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Originally Posted by John_W
I have a neighbor who about 3 years ago bought a new Yamaha scooter for $3500. In Florida you have to have an endorsement on your license to drive and operate a scooter or motorcycle. He only owned the scooter a couple of days and hadn't gone through the class and he decided to take it out for a spin at 1am.
He was found unconscious at 6am laying on the side of the road and someone called the police. He said all he remembered was some car whizzing by and blew him off the road, then everything went black until he woke up in the hospital in Ocala the next day. He had a broken nose, collar bone and a bunch of other injuries and was hospitalized for about a week. The one good thing was he was still a cigarette smoker and all of us neighbors were always on him to quit, since I had smoked 35 years and couldn't stand it anymore. He did quit smoking cigarettes.
For about a week a Florida State Trooper car, which you don't see in TV that much, would sit in his car outside his villa everday waiting for him to get home so they could give him a ticket. Finally he had a ticket and had to go to court. He sold his scooter without really getting any enjoyment out of it and paid a big fine.
Of course he was in the wrong for operating a scooter without proper licensing, but had he had the endorsement, I guess he would of needed witnesses that he was forced off the road.
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The scooter or motorcycle was over 49CCs. Anything under 49CCs you don't need motorcycle endorsement which by the endorsement over 49CCs are considered motorcycle's which will exceed 35mph. 49CCs or less top speed should be 35mph max which requires driver's license and insurance.