Hi, new to the forum, glad to find something for twist and gos! I think? as opposed to the Italian bunch

There does seem to be a significant amount of sh 300 owners on here? do you ever go anywhere together for rides trips away? I see there is a burgman only sub forum, no Honda?

From looking at past and current threads it appears that a lot of you guys ride motorcycle's when touring? so are the scoots you own just winter hacks rides? Would be interested to hear how many use their scoots for touring or are they not up to it?

This is our first scoot, never toured on two wheels, this thread is not intended to be agonistic in any way, just trying to ascertain if reletively low power scoots are up to it? What do you think or have experience of, how far would you ride in a day, camp, mobile home, b and b, hotel? which is most suited to a light weight travel

Thanks snail

Welcome. As for touring, some people do the darndest things...some guy travelled from Australia to London on a 70cc Honda....
You can tour on whatever you feel comfortable on, if you adapt your route and expectations to whatever you are riding....though I'm mostly a twist the throttle to the stop sort of person. Personally I found my 8 mile commute quite as long as I wanted to ride my SH300, whilst I'm always found trips of several hours comfortable on the Tmax, though almost everyone will disagree with me...which is the point I guess. Do what you want and don't worry about what others think is the best thing to do.

Take a look on C90Club.co.uk if you want to see the strange things people do on little bikes.

I can't make my mind up what is best to tour on, I have a Deauville 700, which I trust is about as reliable as they come, then brought a Silverwing 600 which is a bit more practical than the Deauville and has better weather protection and it's sometimes nicer not to have to change gear all day, and parking up is a bit easier. I also like the CBF600S as a tourer.
What usually decides which bike to take is the state of the tyres on each bike at the time, and how many miles I'm going to put on them.

Snail - if you review the posts you’ll notice that “the ugly bunch” frequently go on rideouts together - I no longer own a proper motorcycle so to speak however I have done a wee tour on the sh300i - no more than 300 miles per day - Grumpy found the sh300i to be uncomfortable and while I agree it’s not the most luxurious of scooter it is bearable on a longer trip - I’m undertaking a ten day European trip in May - my Terra Nova two man tent may be used to curtail costs - luggage is this

Snail wrote:Hi, new to the forum, glad to find something for twist and gos! I think? as opposed to the Italian bunch

There does seem to be a significant amount of sh 300 owners on here? do you ever go anywhere together for rides trips away? I see there is a burgman only sub forum, no Honda?

From looking at past and current threads it appears that a lot of you guys ride motorcycle's when touring? so are the scoots you own just winter hacks rides? Would be interested to hear how many use their scoots for touring or are they not up to it?

This is our first scoot, never toured on two wheels, this thread is not intended to be agonistic in any way, just trying to ascertain if reletively low power scoots are up to it? What do you think or have experience of, how far would you ride in a day, camp, mobile home, b and b, hotel? which is most suited to a light weight travel

Thanks snail

the sh 300 is a very capable machine and will keep up with 'big bikes' on a ride out, look in the 'rideout section for ride/meets. It really doesn't matter what you turn up on.

I kept up with a white transit van on mine

rayb wrote:I kept up with a white transit van on mine

Ah hate white van drivers

I've done a few 100 milers on mine. I was less comfortable on my 300cc Forza maxi-scoot. I'm considering doing a mini tour into Wales in a few weeks.

Mister Paul wrote:I've done a few 100 milers on mine. I was less comfortable on my 300cc Forza maxi-scoot. I'm considering doing a mini tour into Wales in a few weeks.

Where do you live?