Scooter

Scooter - this is one of the varieties of light motorcycles , engine which is located under the rear seat.

scooters can be of several types:

• City (quite small with a small diameter wheel)
• Coaches (quite large and comfortable, designed for long journeys on asphalt roads).
• Sport (race, cross).
• SIDE (with quite large wheels designed for dirt roads and light off-road).
• Off (for unpaved roads are in poor condition and off-road - the big wheels with off-road tread).

Scooter usually made so that the driver when boarding, he not have to climb over a frame , but the sports models can have a frame similar to motorcycles. One of the main advantages of a scooter (especially the urban cycle operation), is that, unlike motorcycles, scooters, most later in 1990 did not require gear when stopped. Scooters (scooters) vaguely resemble scooter (scooter), because of which it gets its name.

City scooter designed for city driving and on good quality asphalt roads. Travel long distances on bad roads with holes, bumps, on dirt roads on a scooter problematic because of the rather small diameter wheels bad ; depreciation and distribution center of gravity . For these scooters need good paved roads. If the scooter is not intended to be used in the urban cycle, you should pay attention to other types of scooters. However, they can vary significantly in price.

Motors scooter are both two-stroke and four-stroke (carburetor or injector). Now more and more narrow application of 2-stroke engines and gasoline fuel systems due to the constant improvement of environmental requirements for auto and motorcycle technology in the EU.

most popular scooters Class A (50 cm ?) , which, in Russia and Belarus are equal to mopeds and (most importantly) do not require the rights to manage and State. vehicle registration. These scooters can be operated with 16 years already. But the Ukrainians out of luck - they need to register and scooters are allowed to manage only the legal right category "A1».

Scooters Class A (50 cm ?) have rather low dynamics and speed, prompting the owners to make the design of scooters in its class changes - tuning (such changes prove impossible because there is no way to force the owner to pass the examination of his motor scooter). The main purpose of this tuning - increase the speed and dynamics of dispersal scooter. By changing the volume of the cylinder and fitting gear torque and CVT gearbox, increase the maximum speed of the scooter up to 80-90 km /h True dynamics of the acceleration to the speed anyway is not good, because after tuning the engine remains the same.

best yield refinements scooters with 2-stroke, air-cooled engine. However, these engines have a shorter life and less environmentally friendly 4-stroke engines, although undemanding to fuel and easy to maintain.

Contrary thin scooters, there maxi-scooters and « giperskutery », with an engine to 839 cm ? (so Gilera GP 800 - one of the most powerful existing scooters).

first scooter equipped with a conventional manual gearbox and chain drive to the rear wheel. Currently, the most common scooters with stepless CVT V-belt and automatic centrifugal clutch. The cheap scooters often made chain drive instead of the variator (the body remains the same, as the more expensive models), this simplification impairs dynamics. Often scooters are air-cooled engine (which is blown by a fan mounted on the axis of the generator, because the engine panels closed and the flow of air at the oncoming traffic does not come to him.) Sometimes the motors with liquid ohlazhdeniem.Seychas gaining popularity with electric scooters (elektroskutery) instead of an internal combustion engine.

Scooters different countries

Scooters from the Japanese manufacturers are considered the most reliable (but often have a speed limit for safe use).

Italian scooters are usually the most dynamic.

Chinese - are the least expensive and often the quality of their performance is poor. Although in recent years China has torn their goods in Evroppe, constantly improving the quality of the motorcycle and auto production.