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tal?” Scooters off-road? Are you men s would I’m sure that’s what your parent ng a Bei ask if they were reading this. if too I hadn’t parent I’d ask the same question k to the first already had a go. If you think bac eeled bike experience you have of a two-wh most with an engine, it was probably like maybe even other peoples - on scrub land or n Honda a disused railway on a broken dow you borrowed Plonk 90, or that yellow Passola didn’t matter, off your Mum. Whatever it was it the fun. Not the only thing that mattered was it better being made for the job just made be pretty good especially when it turned out to t past that off-road and you managed to blas e CR80. young lad on his made to measur some So that’s where it started for me ther ano e time ago and I couldn’t wait to hav gloves. e som tinkle this time with a helmet and in or min We’d already seen that, although was already ope Eur ng, raci k trac to comparison and, even ng taking the plunge into off-road raci ones you the , though the videos are a little rare people and can find on Google look organised thing any e are enjoying it. So why don’t we hav ted? star it like this in the UK? Should we get
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we’d Our guinea pig was a Ludix Snake, some with n ssio smi tran the already upgraded d the stock Polini parts and we’d also droppe nigas Silent Tec a with it d exhaust and replace from em syst ic bas the d Pro (£60). We foun down low d goo on, opti d Tecnigas to be a goo icted. estr der n whe n eve t power and pretty quie n place on A bar conversion had already take we needed, at gs thin r othe our scoot so the only and a snorkel the very least, were spuddy tyres running to improve the chance of our scooter road Off. rain the in utes more than five min ‘em? get you do re whe , size tyres in a scooter . Finally we “Nowhere” seems to be the answer just the right dropped on some Duro tyres with go, ish. size and pattern. She was good to voyage had den mai our ect, As you would exp instantly to be in the rain. Once mounted you and I knew got the feeling that grip was low holes, pot e som Add . it was going be fun forgiven for be ld cou you and corners and water if motorcross thinking I rode it like I was pi**ed, otercross is too much like hard work then sco prisingly could be right up your street. Sur Ludix felt the se, sen e mad though, it kind of which was slow tty pre and ry light, not that sca nitely Defi h? laug a it Was what we expected. ady alre ve we’ so ch mu so e, and we want mor next our for LC NRG ing look purchased a rough off-road adventure. or auto As with any type of scooter riding yourself y enjo ld cou you s, sport there are risk ething... At so much that you get lost, or som to go offes plac that ms the moment it see centres d roa offt mos roading are limited, s possibly site the r ente to you won’t even allow e bad lads because this might encourage thos that we ng ethi som is ch whi to steal scooters, Early next obviously don’t want to assist in. ons available opti the at look to year we’re going to get something started in the UK. It would help us a great deal if we could get an idea on how many people would be interested in taking part. So if you’re keen please let us know, register your interest on our facebook page. n
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GET KITTED UP tty basic to The things you would need are pre the idea like we be honest and this is exactly why runs, that oter of Scooter-X; a rough looking sco e mor on some off-road tyres (we’re working ility ilab ava options with this one). Tyre size and ch whi on or could actually be the deciding fact es, glov et, helm scooters can be used. Protection; to t wan you boots and armour are essential if rmation we’ll participate. As we gather more info keep you updated. that anyone The best thing about Scooter-X is n’t too deep can have a go, if your pockets are up than track then worry not it’s cheaper to take serious racing and it hopefully won’t be too the top at either, the fun factor has got to be scoot fect per of the list. In summary then, the would need: • Off-road tyres. ryone happy. • Low noise output to keep eve and back. t • Good suspension travel fron top able • Low down power with reason speed. • Brakes.
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