yeah for around town etc but on open road 50cc don't have power to reach national speed limit of b roads let alone a roads
Here's a fun story. When I was 17 I used to have Puch NRG (yes, Puch, who used to build for Piaggio and sold a lot of these bikes as Puch models), which I tuned the nuts off of. It would go over 100mph if I really ragged it.
Anyway, my father lived in Almere at the time, a city in Holland. I lived in Hoorn. Because I wasn't doing well at school, my dad, who was a functional alcoholic and absent all throughout my life, decided he was going to confiscate my keys because I was spending too much time working on and playing with scooters, and not enough time doing homework. Me, a stubborn and slightly problematic 17 year old, wasn't having any of it.
The thing is with all of these bikes is that they were extremely easy to steal, all you had to do was unplug the ignition plug from the key barrel and kick it, and they'd start. Not just the odd one, all of them. Beta, Benelli, Aprilia, Gilera, Yamaha, you name it. Famously easy to nick.
So I caught a train to his house, removed the front fairing, disconnected the plug from the barrel and "stole" my own scooter. Only problem with this was that the headlights were mounted to the front fairing, so by removing it I also removed the headlights. It was also late at night, and I had to get the thing home. What followed was an extremely stupid and terrifying ride across the 15 miles of dike known as the markerwaarddijk in Holland, in the middle of winter, with no headlight and no street lights. I was literally riding down a dike with water and rocks on one side, a road on the other, in pitch black darkness at around 2am in the morning without another vehicle in sight. Had I come off, that could well have been the end of me. Don't forget that these things weigh absolutely nothing so one good gust of wind would blow me off course a few meters.
Oh this was the days where mobile phones were still a novelty too and signal was patchy at best.
This was the route, along the dike in the top right:
Still to this day one of the scariest things I've ever done on a motorcycle.
