Art Webb wrote on 11/08/15 at 10:13:54:I like it
BUT
what is the company's rep for quality?
As many chinese scooter riders will tell you, just because the company copied a Honda engine, doesn't make it a Honda engine
I get that they actually made engines FOR Honda, but that was with Honda standing over them with the big stick if they botched it
what is their own individual rep?
Genuine Scooter Company is a great company with a solid reputation; a little bit of turmoil over the past couple of years with Phil McCaleb getting pushed out. He started the company originally as Scooter Works to supply parts for old school scooters. Then he split off Genuine and started selling rebranded PGO scooters which are made in Taiwan with excellent build quality. There are a lot of 40K+ mile Genuine Buddy scooters out there; I actually sold one with 40K that was still running super strong. Never needed anything other than oil, tires, a replacement CDI and some bearings. They also sell the Stella which is made in a factory in India that used to manufacture the old Vespa P series steel-body scooters for Piaggio.
These are definitely not cheap Chinese scooters and the folks on the forums have very low regard for junk bikes.
Anyway, there's even a really strong forum for Genuine scooters. Two actually; Modern Vespa and Modern Buddy. The Buddy scooter is highly regarded but, unfortunately, the site "Modern Buddy" kinda sounds like a gay hook-up site
Many of the folks who ride Genuine scooters also ride MC's and love simple, single cylinders. Like us
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