The Best 50cc Scooter for Car Drivers 

This guy is like the combination of Top Gear and Tarantino movies on motorcycle related topics.

Best scooter commercial I've ever seen. Even if Ryan convinces one percent of car drivers... that's millions.

Scooters were a bit of a stepping stone into motorcycles for me. I wanted cheap transport with a low purchase price, without stomaching $300 and a full training weekend. Back in college, I found a Honda metropolitan that was lightly used, in good running condition, and $550. Throw in a jacket, helmet and gloves and I was up and riding for under $1000. It's hard to describe how much that simple, slow and *cough* cute bike changed my life in college. I was working 30 hours a week, had about a 20 minute commute to work or school, and was very, very frugal. What started as an escape from burning gas and time in my car became my favorite part of the day. I found slower backroads to ride my scooter safely in traffic, left early, and felt revitalized every time I'd hop on the thing. One of the best parts was that even though it took longer to get to school, I saved a good 10 minutes finding a parking spot and walking to my classes. In Colorado, I could legally park in the bike rack. I surely recouped the purchase price of the scooter and gear between gas savings and parking passes. I cannot recommend enough how much fun it is to ride a scooter instead of a car. These days I've transitioned to motorcycles, but I'd hop on a scooter in a heartbeat!

This guy is a legend...he can make anything look good

"Faster! Until the thrill of speed outweighs the fear of death!" The first cut to wide from the race had me dying of laughter. This must have been what Hunter was really describing... not the Vincent Black Shadow! This is why you're the best motorcycle content on the internet. More please!

I bought a 400cc scooter last January as my daily to replace my pickup truck for business trips and the timing of it all has never been better. While my colleagues are stuck in rush hour Friday traffic, I was already at home making dinner. While they fret over the rising fuel prices, I fill up my 12-liter tank with $20 and consume only half a tank in a week. $40 of fuel a month is pretty great

Dude Ryan, the entertainment value in your videos is frigging 10 folds man. Keep it up! Thank you and your team for the hard work!

Dude thank you so much for making this video! I absolutely love to see scooters represented in a positive light by people living in primarily non-scooter communities. I got a scooter when I moved to Hawaii and was shocked to discover how efficient it is. It has great internal storage, and if you live in a dense city where most necessary commutes are just 5 minutes away, you can save tons of money (and fuel emissions and costs) by scootering everywhere you go.

Only Ryan can make me want a scooter even when I already own a motorcycle

This dude got me into motorcycling and I bought my bike got my license and everything was AWESOME. However, somebody t-boned me at night with their car and I was in the hospital for a month because I needed 7 surgeries... all for my leg. I mean hopefully I get to keep my leg. Wiggling my toes at the moment is about as hard as doing a wheelie on that vespa. But hey I'm still here and honestly these videos have been getting me through it. To all my fellow riders out there please stay safe and be EXTRA careful at night. To Ryan F-9 and the team. Thank you for always delivering amazing content and being such an amazing and entertaining inspiration.

Top notch videos, humor, production value, camera angles, dialog. Very fun and informative to watch. Thanks for making these Ryan and crew!

I have a Ruckus specific underseat bag I got online, highly recommended as it maxes out that otherwise unsecure area and makes it so practical to carry stuff, best accessory ever. I have also seen the alternative option of using plastic panels to close off that area for storage and I guess you could also use some netting instead. Also don't forget the footrest is one big flat area and it's larger than most scooters, I've even carried a 32in flatscreen on it. Now to figure out how to transport a bike one day maybe.

FortNine's videos are not simply about motorcycles, atvs and scooters. They are a work of art. The transitions, sound quality, script writing, camera angles, b roll management are without a doubt some of the best on youtube in any genre! Love watching each and every video!

