Power vacuum - Piaggio's Fly, er, doesn't (Motoring.co.za)
Model(s) covered: 2005 Piaggio Fly 125
"Fly" is the ambitious moniker for the latest offering from the sprawling Piaggio group. Ambitious, that is, because for all its 125cc I'm afraid my test unit was more of a slug when it came to pulling away from the lights.
Designed to be sleeker than its Vespa siblings, the Fly is perhaps more of a man's bike. Certainly some masculine brawn would have come in handy when I was trying to manoeuvre its 112kg bulk out of my bike shed-cum-scooter garage.
Have the bods at Piaggio never tried to negotiate a typical city scooter bay on a sunny summer day?
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