Are mopeds and scooters street legal?
If it’s a moped, it’s not very likely that it’ll top 30mph, but yes a few scooters out there can keep pace with traffic on the highway, but those are usually 600cc scooters. Up here in NYC, a license is required to operate any moped/scooter that can travel more than 20mph. Double-check that you can get it for him AND he can keep it. I’d be bummed out if the cops confiscated my wicked new present. Basically, just check the engine displacement when you buy it. 50cc’s is just for tooling around at about 20mph or so, while 100-150cc’s can keep up with street traffic(don’t take those on the highway, you’ll get run down). I DID see some high performance 50-80cc scooters that could probably take the highway, but they were from Italy as well as expensive.
