The kind of person who buys a Honda Motocompacto or a vintage Motocompo is looking for convenience. These little folding scooters offer you the convenience of city mobility and fit in your trunk for last-mile mobility ease. And if convenience is important to you, look no further than this Bring A Trailer auction featuring a brand new zero-mile Motocompacto electric folding suitcase scooter and a nice recently-imported 1981 Motocompo.
Some days you’ll want to go vintage and powered by gasoline, and others you’ll prefer the sleek and quiet smoothness of electric propulsion. With this auction you can have both!
With the two combined you’ll get 141 pounds of bike featuring four wheels, two seats, and about three horsepower. The vintage Motocompo just barely edges its electric sibling on top speed, at 18 and 15 miles per hour respectively. The older bike is shorter in stature and lower to the ground, requiring a more bow-legged riding position (especially for taller folk like myself), while the modern Motocompacto features a scooter-like 24.5-inch seat height and lower footpegs for easy riding.
While these machines are split by four decades of evolution, they share a freakishly common ethos. They’re utilitarianly simplistic transport conveyances meant to be used every day by businesspeople and city commuters to get where they’re going. It’s a bicycle that fits in your trunk and doesn’t require pedaling, so you aren’t sweaty when you get to your meeting. You definitely don’t need both, but they don’t take up much room, so you might as well.
The Motocompo (and Motocompacto to a lesser extent) is seriously overpriced for what you get, but they are super convenient. In that way they are very similar to Bring A Trailer. You are overpaying for the convenience. It’s a match made in heaven. Go overpay, it’s so easy.
