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   Scooter Forums
- Battle scooters:ADVrider  The Adventure Rider scooter subforum, friendly, all about the fun factor, the ride, and pushing the limits for man and machine.
- Chinese Scooter Club  A UK forum for all chinese scooter enthusuasts and riders.  A rowdy & enthusiastic bunch, quite a few americans there. Expect some vulgarity & sophomoric humor.
- Honda Helix Discussion Board  A forum for Honda Helix enthusiasts, as well as Helix clones.
- Moped Riders Association  A forum for moped and scooter riders, reviews, repair & service tips, and issues facing urban riders.
- MyVento-dot-Net  Chinese scooter oriented, with sub-forums for a number of chinese scooter makes, & Vento, Geely, UM Yahoo Groups all in one place.
- ScootDawg Forum  Like most chinese scooter boards, this forum's more focused on keeping them running than on riding.  Lots of helpful folks.  Politically incorrect opinions tolerated! :)
- ScooterBBS.com  Owned by BigassMotors, the oldest online scooter board with the largest user base. Clunky old software, lots of info and crude, rude, subpar behavior.  R-rated
- ScooterDiva.com  The name says it all: a forum for all you scooter divas, a comfortable place where machismo's totally absent, and there's even a recipe sub-forum.
- ScooterForumOnline  Owned by Jacar Enterprises, distributing Tank and Roketa, also selling other makes; mostly Tank users, but cordial to others.
- Sharing the Ride-Scooter Board, forums for scooter riding tales, safety tips, reviews. Brand new scooter forum for all scooterists to share riding experiences.
- TwistnGoScoot Yahoo  Forum for all automatic (CVT) scooters, the format isn't particularly user friendly, a fairly small, rather eclectic group of posters.
- UrbanScootin.com  Active forum of mostly urban riders, nominally a Honda Metropolitan forum, but open to all, ocassional bad language, a quite politically correct moderated forum.

Scooter Tuning and Maintenance sites, tips and charts:
- All About Oil  Types of oil, tests & standards for oil, additives, recommended motorcycle oil
- Backfiring Faq  Causes, effect, and what you can do about it
- Break-in Secrets  The quickest and possibly best way to successfully break-in an engine.
- Drill Bit Sizes  Conversion chart, useful for metric conversion, drilling jets.
- Eric's Tuning Page  Good primer for first time scooter owners.
- GY6 Performance Mods  How to hop-up your GY6 scooter.
- GY6 Service Manual  Best comprehensive manual for 150cc GY6 engines, from carterbro.com
- Honda Helix Service Manual  1986-1995 Honda Service Manual for the CN250 Helix.
- Jack's Scooter Maintenance  Scooter maintenance, tips, and how-tos.
- Motorcycle Carb Tuning  Specs are for larger carbs, the principles apply to most GY6 carbs.
- ScootNFast's Scooter Central  Two stroke scooter modifications, tuning, & info.
- Spark Plug Chart  Cross reference specifically for cycle & powersports engine plugs.
- Spark Plug Guide  Spark Plug maintenance and tips, plug reading how-tos.
- Tank Service Tips  Applies to most GY6 and small Honda(based) engines.
- Variators Explained  The best description I've seen, with animation of a working CVT.

Personal Scooter Blogs and Web Pages
-Bill Laudeman's Helix Pages  Pic's, links, service tips and online service manual, also info on Honda Aero 80 and Elite 125's.
-ChineseScooterSaga Blog  Experiences with a generic chinese scoot puchased on Ebay
-CombatCommuter  Scootering in traffic around the Crawfordsville, FL area
-Doug Simpson's Scooter Resources  Mods, tips, links, mostly for 50-250cc Honda scooters.
-Dru Satori's Scootering Blog  Scootering observations and musings, Atlanta, GA
-GirlBike.com  Embracing two wheels for everday transportation, great read for any scooterist
-Gusset's Daelim S2 250 Scooter Thoughts  Info, review, and opinions on the Daelim S2
-Little Billy's Scooter Tales  Bill Sommers, on riding and commuting on his family of scooters
-Mark Swift's Fuji Rabbit Motorscooter Page  The classic Japanese Fuji motor scooter page
-Max's Scooter Page  Vintage scooters from Rabbits to a Harley, the oldest online scooter site
-Midwest Scooter Enthusiast  The experiences, safety, and revelling in the ride
-Pinascoot Photographic Journal  Classic scooter enthusiast in the Phillipines
-Rush Hour Rambling  Gary Charpentier's blog; scooter commuting in MN and more
-Scooter in the Sticks  Steve Williams blog; riding in the PA countryside
-Stian's Scooter Page  The NYC classic scooter scene
-USA Scooter Museum  John Nida's virtual museum of american motor scooters

Scooter Parts, Accessories, and Gear
These are places I can recommend from personal experience as an internet customer.

-Indy Cycle Ranch  Currently doing a much needed rebuild of their website, they have lots of
parts, good prices, friendly service, high minimum shipping charge
-MotoGino  Great prices, prompt shipping, good quality parts.  Also sells on Ebay
-New Smyrna Beach Scooters  Very helpful parts department, large parts selection
-Oregon Vintage  Many essential replacement and performance parts of chinese scooters 125
to 250cc's, prompt service, high minimum shipping charge, no foreign orders
-Parts For Scooters  Large parts inventory at good prices, prompt shipping, they charge actual
shipping cost, no minimums
-Scootertronics  replacement and performance parts for most chinese scooters, helpful and
friendly staff, pricey on some items, sometimes a little slow getting orders out
-Virginia Trader  Ebay seller with huge inventory of motorcycle accessories and riding gear,
great prices, reasonable and prompt shipping, click on 'motorcycles' for gear and accessories

Scooters and Parts: Indiana
These are all Indiana shops where I've had positive experiences as a customer recently.

-Heeters Performance Center  Selling scooters since 1977, friendly, many accessories, I don't
know about their shipping. It's a nice ride there, so I go and browse when I need something.
-Ehlerding Motorsports  Honda dealer that also sells Manco scooters, courteous service, but
rather pricy for parts and accessories
-Indy Cycle Ranch  Currently doing a much needed rebuild of their website, good prices on parts, friendly service, high minimum shipping charge, so go there if you're close enough
-Red Line Honda  Courteous, helpful staff, though their parts dept doesn't seem too large, they're willing to order available parts and accessories that they don't have in stock
-Woodson Motorsports  Friendly and helpful, they carry Suzuki, Vespa, and Piaggio scooters
and have reasonably priced accessory lines

General Scooter Resource Pages
- Scoot.net   Classifieds, photo galleries, jetting database, user profiles, tons of links, more
-ScooterScoop  Two wheeled oddities, news, peculiar and often funny scooter related stuff
-2StrokeBuzz  News oriented scooter weblog, rally calendar
-Scooter.Meetup.com  Find other scooterists in your area and arrange scooter meetups



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