Does anyone know the cost of this pgo scooter?

Hi folks,

Came across the following scooter: pgo-scooter.com/products_inf … e562647b93

I’ve read that they are popular and available in Taiwan, however, the only guide price I can find is $88500 which seems a little steep (it was an auction site).

Anyway, as my mandarin sucks and I’m not in Taiwan yet, I wondered if anyone knows the correct price, or if anyone would be so kind as to help me find out?

Thanks

B
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The prices on the auction sites are fairly accurate (bid.yahoo.com.tw or ruten.com.tw), although you can usually find a dealer who is selling it for about 10% less.

I found another price for your scooter, $64,900: history.n.yam.com/carstuff/car/2 … 64411.html
This sounds like a more accurate price, and it was mentioned on a few websites.

I wouldn’t really recommend this scooter, however. You see… this style of scooter (retro style) is seen as a girl’s scooter. Yes, some dudes here ride them, but they’re usually very young teenagers and are the type who drop out of high school…

Select a more “modern” looking scooter!

This is a breakdown of the image of scooters:

Vintage style: girls
< 125cc: teenagers

125cc: young adults
Maxi scooters (usu. > 150cc): someone a bit more accomplished
Actual vintage: someone a but more accomplished or those that appreciate “Zakka Style”

Although, many people just ride whatever and don’t really give two f**ks…

But, I wouldn’t go PGO due to quality issues (long-term quality… brand new is fine). Here are the acknowledged winners in terms of quality:

  1. Kymco
  2. Yamaha
  3. SYM
  4. Suzuki
    At the rear are PGO, Hartford, CPI, Aeon (kinda unknown, since they’re new)

[quote=“shawn_c”]The prices on the auction sites are fairly accurate (bid.yahoo.com.tw or ruten.com.tw), although you can usually find a dealer who is selling it for about 10% less.

I found another price for your scooter, $64,900: history.n.yam.com/carstuff/car/2 … 64411.html
This sounds like a more accurate price, and it was mentioned on a few websites.

I wouldn’t really recommend this scooter, however. You see… this style of scooter (retro style) is seen as a girl’s scooter. Yes, some dudes here ride them, but they’re usually very young teenagers and are the type who drop out of high school…

Select a more “modern” looking scooter!

This is a breakdown of the image of scooters:

Vintage style: girls
< 125cc: teenagers

125cc: young adults
Maxi scooters (usu. > 150cc): someone a bit more accomplished
Actual vintage: someone a but more accomplished or those that appreciate “Zakka Style”

Although, many people just ride whatever and don’t really give two f**ks…

But, I wouldn’t go PGO due to quality issues (long-term quality… brand new is fine). Here are the acknowledged winners in terms of quality:

  1. Kymco
  2. Yamaha
  3. SYM
  4. Suzuki
    At the rear are PGO, Hartford, CPI, Aeon (kinda unknown, since they’re new)[/quote]

Strange, we sell a few new Vespas to Guys and girls. Our customers don’t seem to fit your listed stereotypes? You are correct that most people don’t actually care !

I think what you’re trying to say is that a lot of the guys here don’t mine appearing like girls. Notice how many of them carry a purse?

BAM! :roflmao:

Okay, in all seriousness… no, Vespa is different. The scooters that are specifically for girls are those copies of the Vespa S or LX 125.

  • PGO Bubu
  • SYM Tiny
  • Kymco Many
  • Yamaha Cuxi

Noted and much appreciated!

To be honest my preferred option would be a Kymco Xciting but at the moment I’m looking around and getting a feel for what’s available. I was a little concerned about the Bubu’s looks, except for the gunmetal grey version, however, quality is the most important thing.

Thanks folks!

Here’s a photo I took just today: i.imgur.com/rEoYOOC

It’s TWO of the exact PGO J Bubu S that you asked about, ridden by some kids… and as a bonus, there’s a Kymco Many off to the left.

The Kymco Xciting is a mature-looking maxi scooter, but its looks are a bit outdated. May I suggest the Kymco Nikita? 4.bp.blogspot.com/-eraukoIe0tc/U … 600/10.JPG

The Nikita is basically the same size, engine power and style as the Xciting, but with updated looks. As a bonus, the Nikita is available in 200cc & 300cc, whereas the Xciting is available in 250cc, 300cc, 400cc & 500cc. This is important, because the normal scooter license only allows you to ride up to and including 250cc. If you want to ride anything above that displacement, you first have to ride with the regular license for a year, then go and do some further tests (people, correct me if I’m wrong!).

