Happy Meals toys! Awesome description! We’ll get classic Vespas and drive around our respective towns, looking awesome! 
Yeah - pretty much pegged it that 13 miles isn’t a practical commute given my physical condition (add to the weight the fact that I’m 43 years old). When I change the path to roads with more bike-friendly traffic, the distance jumps to nearly 17 miles, too. I’d still be nervous about biking what I plotted - A good portion of the trip is completely without bike lanes.
While Denver is flat compared to the mountains 20 miles to the west, it’s still rather hilly - it’d take me a while to work up the stamina for that kind of ride. It’d be interesting to get an elevation profile for it but I don’t know a site that’ll do that.
Nope - best way for me to bicycle would be to bike the 2 miles to the best bus route, put my bike on the bus, ride that 9 miles to the bus depot closest to work, then finish the last mile on my own power again.
Doable if my car breaks down but the $3.50 for bus fare that day is awfully close to the $5 in gas it costs me to drive daily. I could get it down to $3 a day for bus fare if I bought ten tickets in advance but, in general, my convenience is worth that extra $2 a day.
Why don’t you try it on a weekend? Just to see how far you can actually go and what it’s really like?
Is it wrong for me to consider this as an ideal “scooter?”
I so want one of those.
Didn’t know they had become hard to find. I drive a 650 Burgman and I can at least attest to the fact that 350 lbs on one is nothing at all. But don’t buy one expecting 70-80 MPG, you’ll be lucky to get 50. But then again, you can do 100 MPH if you want to. Better mileage can be had from the 400 and it should also carry you OK.
Not by me! That is FUGLY with a capital FUG. And dorkish, in my book. It looks like a little brother to ED 209.
