What is it with the scooter mentality?

[Coyote]

Check this... http://www.nzgirl.co.nz/articles/8324

Skirts: Make sure you invested in plenty of pairs of pants because unless you’re comfortable with flashing your undies and having your skirt up around your face (which is also a potentially hazardous situation) skirts are a no-go when you’re heading out on your scooter.

Haha, skirts aren't bad due to lack of protection but cause they could embarrass you.

[davereid]

I'm not sure I agree with the freedom of choice. You know we all pay when you grind your knees to the bone and can't work for 12 months with skin and bone grafts. That being by ACC for surgery and taxes for your sickness benefit. If you're willing to sign away all these things then cool go ahead and have your freedom.

I agree.

That's exactly what I want.

Stop taking income Tax off me.
Stop charging me ACC.
Stop charging me GST.
Actually don't take any money off me unless I agree.

If I want the service you offer, I'll buy it if I like the price.

And then get out of my life and go and irritate someone else.

So Tonight...

I'll have a couple of nips more than the "Scottish Alcohol Advisory Board" says is safe, at least according to the label on my Scotch.

I'm gonna have a toot on a fine cigar... mmm - but I promise not to inhale, can't have the the taxpayer buying me new lungs.

Friday night, I'll stop and buy fish and chip for tea - shit I'm so reckless with your money, cos I'll feed em to the grandchildren too.

And then on Saturday, if it turns out sunny, I'll put my jeans and my Warriors T shirt on, my missus will wear her heels and a nice short skirt, and we will putt on down to the bar at the beach on the Harley.

Meanwhile, the g'mint will ban another recreational chemical, put petrol and the rubbish tip up, improve the MPs superanuation plan, and then tell me I must wear a dayglow jacket on my scooter in case I crash.

[Bulldog]

Mate, I've just checked out your profile and read over some of your other posts and low and behold on almost all of them you're ranting at people for bringing up safety issues. What's your issue?

How bout we get back to the issue raised instead of dramatising the subject of authority & safety.

[davereid]

Its common sense to use safety gear. I don't discourage it, never have, and never will.

I'm never going to show up, and be nasty to someone because they wear safety gear, in fact, I usually wear a full set of gear even when I am just nipping down the shops on my scooter.

But, I want to have choices in my life, and not hand those choices over to "authority". Because that generally means, that sooner or later, if its not "in the public good" it will be banned.

I am sure that if the motorcycle was invented tomorrow, it would be banned. It's just too fast, too unstable and too vulnerable.

Well meaning people like to pass laws to make other people safer.

Perhaps sadly, much of the pleasure I gain from life comes from things that others would consider dangerous or unsafe. Like motorcycling.

So I have to consider those well meaning, caring people as predators who would remove the pleasures from my life.

My grandchilden and great grandchildernwill be very very lucky indeed to ride a motorcycle without power restrictions, GPS tracking, automatic ticket issuing etc.

I feel sorry for them.

[Bulldog]

I understand what you're saying and I do agree with you that society has become so PC that all things 'good' are being deemed bad and I can also see how people saying "you should wear proper kit" on a scooter can take the fun out of it. Point taken.

I like the idea of products like draggin jeans and the likes coming out because I do find it a drag to wear all the kit all the time and I would like to wear some normal stuff on the bike AND be safer. let's hope there's more of it to come.

[kaz]

I ride a scooter and I wear all the gear, even when nipping up to shops. And if I can't be bothered wearing lots of gear, I just walk to the shops instead. But I know I'm in the scooter minority.

I agree that scooter advertising is misleading and I see heaps of scooterists without gear. But I also see quite a few motorbikers without gear - what's their excuse? (the advertising clearly shows people riding with gear).

So hopefully this is not a scooter-bashing thread in disguise - coz it's message belongs equally in the biker section of this forum.

When I first bought a scooter, Carl at Motorad insisted I get a full-face helmet. I might not have known any better if he hadn't.

[boomer]

bloody do gooders.. mind your own business.

right.. im going riding in ma shorts and jandals this weekend and every biker i see i'm gonna flip u the bird!

[Flatcap]

I reserve the right to ride naked if I so desire

Although I do tend to slip about a bit as my arse gets sweaty