A scooter from a major brand

Many scooters today get 100mpg and have very quiet motors I recommend much especially if USA attacks Iran.

 

Have friends who use electric bikes and swear by them. Weather dependent, but allows them to get around like on a bike without the effort. Use to run over to visit or to get to Dollar Store. Plug in for power in garage and it is a 1 person thing, but don't take any hydrocarbons and would be easy to power using solar. Quiet, rechargeable, cheap, a lot to be said for a SHTF means of transport.

 

My old harley wideglide would edge out 50mpg on the highway at 70mph....looked alot cooler than a scooter and had a 5 gallon tank. Got a honda shadow 600 nkw, lot smaller tank but oughta do better than 50mpg i would think.

 

Gotta agree my Ebike is my go to town vehicle. Lets see 5 cents of electricity vs one gallon of gas for the big red truck.
Solar panels charge bike so I guess less than 5 cents a trip. Milk crate on back rack holds three grocery bags plus whatever the PO box had in it. Was going to get a Chicom scooter but the Ebike won out. Plan is to put an aux battery to extend range to over 50 mi with little pedaling. As is it gets to town and back with only one bar down. Does 28mph without changing software settings which is good enough for around town. Need to add loud horn to get the %@$# tourists out of my way.

Also have my dual band ham rig on it so I can keep up with marine broadcast, roads dept, OSP and local LEOs.
Life is good.... Most of the local LEOs recognize now. Good thing/Bad thing?

 

I remember a few years ago during $4-5 a gallon gas, I ran into four people on mopeds at the local burger joint. They were talking about how great it was to get 100 mpg.
I said, “Yeah, but you’re driving four of them. That’s like getting 25 mpg. Might as well drive your Honda.” I guess math is hard for some.

 

My wife and I bought each other e-bikes for Christmas this year. They're cheap ($500), 750W models that supposedly go 40 miles at 20 mph with a pedaling 265 pound load. It's a 4 hour full recharge on 120V.

If they turn out to be amazing on state and national parks or beaches, we may upgrade later.

Yeah, I was thinking preps, she was thinking parks. We work well together.

So now I investigate spare batteries, panniers, and trailers.

 

Make sure you charge and store them outside/away from the house!.

 

I'd like to see Honda bring back the original Trail 125, that was more a real motorcycle than the CT series, had a wider comfy single seat and large cargo platform behind the seat. Mostly an Asia/Pacific market model, popular in Australia as a "farm bike", sold in the US one year only - 1977. Good rugged little bike.

 

Was is a trail 70 and maybe a trail 50? I had both of those when I was a kid. I can't remember anymore. We farm kids traded motorcycles and the few farm girls around constantly.

I swear I had a Honda 500(?) that really looked like those utility bikes you see everywhere in the 3rd world.

 

The Honda XL was THE bike. I had an XL-500, ultimate street and trail machine.

 

I have 1200-watt motor in back and a 1500-watt motor in front, on a Schwinn bike.
I can do 40 but 35 is safer. It climbs dirt and takes me where I want to go. I even made a trailer to tow behind and for the most part it works fine but I need to widen the stance a bit.

 

Honda xr-650 or kawasaki klr 650s are agreat do all ride as well.

 

Yep, that was it!

 

I owned my KLR650 for ten years, putting not quite 50,000 miles on it. It was my sole transportation between 2008 and 2010. I made several multistate roadtrips on it, from here in North Florida up into Al, Ga, Tn and NC. Once I literally stripped it down to the bare frame and rebuilt it myself. But the mighty KLR650 is a pig. Tall, heavy, underpowered compared to newer bikes. It takes a lot of strength to horse it around on the rough trails, and I'd be wore out after a morning of trail riding.