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ABOVE: ABS assistance up front. Digital/analogue dash is concise. BELOW: There’s enough space for one full-face helmet. A 39-litre topbox (with fittings) adds $499.

Belville is also the name of Lego for little girls

and translates to ‘nice view’ in French

translates to ‘nice view’ in French.
There’s even a fast-looking Belville RS that
mimics a few sporty cues from the (real)
French brand’s latest GTi hot hatches.
With a rideaway price of $5490, the Belville
200 comes with all the typical practicality
expected of a scooter. Having said that,
however, the people responsible for designing
the bike’s storage have some explaining to do
because you can’t fit a phone in the lockable
glovebox. #fail. And, like the Django, the
glovebox lid won’t close if you run a cable up
to charge your dash-mounted phone in case
you were planning on using it as a GPS unit.
C’mon guys.
Phone pas aside, the rest of the Belville 200
is good news. Presentation and general build
quality is good, and it stops, goes and handles
with aplomb. In fact, at no time were we
whipping the 130kg scooter like Damien Oliver
for livelier acceleration, be it taking off at the
lights or overtaking from 100km/h. But don’t
let the Belville’s double-tonne nomenclature
fool you – that air-cooled SOHC single’s bore
and stroke equate to 169cc, not 200. Really,
though, it’s fine.
If you’re shopping for a scooter, it’s worth
noting that while smaller 110cc scooters

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