"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short". Nicholas of Cusa
forsale A100,awesome power.
near ready for bucket raceing,or just a padock,beach hack.
gotta be a good deal,surely
does my burgman still qualify as a scooter ,being white everyone thinks im a cop.
Just make it FASTER So you can get out of the way of dick heads
thats what I have done
I feel really bad cutting in line at traffic lights. I came round a roundabout once and the car in front stopped sooner than I thought, and I realised I would stop in the middle of the roundabout so I slipped beside this car. Then another car came through the roundabout behind me successfully blocking it up. When the queue began moving I went to take my place behind the car in front but the car behind wouldn't budge up. I wasn't even zipping to the front of the queue, this guy's just being a great prat for no reason.
Whats needed by bike riders in general is a water pistol full of brake fluid. So just pull it out on those who really do you wrong and spray all along the side of their vehicle. Just make sure its a toy green one or something, otherwise there maybe a swat team heading your way ;-)
A few bicycle couriers I know spit on the offending cars windscreens when they have been knocked off or really treated badly, naughty but its a really good get back when the cars just roar off laughing and you are lying on the road (this I have seen and have happen to me several times) Apparently if you can catch em up at the next set of lights, and pay em back by lobbing one on his screen between you and him, the drivers faces turn from haughty to rage... and the bike just rides through the stopped traffic and away to safety... priceless. Not every ones cup of tea, but what can you do apart from kick their car in... and that will really get you in trouble... sometimes.
The wife's a communist.
I was thinking about getting a scooter as having a 10k bike purely for commuting is a bit excessive... but hell, im now scared of a 30km commute on a scooter
I'm so with you on this, those scooters rides either got huge ones or no brains...
I ask for nothing but to ride where ever the road calls
lol your not wrong .......ssshhhh don't tell them that we're really the scaredy cats aye
I ask for nothing but to ride where ever the road calls
Possibly this hostility towards scooters is because they're the favoured transport of teenagers, who are quite often inconsiderate drivers with no concept of their own mortality. I live in Wellington and rode a scooter for years, but never encountered scooter-rage. Here in wellington the majority of scooter riders seem to be uni students or businessmen and hipsters on Vespas; possibly they have a better 'image' here.
step one Headlight on at all times (a light in the mirror is more visible at a glance than a dark colored scooter or bike).
step two wear a high vis vest, you will notice the difference (even if people stop to laugh at least they aint pulling out in front of yah).
step three ride like everyone is on 'P' no matter what you ride people are stupid.
I get a little bit of scooter rage now and then.
mostly in the worst possible place too. like this one hill that is a blind corner with an intersection at the top of the rise, you don't see a turning vehicle till it's across the centre, and that's the point where peeps decide to pass using the right hand lane every time .
alot of people have this insane thought "it's just a scooter, why won't he move out of the way?" you can be doing 70 in a 50km/h zone and they will drive up your ass signaling to pass.... hey at least they signaled.
unfortunately I don't ride a bike yet so I can't be sure of the difference, I live with the fact that everyone out there (including myself) are idiots, and I prepare for the worst.
it's odd how people are more willing to admit scooters get a bum time than to admit that their riders deserve a nod or wave :P
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