|
Least amount of maintenance:
Honda Forza, with its 8,000 service / oil change intervals.
Next least amount of maintenance:
Honda Silverwing, Kymco Xciting 500, or Burgman 400 (4,000 mile oil changes)
Once you start looking at smaller bikes, you're looking at engines which don't have an oil filter and the oil change intervals become <2000 miles.
As for reliability:
Honda = Kymco = Sym > Suzuki = Genuine > Anything made in China at a plant that also runs a line for the Japanese or Taiwanese > Vespa >>> Anything made in any other Chinese plant.
When you put 13,000 miles a year (over 7 months) on your scoot, a 1200 mile oil change interval really starts to annoy.
|