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Review of the 2005 Piaggio X9 Evolution 500:200 Miles and still loving it. |
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Author: Bruce Baldwin, 2004-12-05 | ||||||
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Great Bike! Highly recommended but a few small complaints. | ||||||
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I own this bike and have put close to 200 miles on it. I have to say that I was really surprised at how quick and nimble it is. I own a Yamaha Majesty as well and have owned a couple of Kawaski´s too. It´s really fast for a scooter. It´s much faster off the line than the Yamaha. I have no trouble keeping up with the traffic here in Southern California and it´s easy to drive on the crowded city streets. I haven´t taken it on the freeway and don´t intend too because there is far too much debris for my tastes. For the most part the instrumentation is easy to read except that kph is large and the mph is so small that you can hardly read it which, here in the states, is kind of a hassle. It´s very easy to read at night though. It doesn´t have near as much under seat storage as the Yamaha, but about as much as the Suzuki Burgman 400. I don´t know about the Burgman 650. I went to the International Motorcycle Show here in Long Beach, CA Friday, Dec. 3, but the Burgman 650 was locked up and no one on the floor had a key. That bike was way to big for my needs anyway. You can get a back rack and either a leather or plastic top case that attaches to the rack. My only real complaint about the bike is that too me, the seat is quite uncomfortable after about a half hour. They need to design a new seat that can be retrofitted to the older bikes as well. Other than that I highly recommend it. I purchased mine from Vespa of Newport Beach and the people there are really nice and extremely helpful. A great purchasing experience. |
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