knight2 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:20 pm
I like the look of that as well, mind I would like to see one and sit on it. I used to like riding small country lanes which can turn into dirt tracks or in one case a army tank testing ground!. I don't really like taking the burgman down tracks like this, though the couple of times I have it's been okay. That Peugeot would be ideal, the crash bars could be handy.
This is the big question. Living on the edge of town, I tend to ride along lots of bumpy country lanes. Whilst Tmaxs with their super-duper suspension can handle them fine, I've found that mid-sized scoots of the traditional 'scooter' rather than bike design of chassis can have real problems. The Bev 350 was harsh and difficult to ride over the bumps and uncommicative in telling what was going on with the tyres in poor conditions. The Burgman 200 was just utterly incapable of handling country lanes. Now the ADV350, whilst a swinging-engine design has very good quality suspsension, so apparently can handle country lanes OK (though of course, I haven't tried one for real to find out). This Peugeot is trying to repeat the same trick, but we will have to wait and see how it fares - ditto the Kymco XT360 and there's an Aprilia along the same lines which has just come out. Of course, dealerships count - Kymco are pretty hopeless, whilst I have a Peugeot dealer within reach who used to be pretty good when I dealt with them previously, but there's a Honda dealer 3 miles away!
