Peugeot Speedfight

A better ride I hear you say, what are you talking about Rob? Well alas despite accepting my order for the Piaggio Typhoon (see A Great Ride) the said Motorcycle dealer was unable to supply me with the scooter I wanted, and not wanting to commute by tube I was forced to look again. So I cancelled the order and went back to the drawing board. Lucky me what a total result because… I have just got a fabulous deal on a scooter that was originally totally out of my price range. As of Tuesday I am the proud owner of a Peugeot Speedfight2 and what a machine. The Peugeot is a 100cc, although also available in 50cc form, 2-stroke engine ...  Read the complete review

My girlfriend has had a Speedfight 100 for 2 years from new. Although, the new model has come out, it is still a head turner - yes even those big boys on their ZX9Rs have a good look at it. The engine only has 9.5bhp (untuned), but can out-accelarate just about any car on the road. There has been many a time my girlfriend has arrived home with a huge grin on her face from doing XR2s and astras (the list goes on and on) at the lights. However, it is limited to 60mph, but in town and cities, who cares? Its a great run around and only costs about a fiver to fill up, being used everyday this only has to be done once a month. Servicing costs are low, but the battery ...  Read the complete review

Well I don't know technical details on scooters, so if that's what you want from a review please, save yourself some time and look elsewhere. What I will write instead is a laymen's review. I bought my scooter (a 100cc WRC version of the Speedfight 2) new in 08. It was my first scooter, and only the second I'd ridden. I bought the bike partly because of it's size. It's not a small vehicle which is brilliant as I'm 6 foot tall and don't look completely ridiculous on it which was important to me. Secondly the suspension seems good, which is again important as I live in the middle of nowhere with all the rutty roads that go with it. The bike ...  Read the complete review

I am an avid two-wheeled nutter, preferring the larger motorcycles to smaller machines. A few years ago I bought a Gilera Runner SP180 as a filler between my ex-Fireblade and my next machine, and that turned my opinion about scooters 180degrees around. I was sold, these things are ace. Moving forward a couple of years, my eldest lad decided that once he's 16 that he wants to get himself a set of wheels, and so the quest began. He wanted a motorcycle but these are not too widely available in learner-legal form. I proposed a scooter and eventually he started to see the light. However, it was not until our 2003 holiday in Corfu and taking out a pair of Peugeot ...  Read the complete review

I bought a Speedfight 100 from Motorcycle City in January, primarily as a convenient form of transport in central London - I live in Clapham, work in Bermondsey and travel to at least one meeting in town a day. The 'bike I would rate highly, apart from the poor underseat security, relative thirst (I was expecting much higher mpg) and the servicing and maintenance costs. At 3,500 kms it has already had new front brake pads and clutch, at a combined cost of over £200 -- at this stage, a small car would have been cheaper to run. The Peugeot importer has also been helpful - when I had a warranty claim they were responsive, efficient and more than ...  Read the complete review