A lot in the Euro Gossip well worth reading.  Mind you Europe, UK, Japan, & others have finally realized the global warm-up is actually kicking in.  Mind you the USA is sort of lugging behind trying to ignore what is happening.

The safety of m/cs & fortunately the throttle control has be recognized as being a bit to dangerous due to lack of control of the rider.  Though I can see many used of track bars or whatever can come into effect & have been on stunters bikes for past few years.

I was surprised to note the name of Belstaff when it comes to some of the safety riding clothing.  I still have a Barbour & Sons jacket or two hanging around to some piece of Belstaff though all in waxed cotton of the past years though 100% waterproof.  I heared that Belstaff moved over to Australia or New Zealand, from the UK, & is now in Italy probably sharing some ideas with Alpinestars.

YES I can see decent smaller bikes will be the liking of someone with a fuel guzzeling cage or same on a m/c, if that is at a decent price for around town use THOUGH  he/she will have to accept the fact that their BIG ONE will only be used on occasions & accept the pride being let down a bit ESPECIALLY once they run into the cost of fuel, to food, to almost anything NOT to mention the CARBON TAX they are bound to get in a while AND said Carbon Tax is not only on their fuel, but propane, natural gas, home heating oil, cost of a quart of oil for their vehicles, to electrical taxes going up, for yes it is even on COAL.

Mind you the ugly Triumph Cruiser is welcome to come in, but really who wants it?  Might just as well have the Cruiser that BMW tried to intorduce which is not sensible since they are cutting down on some of the better f/forks to brakes.

Yes the scooter would will settle down to some sensible makers, distibutors & dealers for right now there are makes out there that will fold up in time.  The three wheel scooter I do ponder about, but the four wheel might be an answer especially to those that live in pretty well all year around riding weather.  Cost is going to be a big factor for you name it will be going up in price & some do not realize this yet.  I can see they might be giving Bombardie & its Spyder a bit of a scare.

It is amazing what fuel milage advertising to shops to salesmen are claiming when it comes to cages, to also m/cs & scooters--------all lies being big selling points.  It is like the 49cc scooters & so many salesmen at scooter shops to m/c shops, that handle scooter, CLAIM they can do 80mph & climb any steepness in hills.

This is hilly terrain being that we are in a valley & most of the homes are up on the sides of the mountans, so power to get one up is very important & NO ONE is mentioning that the sand/salt so often on those roads is a task for said scooters with such small wheels not to mention balancing or staying upright is a bit of a task as most hills to their homes are with switche backs to get up there------no problem with a cage mind you.

At a Yamaha shop I heard all the wonderful words about said 400cc scooter.  The wife, of a couple, tried to upright a Yamaha Majesty off its prop stand & being a woman of around 5' 1" or 2" in height plus a slim build she found she simply was not applying the power to take the heavy scooter off its prop stand. That is when the begin to look AGAIN at 49cc scooters & no they did not buy.   Lessons are about to be learned in the scooter world now & in the future.