I don’t normally think that products made in China are that bad. But we are fed up with this new scooter that we bought.

The Pinnacle 150 Scooter arrived last Thursday and Jeremy put it together based on the very poorly documented assembly instruction from the manufacturer – Boreem Motorsports (BMS).

At first we couldn’t figure out why it won’t start with the key, and then the keyless remote starter did it. It was exciting to at least know that it starts. So we took it around the block to stop by Jason’s and one hour later. The scooter won’t start again, this time from the remote. It was frustrating since we were hoping to start saving money on gas!

We found a scooter repair shop in SA – Torsa Motorcycles. They rewired the scooter so we can start with both key and keyless remote. Money well spent!? No, not that easy. We took it around the block again, this time a little further and then, it died on the way to dinner, in the middle of the road.

Poor Jason had to come pick us up with his truck.

So we are pondering now whether to sell this scooter and get a more reputable European brand scooter.

Lesson learned this time is that buying motor scooter from online store is risky, you don’t get to test drive it and tech support and repair from the store you bought is not good. The online store we bought it from is in Kansas, it will cost us more to take it there to repair than to just buy a new one from a store close by.

Their money back guarantee is also useless since you will have to break the bike down and put it all back into “new and re-sellable” condition, and pay the shipping charge to send it back. All within 7 days.

Oh, well. That is life when you move as fast and spontaneously like we do.