Silly Scooters!

[wkid_one]

I think Zed has a deep seated problem with scooters - perhaps something traumatic happened in his childhood,something horrible,unspeakable,and,and...it concerned a...a...shhhh - SCOOTER!!!!!

He needs therapy,and perhaps some of us on this site could help - maybe a scooter rider...like DebK for instance - perhaps she could take him for a nice quiet drive in the country...in her car...with a voice recorder on,then we could hear him bite his tongue and swallow it.

Um....after we hose the ''car'' out,I would kinda,uh,grovel for the same teatment.

ROTLPMPL - very good.

As for scooters - I have nothing against them. Zeds original post seemed to cloak the true intention of his post. Starting off as a disparging remark well aimed at those that ride scooters with inappropriate protective gear - and now turning in to a hate filled tirade against scooters in general.....

I myself like them - living in the middle of the city I can certainly see the benefits of scooters for all manner of people. Apartment dwellers who wish to have transport to zip around town but not the full cost of car ownership. Students who flat just a little far from Varsity and don' wish to rely on public transport.

Scooters are also one of the fastest growing segments of motorcycle registrations here and abroad.

Zed you are entitled to your opinions to HATE scooters. However, I question that a bike is a bike and I would rather see someone on two wheels (regardless of it being a step thru Vespa or a Hyabusa) than in a cage. Also - by disparging against scooters and their riders - you are also hating a group of people who will some day be likely to take the step up to a full blown bike.

Dan

[Zed]

ROTLPMPL - very good.

As for scooters - I have nothing against them. Zeds original post seemed to cloak the true intention of his post. Starting off as a disparging remark well aimed at those that ride scooters with inappropriate protective gear - and now turning in to a hate filled tirade against scooters in general.....

I myself like them - living in the middle of the city I can certainly see the benefits of scooters for all manner of people. Apartment dwellers who wish to have transport to zip around town but not the full cost of car ownership. Students who flat just a little far from Varsity and don' wish to rely on public transport.

Scooters are also one of the fastest growing segments of motorcycle registrations here and abroad.

Zed you are entitled to your opinions to HATE scooters. However, I question that a bike is a bike and I would rather see someone on two wheels (regardless of it being a step thru Vespa or a Hyabusa) than in a cage. Also - by disparging against scooters and their riders - you are also hating a group of people who will some day be likely to take the step up to a full blown bike.

Dan

Yeah well said Kid...but don't accuse me of "hating a group of people" okay. You have this wicked way of manipulating my words. :sneaky2:


Zed

[georgedubyabush]

Not wasted on a commute?? Oh I see, you're one of these weekend only riders?

Also, it sounds like your mate has the right idea...give him my number if he wants some good advice about bikes.


Zed

Dear oh dear.
Well Gee, arent I just humbled in your presence.
Completely wrong zed. Weekends are meaningless to me as I work 7 days a week. I leave home for work at about quarter to five every morning, encounter exactly zero traffic on my 25km trip on open roads, and return at around 7.30 at night. There is really no advantage in taking my bike and yet I do more often than not. My car is faster, drier, safer, more comfortable, maybe cheaper, but not as fun.

Why would I tell my mate to get a bike? All he wants is cheap transport and what bike are you going to suggest is cheaper than a scoot? I'd love to hear.

[Zed]

Dear oh dear.
Well Gee, arent I just humbled in your presence.
Completely wrong zed. Weekends are meaningless to me as I work 7 days a week. I leave home for work at about quarter to five every morning, encounter exactly zero traffic on my 25km trip on open roads, and return at around 7.30 at night. There is really no advantage in taking my bike and yet I do more often than not. My car is faster, drier, safer, more comfortable, maybe cheaper, but not as fun.

Why would I tell my mate to get a bike? All he wants is cheap transport and what bike are you going to suggest is cheaper than a scoot? I'd love to hear.

I stand corrected about your riding timetable then...the comment about your mate was a joke.


Zed

[Zed]

I take exception to your perjorative reference to old women because I am one...

I have edited my original post just for you.


Zed

[DebK]

Methinks this has gotten way out of hand now.

I scoot and I now understand am the minority in here. Nor do I apologise for the scoot. I love the scoot. I am not ashamed of the scoot. Stepping up (or onto) a sports or naked is still a ways into the future as financially I can't afford it at the moment (have more expensive motoring tastes at the mo!).

My scoot has a great top speed (130+), without getting me into too much trouble with the Narcs (I actually bought the scoot off a cop). It has fantastic acceleration 0-100. It seems to handle okay. To date hasn't cost me much to maintain/run - since Sept have done 3,000kms.

Maybe this posting should now close this thread and some agree to disagree, without all the continued agro.

[georgedubyabush]

I wouldnt worry about it debk, he's had a go at 250 bikes as well.

[James Deuce]

Methinks this has gotten way out of hand now.

I scoot and I now understand am the minority in here. Nor do I apologise for the scoot. I love the scoot. I am not ashamed of the scoot. Stepping up (or onto) a sports or naked is still a ways into the future as financially I can't afford it at the moment (have more expensive motoring tastes at the mo!).

My scoot has a great top speed (130+), without getting me into too much trouble with the Narcs (I actually bought the scoot off a cop). It has fantastic acceleration 0-100. It seems to handle okay. To date hasn't cost me much to maintain/run - since Sept have done 3,000kms.

Maybe this posting should now close this thread and some agree to disagree, without all the continued agro.

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Interweb thingy Forum, where an offhand comment is insulting, a joke is a mortal insult, and discussions about anything vaguely political or religious start never-ending blood feuds where the end result is a crying widow (or widower, lest that get taken out of context and used against me - aaargh that was joke - no, no, not the comfy chair!!!......) at a rainy funeral.

[Motu]

Yeah,I don't know why people who get upset easily haunt forums,and yet they abound with them.Just a feeding frenzy on burly.But fishing is a sport of gentlemen...isn't it?

[James Deuce]

Yeah,I don't know why people who get upset easily haunt forums,and yet they abound with them.Just a feeding frenzy on burly.But fishing is a sport of gentlemen...isn't it?

I wouldn't know.

[Motu]

me either,haven't fished since I was a kid,it just doesn't interest me....but a lot of things real guys are suposed to be interested in leave me blank too.The things you have to pretend to know about (who won the world cup...don't ask me!) when all I want to talk about is bikes.

[James Deuce]

Tried fishing a couple of times as a kid and just ended up feeling sorry for the fish.

Bikes are much more fun to talk about than fishing OR ball sports.

Man, is this thing utterly off thread now or what??

[Hitcher]

Yeah,I don't know why people who get upset easily haunt forums,and yet they abound with them.Just a feeding frenzy on burly.But fishing is a sport of gentlemen...isn't it?

More like shooting fish in a barrel...

[Hitcher]

Man, is this thing utterly off thread now or what??

"Or what??" is right (he said, taking it even further off thread...)

[What?]

[QUOTE=DebK] Nor do I apologise for the scoot. QUOTE]
Nor you should, DebK. The problem with Zed is, he is an evangelist, therefore has no respect for anyone's ideas or ideals bar his own. Which is a shame, because some of his posts have actually been worthwhile..