Do It Yourself!

Having fun riding your scooter around town? Want to upgrade your scooter? Scooters are inexpensive enough that you can tear that baby apart yourself and customize its looks or performance.

If you ever wanted to work on a motorcycle start with your scooter. Take it from me it is a blast. There all sorts of little modifications you can take upon yourself. Aftermarket grips are one of the easiest things to tackle first. You can also take your seat off and get it reupholstered and your local upholstery shop, maybe try using a two color pattern. Those big ugly factory blinkers are a simple switch as well. Simply go to any motorcycle supply shop and get some aftermarket blinkers. Most will fit in the originally hole or you can drill a new one and connect the wiring with some simple crimps.

Best thing about it is if you do screw up, the value of your scooter will usually not drop that much depending on the screw up and the original cost (usually 50cc bikes have a bottom out value for anything running like $900). Most parts can be replaced on a small scooter for less than $300, even the engine. If all else fails at least you tried and you can now haul it off to your local mechanic. :)

Scooter Style - Powder Coat

Small things you can do to make your scooter unique. Look up a local powder coating company and anodize or powder coat the metal on your scooter. I powder coated my sissy bar off my Yamaha Zuma with a dark blue to match my aftermarket grips and other blue accents. Total cost was $ 50.00.

I was hitting a mini amount order cost for a special order color so it could of been less had I chosen a different color and had I had more metal powder coated.

FYI: This will make your scooter heavier but it will look cooler.

I went to Powder 1, Inc. located in San Diego, CA to get my work done.

About Me!

Hello Bloggers...

I am the owner for www.aftermarketscooter.com!

The site is in production and is scheduled to launch in January of 2009.

I am a bike enthusiast. I own two (2) 2.5 Blata mini bikes, one (1) 2003 Honda CBR 600RR, one (1) 2005 Kawasaki 636 sport bike, one (1) 2001 Suzuki DRZ 400 dirt bike and one (1) 2003 Yamaha Zuma 50cc. I love to go to the desert on my Suzuki dirt bike, take my sportbikes to the race track and cruise the streets on my Yamaha Scooter. I plan on buying a new sportbike and BMS Scooter in the near future.

I created this blog to talk about scooters in the USA. It is sometimes hard to find a decent looking scooter in the US or find aftermarket parts to make them look nice. Hopefully you will look to our blog and www.aftermarketscooter.com for this info.

I have traveled to many Asian countries and let me tell you the US is way behind in terms of good looking or rather cool looking scooters.