I know know why drivers hate scooter riders

[FROSTY:Me]

how many of you lot have actually ridden a 50cc scooter? those lil wheels make for interesting handling to say the least

[slofox]

I got stuck behind some old fart on a scooter today...he wobbled along the middle of the lane, weaving right and left at 40km/hr...until he came to a corner, when he slowed to 20km/hr...I was too scared to try and pass him - I felt sure he would wobble under the wheels of the cage and end up staining my paintwork. Oh and he was dressed in the regulation uniform...dress shoes and socks on his feet, open faced helmet, lightweight rainproof jacket...the road was as wet as and he looked very insecure. I think I would have been walking, myself...he was obviously a braver man than I am...

[James Deuce]

They're called "scroters".

[Spearfish]

It can get tricky when comparing bikes or scooters and who is worse than the other. Bikers argue what's the best bike Touring/sport/motard/side-car? then scooterists argue over twist and goes or coffee grinders or if the Gilera gp800 is really a scooter or auto bike or the only real scooter is a pressed tin jobbie. Then it hits the fan over who needs the best skill level to ride what.
I think it evens out over a weekend with the weekend warriors ride out to their favourite twisties.
I have had a guy on a Chinese 100cc hard tail chopper try to race me along Te Atatu road and loose it on the Glendene roundabout, blood everywhere proving board shorts, singlet and bicycle skid lid is the way to skin grafts, I have helped a rider wait for an ambo after he dropped is bike in a ditch after apexing way to early and running out of road and nerve to lay it over.
The only difference between the two was one was peak hour traffic with hundreds to watch and the other was in full view of 100 odd cows.
I think scooters are in view way more than perhaps bikes not that its any excuse or defence for some dodgy riding.