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Originally Posted by aigel
The only demographic I ever see riding these full size scooters are fat midaged nerds that don't want to ride a cruiser bike.
Sorry ... 
Seriously, I don't see what these do better than a decent MC?
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Honestly, I got cruisered out. I used to design and CNC machine custom made cruiser parts. People would walk in with a design on a napkin and say "Can you make this?" Some of my parts have been in the Custom Chrome and Chrome Specialties catalogs. I did a bunch of work on Sammy Hagar's Red Rocker Bike, one-offs and production parts for New York Custom Cycle/Choppers (I think some of the parts I did are still in their catalog too), etc etc.. We were doing 3D CNC parts before almost anyone else in North America. We'd blow people's mind because custom parts were generally usually 2D affairs (hand made tanks and fenders excepted). And we'd make these crazy parts out of solid billet. We'd also buy aluminum wheel blanks then machine 3D spokes into them. Was lots of fun. So cruisers sorta ran their course with me....as have sportbikes. I will always have the itch for supermoto and to a lesser extent hard core dual sports.
What do scooters do better than regular motorcycles? Cheaper to buy, maintain, run, fuel, insure, etc. Very easy to ride..although that's a non issue for me.