The price of unpredictability

[BeakerRAT]

Yes. quite right - black leather, tattoos and 100 horsepower - or a gaberdine safari suit and 20.....did I tell you how much I enjoy riding the triumph thruxton - beautiful motorcycle....

Ahhhh, the Thruxton - The one bike I wish I hadn't sold Absolutely fantastic bike, saving the pennys to get another. talk about a split personality. Would that be MODROCKER or ROCKERMOD, probably more apt in these times to be referred to as a Modern Biker.

[Motu]

but they lack skill!

I know! They are fucking useless,buy a sportsbike and think they are a racer - but the fuckers can't even ride! Sportsbike riders lack skills alright!

[Pixie]

Good on ya Dave!

I too have noticed the lack of respect and snobbery that allot of bikers show to scooter pilots. Been craved up in similar fashion too. Guy on an NSR250 whipped by on the left coming off the motorway like it was some big thing to pass the guy on the scooter - DUH! Anyway, I pulled alongside at the lights, flicked the lid and commented on how nice the NSR was, he seemed rather ashen and I think he realised that he was just being a dick.

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And he'll be a bigger dick if he clips a scooter and falls off

[Mr. Peanut]

Don't underestimate scooters, I kept a few (key word here) bikers honest in the tight stuff on the sj125

Glad to have gears though.

[DougB]

From an early age, about sixty years ago, I was taught
to be a functionalist. If something is usefull use it if not disregard it. As no one can tell me the use of a neck tie I seldom wear one.

I have a scooter and a bike because a scooter is far more functional in the city but is not on the open road. My bike is more functional on the open road so thats were I use it.

The function of everything we use should dictate what we get. If your function is to be noticed then a Harley. For the function of thrills and sport riding a Ducati, to get around town a scooter.

Often the most functional objects are the best looking,
example a Ducati. That rule does not apply to women.

[texmo]

but they lack skill!

I pull better wheelies on the scooter than you do on your sprots bike farm boy. It takes a lot more skills to ride a scooter than a sports bike.

[inlinefour]

A bike is a bike and a scooter is also a bike. Motorcyclists can be a queer bunch at times. Biarching about other road users, but not respecting anyone else either...

[SwanTiger]

My first ever motorcycle was a Honda Moped when I was 8 (40 something cc, not 49) that my brother brought for $50. We picked it up in my mums van and took it home. Spent the day trying to get it going and eventually did. Took it down the driveway and then down the road 100 meters. As I pulled back up the drive way with a grin as wide as Dover's arse two Cops pulled up! The neighbours had made a complaint all within 2 minutes.

That scooter rocked and I was the man, all the young girls in the neighbour hood wanted a ride on my crappy scooter. Quite often three at a time (there was a tray mounted on the back).

My brother built a turbo for it and at its peak that tired little engine with 40,000 miles would do 20 mile an hour up my mums drive way.

Those were the days when suspension didn't matter, tyre wear was irrelevant and power didn't matter so long as it could move on two wheels.