Couple Links:
2 people two up on a Yamaha C3 across Canada (the long way)
Scooter Across Canada - Home

The adventures of Wan. An excellent thread about a Korean guy who circumnavigated the U.S. on a Honda Ruckus.
TotalRuckus :: View topic - The Adventures of Wan - Rucking Across the US! [Part 1]

Thanks everybody for the inspiration. I love that pink pocket bike - absolutely awesome! I know it can be done, it's just the logistics of a trip with a small scooter that I'm worried about. The fact that you're not allowed to take every road you might want or have to, or the fact that it'll take forever to get from A to B. On the other hand a small lightweight bike can come very useful in Africa or Asia...

Anyway, wifey has been getting used to the scooter - she absolutely loves it! Looks like there might be another 50cc adventure just around the corner :)

Saw these 2 en-route to Dakar 2006.

That is a cool idea :)

I also initially thought why bother shipping, but seeing the stuff some people come off planes with, it could almost just be excess baggage, collect from the baggage carousel?! :D

I actually know a guy that flew a 250 from the US to Brazil as luggage. He tore it down and put it in a few boxes and checked them as his and his girlfriends luggage. They may have paid an excess baggage fee but that was it. They reassembled it in Brazil and had a great time.

This was quite a while ago- I don't know if it would work today.

50 cc mopeds
 

Your story reminds me of my teenage years when all we did was riding 50cc,s, done them up so they would do 70/90 km/hr. This was Amsterdam in the 70´s and we had Yamaha´s , Kreidlers, Zundapps and the odd four stroke Honda´s. Germans would occaisonally come to Holland on their Herculesses and they were somewhat of a novelty for they weren´t on sale in Holland. Anyway we did take our mopeds on holidays as far as Luxemburg and France, with campinggear etc. strapped on the back.
The lack of speed can be a bit awkward at times especially uphill and a poorly tuned two stroke can clog up the engine and exhaust after extended drives, I know this out of experience! We were young and silly, took many risks driving on German roads (from Echternach to Trier to meet up with some girls) while the traffic was screaming past us. We are the living proof that it can be done!

Rob

Schwalbenflug - auf der Zugvogel-Route nach Afrika


MJ,
their ride tales until Cape Town got printed in a few german magazines, even in the free "Motorrad Szene Bayern".