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I'm about to do you guys a big favor.

www.motorcycle.com/top10/top-10-excuses-go-motorcycle-ride.html

Have you ridden a Helix, or the equally good Chinese clones. You would be embarrassed you wasted so much time on that Tub, you'd cry for a week. You don't have to be a chicken to smell a rotten egg. Kawasaki is the best in the world. Big doesn't make you better. They sell more Chevies than Mazdas, can you even compare the two? Kawasaki won the World Superbike title over a floundering Honda. Yamaha left World Superbike because their bikes were so bad. The new J300 will smoke your Tub.

Wake up and smell the humus Luke. My odometer keeps climbing in my signature, you can't show yours. You're a dying breed. Well at least a comatose breed.

blog.motorcycle.com/2014/04/04/manufacturers/bmw/bmw-starts-production-c-evolution-electric-scooter/

Of course the big question is "How Much??"

I tend to agree with you Borg but Honda is lobbing shells at Generation X,Y and Millenials hoping to make a hit and take off from there. As silly as it sounds now the original CB 750 K-1 was a gamble for them. Four cylinders was Science Fiction back then but we Baby Boomers sucked it up like free beer. If it failed we would have all been riding XS-650s.

Crappy looking bikes like the DN-01 were the first salvo-FAIL. This and the NC700 are the next. Keep in mind that manual transmissions weren't uncommon in our youth but now......Something like 90+% of cars are auto or CVT. Clutch isn't even in these kids vocabulary.

Where have you guys been? Do you have any idea how many Japanese motorcycles suffered the same fate back in the seventies and eighties. It's always been like that. Cyborg's scooter is a perfect example of the ongoing habit. A $4000 Vespa sitting in the garage with less than 100 miles? How lame is that? It will always be like that. Not to mention the other thing I keep hearing. People bought bikes for under $2000 back then. They flogged on them and when a dealer said, "Sure we can fix it. Only $500 plus tax" the bikes were scrapped. People who buy cheap think the fix is cheap too. Take your $100 Walmart bicycle with bent wheel into a bike shop and see what repairs cost. "What!! $50 dollars for a wheel replacement!" No one thinks of enjoyment value, all they think is purchase cost vs. maintenance costs.

What I love about ALL Victorys is their reliability. Owners are popping 100,000 miles with zero mechanical issues. It shows that America can build a solid motorcycle afterall.

They are comparable to a $2400 Yamaha Morphous that the previous owner couldn't get rid of fast enough.

And yet. Somehow I've read and seen numerous Harleys break down. If you were a motorcyclist you would know that. Since you aren't your opinion doesn't count. Second. There are only 30,000 scooters sold in this country annually. I guarantee, guarantee, less than 5,000 of those are Vespas. Much less. Harleys have never proven their quality-ever. Go to Modern Vespa and read. They break down too.

Two limericks from the 1930s

You'll never wear out an Indian Scout
Or its brother the Indian Chief.
They're built like rocks
To take hard knocks.
It's the Harleys that cause all the grief.

Harley Davidson made of tin.
Ride one out and push it in.

Current stab:
85% of all Harleys built since 1980 are still on the road.
The other 15% managed to make it back to the shop.

My question wasn't for you. What you don't know is fairly evident. Riding being one.

I was asking the question to the person where Vespa sells most. SJ Rainsford in Britain.