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Scooters are one of the most commonly used modes of transport for the average person today. The popularity of scooters is usually because of their competitive price, easy maintenance and comfortable maneuverability.

Recently, 50cc scooters have made a mark for themselves in the market primarily because of their fuel efficiency. Another feature that makes them immensely popular with the crowd is the fact that these are the largest scooters that can be driven in most of the areas without any special license
Many people are still apprehensive of using 50cc scooters because they are of the view that these scooters are exceedingly slow and so cannot match the pace of this fast moving world. The bitter truth is that the factory stock of these scooters can actually not go beyond 50 miles in an hour. This limits the use of these scooters and makes them not fit to be used on highways or interstates. It may also become difficult for you to maintain the speed with the fast-track traffic with these kinds of scooters.

However, the good news is that, with a few simple modifications, these 50cc scooters can travel as fast as 70 miles/hour. This commendable speed can be achieved simply with alterations in cdi box, roller weights and variator derestriction. There can also be certain additions to the scooters in the form of pipes or other inexpensive materials that can help increase the speed of these scooters.

There are many advantages of using a 50cc scooter, the foremost being its amazingly low price. Scooters give a wonderful performance for the cost incurred and are hence quite popular with all classes of people today. Scooters are also great at the gas mileage they provide. The benefit of these scooters makes them a simply perfect vehicle for traveling short and medium distances. Thus the economical advantage of these scooters makes them exceedingly popular with each passing day.

The easy and inexpensive maintenance of these scooters also makes them the favorite vehicle of one and all. They are vastly cheap compared to other vehicles in terms of maintenance cost and so are high in demand. Further, it also quite easy to use these scooters as they function quite like a motorcycle. Though, it needs to be mentioned that they are much lighter than a normal motorcycles and do not even require change of gears for its operation.

Finally, the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have approved these scooters and have marked them "street legal". So now there is a product which saves a lot of time as it does not require any special parking and is quite a fun to operate.

Robert Denales writes about 50cc scooters on the website 50cc Scooter Review