Always a good day when fortnine posts. The aprilia you have in this vid is called an SR Motard here in Europe, based off the piaggio typhoon. There is also a rsv4 inspired SR50 which is 2 stroke liquid cooled and the best in it's class by far, even with fuel injection in some models

Love your sense of humour Ryan. Good video editing guys.. 👍🏽

Here in Connecticut, anything over 49cc requires a motorcycle license. I bought a cheap Chinese scooter (Lance) that had a 125cc motor. I printed out a "49cc" sticker and put it over the "125cc". After I got rid of that, I bought a Suzuki Burgman 650cc scooter. That had enough storage under the seat for two full face helmets.

the absolute genius of F9 to film, produce, and post this video at a time when people are looking for a break in costs. it perfectly sets up some new riders into our beautiful world of two wheels. bravo !

My favorite is still the Honda Super Cub. I had a knockoff 90cc one in Vietnam and it was amazing. Took 3 liters of fuel and went 125~150km full throttle with a ton of baggage. So many places to store stuff, I even saw one guy carrying 5 pigs on his Super Cub. Unfortunately they're rare here.

This channel made me into a biker. Such an amazing content, even Top Gear couldn't make me a driver! Ryan tops them all

This was the best scooter video I've ever seen. Well done lads. Perfection in filming and editing. Lots of work went into this.

Nice to see some scooter love. They're a great entry point into 2 wheel ownership and you can't beat the convenience of automatic CVTs for a city commuter.

I got my motorcycle less than a month ago. I ride it as much as I can and the gas savings are unreal. I’m trying to convince all my friends to get on 2 wheels.

Your humor is a thing of beauty. You don't pull your punches with those digs, but neither you risk it all, to allow people to hate on you. Perfectly balanced

I think this is the greatest youtube video. Gives us pros, cons, pricing, answers good questions with good answers, and was high production from start to finish.

I bought a scooter last year to start doing food deliveries and I've found myself using it more than my VFR 800. It's just way more fun and easier to ride around the city. Scooters can be tuned up faster than most motorcycles off the line too so its crazy more people aren't riding them!

Well that was nothing short of fabulous Ryan and the gang - full marks for production quality, education and entertainment....and you're doing your bit for saving the planet too! Without doubt THE best motorcycling RU-vid channel on the planet... Spot on.....

F9 has gotten me fully invested into Motorcycles and I love the way the videos are shot and formatted each their own cinematic masterpieces of information.

7:03 This is what I love about FortNine the most, he talks about incredible technology that NOBODY else does/cares about. Another great example is the second 'computer controlled' throttle valve on the tu250x. You can't even find this stuff by googling it.

50cc mopeds are great urban warriors and good starters, but I just want to put my thought in. IT'S WORTH DOING THE MSF TO GET A HIGHER CC MOPED!!! For North American Roads, I use a 125CC Honda Supercub and wow it's so much better being able to go 55-65mph. That way I'm not getting trampled by traffic at 35mph at max RPM blowing out my eardrums! EDIT: Guys, I have motorcycles too...I just love scooters also. This isn't a mind blowing concept. IDGAF about "biker image". I ride whatever I like. I've done the MSF literally years ago. I don't understand the pissing contest that formed about needing to ride higher CC bikes. Who cares? I own a 1868CC M8 Softail that rides more like a piece of junk compared to my bro's ZX10R with almost half the displacement. Bikes are charming in all sizes, so just ride what you enjoy and let others ride what they enjoy...but my comment has proven a misconception about scooter owners...so maybe wave at a Scooter Rider next time. They might have a bigger bike in their garage than any of yours :)

Motorcycling used to be inherently fun. Thanks for bringing that back!!

You have such a brilliantly laid out content. I sense some top gear in the scooter race. Brilliant!

As someone who started on a fiddy scooter ages ago, this hilarious and insightful take on this class of motorbike brought smiles to my face. It's amusing that you brought up the 70's oil crisis. Back then, it was responsible for bringing in all those mopeds that keep on turning up in barns and garages. Just a note: the absurd customisability of the Ruckus has lead to the creation of underseat storage mods. One of the most basic is a series of elastic-net panels on the sides and front.

