With sales up more than 300 percent since Jan. 1 Ride Green Scooters named exclusive area dealer for Puma Scooters

Winter Park, Fla. – Ride Green Scooters, based in Winter Park, has been named the exclusive Central Florida area dealer for Puma Cycles, the California based manufacturer whose retro designs and dependable fuel efficient engines rank it among the fastest growing scooter makers in the U.S.

Brian Schwartz, general manager and chief executive officer of Ride Green Scooters, said Puma Cycle’s Scooters are manufactured in China and come with an iron-clad one year unlimited mileage engine parts warranty.

“Puma’s 50 cc, 150 cc and 250 cc motor scooters are absolutely gorgeous,” Schwartz said. “The Romeo and Songbird models have a retro design that looks like a cross between a scooter and a chopper, and we think it’s going to be one of our biggest sellers,” Schwartz said. “As soon as people see a few of them out on the street, we’re going to be swamped.”

That’s an easy claim for Schwartz to make. Ride Green’s showroom is already swamped, he said. Ride Green recently expanded to new facilities on West Fairbanks Avenue.

“Our scooter sales during the first quarter are up more than 300 percent over the same period last year,” Schwartz said. Schwartz added that he expects a jump on sales every time there’s a rise in gas prices. Gasoline fueled scooters can average well over 100 miles per gallon and electric scooters — Ride Green stocks more than a dozen styles — rate even higher.

Schwartz said scooter sales are so high nationwide that he has trouble keeping some of the most popular styles and colors in stock.

“We’ve had a couple of periods when our inventory got dangerously low,” Schwartz said. “We’ve been ordering months in advance for most of the past year just to keep up with demand.”

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