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Scooters - 125 to 300 => Super 8 150 => Topic started by: pa-outdoorsman on July 14, 2020, 12:27:48 AM
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Anyone know the ground clearance on a Super 8 150? If not, anyone out there who has one care to take a tape measure and tell me how much clearance between the ground and the bottom of the footrest?
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Pavement to bottom, 7 1/4 inches. 👍🏼👍🏼
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Pavement to bottom, 7 1/4 inches. 👍🏼👍🏼
Hey, that's not bad! My UXV 450 only has 10 inches ground clearance!
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Might not it be best to go around those 7" rocks?
:)
Stig
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Might not it be best to go around those 7" rocks?
:)
Stig
LOL. Absolutely! But it is nice to know the scoot would probably be able to navigate through a modest amount of debris. I was looking last night, and there are plenty of knobby off-road tires available in the size of the Super 8 tires. You could probably actually get around fairly well on one off-road. Not highly techical off-roading. I mean like farm lanes, relatively smooth trails through the woods, etc.
IDK if it's ever been done, but an off-road competition on scooters would be a lot of fun. Give each competitor a stock scooter and let them make a few mods within certain guidelines that would apply to all and see what they could do. It would either be incredibly surprising or a disaster. Either way, that would be must-see TV!
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Hey Stig, some knobby tired REALLY would have helped these guys!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTVhiNvEXhQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTVhiNvEXhQ)
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And here's a guy on an Agility 50 doing more of what I had in mind. If you try and scoot off-road when it's wet and muddy that ain't gonna work!
https://youtu.be/6TNx24vGAT0 (https://youtu.be/6TNx24vGAT0)
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The only time clearance was an issue for me was driving perpendicular to the furrows in a plowed field.
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Hey Stig, some knobby tired REALLY would have helped these guys!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTVhiNvEXhQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTVhiNvEXhQ)
Fortunately it looked like they were only trashing some Chinese internet stuff.
Stig
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That is not off-roading but rather playing in a mud puddle, with a scooter.
I understand off road driving when you are talking about dirt, farm, and forest roads/trails when that is what is required for mobility, however, I do not approve of trashing equipment for fun. I have driven many miles of pine needled single and double track for the sake of getting to the destination rather than to see what I could drive through/over.
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2.5 inches