Great video, with good humor, and serious lessons. I am a sixty-three year old man in the USA. I have been riding scooters and mopeds for 45 years. For decades people thought it was weird. About twenty years ago, I rarely saw other people on scooters and mopeds. Now, my 49cc Scooters are cool! I have three of them. One is a Honda Metropolitan, with the trunk on the back. It is my favorite, super smooth, and 125 miles per gallon. One is a Genuine Buddy scooter, also with the trunk. I just added the trunk.. The buddy is a fast two-stroke, 47 mies per hour on a flat road! The other one is a new Tao-Tao, slow and junk, but it rides nice, and I really just have it for friends to ride. For super cheap it is actually pretty good. It pushes 100 miles per gallon. When the wether is bad and for great fun and hauling people or objects, I have a Toyota 4-door 4x4 truck. Keep the box on wheels for when you need it and save tons of money, and have great fun with the scooters!

Always entertaining and informative. And the production value just keeps getting better and better.

I have to say, I have been watching for years. I think this is your best video. Simply amazing.

I watch a lot of youtube, arguably too much. And no other channel puts more of a smile on my face with a new upload than you guys. Honestly, the writing, the angles, transitions, editing…everything is just spot on and top gear ähhh i mean top notch! Keep up the good work Love from germany ❤

this guy is a 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌ing living legend. The way he create his contents is beyond imagination. Everymoves is unpredicatble but delivers in the way its supposed to be and still never disappoints the viewers. The sarcasm, the information, the presentation, everythings is on point. Higly appreciating your contents from India.🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 ( Sorry for my stupid english) btw, please do more on the royal enfield indian bikes seems like those bikes are very popular in the western countries. ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Great video guys, well shot, nice timing, great cinematography, witty, fun, as always, well done...

Absolutely brilliant video as ever. Keep'em coming!

I lived in Vietnam for a year and rode an electric scooter made by Vinfast. Something over 75% of scooters on the road there are Hondas. I saw a fair number of Vespas and Piaggio machines but they aren't well thought of. I'd ride the electric scooter here in the US if they sold them here. Great for a quick run to the market.

what an excellent montage at 5:36. i also love how the production style for your videos is ever morphing from one style to another. it feels like how the Beatles kept inventing new genres. you guys are a great team.

This was amazingly entertaining! Great work!

Awesome video creation and very educational along with entertaining. Been bingeing for a couple days now!

As an Italian myself i can confidently say the description of that Vespa (1:23) is extremely accurate.

I been riding scooters to work for years. (16 mile commute). I take back roads to avoid the heavy and fast traffic, while doing less than 55mph I feel like a Isle of Man TT racer with the throttle pinned at all times! Most fun one can have commuting! If you need more speed there are many 125/150cc options out there with same weight and size as a 50cc but more speed. Thanks for the video, hopefully the guys & gals at work will stop making fun of my scoot and get their own!

Man, how could you make videos that you can watch 50 times! Insane how good these are.

5:26 I just realized Connor is 44 LOL

This was actually surprisingly entertaining :D ... Also cudos on knowing why/how the Vespa engine became so famous for some small but quite genius mechanical engineering :)

I personally loved using the mid-way option: not the 50cc zippers, not the heavy and comfortable 700cc maxi-scooters, but a 150cc one. It was the PCX150 (mine was made in Vietnam). It was delightful. Super comfortable, completely shielding, not ostentatious or ridiculous, not laughably small or crassly large; sedate, but nimble. It had the traffic start-stop function and the engine that would start in quarter of a second, it had a huge trunk. Yeah, it wasn't very dynamic and topped off hard at 69 mph, which sucked for highways. But in a city, it was the kind of machine you FORGOT that you're even riding. Sit, go, maneuver, stop, get up. Refuel once a week or two.

It’s VERY hard not to like this guy. Clean comedy, educational, yet to the point and somehow still super entertaining. New subscriber here 💪

Incredible quality content and great humour! Subscribed!

"one must assume a gynaecological position" finally broke me Great video once again! Here in Dutch speaking Europe, if a bicycle is to slow or takes too long a scooter is a very popular option.

I saw a beautiful vespa at a coffee shop on the day this video came out, so this video was a first result when I googled vespa scooter. Got my permit a week later, and a used 125cc scooter a couple days after that because of it. Thanks for the motivation!

The amount of information, humour, sarcasm and progression of the whole video is just perfect..... 🥰

Dude Ryan, the entertainment value in your videos is frigging 10 folds man!))

I don't care what you post about, just keep the video's coming. I love your style, your technical explanations, your insight and your just right (or left) humor. I don't care that you don't post as often as other channels, because every video is must watch, especially as a fellow motorcycle enthusiast. Thanks a bunch Ryan & Crew.

This has been my favorite channel on RU-vid for a good amount of time now. I look forward to every video.

You should talk about the Italian scooters era from the 80’s to the early 00’s. When we were teenagers the scooter was a really important thing! There’s a full sub-culture about it here in Italy! Btw proud to see Aprilia sr I had one too back in the days

This was fantastic, thank you.

Great video, although I'd argue that the Ruckus is the best of the three for carrying capacity, once you factor in some after sales accessories. Or even just some cheap bungee cords. I can easily do a weeks grocery shopping using the footwell for larger objects and I throw a panier bag under the seat.

A decade ago while living in the Miami area, I decided that instead of a second car, we’d get a scooter. The weather is pretty much scooter-friendly throughout the year and its main purpose was to get me to my carpool pickup site. When my peers showed up in their jacked-up 4X4s, Mopar big-blocks, and even mini vans, I was frankly laughed at. Fast forward to the market crash of 2008 and gas prices were approaching $4 USD a gallon. The laughs about the scooter subsided abruptly and a number of out-of-ear-shot discussions were suddenly cropping up with my carpool mates regarding the cost of running a scooter. For $1200 to buy a scooter, $20 USD monthly to insure it, and $10 a month in gas… the joke was not as funny anymore and became a serious consideration. I have not owned a scooter in years and am enjoying the cafe racer life. That said, my affection for scoots has been lifelong. Great video!

Here in South East Asia the roads are dominated by 115cc to 160cc scooters for daily commute, as an example i am using a 150cc Honda scooter and only consuming 52km/L of gasoline so the price hikes doesn't usually affect us that much (Riders) sorry for my poor english.

Friggin LOVE your videos!

I've seen over 20 videos about motos today, is my first time, your video was the only worthy to see, it was funny and clear, thank you! Greetings from COL

That drag race sequence is one of the best I've ever seen...

I dont have a motorbike. I am not too fussed about getting a motorbike. My engine lives in the car and when I am on two wheels I am pedalling but your videos are fantastic. I have been thoroughly hooked on them the past week or two. Your presentation is great, humour that hits the spot and travel adventures that make me want to head for the hills. Thank you and keep up the good work.

this was the best video anyone could make on scooters, thanks

Man this was a blast to watch! Great editing and hilarious

After discovering Fortnine months ago and loving their content ever since, this is literally the best video I have watched on RU-vid in the past year. Also being a scooter driver and Mario kart fan, I loved and laughed every second of it. I own an electric moped, if you want to do the extra "mile" with cheap daily use and low maintenance go electric. Of course is as expensive as a used decent car, still it pays off in the long run with these recent fuel prices. Thank you Ryan

Fun fact - they used to race Vespas in Malaysia back in the 70's. The trick was to remove the headlight ( but leaving the headlight glass), then fold back the fairings a bit, and on the long straight you would duck down and look through the lens as you got aerodynamic!

👏Superb cinematography & excellent musical score!👏

The lads had fun with the editing on this one, awesome vid gents!

This is amazing. The scooter race was both hilarious and, I bet, was incredibly fun to film.

The way FortNine comes up with a new content everytime is mind blowing. It is perhaps most underrated channel on RU-vid. This is really something.

