scooter prices are not much dearer for a 125cc than a 50cc

[DottyDuck]

before i bought my bike and done my cbt i was going to buy a scooter. When looking at scooters i noticed that to get a 125cc instead of a 50cc there wasn't much of a difference in price. Can someone tell me why.. because it really is annoying not knowing lol

For example.. on the lexmoto website the tornado with a 50cc is £839.99 and as a 125cc it is £859.99

Why?!

[hmmmnz]

because you can ride a 50cc when you are 16, and you have to do a cbt to ride a 125, therefore a 125 is cheaper because you need to do more work to be able to legally ride it
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[G]

Why do you think there should be a difference?

They likely use parts that cost pretty much exactly the same to produce.
Most of the bike is probably the same, bar a different bore and stroke on the engine, slightly longer swing arm possibly a different exhaust and a different sized carb.

£20 probably accounts for not only the difference in cost of producing them, but some profit on that difference.

It's more a question when you looked at bikes like the Ducati top and mid range bikes why the costs were so different - a couple of grand when you seemed to get the same basic bike, but with a bigger bore and stroke.

[_Iain_]

Production costs are probbably about the same.

125 scoots generally dont sell too well, everyone goes out and gets a "proper" bike with a manual gearbox. If they hyped the price up then they'd not sell any!
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[DottyDuck]

[G]

We expect to pay more to get more, but that doesn't have to be the way, of course.

Presumably the brakes etc are a bit 'over specced' for the 50 - but it's not going to be worth them making separate even cheaper ones at this price point.

Another opposite example I was trying to think of was computer processors.
They do it a bit more intelligently now I believe, but in some cases the slower and cheaper processors are exactly the same as the faster ones - just that they have something set in them that says "go slowly".
It's cheaper to make them this way and sell for less with a restriction than to make two different products.
Cars often aren't far off, with little difference between some models bar a chip that says "this is the 120hp model", say.

[_Iain_]

[DottyDuck]

[kernow24]

[hmmmnz]

[Alpha-9]

The same reason 125s can be more expensive to buy and insure than bigger bikes, I guess

Supply and demand
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