Idiots on scooters...scurge of metropolitan roads

[Bren]

I was going up Gayhurst Rd(CHCH) today in a cage taking my girls home.
Anyway right along the road from start to finish I was following 2 idiots on scooters. "What were they doing?" so you ask...well they were first of all putting their feet up above the handle bars, they were bouncing up and down on their bikes, they were weaving all over the road, they were standing up a lot (not a biggie), they were taking up the whole lane AND only doing 40, and worst of all I saw one of them putting BOTH feet down on the ground at 40KPM...Surely if these guys wanna do stupid things they can go and find a quiet carpark.My kids were even saying that they are idiots...

Am I just getting old and bitchy or are the young folk more stupid today????:girlfight:

[98tls]

Let them go mate,wont be long before a few broken bones and a skin graft will change there riding style.All part of the learning process.

[Usarka]

Am I just getting old and bitchy or are the young folk more stupid today????:girlfight:

Both! :cool:

[toebug]

Yep it all starts with the feet on the ground. Next you know it, the knee will be down!!!

[Bren]

Let them go mate,wont be long before a few broken bones and a skin graft will change there riding style.All part of the learning process.


Yeah fair enough, but my way of thinking is if they want to be silly buggers at least do it in an empty carpark...not all drivers are as patient as me and if them cunts fell off they coulda ended up as someones bonnet ornament...

[98tls]

Yeah fair enough, but my way of thinking is if they want to be silly buggers at least do it in an empty carpark...not all drivers are as patient as me and if them cunts fell off they coulda ended up as someones bonnet ornament... Like it or not youth combined with 2 wheels invaribly ends in pain somewhere along the line,pain = learning,well hopefully.Remember my old man telling me if you ride hard and make it to 40 you have probably learnt something through your mistakes and have a better than average chance of riding a long time,he did add with a chuckle that or your not riding hard enough.:oi-grr:looking back a bit silly to tell that to a pimply faced hopeful with a 500/4.

[James Deuce]

Burn them!

[Headbanger]

Can't fix stupid, can't cure crazy.

[Ixion]

Get a gun and shoot the fuck.

[dmouse]

yup for sure future road kill and no wonder cage drivers get pissed off with bikers with shit like that on the road, i sure wouldnt like a bumper sticker that bleeds maybe better to just turn off and take the long road and cool down there time will come just make sure your not behind them to catch the shit. or try 555 ??

[McDuck]

I am with jim. Light them on fire.

[Usarka]

Do you believe in de ja vu?

[James Deuce]

All over again.

[YellowDog]

Someone needs to deliver a 'Dry Slap' to save these idiots from themselves.

[Swoop]

Did the scooters have USD forks?

[Bren]

Did the scooters have USD forks?


nope...just USD brains in the little shits!

[Beemer]

I was going up Gayhurst Rd(CHCH) today in a cage taking my girls home.

Well, that road name says it all - they were acting like gay little fucks. I also think they should be burned - and throw their bloody scooters on the pyre too!

[90s]

I've seen lots of kids in the heat lately acting stupid on scooter, all in shorts of course (my favourite so far a 50cc 3-up with no-shoe singlet wearers screeming down a hill ... ) but kids will always be stupid on scooters. Hell, it was me once. A loooong time ago.

Anyway, what worries me more are the legions of scooter riders taking in more seriously, wearing gloves and jackets but without a clue as to road positioning. Either hugging the curb like a cycle or in the 'fast' lane at 40k wondering why the world seems so out to get them.
Someone should get these people some education. Respect to the scooter riders who I have seen at RRRS, but generally people seem to think you don't need any road training at all for these things.

[90s]

I've seen lots of kids in the heat lately acting stupid on scooter, all in shorts of course (my favourite so far a 50cc 3-up with no-shoe singlet wearers screeming down a hill ... ) but kids will always be stupid on scooters. Hell, it was me once. A loooong time ago.

Anyway, what worries me more are the legions of scooter riders taking in more seriously, wearing gloves and jackets but without a clue as to road positioning. Either hugging the curb like a cycle or in the 'fast' lane at 40k wondering why the world seems so out to get them.
Someone should get these people some education. Respect to the scooter riders who I have seen at RRRS, but generally people seem to think you don't need any road training at all for these things.

Quoting myself now, but riding home (OK, cycling today) by Foodtown Dom Rd about 5:30 there's a cop car, an ambulance, some smashed bits and a moped down and a - I think - student nurse crying her eyes out with the medics.
Let's stop giving people licence to ride scooters without a little bit of a clue first.

[HungusMaximist]

Man, just let me be kids eh?

A little adrenaline never hurts boys... or girls....

[hobdar]

Yeah um the scary thing {forgive me if i am wrong} you can ride a scooter under 50cc with a learners licence.....


And way hey you can ride down the motorway....Petone and Naurange between on the shoulder weave past the push bikers....into traffic to get past......{ok i know officially its not a motorway but it is still bloody dangerous for scooters}


then on the way back home that night zoom pasts a line of stationary cars and motorcycles lined up at the lights and then cut them all off as they go through the lights.........

