Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

TAKE IT TO THE MAX

Our European cousins love a big scooter. If you go to Paris, Barcelona or Rome, they’re everywhere you turn, either splicing through traffic or crammed three abreast into a parking space. And it seems they love Yamaha’s TMAX more than most. But for some reason, there seems to be a reluctance amongst the British biking community to get on board. We could probably argue the reasons for that all day. We could talk about the division between hard-core motorcyclists and classic scooter riders, or we could blame the lack of young people getting

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