I have to agree with Mike (above) and it's great if your old man has been persuaded that a 125 is actually safer than a 50 or 100. I really feel sorry for the people I see riding to school or college along the main roads on their small scooters, there's always a long queue of cars waiting to squeeze past and they will often cut scooters up.
My fist bike was a 50cc Raleigh Runabout that wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding! It was OK (ish) around town, but was useless out on the open road. I even had to pedal it up the steeper hills - and that was in Essex :P ;D
I should imagine it's in moped heaven by now :-/
