Why you should buy a Goped instead of an electric scooter

Alright, I’ll admit it, I’m hooked on Gopeds.
They’re cheaper when you buy them used
They’re faster
They’re more annoying
They’re super well made
What else do you need??

[@relentless_fps]

My Go-Ped went just over 50MPH.. Super X-PED but I had a 49cc engine, HP carb, Velocity stack, K&N, Stroker Crank, HP Forged piston Oversized Cool Head/Cylinder, MSD ignition/coil pack, aftermarket Flywheel, Exhaust, Air scoop/Pull start block off, 3RD bearing support, bigger Long drive spindle, Billet aluminum deck, Oversized fuel tank, Billet aluminum wheels, Billet Aluminum throttle lever, racing bars with billet bar clamp & MX bars, upgraded Brake lever & front calipers. The thing screamed. The Super X-PED had a lot beefier built frame for Jumping, stair sets, banks/gaps, you could grind ledges & rails. Also had a Grind/Skid deck underneath. I raced GO-PEDs growing up. There was a local dealer/race shop, GO-PED Nationals circuit would hold races & events annually. Many of my friends in the neighborhood had GO-PEDs as well so we rode them everywhere which was great especially as a young teen 11-14/15 when you aren’t old enough to drive yet. We’d ride just to ride & race around in the industrial parks behind our sub division. Ride to the lakes nearby to go fishing, the store, school, the mall, friends houses, to go skate just have your skate back pack & your board, or just adventure or explore around town. My favorite thing was having wheelie contest with friends when riding around just see who could do the longest for blocks. Honestly those were some of the best years growing up! I’ll always have a soft spot for the GO-PEDs

[@JMan6271]

My goped never worked when I had one 10 years ago, never started always had issues, the company wouldn’t send us a new one

[@zimmosentertainment3315]

Good point and you can go more miles with a goped

[@Beosaw]

Thanks for your great video! And you are completely right, these things are cheap and for 150€ I got one perfect running one here in germany. Simple built and quite a hell to ride in stock condition😅👌🏼. I'll use it to drive to my job next week because most of my workmates ride electric bicycles or scooters🥱... I know they weren't road legal here but that's out of my interest😎 Thanks for openening my mind, Cheers from a german 2 stroke guy.

[@rickautor3550]

Its true i have a goped and e scooter. Rhe e scooter is very limited as far as mileage. Goped you wont get stuck

[@shadowkidgaming8253]

Myself I just prefer gas most of the time for things but in this case I actually used an old weed whacker and one of those slow razor electric kids scooters that was burned out and made my own “go ped” and I gotta say if I had to pick between the electric scooter it started as and what I made it into with my engine I’d pick my engine hands down

[@vr4k855]

I have 50cc Bike and i got the AM category Right. it can drive up to 500km and 45km/h when im older ill remove speed limit and put higher

[@mattrock78]

Gas scooter wins hands down, electric scooter is expensive.

[@altaccount2683]

My 48v $400 dollar scooter begs too differ

[@SirRobbins]

gopeds new are between $900 and $1300 now... Also, gopeds are illegal on sidewalks and most city streets where electric can be used nearly everywhere.... there are advantages to electric and I myself just dropped $915 on a new goped sport after my liquimatic of 20+ years took its last breath so I prefer gopeds too.... just saying

[@jeffkrauss5582]

Got a question I have one of those older style 49cc motors like that on the goped so can I put one of those big bore kits from a 50cc 2dtroke scooter on my motor

[@primorylereyes1102]

Fan of you channel

[@noel2115]

I’ve got one, what did you do to make it go 25?. For 10 bucks?

[@llecki]

I have one very similar but it has a bicycle gear change with a cable connect to the motor to allow disengagement on the drive spindle. Then when your ready to go just drop the motor on the wheel and your off. I haven’t found any gopeds with this option. Have you seen it before?

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

I’ve had one of those, it’s called a geosport.

[@highwaymen1237]

I have one in Houston for sale. Has great compression and spark but hasn't run in long time so carb needs to be cleaned. Needs new rear tire.

[@whos_karlito370]

how much?

[@highwaymen1237]

@@whos_karlito370 Sorry I sold it.

