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The Scooter Book: Everything you need to know about owning, enjoying and maintaining your scooter By Alan Seeley ( Haynes Publishing )
Release Date: 2004-12-26
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Product Description
Following on from the success of The Motorcycle Book, this extensively illustrated, all-color book provides comprehensive reference for all scooter owners and enthusiasts. From traditional to sports, through big-wheel and Super, all aspects of buying, riding, maintaining and tuning a scooter are included. Whether a beginner or experienced rider, the reader will find all the information they need to get on the road and stay on the road safely. There are detailed sections on how a scooter works and how to keep it running, with extensive maintenance and trouble-shooting chapters.
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 Needs a U.S. edition
"The Scooter Book" is written primarily for U.K. readers. Most of the first half describes scoots that are unavailable in the USA, desirable though they may be. But generally the first half is just that: generalities.
In the second half, dealing with Maintenance and tuning, the book offers valuable information I have not found elsewhere. From setting the idle speed to modifying the variator and beyond, "The Scooter Book" gets into the internals of a scooter.
If you want a USA oriented overview, check out the Complete Dummies series for scooters. But if you are after some good, straight-forward maintenance and modification information, I highly recommend "The Scooter Book".
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 The Scooter Book
This is an excellent book concerning scooters. When used in conjunction with the Haynes service manual is pretty much all that you need to attempt serviving your scooter. There is a trouble shooting section in the back that pretty much identifies most problems that you'll encounter. Once identified you simply break out the service manual to repair. Highly recommend this book! Received quickly and the quality was top notch!
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A nice starter book
This is a good book for those who have no mechanical knowledge and don't know anything about scooters. That said if your searching for actual repair information your best served looking elsewhere.
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Great Scootering Information ( mes492 )
Even though this book is written for an English audience, many of the chapters give great information on subjects like: what scooter to purchase, the differences between 2 and 4 stroke engines, how to get more power and derestrict a 50cc motor, different clothing for scootering, scooter accessories, performance parts, and securing your scooter. The chapters are very organised and show many different scoots from different manufacturers.
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Not for the US but Good enough for Singapore ( weeliano )
I'm a complete newbie to scooters and my first ride after acquiring my license is a brand new Piaggio X8 200. After going through the book, I'm very satisfied with the information provided in the book, especially the areas on maintenance. It has helped me to troubleshoot some of the problems I had experienced when I got my scooter. The book is rich in colour photographs and very detailed information on how the scooter works. It has helped me understand how the scooter works and what to do when I encounter specific problems. The most important thing is that it helped me to gain enough confidence to actually attempt some of the simpler maintenance and servicing myself like oil and coolant top ups.
This book is also good for people who want to make an informed decision when selecting the best scooter for themselves, it covers a wide variety of topics ranging from the different types of scooters, accessories and clothing.
For the complete beginner rider, this book is invaluable. I highly recommend it to Singapore riders!
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