Most scooters are designed to be inoffensive. The XRace was designed by someone who clearly did not accept that brief.
The name looks like marketing until you ride it. The chassis is tighter than a commuter scooter has any business being, the throttle response is sharper, and it holds a line through a corner instead of washing wide and reminding you what it really is. On paper it belongs in the same category as every other urban scooter. In practice it behaves like it resents the comparison.
What that changes is the small trips. A ten minute run to pick something up stops being an errand and becomes a reason to take the longer road with the roundabouts on it. That is a strange thing for a scooter to do to you, and it is the whole appeal.
It was still practical. Still easy to park, still cheap to run, still the sensible answer to a short journey. It just refused to be boring about any of it.
Useful and quick are not usually the same vehicle. This one never seemed to notice.