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

You're right about the price, I thought it was a scam at 1st. lol

[@Turbski1]

WaTs the motor to replace my stock one goped sport? And whats the $10 mod to get 25mph

[@QbertTehKiller]

Escooters that would be comparable would probably run a few thousand but that gets you a steering damper, comfy suspension, turn signals, headlights, tail lights, hydraulic dual disk brakes, over 50mph, instant torque and adjustable settings to tune it for different riders, fine control over throttle, a variety of security features, and you don't have to pay for gas you just plug it in when you go to bed. I think gopeds are cool but they're never going to be as safe or convenient as escooters. I think a goped shines as being a cheap vehicle to have fun on but you wouldn't be able to commute to and from work on it reliably and without police attention or angry drivers/pedestrians.

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

I honestly forgot what I even said in this video, it’s been a while, but that’s spot on with my opinion.

[@Alex-zh4bc]

Escooters are super dangerous they are completely silent so your wrong a goped is way safer

[@sleepyrasta14820]

It depends where you live you can't just cruise about on this around city centres and public park's on these, not where i stay anyway.

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

Mikey 420 the area does seem to play a big role, since making the video I did get yelled at by a park employee at a park in the more upscale part of town before I even started my goped. Although, I have been riding it around my area for a while and have not had any issues.

[@sleepyrasta14820]

@@kylesjunkandprojects216 i live in the UK and you can only legally ride these and other off road vehicles on private property. If you take them out on public road's/ places and someone calls the Police they will confiscate it and destroy it so you end up getting chased by police or getting your bike, Quad, scooter etc taking off you.

[@Alextheskater91]

A decent electric scooter goes 25-45 mph ($1000-$1500)

[@StarrYLDaGreat]

Trash. They die out after like 10-20 miles distance then you gotta charge it and waste time

[@Alextheskater91]

@@StarrYLDaGreat my e-bike is doing 60 miles with a dual battery setup. I charge once’s a week. I use it to get to work

[@socalstandups8459]

They usually go 20mph stock pushing it

[@superseriousreviews1168]

I bet it has to do with weight, I’m like 190 pounds so these are not performing to their full potential with me on them, maybe with a lighter person or a kid on them, they’d do 20.

[@socalstandups8459]

SuperSeriousReviews with my 23cc motif I got mine to top out at 22.7 mph stock and I weigh 130

[@masonscoott]

Kawi 550 Life my can do 30 easily but engine takes a beating once in a while( I’m on fifth engine) but there worth the thrill

[@sandmhoder]

these were soooo fun i had highly modified xpeds/ sports i dont know why theyve died away

[@lifeofgabylon]

You can take the electric scooter in anywhere. With a gas tank more places are prone to say no. I have a sport goped and the cops bug me every time I take it out. With my electric scooter or bike the cops say nothing and it’s way more accepted anywhere I have to go inside with it. Oh and you never smell like 2 stroke oil on the electric

[@CodySimoncelli-of7xx]

That is indeed the truth. I love my gopeds. I bought an s25 probably 15 years ago. Would go FOREVER on a tank of gas. But, they draw too much attention in busy towns. Which is also the best place to use a small scooter. I had to switch to a gotrax. It’s silent and I don’t get bothered. Ever.

[@rekthereaper3760]

I'm fixing mine just like the one your showing. Im looking to get a carburetor. What size cc do I get ?? I ordered a 22.5 / 23 cc . Did I get the right one??

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

RekTheReaper yes, your goped is 23cc, so that’s right.

[@doneoff5424]

That’s the same motor I got on mine I got my scooter 🛴 doing 34mph it depends on which motor you want to put on it g230 g260 g290 but I’m running a gp230

[@jonathanwilson1380]

No one ever has pointed out the fact that Henry Stickman rides a go ped, if you look it’s an electric scooter but it has an exhaust pipe at the back so it has to be a go ped

[@edselbobpacer]

Id rather have one of these

[@smokesedition88]

Why not ethanol fuel?? An what full synthetic oil do you mix with gas

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

Ethanol is hydrophilic, and gradually mixes with the condensation in the air, the ethanol water mix is what ruins gas lines, carburetor diaphragms and clogs carburetors.

