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Syms is now showing a model that looks for all the world like our beloved albeit now cancelled Yager.

They call it the RV 200 EVO

Have a look:


http://alliancepowersports.com/sym-rv-200-evo/specifications.html


This nice little 171.2cc scooter is a nice replacement for Yager’s 174.5cc scoot. It doesn’t have that cavernous 2.9 gallon Yager gas tank, but it does have a respectable 2.11 gallon tank.

It also has a higher seat height that I like – 32.5 inches versus Yager’s 31 inches (29.9 inches on the Honda PCX-150). That is a sticking point with me on the Honda. Not only doesn’t the Honda have a flat floorboard, that low seat height is very cramped for my 6-foot 180 pound frame.

I was going to buy a Honda PCX 150 next spring, but this looks like just the thing. It even has the correct tire and wheel size that I want. Something more like a scooter and less like a `do everything scoot’ that it isn’t designed to be in the first place. Leave that job to the Kymco People 300 where it belongs…

It even comes in three colors – red, white, and black. I want something more fun than just black or white so I guess I will go for the red. Burnt orange or yellow would be better, but it’s better than Kymco ever offered with the Yager.

It doesn’t show in the stats whether it is a carb or electronic fuel injection. That could be a problem. EFI is just better and if it is EFI equipped it would probably say so – bummer.

It is water cooled though and that is very important to me here in Houston. It’s in the 80’s today as I write this post in December. Winter is a short season here…

If it’s an EFI scoot than this spring it’s mine.

Poots

Hello everyone.

I wanted to give a quick introduction of myself and then I’ll just lurk for a while until I can contribute something of value.

I am a 59 year old guy that is hoping to learn to ride and get myself a scooter. And yes, that’s really me in my avatar - sort of. (If I had opposable thumbs I could probably ride one of these things…)

I’d rather be a 59-year old rookie than a 59-year old has been though so I guess being new at this is OK.

I have been researching the idea of getting a scooter for around town and just for fun for a few months now. For the moment my experience is limited to visiting dealers and to what I have been able to read on the Internet. My only seat time has been in the showrooms - nothing that’s moving so far.

For what I’ve been doing so far though discovering this forum will be a gold mine for me. I know so little and there’s so much information available here to help me.

I outlined what I wanted to use a scooter for and then made a couple of spread sheets of scooters of various manufacturers. Based on what I can see so far I think that for my particular wants and needs the Kymco Yager GT 200i fits about as well as one can. I’d rather have a fun color like red or orange or green or even purple (yea a nice purple grape), but I guess the grey one will do. It’s the scoot that’s important and I can’t see what color it is when I’m riding it…

You scooter-people all seem very friendly. It’s kind of like comparing basset-people (I have had many bassets here at my ‘House-Of-Hound-Dogs’) to the high-powered (some would say ‘real’) dogs. Bassets are laid back and very friendly. They love everyone. I think I might just have found a nitch for myself here in the world of scooters.

Anyway, I just wanted to say both ‘Hi’ and ‘Thanks’ for all that you have already helped me with. See? Sometimes you do good and you don’t even know it.

I’m going to go and do those three circle things and just lurk for a while now, but I promise to keep you advised of my progress as I continue (slowly) in my new found interest in scooters.

My friends just call me Poots.

(The short answer to that comes in the form of a caution that you need to be very careful what name you give to your basset hound. You might just wake up one day and find that somehow you’ve inherited that name for yourself - HER name was Pootswaddle)

Am I her namesake or was she mine? I can never get that straight…