This Scooter Comes With a Roof AND Motocross Pedigree
The Tank Sports Urban Courier was never marketed as an off-road weapon, but it turns out that it’s truly at home on the loose stuff
The Tank Sports Urban Courier is possibly the best-named scooter in the world, but it also comes with a roof and, of course, off-road ability that is beyond doubt.
Almost 20 years old now, the Tank is surely one of the only powered two-wheelers in the world that is a convertible, and which also features a window wiper. It’s the kind of ascendant technology that surely makes it one of the best scooters in the world.
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When taken off-road, as it was by Carson Brown — a former full-time professional motocross racer who now makes his living creating odd-ball motocross content on social media with support from Red Bull — the UCT makes you wonder why there’s never been a convertible Honda ADV 350, the Tokyo brand’s ‘go anywhere’ scooter. Typical corporate conservatism, if you ask us.
After all, if all of the 250s at last weekend’s AMA Pro Motocross Spring Creek National — won in the end by Levi Kitchen — had roofs, they might not have had to wait around for an hour for lightning to pass, and with the windscreen wiper there would have been no complaints about tear-offs, or the tear-off versus roll-off debate. Just flick the switch and ride.
And, as Brown clearly demonstrates on his small backyard track in the above video, the Urban Courier is unquestionably up to the task of an AMA National. Its evidently powerful 149cc single-cylinder engine has clearly lost none of the 8.8bhp it rolled off the Tank Sports production line with 16 years ago, and the 12-inch wheels are perfectly suited to the kind of terrain you might find at, say, Washougal, where the Pro Motocross series heads this weekend.
Image credit: Carson Brown/Instagram.