[@kokonolike]

I mean if your buying an electric scooter for $300 your not gonna get much. If you want to be impressed by an electric scooter your gonna have to spend around $800 for something in the 1600-2000 watt range.

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

Thomas Barry I completely agree, one of those would be a lot better than a goped, the video was mainly directed at the cheaper electric scooters that I’d seen around my area.

[@jonquilpicker7807]

I just got a hopes like the one in the video anyway you can help me

[@OnSiteTrav]

Yep GoPeds are awesome!

[@gunbuster333SMSTI]

I just found this video from you. Looks to be about four years old.. does your opinion still stand on both the performance and price difference ofa go-ped versus a Escooter? on my channel, you can see the goofy thing that I built, which is a gas bicycle, which is absolutely beautiful reaching me anywhere between 18 and 23 mph consistently and I get give or take 50 to 60 miles off of it ! I’ve been thinking of trying to build a gas powered scooter, but it looks like I need a whole new scooter and can’t just use the cheap kids scooter that I currently own😂. As much as I love peddling and dealing with my bike, it currently doesn’t work because of a rear wheel axle issue . I’ve been thinking of getting a scooter like this that is purely throttle only and no obvious way to push it like a normal scooter as I know of . Is the price to performance worth it? Although I could look up this last question, I thought I’d ask you since you clearly have one at least in this video . I see that it uses friction drive instead of via a chain . Do they still work that way to this day? I’ve never used friction Drive before but then again my first ever engine on a bicycle was recent and it’s the only time I’ve ever worked with a 49 cc engine or any engine before

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

The performance of E scooters has greatly improved in the past few years. I still rip my gopeds around and prefer them because I enjoy small engine repair and they are MUCH cheaper. I weigh 200 lbs and the gopeds work great, I can even jump over stuff with them and I haven’t broken one yet. Friction drive works very well, they do not like wet pavement, they will stop moving, there are spindles that fix that issue though. I would look for a goped Bigfoot on marketplace, that one is a million times more comfortable than the goped sport.

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

I have found all of my gopeds for less than $100 each on facebook marketplace over a few years. They are out there, but they aren’t common and you’ve got to get them as soon as they are posted, people still want them I guess!

[@gunbuster333SMSTI]

@@kylesjunkandprojects216 I also currently weigh about 200 pounds with plus or -10 pounds depending on the month. The wet spindles actually make a lot of sense as if it gets wet. You’re pretty much screwed. Lol

[@gunbuster333SMSTI]

@@kylesjunkandprojects216 yeah because brand new there as much as an E scooter, which seems to be around $1000 which seems extremely ridiculous to me, especially when a 39 cc engine itself is only $200 lol. I’ll keep an eye out and thanks for the advice.

[@gunbuster333SMSTI]

@@kylesjunkandprojects216 i tried!!! nothing close to me....which means driving 200+ miles aaand for anything working its like 300$+ I live in twinsburg OH which is I guess a "nice neighborhood" so stuff like my gas bike and these little scoots are VERY uncommon :(

[@MrThunderCunt]

I got one from my neighbor. Its the same as those but a better grippy deck. It has to be ported, cus its is stupid fast.

[@tomkham5610]

Want to sell one? I can't find any used ones where I'm at, not going to spend over 300 for one! Let me know if yoi have any laying around that you want to sell.

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

tom kham I’m sorry, I want to keep mine, they’ve gotten to be very hard to find around here as well. It’s weird, sometimes they’re everywhere, and sometimes I go months without seeing one for sale.

[@manlykscorpa]

They look like something out of the 1970s

[@arphaxadarphaxad1592]

do they shut off in the rain?

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

They do lose all traction in the rain

[@DH-mf2lv]

What category on Craigslist would a GoPed be listed? Thanks.

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

D H search in the “all for sale” category for goped or scooter. Facebook marketplace has basically taken over craigslist so definitely use that instead lol

[@darrenashcraft3637]

Just curious as to where I can buy one?

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

I found mine on facebook marketplace, they are pretty hard to come by honestly.

