I'm sitting at Linda's in Connecticut concocting this and the 250cc scooter waits outside for another trip home. In the last week I've done this trip to Danbury once and am half way through another run now. It has been an amazing series of events. The scooter has been both reliable and incredibly fuel efficient. I just checked the mileage for this latest trip and it has delivered an amazing 83 mpg. I always laugh to myself when a Toyota Prius passes me and I say, "Gas Guzzler." The trips have...
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Years ago when I bought the big scooter I had ideas in my head that we would do some serious miles together. Events since then have conspired to deter that and it settled into the role of commuter and doctors visit machine. Yesterday it finally got to break out of those roles as we took a three hundred mile trip together to Danbury, Connecticut and back. It was a rousing success. I always knew it was a comfortable scooter but hadn't spent a long time in its saddle since I picked it up on Lon...

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