A Big Kahuna Motorcycle Tours & Rentals

Elite '08

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Joel G.

San Diego, CA

pros... one of the many two-wheeled rentals in waikiki.  loved this one cause i could rent a super scooty, which is one with over 250cc.  in fact the last time i was here, my wife and i rented a yamaha majesty 400 cc scooter.  it was great to scoot around the island two up.  it is just the way to go while in the islands.  easy to ride, and park and even has a huge "trunk" under the seat.

besides the scooters, she also has bikes, trikes, and motorcycles for rental as well.  you can rent them for hours, half a day or more.  i think the best rental is a 49-50cc scooter, cause you don't need a motorcycle license to ride it.    

cons... the scooter itself was not as nice as i expected, as it was sub-par compared to my super scooty here at home.  it buzzed and rattled even though she said it was new.  so she let me return it half full.

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James H.

Long Beach, CA

I wish I could give a negative, but one star would do in this situation.  A friend and I recently rented mopeds on a Thursday afternoon.  Renting was all good, the beginning that is.  Larry Valle seemed nice, and I wouldn't have expected (suspected?) anything else.  He gave us the forms to sign and what looked like his own inspection.  He didn't give us a walk around but rushed us to sign it.  So we did.  He also said gas should be where it is, or he can fill it up for you for $10.  Gas that weekend was 4.01 a gallon, and split between the mopeds, we still over-filled!

We took the mopeds to Hanauma bay on the main road.  Didn't hit anything, no one hit us, we even parked right in front of the attendant at the bay.  

Fast forward 6 hours later.  Keep in mind, we have only ridden the mopeds for about 20-30 min.  We get gas, go back...he looks at the mopeds...then ask, did you have a problem with this? To my friends' moped (which was faster than mine by the way), to which we say no...Then he turns into somebody totally different, says that we "scratched" his mopeds!

Now we shake our heads in disbelief.  How can that happen? We rode it straight to the bay and back only.  Only one other stop to get gas, how did we get a scratch on some piece of shit mopeds?  The peds looked junked enough to begin with and we never thought twice.  He did his own "inspection" and had everything "pointed out" on his drawings, but rushed us to sign the papers.

Then he proceeded to say, "I wanna believe you, but it's my merchandise...it's your responsibility..."  We tell him that if we scratched it, we would have been injured ourselves.  So my friend says that he's gonna dispute it, to where he says, go ahead.  He knows his merchandise...Then my friend goes, how much would it cost to replace it?  So Larry Valle then, and I quote, says, "That's how we should have been talking, instead of getting ugly into the dispute..."  OK...what the fuck?  Are you scamming us?  We ask how much, he says, we have to go inside and talk...we go inside, and he has a price list...HANDWRITTEN...i thought he was going to call a scooter company or type something up on a computer...he says $30.  I know it's only $30, but he's scamming a LOCAL (my friend), not even a tourist....I left and was sadden to see my friend come back and telling me he paid him the $30.  But got a t shirt out of it....a $5 t shirt...stay away from this SCAMMER, shop around as I hear there are BETTER DEALZ...We went to this place b/c of convenience...Freak that, we're going out of our way next time....

Make sure you take pictures of the mopeds or anything you rent if you have a digital camera handy...and make sure you have the guy in the picture so he doesn't try to screw around with you and said you took it late...I didn't think scammers/moochers existed anymore...To scam a tourist(me) is one thing, but to scam your own(locals)...oh man, I don't know if I would be able to keep face...

If you decide to go here...and he gives you scooter#20, look on the left side, if there's a scratch, point that bitch out and put him on blast...I'm hoping the people reading this aren't going to go...This was the only negative on my whole vacation...please, save yourself the trouble!

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Chuck W.

San Mateo, CA

Screw riding a HAWG on the islands... If you wanna blend in with the locals, you gotta get yourself onto a piece-o-crap 50cc scooter!  Not only that, but make sure you're wearing shorts and flip-flops cos that's how they roll over there.  This little shop a few blocks up from Waikiki Beach is probably as good as any other to rent a scooter from if you're so inclined.  They have a decent supply of scoots and the lady behind the counter is friendly enough and will help you find the least ill-fitting of the ill-fitting helmets they have in stock.  She'll also inform you that they don't offer insurance of any kind in case you bin it, "not even a little bit," so I strongly advise you avoid getting hit by a car and dying, because that would most *definitely* ruin the rest of your vacation.  Well, most probably, anyway.

Just FYI, these scooters can only go up to about 35MPH with a tailwind (I thought it was going faster until I realized I was looking at the KPH meter), and you can't go on highways.  But then again, going on a highway on one of these things would be certain suicide, so never mind.

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