Feb 06, 2016 10:39 AM
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The little Zest is nonetheless a brilliant scooter. Superb aesthetics and a well endowed package, it has everything you’d need in terms of practicality. Simple hooks to hang small grocery bags. A cavernous under seat cargo bin that’s large enough to hold my medium sized lid. There is a useful pocket on the inside of the front apron which is practical and does not intrude into your leg room. However, it’s capacious enough to hold enough of those small things you always end up buying from grocery stores, though on the flip side, things tend to accumulate in that bin and stay there.
On the reliability front, the Zest has been doing reasonably well. In between, I did have a bit of a scare when the fuel efficiency went for a toss. In less than a week or in just under a hundred kilometres, I almost ran the fuel tank dry. I’m still not sure what caused that but the very next week, things seemed to have normalised. There is, however, a slight judder that creeps in at low speeds(which has something to do with the service) and sometimes the engine feels like it’s gasping for breath(which I’d just put down to bad fuel). I suspect the spark plug needs to be cleaned as do the air and fuel filters. The Zest is anyway due for a service soon – hopefully it should return back to smooth running.
