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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

BRAT glossary of terms.

Just for clarification...the BRAT definitions for Motorcycle, Moped, Scooter and Mini-bike are as follows. A Motorcycle can have any size of engine displacement but qualifies by having a manual clutch, plain and simple. A Moped is a term no longer really applicable to modern manufacturing as it requires the use of pedals originally designed to turn-over a small displacement engine (or help you up hills) usually attached to little more than a bicycle frame. We'll probably never review one of these. A Scooter has an auto-clutch and/or transmission and the chassis is of step-through design. Some Scooters use a Motorcycle body type (eg. Kawasaki KSR) so it gets confusing because they are in fact hybrids, but BRAT determines in these cases that if you can grasp the tank between your knees as you ride then it gets the upgrade status to Motorcycle. A Mini-bike, well, that's self explanatory: tiny, usually non street-legal bikes invariably with auto-clutches/transmissions usually used for pit racing or goofing around in your back yard. There are however mini-bike gangs that have our support for their anarchic terrorizing of quiet urban neighborhoods late at night waking folks and dodging cops...please send pics if you have ever witnessed such heroic acts!