Its only a matter of time until one of these morons gets run over by a truck and it won't matter what protective gear they have on then......

:mad::mad::mad:

yes bugger it i am venting stoopid scooter riders and govt who lets them ride on motorways with bugger all training...grrr grr grr and it takes a responsible motor cyclist almost 2 years to get their full so they can ride something capable of doing the motorway safely

Please i know i am generalising and not all scooter riders are stoopid..nor do they do dumb things there has just been a plethora of them on the way to work recently....

[PrincessBandit]

Yeah um the scary thing {forgive me if i am wrong} you can ride a scooter under 50cc with a learners licence.....


Kinda; you can ride a scooter under 50cc on a car licence, which I guess could be a car learner licence Any scoot "bigger" than that you have to do a bike licence for. So basically anyone with a car licence can ride one of these on the road without having to have done a competency / handling course first. Yep, I'd say that is pretty scary.:eek5: As for what speeds though they can do I was redlining the poor little 125cc loan scooter i was given, while my lovely girl was being serviced, at 95kph down the motorway. :(

[Bren]

Please i know i am generalising and not all scooter riders are stoopid..nor do they do dumb things there has just been a plethora of them on the way to work recently....


AAAHHH....so I am not just gettin old and bitchy then...you guys are noticing all the dumbasses nowdays too...

[Headbanger]

Scooters should be given anyone over 13 who wants one, No licence required, just a half day familiarity course, Then let em loose.

[kiwibryn]

Every time someone asks me what they should get to learn on, I tell them NOT A SCOOTER!!!! They ask why, and I tell them they can't learn anything remotely related to road riding on the damn things. Just my 2cents worth...

[Ixion]

Many scooterists aren't particularly interested in 'road riding', however. They just want cheap and convenient transport. Nothing wrong with that.

[Headbanger]

I'd much rather see a scooter culture then a car culture.

Then we could grass over half the city streets, and those who didn't want to travel between cities on a high speed luxury train would be on their bikes...

All we have to do is remove cars from our roads.......

[vifferman]

I thought it was mandatory to ride a scooter like a cock? :confused:

I'm sure most of us would, if for no other reason than to relieve the boredom of waiting for the engine to spool up, and the embarrassment of riding such a toy.

[Forest]

Kinda; you can ride a scooter under 50cc on a car licence, which I guess could be a car learner licence Any scoot "bigger" than that you have to do a bike licence for. So basically anyone with a car licence can ride one of these on the road without having to have done a competency / handling course first. Yep, I'd say that is pretty scary.:eek5: As for what speeds though they can do I was redlining the poor little 125cc loan scooter i was given, while my lovely girl was being serviced, at 95kph down the motorway. :(

Isn't the scooter licensing exemption based on engine power rather than engine capacity?

[McDuck]

Isn't the scooter licensing exemption based on engine power rather than engine capacity?

Yes but most of the time they can not be arssed enforching it like that. A moped also should not be able to do more than 50kph

[Dave-]

had a dude with his girlfriend in my store the other day, denim short, shirt and a busted up helmet, his gf, dress and similarly stuffed helmet WITH NO NECK STRAP

I said to them "you guys must be riding a scooter"

[McDuck]

had a dude with his girlfriend in my store the other day, denim short, shirt and a busted up helmet, his gf, dress and similarly stuffed helmet WITH NO NECK STRAP

I said to them "you guys must be riding a scooter"

In the same way i went intot he bank today and the teller asked me if i ride a sports bike by the way i babyed my helmet :)

[UberRhys]

I was going up Gayhurst Rd(CHCH) today in a cage taking my girls home.
Anyway right along the road from start to finish I was following 2 idiots on scooters. "What were they doing?" so you ask...well they were first of all putting their feet up above the handle bars, they were bouncing up and down on their bikes, they were weaving all over the road, they were standing up a lot (not a biggie), they were taking up the whole lane AND only doing 40, and worst of all I saw one of them putting BOTH feet down on the ground at 40KPM...Surely if these guys wanna do stupid things they can go and find a quiet carpark.My kids were even saying that they are idiots...

Am I just getting old and bitchy or are the young folk more stupid today????:girlfight:

Natural selection will take care of them. Always has, always will...

I was over at a matesgarage the other day and a lady raced past on her scooter with no helmet. 5 minutes later she wizzed past again with a kid on the back and another standing in the step-thru area - still no helmets on anyone. After yelling at her with regards to the obvious saftey issue, you guessed it, she came past again with the 2 kids still on the scoot with cycle helmets on but still no helmet for herself.

Another statistic ready to make my ACC levy shoot further through the roof!

[madandy]

let 'em bleed out on th side of the road if they bin.

[mstriumph]

Kinda; you can ride a scooter under 50cc on a car licence, which I guess could be a car learner licence ..........(

there you go then
they weren't stupid riders
they were stupid DRIVERS!!! :yes: