Aprilia Sport City 250 - Good Touring Scooter?
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Aprilia Sport City 250 - Good Touring Scooter?
I may not go the Honda Helix 250 route after all. I stumbled across a nice, clean '08 Sport City 250i yesterday. Asking price $2,950. Fuel injection and just over 4,000 miles with medium height windshield and Aprilia top case. I understand fuel tank holds about 2.4 US gallons.
Seems like it would make a nice touring scooter. Anybody have any experience, good or bad, with these Aprilias?
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Seems like it would make a nice touring scooter. Anybody have any experience, good or bad, with these Aprilias?
Bill in Seattle
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Re: Aprilia Sport City 250 - Good Touring Scooter?
Tall seat (32") = taller than BV350.skipper20 wrote: Seems like it would make a nice touring scooter. Anybody have any experience, good or bad, with these Aprilias?
Big wheels = no storage.
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http://motorcycles.about.com/od/newmoto ... lia250.htm
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Re: Aprilia Sport City 250 - Good Touring Scooter?
Bags on the sides. Where you see a fault, I see promise.Christophers wrote:Tall seat (32") = taller than BV350.skipper20 wrote: Seems like it would make a nice touring scooter. Anybody have any experience, good or bad, with these Aprilias?
Big wheels = no storage.
FWIW:
http://motorcycles.about.com/od/newmoto ... lia250.htm
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Re: Aprilia Sport City 250 - Good Touring Scooter?
LOL :DKrispyKreme wrote:Bags on the sides. Where you see a fault, I see promise.Christophers wrote:Tall seat (32") = taller than BV350.skipper20 wrote: Seems like it would make a nice touring scooter. Anybody have any experience, good or bad, with these Aprilias?
Big wheels = no storage.
FWIW:
http://motorcycles.about.com/od/newmoto ... lia250.htm
Let not what has rocked you continue to rock.
If this is your first day with PSYCHO, you have to ride.
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Two guys rode SC 250s from Kansas City to Oklahoma City last year for our scooter rally. Great scooter.
I wish I had gotten one every once in a while when I'm doing 55 on my SC 125 and it just doesn't have much more to give. With 14" wheels it feels like it wants to go faster. I think the 250 would be all the scooter most people would ever need.
I wish I had gotten one every once in a while when I'm doing 55 on my SC 125 and it just doesn't have much more to give. With 14" wheels it feels like it wants to go faster. I think the 250 would be all the scooter most people would ever need.
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I have the SC 300 and I use it for longer distance riding (100-250 miles per day). It does the job quite nicely in my opinion. The 250 and 300 SC are very similar as are the two versions of the Quasar engine. I have a top case so storage is not an issue. I use a mid-height windscreen and sheepskin seat pad to round out my additions to the bike.
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Thanks for your comments and thanks also to the rest of you who commented. I went ahead and did the deal - my '09 Scarabeo 200 w/2500 miles plus $500 cash for his '08 Sport City 250 with 4,000 miles. And, yes, the Sport City is a bit tall in the saddle compared to the Honda Helix that I had been looking at but the economics of the trade were just to good to pass up. Now I've got the road maps out ready to do a bit of fall touring around the Puget Sound country. Next year, the WA and OR coast! Thanks again,Dooglas wrote:I have the SC 300 and I use it for longer distance riding (100-250 miles per day). It does the job quite nicely in my opinion. The 250 and 300 SC are very similar as are the two versions of the Quasar engine. I have a top case so storage is not an issue. I use a mid-height windscreen and sheepskin seat pad to round out my additions to the bike.
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Should be fun. The Washington ferries are particularly scooter friendly. The US 101 loop around the Olympic Peninsula is a good ride as well.skipper20 wrote: Now I've got the road maps out ready to do a bit of fall touring around the Puget Sound country. Next year, the WA and OR coast! Thanks again,
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