MBK Scooters
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From the company website:
The MBK brand has a long and illustrious history. The company was first established in 1923 under the name Motobecane and for many years was France's largest manufacturer of motorcycles. Early models included an in-line four-cylinder side-valve 500cc engine, with unit gearbox and shaft drive! Then, as now, the company was ahead of its time.
By the 1930s Motobecane was producing a best-selling range of motorcycles and during the immediate post-war years the company diversified into moped production, selling two wheelers under two banners: Motobecane and Mobylette. Following the creation of the MBK brand in the early eighties, scooters became the company's core business.
Over the past decade MBK scooters have played a major part in the European scooter sales boom. Market leader in France, MBK is also a best-seller in Italy with significant stakes in the German, Belgian, Swiss, Portuguese, Greek, UK, Irish, Austrian, Spanish and Finnish markets.
A well known brand of scooter is MBK Booster Spirit also BOOSTER next génération used pretty much in French suburbia by middle class people. It's sold with a 50cc or 100cc motor. Booster is in fact a term to define a vehicule that you can modify (tuning) to render more it's speed capacity (illegal in most of the countries).
