Starting age

[IvyGodivy]

Motorcycles aside at what age did you start riding scooters?

[RSTX]

46

The PCX is the first scooter I've ever owned. I love it! I'm not sure if i will go back to motorcycles again. Simple to run and maintain. Inexpensive. What more could I want?

[gbru2505]

Heh. 47. But I only started driving cars when I was 37 as I'd always lived in capital cities.

[Oyabun]

40, but I still ride "proper" motorcycles.

[relic]

61
Rode motorcycles from 19-30, by the time I started riding a scooter 31 years had passed, so I put the never forget to ride a bike to the test. Had to go through a bit of a learning curve for sure.

[you you]

Motorcycles aside at what age did you start riding scooters?

0600 21st June 1977 for motorbikes.

Around 2004 for scooters

So 16 for bikes and around 43 for scooters.

[gn2]

Motorbikes 15 (illegally)
Scooters 24

[PCX150Rider]

Just a few years ago. . ..

[kramnala58]

55

The only time I have ridden a motorcycle was to do the MSF course last year. It was two days and on the second day they allowed me to use my scooter. Not that the bike was a problem (it was actually lighter than my scooter), but because I was more comfortable on it.

[honkerman]

I was 33 when I bought my first scooter, but my first experience with scooters was in college, when I was 19. A buddy had an old Honda Aero 50. it topped out at 25mph, but it was a blast to ride even so.

I got my own scooter when the gas prices hit $3 a gallon here back in 2008. That was a Yamaha Vino 50, and while it was a nice little machine, I soon found that motorists have no respect for anyone else on the road and a 50cc scooter is a death sentence in suburbia, so I upgraded to a 150 after 5 months of that nonsense. I had both the 150 and a 750cc Honda Sabre for a while, but got rid of the big bike and kept the scooter. About three years ago, I swapped it out for the 2013 PCX I enjoy so much now.

[Spaguar]

I've given up the motorcycle in my 30's.
This spring, at 59, I've purchased my scooter and can't get enough of it.

[WhiteNoise]

Rented Motorcycle @ 17. Brought me my first down. Aren't they meant to ride on the sand?
Owned several Cycles afterwards.
Scooters came much later @ 51.
I'm Done calculating

[IvyGodivy]

Thanks everyone

These replies just reconfirmed my decision.

[kramnala58]

Thanks everyone
These replies just reconfirmed my decision.

As in, you are never too old to get a scooter?

[Mel46]

I have been riding motorcycles for 50 years but when I was diagnosed with Leukemia my wife said no more motorcycles, so I bought a Burgman 400 scooter. That was when I was 65. It has been said that you step down to a scooter when you get old, but with the power that some of them have now the lines are blurring between motorcycle and scooter. Honda even has a motorcycle with an automatic transmission now.

[gn2]

Honda have made a few bikes with auto transmission, going all the way back to the CB750A of 1976.

Lets not be in any doubt, a scooter is very definitely a motorcycle, its just a motorcycle with a different body shape.

Its neither a step up or down, because its really all the same thing.

[big bear]

i just started riding and im 63 i just signed up for a training class i might be the oldest person in it by a few decades

[JohnL]

I got my licence 4 years ago at age 72. The next oldest student was 38.

[Medicpcx]

started at 17

[Pistol660]

I had a couple of Yamaha T80's when I was 17. 1 was a runner and the other one was for spares!