The Big Boy Scooter I'm looking at getting

I have been considering it for a while now and I have decided 2012 is officially going to be the year of the scooter. One of the main reasons I have been considering it is the cost of commuting just seems to be climbing with absolutely no end in sight. I currently drive a little Hyundai Getz 1.5HDi and don’t get me wrong, it’s a great little car. Being a turbo diesel it is really light on fuel and has a bit of zip as well. If I had to make the decision again to buy it when I did for what I paid for it I would buy the same car again. But with the increasing price of fuel it is becoming more and more expensive to run it.  It has a 45 litre tank which at the current diesel price costs about R450 to fill it up. Once full I can get about 650kms on the tank (city driving) which is awesome. I have also had it for a few years so to put it mildly it is getting on in kilometres. I am about to hit the big 250 000kms and it is still going well but odds are something is going to pack up soon. I had to replace one of the injectors a few months ago and a brand new one would have cost me about R6000 but I was lucky enough to pick up a reconditioned one for R1500. I can’t help but feel that it is just a matter of time before something major goes wrong with it.

The looming toll roads in Joburg have also pushed me in the scooter direction. At the moment I probably do on average about 200km per week on the highways that are going to be tolled (if SANRAL get their way).  At 50 cents per kilometre that works out to Read more…