Super 8 150 Ground Clearance?

[pa-outdoorsman]

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?

[ldersch]

Pavement to bottom, 7 1/4 inches. 👍🏼👍🏼

[pa-outdoorsman]

Pavement to bottom, 7 1/4 inches. 👍🏼👍🏼

Hey, that's not bad! My UXV 450 only has 10 inches ground clearance!

[Stig / Major Tom]

Might not it be best to go around those 7" rocks?
 

Stig

[pa-outdoorsman]

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!

[pa-outdoorsman]

Hey Stig, some knobby tired REALLY would have helped these guys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTVhiNvEXhQ

[pa-outdoorsman]

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

[TBR125]

The only time clearance was an issue for me was driving perpendicular to the furrows in a plowed field.

[Stig / Major Tom]

Hey Stig, some knobby tired REALLY would have helped these guys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTVhiNvEXhQ

Fortunately it looked like they were only trashing some Chinese internet stuff.
Stig

[TBR125]

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.

[Super 8 r]

2.5 inches