£399.99 for a Road Legal 30mph Electric Moped (Was £999.99)

jaz_2

Originally Posted by jammin
Indeed, I completely agree. It is absolutely impossible for a high quality electric scooter to come out of China. :rolleyes:

At the quoted price of £399.99 you are absolutely correct, there is no chance whatsoever that it will be any good.

MORPH3US wrote: »

Ha ha, you're fighting a losing battle mate.

Some people have such a simplistic view on life.... I imagine they only ever buy british cars like Rover and Ford.... oh wait a minute......

I'm not sure how any of that is relevant, but thanks anyway...

The bottom line is that you get what you pay for, as anyone buying one of these scooters will find out to their cost. But don't listen to me, there's plenty of experts like this guy who will tell you they're great. Best of luck with it!

g_p_t

Scooter arrived today as promised my Expansys :j

It arrived on a pallet, in a large box in a metal frame, it took me a good 30mins to undo the frame and get the bike out.

The rear tyre was deflated, which didn’t take long to sort, & the mirrors needed putting on and the rear brake needed adjusting all very easy to do.

Next job to stick it on charge, the first thing you think is the mains lead goes strait into the bike, as it has a standard kettle lead socket, but no you have to use there charger (which is fan cooled). IMO I think this is a bit of a mistake using this connector.

After a while I switched on the ignition and it was totally dead, then i remembered seeing a circuit breaker switch under the seat 'DOH' it was in the off position, switched it on and we had power, unfortunately with this switched off it was not charging !

Left it for a few more hours and too it for a shot run (off road of course), it goes quite well, quite torqy , the Speedo showed me reaching 45mph:rotfl:, It didn’t feel like 45, I had me phone with me and put the sat nav on and tried again 27mph was the max I got. Now im 6'2 ft and weigh 16 stone so it isn’t bad. I tried it on a medium slop and it pulled me up it no problem.

Built quality I would say is OK its very similar layout to the petrol Chinese scooters.
Brakes work well,
Has locking under seat storage, Not quite big enough for my full faced lid.
Has twin front side, dipped and main beam lamps etc.

I have had a good luck around it and I found partially hidden 'multi turn preset' near the regulator box which im hoping may be its speed restrictor. I shall have a play one I get it insured and registered and on the road.

So all in all i think at £406 delivered its good value (as long as its reliable)

mattwallisuk

Dilfred wrote: »

The road, from what people have been saying it sounds like they will just fall apart while being driven, therefore spares will be liberally lieing around

:T:rotfl: yep.

Steve_xx

g_p_t wrote: »

Scooter arrived today as promised my Expansys :j

It arrived on a pallet, in a large box in a metal frame, it took me a good 30mins to undo the frame and get the bike out.

The rear tyre was deflated, which didn’t take long to sort, & the mirrors needed putting on and the rear brake needed adjusting all very easy to do.

Next job to stick it on charge, the first thing you think is the mains lead goes strait into the bike, as it has a standard kettle lead socket, but no you have to use there charger (which is fan cooled). IMO I think this is a bit of a mistake using this connector.

After a while I switched on the ignition and it was totally dead, then i remembered seeing a circuit breaker switch under the seat 'DOH' it was in the off position, switched it on and we had power, unfortunately with this switched off it was not charging !

Left it for a few more hours and too it for a shot run (off road of course), it goes quite well, quite torqy , the Speedo showed me reaching 45mph:rotfl:, It didn’t feel like 45, I had me phone with me and put the sat nav on and tried again 27mph was the max I got. Now im 6'2 ft and weigh 16 stone so it isn’t bad. I tried it on a medium slop and it pulled me up it no problem.

Built quality I would say is OK its very similar layout to the petrol Chinese scooters.
Brakes work well,
Has locking under seat storage, Not quite big enough for my full faced lid.
Has twin front side, dipped and main beam lamps etc.

I have had a good luck around it and I found partially hidden 'multi turn preset' near the regulator box which im hoping may be its speed restrictor. I shall have a play one I get it insured and registered and on the road.

So all in all i think at £406 delivered its good value (as long as its reliable)

Excellent. Thanks for writing about this. Would you mind keeping us updated for a while on your progress and findings with this product?

Is the item you have purchased exactly the same as the one in the link in post number 1 of this thread?

Also, what is the situation with insurance? Does it need insurance etc?

tightus_wad

Hmm.think your speedo is in KPH as 45 kph is 27.7 mph!!
Keep us up to date as it sounds pretty good - for £400!

g_p_t

Well spotted but the speedo is well out as went up to 70kmph/45mph!

g_p_t

Steve_xx wrote: »

Excellent. Thanks for writing about this. Would you mind keeping us updated for a while on your progress and findings with this product?

Is the item you have purchased exactly the same as the one in the link in post number 1 of this thread?

Also, what is the situation with insurance? Does it need insurance etc?

Yes its exactly the same as post 1, insurance is required I shall be sorting that over the weekend

Steve_xx

g_p_t wrote: »

Yes its exactly the same as post 1, insurance is required I shall be sorting that over the weekend

Thanks for that. I was looking at the links from the site in post 1 and somebody is saying that although it's advisable, that insurance isn't an absolute requirement. Have a look here:

http://www.expansys.com/ft.aspx?k=120968

g_p_t

Steve_xx wrote: »

Thanks for that. I was looking at the links from the site in post 1 and somebody is saying that although it's advisable, that insurance isn't an absolute requirement. Have a look here:

http://www.expansys.com/ft.aspx?k=120968

No this scooter definitely needs registering with the DVLA & insurance to use on public road.
Smaller scooters are be the ones restricted to 15mph, this one is the same classification as a 50cc moped

Steve_xx

g_p_t wrote: »

No this scooter definitely needs registering with the DVLA & insurance to use on public road.
Smaller scooters are be the ones restricted to 15mph, this one is the same classification as a 50cc moped

Ah I see. I wonder then if it could be tacked onto the car insurance? I think I've had a couple of car policies that have allowed me to drive other vehicles, though my policies are fully comp I think that I could drive other vehicles on a third party basis. I wonder if "other vehicles" includes these scooters?