An interview with Will Lewis - Suzuki Burgman 650 rider.

An interview with Will Lewis: Suzuki Burgman 650 rider. A former test track rider for Harley Davidson for many years. Will is in his young 70's and has put about 30,000 miles on his on his Suzuki Burgman 650 and has recently riden the fammed Tail of the Dragon Run in Deals Gap at the Tennessee/North Carolina state line.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• suzuki
• burgman
• 650
• scooter
• motorcycle
• harley
• davidson
• tail
• of
• the
• dragon
• deals
• gap

[carewser]

The Burgman 650's step-through design, and automatic (actually auto-semi/auto) transmission mean it IS a scooter even though it's engine size and power are unlike anything seen before in a scooter. I own one so I should know.

[cmfernandez9283]

Scooters ARE, and always will be, automatic motorcycles! Do we call automatic cars "automatars" or "Car-o-matics", No! The name scooter doesn't even properly describe the 650 Burgman, Tmax 500, or Gilera gp800 because the engine is not mounted on the swingarm as is the case with smaller displacement scooters. My point is that riding a motorcycle (automatic or not) should be fun for what it is, not for the style of the transmission.

[Sommer075]

Greetings from the Burgman Friends Hagen (Germany)

[PTA35722]

Look like Bart Simpson's Grandpa :D

[saeidmomtahan]

Who gives a shit if it's a Motorcycle or a Scooter?

Seriously! Why do you people always have to argue about shit that don't even matter??

Get a freaking bike, go ride.

With greetings from Iran

[ballistikarena]

hello there moto or scooter doesnt matter go test drive a t max 500 or a gp 800 and then come back tell us its not a motorcyle do u know about the dn01 of honda 800cc and plenty of power t max isnt a scooter it is a motorcycle that can leave in the dust bunch of bikes especially the gp 800 fastest one out there it rides and handle exactly like a bike those 2 t max and gp are great

[sbukosky]

I've over 40 years of riding. Got a Yamaha 650 Maxim and a GoldWing SE in the garage. I just added a 650 Executive to it. If it isn't a motorcycle, then a step through "bicycle" isn't a bicycle. Call it a scooter if it makes you or anyone for that matter, happy. I'm thrilled with mine!

[zigzagg321321]

@retrodog63 hogwash semantics. Is that Burgman a motorcycle? No. That was, is and shall remain to be my point. The guy called it a motorcycle, its not a motorcycle. Scooter, Maxi...w/e you want to say...that Burgman is still not a motorcycle. That again, was, is and shall remain to be my only point.

[retrodog63]

@zigzagg321321 The term "scooter" isn't accurate enough either. It's either a "motor scooter" or "maxi-scooter". The irony is that your arguing against these more specific terms but at the same time, arguing to specify that it's a scooter, which as a motor-scooter is a sub-category of motorcycles. So you're essentially calling someone wrong for referring to a square as a rectangle. You are just plain wrong. And inconsistent.

[zigzagg321321]

@retrodog63 . The term "Maxi-Scooter," "Maxi" is just an add-on prefix to the word scooter, just as "Super" is in "Superbike". But the Superbike remains a bike and it is technically correct to refer to it as a bike, or even a motorcycle. A Maxi-Scooter is still a scooter just like a Superbike is still a bike, but a scooter, Maxi or otherwise is never a motorcycle. That is my point. Has been from the beginning...

The guy in the video called a Scooter a Motorcycle.