Among the Uni kids, quite a few of us have ridden the advertising scooters.
As we know the scooters have this big trailer at the back, towed by a 150cc engine and I agree, it's not most performance orientated, but it does the job pretty effectively.
Not to mention, it's not exactly the most reliable/safest scooters in general (spongy brakes, non-working trailer brake/indicator lights, weird throttle response, circus like suspension) but it's gotten better as there's a dedicated serviceman and plus as paid riders we take it as sensible as we can, but sometimes you really can't help if the trailer goes airborne or ends up on one wheel while taking a corner too sharp.
It's goes without saying that the scooters are more accident prone with the restricted handing and it's seen it's fair share of weird and wonderful accidents but the one we had last night was probably of the most spectacular ones.
We're all doing Xmas in the park thing, getting bit of exposure for the client with all the people, we're waiting at the office in Newmarket and one of our riders had to go rush back with his car to the storage and grab his scooter as wasn't able to meet us at the storage when we left.
So we got him rushing to get back to us and half way thorough waiting the boss gets this phone call from him saying he's had an accident. Story was your usual car vs bike thing, while cruising along Manukau Rd (by the Burger King) some cunt in a car appeared on his left and cut him off. So down he goes with the scooter and the boss asks if he's ok, he mentions he's ok, but his wrist is fucked.
Ahh, great well the other 2 scooters have already left to do their thing as we were doing it in pairs, so I was waiting for him to get back. "Ahhh fuck, fuck" says the boss, I asked if they he's got the cars rego, "nah it doesn't look it aye but glad we've got insurance". So we grab the first-aid kit and jump in his flash alfa-romeo to rescue him through all the Xmas in the park traffic/road closures.
Once we got there we found on the side of the road standing, he managed to drag the fucken scooter + trailer into a motel parking lot. Well had a look at him, one of his wrists is either broken or fractured, told him not to grab anything heavy. Grazes on his elbows as he wearing just a normal jacket and a nice big torn sock with a bit of a gouge on the top of his feet. Yea, he was wearing those Vans cloth shoes and had a look at the fucked shoe, it's a definitely goner, torn in half. Helmet visor took bit of hiding as he did bit of a tumble. Did I mention knees? Definitely bit of hiding to that too, good thing he was wearing jeans. Well at least he's O.K and the scooter looks fine but with a few more extra war grazes, and trailer like you expect was intact but the billboards all came off.
We ask him what exactly happened, he said he was cruising along and then this car suddenly appeared out on his left and was about to turn. Given how close he was to the car he didn't expect the car to pull out, but of course the fucken car pulls out even though it saw the scooter and guns it. He was left with either ramming straight into the car or direct the scooter into the curb, so curb it is then the rest was history. Like you expect cunt in the car gapped off , and we asked if anybody else helped while you were down, he replied ''nah, but they all had a good look aye''.
So we ask the motel owner if we can just leave the trailer+scooter for here for the moment, while then I move the scooter somewhere in the back, steering lock the thing and hope for the best no cunt comes and steal it. Of he goes to A&E and I get dropped off back to New Market straight back to work.
Bit of a lesson for you out there, don't assume cars will see you, fucken slow down, stop or pull to the right, chuck your beams on high to make sure they know.
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by musicman
Bookmarks