The only problem with Maxi scooters is the parking issue. They’re wider and longer than your typical-size scooter (typical meaning a 125cc scooter) and will fit into a government-delegated parking spot painted on the road just fine… but it’ll be a bit of a hassle squeezing into the typical Taipei scooter parking space which is rammed with scooters.

Rammed: https://maps.google.com/?ll=25.041078,121.512893&spn=0.002659,0.005284&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=25.041089,121.512794&panoid=_Z6w_b_aCWYw5Qk6RKRX7w&cbp=12,18.15,1,9.41
Not so rammed: https://maps.google.com/?ll=25.043566,121.504927&spn=0.005317,0.010568&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=25.043642,121.504997&panoid=yC9Hz9Gy49z9hyGPUXevFw&cbp=12,265.28,0,15.17

Ugg, I remember living in Taipei with my Grand Dink 250. It was quite normal for me to have to move around 5-10 scooters
around in order to park my ride. Not that I had a problem with it, I was more like "God damn, I have to move these little pussy
scooters, a Grand Dink has to park here! Funny thing is that I didn’t know until this year is that you could be sued by someone
for moving their scooter when it’s parked. Not that I could easily see that happening in Taipei. Since I’ve moved from there, I
have seen how it’s frowned upon outside of Taipei.

You can sue for all sorts of ridiculous things in Taiwan (e.g. saying that a restaurant’s food is too salty), but I honestly have never heard this.

I live in Kaohsiung now and people still move scooters just like in Taipei. There was even a news report about the Taipei government having to add plastic poles to the end of parking rows, because people parked at the ends had their scooters moved out of the legal parking spots so some bastard could steal the spot… and they got a ticket for illegal parking.

So, I still don’t believe that anyone has ever sued for having their scooter moved! I’ve even seen people drop other people’s scooters…

Moving a scooter so someone else gets the ticket, while a bit naughty, makes me laugh. Although I’m sure I’d be pissed off if I had to pay the ticket. When I was a courier in London, moving a few scoots was sometimes the case but it was only a couple every now and then.

Okay, if you people don’t mind, in your view, what is the best decent sized 125 scoot in Taiwan?

And thanks for taking those photos, that was very kind!

:slight_smile:

[quote=“Bubbagump”]Moving a scooter so someone else gets the ticket, while a bit naughty, makes me laugh. Although I’m sure I’d be pissed off if I had to pay the ticket. When I was a courier in London, moving a few scoots was sometimes the case but it was only a couple every now and then.

Okay, if you people don’t mind, in your view, what is the best decent sized 125 scoot in Taiwan?

And thanks for taking those photos, that was very kind!

:slight_smile:[/quote]

I wanted to save you from buying a feminine scooter! :slight_smile:

One time in Tamsui, I noticed that someone had moved a scooter out of its parking spot (just rolled it right out) and the scooter just sat there for days (probably because the person had gone on a trip) and a couple days later it got a ticket. I felt bad for the person after that, so I rolled it back into another spot. But, whoever did that was an asshole and deserves some sort of ass-whooping.

If I were to choose a new 125cc scooter, I’d probably choose again what I am currently riding, the SYM GT Evo: tw.sym-global.com/product/items_ … &sub_CA=22

I bought the 2012 brown one with drum brakes. I must say that it’s mature-looking (maybe due to the colour) and the lines of the vehicle are very elegant. It doesn’t feature any LED lights, which I feel don’t fit in with the elegant shape of the scooter. I also removed all the gaudy stickers. Other colours look great, too, but the most expensive model comes with LED tail-lights, which just look really gaudy to me (LED lights do look good in some cases, but the styling has to be more aggressive that this particular scooter). It’s also great, because this particular scooter isn’t so popular.

Otherwise, I’d have to say the Yamaha Cygnus-X: cygnusx-fi.com.tw/?id=10

I also really like the styling of the various Suzuki scooters (good quality, too - my uncle and his son both ride one): suzukimotor.com.tw/motor/index.htm