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I've gotten a few friendly ribbings about the scooter.
Mostly because my dart league team plays out of a biker bar. But the majority of them are friends, so it's just harmless fun.

I do get amused when a guy on a motorcycle waves going by, and then pulls his hand back real fast when he realizes it's a scooter. 

A wise man named Indian Larry once said," Ride what YOU like, and to hell with what anyone else thinks."

And a wise ass (me) once said," I don't need a big motorcycle. I'm secure with the size of my penis!"   

  Yeah, I WILL be doing all maintenance myself from now on. My dealer only charged $126 for the service, but their "mechanic" forgot to re-tighten  two screws on the carb after checking and cleaning the jets, and forgot the hose clamp on a hose to the valve cover when he checked the valve clearance. The scoot died and wouldn't start 2 days later when the hose blew off. Me and a friend fixed it in my driveway, and now she runs like a champ!

   I told the dealer and he apologized and said he is dealing with the mechanic. And he's giving me store credit for when I need anything like parts or such.

   I already do the oil myself. It's too easy to justify paying someone to do it.  As far as the spark plugs, O'Reilly's auto parts has NGK CR7HSA plugs for $2.09 a piece. So I will be getting them there.

   Despite the dealer service hassle, however, I am still loving the Super8 150!

So, I bought a Super 8 150 a month ago. So far, so good. I'm enjoying it every day.

It is a 2012 model I got from my local dealer as a new old stock they had on their showroom all year, and never sold. It had 15 miles on the odometer, and  a couple very minor scuffs, which leads me to believe it was a parking lot demo scoot. But, the dealer knocked off all of the dealer and set up fees to meet my price. Saved me over $650 off the out the door price!   

So far the only quirk is a slightly rough idle at stops, and a mild little exhaust fart when I let off the throttle to slow down at stops. That being said, it has been fairly chilly and wet here in the midwest the last couple of weeks. So I hope that's all it is. Just curious if anyone else had that during the break in period? It's at about 380 miles so far. I changed the oil and gear lube just before 200 miles to get the break in lubricants out of it since the manual called for it at 200 miles. Going in for it's first dealer service today to get a full mechanical check up, since I'm not an experienced mechanic, and haven't found a repair manual yet.

All in all, I'm very happy with the Super 8 150 so far. Plus the money I've saved on gas has been unbelievable! 5 gallons in over 360 miles! 

Thanks to all the people on this forum for helping in my decision to buy the Kymco. Reading posts on here helped a lot in my choice of scooter.