[@jadenweaver7529]

Gas can't beat a rion scooter

[@8foot11in7]

Gas beats anything electric, electric will have somewhat of a fault that cuts it off for a second or so, gas can go up to 150mph while electric scooter s top speed is 90mph so far

[@jadenweaver7529]

@@8foot11in7 ok so your telling me a go ped will do 150mph B.S

[@8foot11in7]

@@jadenweaver7529 change engine trust me blud no bs

[@jadenweaver7529]

@@8foot11in7 I'ma need a link play boi. Cuz you must be installing a dirt bike engine lol 😅 takes more than just one gear and also alot more power to get that fast my 450 dirt bike only does 80 and has 5 gears lol and a 600cc motorcycle with 6 gears barley can get to 150 160

[@8foot11in7]

@@jadenweaver7529 600cc engine

[@LukeUtigard]

I loved my goped sport back in 99 I ride electric unicycles now, but I just recently bought my first e scooter, the nami burn e, Mann that thing is fast as all hell. The only drawback I had with my godped is the smell of gas, it made it nearly impossible to bring into stores and restaurants

[@lorenzovega8716]

That's the best part.. what chu mean

[@LukeUtigard]

@@lorenzovega8716 lol I got kicked out of blockbusters when I was like 12 cuz of that.

[@lorenzovega8716]

SUPER FUCKING FUN

[@Gdafu866jds]

They both have pros and cons. Biggest con for electric is the range. Most them barley get 20 mile range than gotta charge for like 6-12 hours. 7nless you wanna spend $1,200-$1,500 or more for a decent 1. Some them things be going for like 4k! Gas is good for people like to tinker with shit, they way cheaper but alot places can't ride them in parks or bike paths ect. I actually just made this decision and went with gas for doing food delivery. Main reason was price and no range anxiety. The e scoot community and ride outs are huge tho. Gas scoots kinda dying out. I think in a few years electric will up it's game and pretty much take over tho

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

I totally agree with everything you said.

[@freddieparrydrums]

Reckon I can ride them on the roads?

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

I ride them on neighborhood roads but that’s about it

[@freddieparrydrums]

@@kylesjunkandprojects216 Thanks man, I'm in the UK and technically they're illegal but I don't see the issue with riding it on just country roads, can't wait to get one just not sure how much I should pay and if a chain model is worth the extra!! I'm only 15 but wow I'd love one, they are just something else, I love things with engines :)

[@MrChantheman84]

My electric scooter I bought for $400 and it's super fast and comfy and stop on a dime

[@doneoff5424]

Clearly he doesn’t know

[@jonquilpicker7807]

Really need someone’s help FaceTime today

[@lorenzovega8716]

NOT TO MENTION 100 MPG!! SHOW ME AN E SCOOTER THAN CAN OUT DISTANCE A GOPED.. IMPOSSIBLE.

[@DanielPlaysGames67]

Are they illigal to ride in bike lanes

[@kylesjunkandprojects216]

baccakiller | мσтιση ∂єѕιgη yes, but I do it constantly. I usually only get a warning.

[@nelsonbrum8496]

In California, they can be ridden anywhere a bike can on city streets, according to the Department of Motor Vehicles website. Biggest obstacle is a loud tuned pipe will get cops attention, because we are not allowed by our lizard overloards to increase the sound of our exhaust. No pipe, no fun, and fun is illegal in Commiefornia.

[@dylanschmidt4607]

arnt these illegal to drive on the road?

[@dylanlevy2107]

Technically no, as long as it's under 50cc and you have a helmet your fine but if your cutting in an out of traffic you'll get pulled over I just ride in the bike lane

[@doneoff5424]

You don’t drive a scooter you ride it lol driving is only under working as commerce it’s called public roads not government roads lol learn your rights ppl please

[@Lugzexplo92]

Electric scooter r better no license for canada Gas goped in Canada need a licence

[@superseriousreviews1168]

Here in America, they don’t require a license, I just ride them on bike paths and sidewalks.

[@kevpnt]

Well that's gay..

[@Lugzexplo92]

@@superseriousreviews1168 it suck i love ride goped Now am trying to sell it for 300$

[@HighVoltageMadness]

These scooters are just not as good as modern electric scooters or electric longboards.

[@anonymoususer1824]

Dinosaur technology. Was fun back in the days but those days are so far gone its not even funny.

[@MH-tm5ey]

eltric scoter is better gas make to much noise waste more money on the gas