber for like $50 or so. Now I can't even find used stock exhausts.

Yeah I am almost strictly interested in used parts.

I live in a college town overrun by needy indigent scooters needing help getting back on their feet.

I buy them by the handful, fix them up, then charge a small adoption fee to find them a new home.

Used parts are really the best way to keep costs down.

Occasionally I will treat myself to a mild performance build or a custy will want some serious performance work done so I will keep you in mind for that stuff, but 9 times out of then its a matter of finding a pipe thats not rotted through or a carburetor thats not beyond rebuild or a rim thats not tacoed too horribly.

As to your Total Ruckus comment, Ruckus/Met/GET people seem to be an odd bunch in general. They seem to be a much more fashion conscious crowd in general and the few that are into the wrench turning, I just don't get them. You buy a scooter and pay the premium price to get one made in Japan, then you go ahead and swap the engine out for a POS made in China? Bizarre.

I like that on a ruckus you don't have to spend half an hour peeling off plastics to get to work, but give me a 2 stroke anyday over some overly complicated underpowered overpriced 4 stroke. Why there aren't companies cranking out that Rucus looking skelly type frame with a minarelli horizontal or even a liquid cooled minarelli horizontal is beyond me. Now THAT would be a modern scooter I could get behind. Like a Genuine Rough House without plastics done tastefully would keep the costs down and could look cool.

Honda does not want anything to do with minarelli is why you will never see one from factory. Honda tried to make a decent horizontal but it is junk compared to a mina or morini.
As for the ruck/met/jazz people being more fashionable, it's called being a hipster. They don't care about anything but looking cool, if you ask me rolling along at ped bike speed is not cool at all. When you can get passed by a guy on a fixed gear road bike you may want to upgrade.

Greetings:

Bradthreee (the Cubed) had a thread about a MinaRuckus a couple of years ago. I haven't heard/seen him lately but the modified Mina must've terrified the mild-mannered Ruck people. That was an engine that could top 70, even with the extra weight and aero handicap of the Ruck chassis.