A great little scoot (Peugeot Speedfight)

Member Name: Hands0n

Product:	Peugeot Speedfight
Date:	25/08/03 (2543 review reads)
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Advantages: Security features, Suspension is king on this

Disadvantages: Puny engne on learner legal '50

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 Speedfight 2s that he was 100% hooked. I was pretty impressed too. Of course, these were of the unrestricted variety, but the ride and feel would be the same overall.

He has recently taken delivery of a second hand Speedfight 50 in a wonderful canary yellow, no one can say "sorry mate I didn't see you" on that. In learner-legal (read restricted) form it's a bit puny on the acceleration and speed front but other than that it's a much a scoot as the unrestricted scoots. Others have written about what these things have as fitments and extras so I won't bore you here. Top speed on the '50 is around 45mph, that's with the wind behind you and a down gradient. Any kind of hill climb reduces this to around 25mph flat out! The average British car driver, who is largely ignorant of life on two wheels, is unsympathetic and so the kids will have to be careful out on the roads on one of these. They do get away rather quickly though, out accelerating the average car/driver combination. But then again, once 30mph is reached it's pretty much game over and the cager comes by, so you have to give some space up, but not too much.

I can't wait for him to reach 17 and get the '50 changed out for an unrestricted '100 which will put the balance back in his fav
our.

I can heartily recommend the Speedfight in any of it's forms against the competition. Build quality and built-in extras alone make it stand head and shoulders above the rest.

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