People who just can't resist touching things....

[Ms Piggy]

I guess we could have been a bit more polite..........but what the heck, scooters arn't real bikes and 17 year olds are all hero's and can't be taught jack shit.

Polite?? Naaaaah. I find it really frusrating at Uni b/c heaps of people ride their scooters and take up all the m/b parking space with their wide arses!

[matthewt]

Ahhh! The old reverse the polarity trick!

Did you know that trick appeared in the original batman movie ??

I was watching it with the kids a while and nearly pissed myself when batman suggested they reverse the polarity of one of their bat gadgets.

[matthewt]

Personally I find heating the Dilithium Crystals over a slowly roasting Babel Fish works best.

Or if the crystals aren't up to it find some bogus way to travel back/forward in time.....

[Milky]

Polite?? Naaaaah. I find it really frusrating at Uni b/c heaps of people ride their scooters and take up all the m/b parking space with their wide arses!

What i find annoying is the type of person who parks their bike while they are sitting on it - ie there is enough room when it is standing straight up, but then they put it on the sidestand and block you in Either that or Uni students - usually engineers where i park - who think they can fit through miniscule gaps between parked bikes, but get stuck and have to bend the mirrors to fit through

[Antallica]

What i find annoying is the type of person who parks their bike while they are sitting on it - ie there is enough room when it is standing straight up, but then they put it on the sidestand and block you in Either that or Uni students - usually engineers where i park - who think they can fit through miniscule gaps between parked bikes, but get stuck and have to bend the mirrors to fit through

Yeah I've done that before, sucks for all.

[Draco]

Perhaps we need to educate (some) scooter riders. I saw an asian chick the other day on the HUGEST scooter ive ever seen in my life, but she was so small i doubt she would have ever found two wheels to fit, but at least she was riding. Aren't we all supposed to be on the same side?? When i'm too old an cripled to ride two wheels, im gunna build three, and i hope im still classed as a "biker chick". Anyone with handlebars and less than four wheels i class as a biker, let's educate these guys on biking etiquette!

[vifferman]

I haven't had too many problems with scooters, as they're mostly pretty narrow and light, so they're easy to pick up and move (done that a few times). A lot of them also have centrestands, so they stand fairly upright.
Anyway, if I get stuck, I take a leaf out of the scooterists' book and park on the footpath.

[rettun]

Is it just me or is the teen subculture patois diverging so far from cultural linguistics norms that their communication attempts are almost indecipherable?

I also get the feeling that the above communication attempt has something to do with it being OK to break windows so long as they belong to your friends? I hope this chap is wearing a cricket box, because if he was my friend, his nads would be around liver level by now.

The "above communication attempt" didn't imply that it was ok to break the windows of your friends. BUT the windows that i've broken/watched being broken were with the respective owner either there or knowing about it and not being concerned as the window had to come out anyway.
Hence my "nads" are still hangin where they're supposed to be

I hope this is more understandable than my last attempt which came across as "a teen subculture patois diverging so far from cultural linguistics norms that made my communication attempts almost indecipherable"

[Antallica]

Part 2 of what really fucks me off

Gidday lads/ladies.... as we all know there is no respect these days for peoples property. Basically this is what happened last night:

Parked Fixxer in town to go see movie with my lovely g/f, came back to find out that some dickheads had decided to have a play with her. Cops were called by someone (cheers) and they came round to find it on it's side. They propped it back up and notified a guy at my g/f's place. At this stage I think it was dropped on it's right side, only damaging the right peg housing completely snapping it off. Luckily enough the mirror didn't smash off as usual, so at this stage I can't ride her home.

But here's the real killer, about an hour later some more guys decide to have a play (probably the same dickheads) and this time it's found on her other side with the guys running down the road. Left mirror smashed off and the left rear cowling cracked to shit. Windshield is snapped in half with cracking going down my front cowling. Oh yeah and the pillion handle bar is snapped right off.... don't ask me how the fuck they managed that.

But it's all good.... $500 later and I should be ok, and it's not as worse as it could've been.

Post pics tomorrow when I get Aunty's camera.
Plastic welder anyone?

[marty]

WHAT?? the cops got there before you??????? holy fuck - what is this world turning into????lou????hellllooooo!!!!!!!!what have you done???????????

[Ghost Lemur]

That bites the big one Ant. Glad it isn't going to sting you too bad. Still it's five hundy you could have put a side for a bigger bike *cough*errr I mean spent on the gf.

Damn some of us need to start catching these shits in the act. This is happening too frequently.

[Skyryder]

Saw a sticker on a bike once "you toucha my bike, I breaka your face".

Sounded reasonable enough !!

Just reminded me of a biker cartoon about the very thing we are talking about.

The cartoon had this big big Harley parked outside and two bikers painting a building. On the seat was a big sighn WET SEAT.

Skyryder

[Antallica]

Yeah I might invest in an alarm too, heh heh.

[RiderInBlack]

I'd like to see the little Wa*kers do that with one of the Hika boys' bikes

They would have got their heads smashed in

Sorry Ant, but really fu*ks me off

Is there anything you need a hand with re:your bike? You've got my number so just hollier if'n ya need a hand.

[Antallica]

Cheers mate, give me a few weeks and I'll be up and running.

Not sure if I can get that Rear Set welded back on though, I don't think it can be done on that material. That's all that's stopping me riding the bitch.