Scooters are awesome, you guys. I'll just come right out and say it. Sure, not everyone agrees with me, but that's fine; it'd be a boring place if we all rode the same things, right? And a lot of riders might get started on scooters before moving on to bigger machines. Me, I think they're different facets of the same thing, and that's a general, unreasoning love for what it feels like to live life on two wheels. But, as usual, I digress.
While Rok Bagaros might be known for his KTM freestyle stunts and his YouTube channel now, once upon a time, he was like a lot of riders. He was a teenager, and he started riding on a 1998 Yamaha Aerox two-stroke back in the day. For those unfamiliar, it's a little 50cc scooter that made around 3 horsepower from the showroom. Three. Great for someone just starting out, but once you learn how to handle yourself, you will probably start looking for a little more from your machine.
So now, over 20 years later, he and a buddy went out and found a very similar 1998 Yamaha Aerox 50 to the one he had back in the day. Only this time, they decided to go all out, tuning it to show what kind of beast you can unleash under those bright, unassuming plastics. While I've rebuilt the top end and swapped out belts and CVT parts on my own scooter (Malossi, wooooo!) in the past, they take it much further (plus, mine's a four-stroke while this is a two-stroke, and mine is also injected and not carbureted).
