{"id":135,"date":"2008-07-07T16:43:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T22:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/closest-thing-to-a-car-on-two-wheels\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T16:43:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T22:43:31","slug":"closest-thing-to-a-car-on-two-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/closest-thing-to-a-car-on-two-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Closest Thing To A Car On Two Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been to Europe in the last 10 years you&#8217;ve probably seen these things, but if you haven&#8217;t you&#8217;re going to do a double-take.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclecolorado.com\/images\/BMW_C1.jpg\" alt=\"BMW C1 CityScooter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This little baby, a BMW you will notice, is called the C1 CityScooter. It was first released in 2000 and was built by a specialty manufacturer in Italy. There were two models, one a little bigger than the other. Sales apparently didn&#8217;t hit BMW&#8217;s targets so 2002 was the last year they were produced, but you still see a lot of them on the streets. The stats are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dry Weight &#8211; 375 pounds<\/li>\n<li>Gas Mileage &#8211; 80 per gallon<\/li>\n<li>Engine Size &#8211; 125cc or 176cc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ABS, heated grips, and a lot more were available as accessories.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BMW_C1\">article about this bike on Wikipedia<\/a>, France has a helmet law but some countries consider it dangerous to have a seat belt and a helmet, C1 riders are exempt from the helmet law. That confirms my suspicion because in two weeks over there I never saw anyone on any kind of motorized two-wheeler not wearing a helmet, except one person in a C1. On the other hand, Sweden does require helmets but allows you not to use the seat belt.<\/p>\n<p>The C1 never made it to the U.S., just another example of how when it comes to motorcycling, Europe is like another country. Or 12. I&#8217;ll have more to tell you about in upcoming posts. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>Two wheels? Lets ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been to Europe in the last 10 years you&#8217;ve probably seen these things, but if you haven&#8217;t you&#8217;re going to do a double-take. This little baby, a BMW you will notice, is called the C1 CityScooter. It was first released in 2000 and was built by a specialty manufacturer in Italy. There were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[136,137],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-bikes","tag-bmw-c1","tag-enclosed-scooter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}