Nice work as usual + a little extra. Funny as heck. Environmentally forward thinking... nice.

Holy Smokes is that a good video!! VERY well done!

I've owned at least one Ruckus since 2006 and the amount of stuff you can move is actually nutty. On the floor, I can carry two 30-packs (of seltzer, obviously) and can fit a couple grocery bags under the rear seat - you just need to loop a plastic bag's handle around the frame. Now that it's warm out, I use my car about once a week and my 2009 Ruckus nearly every day.

I started my two wheel journey on a honda ruckus and I can't wait to get another. The accessories aftermarket is amazing and they're just so fun to ride around and explore with.

Brilliant perspective as usual!

production quality is always top notch.

Dude! You (and your team) are legends. Informative, intelligent, creative and funny. I've been a maxi-scooter owner for the past 14 years. My 2008 Yamaha Majesty (400cc) can carry ten 2-liter bottles in weather-protected comfort. At speeds that are illegal almost everywhere on the planet.

Love me a little 50 being able to use %100 of the motor makes me very happy.

The cuts to the scooters all strolling down the lane without any music was absolutely perfect

I love this channel, you some how have me wanting something I never wanted even as a kid....a 50cc scooter!

That editing, cinema quality filters and post-processing, alongside the most charismatic presenters in the industry = big win.

Really enjoyed this video, you are doing great work "spreading the word" about motorcycles. I recently purchased a Honda CB125E for commuting and at 90mpg my fuel bill has actually decreased! 👌

This is seriously a great video I love it!

Okay I just finished watching almost every video on the channel and this is my favourite for sure

Been riding for almost 10 years now and I’m 27. Every kind of bike you can think of, currently got a supermoto and a cbr250rr (yeah the one he made the video on). But I learned to ride on a scooter, a Suzuki ay50 katana. I loved the little 2T beast. Scooters are amazing.

I enjoyed the episode. My first motorized vehicle was a 1985 Spree. My friend had a KE100 and we ended up using it riding trails and jumping it. I got out of scooters for 20 years but when I was on a walk with my son in early 2020, I saw a 1984 Honda Aero 125 on the curb with a free sign. I had the engine purring like a kitten that evening. I started collecting them. Since then I bought and refurbished and sold a 1987 Honda Elite 80. Attained a 1987 Honda Elite 125, and a 1984 Aero 80. My friends thought I was crazy. I would invite them to come down and ride and they all tell me "it's impossible to ride them without smiling". I can't say it better myself.

This guy is a legend. Never skipped a single second of his videos.

I bought a brand new Kymco Agility 125 scoot years ago when my car was nearing its end. It was the only thing I could afford at the time and I needed something reliable. At first I wasn't too thrilled about riding a scoot, but once I discovered how practical, fun, and amazing they are... I wouldn't own anything else. I ride a 2018 Suzuki Burgman 650 Executive now and have never been happier on two wheels.

That was hilarious, awesome AND educational all rolled in to one sweet, easy to digest package. Well done, once again!

This is the best motorcycle channel ever. Ryan is such a fantastic presenter and the script is always crisp.

Man I love your drift and videos.. licensed and driving for 51 years, and I still learn a ton from you EVERY TIME, for fun convenience wish you included the 50cc Vino which I just bought for extreme contrast to normal riding!.... and your humour cannot compete .... love it

Great vid as always! Keep them coming. It would have been nice if you'd provided the models of the scooters you reviewed.

Great video, as always! Down here in Greece, as well as the rest of the Mediterranean, owning and riding a scooter daily is the norm. In most countries in Europe, car drivers can legally ride up to 125cc scooters, so the streets are absolutely full of them. My Piaggio Liberty 150 probably gets more miles than my Bonneville.

My gosh don’t wait so long for the next video. I just found your channel and I absolutely love it. The best in genre for sure

I got to hand it to this video was informative and entertaining. Kudos to you

You're the only youtuber i watch not for the content or title but just because it's you that made it