I got my first nod

**Dodger** · 7th March 2007, 10:06

Originally Posted by Smorg

I think scooters are more dangerous than bikes to be honest,...

Agreed,
The 50cc's can be a bit iffy, the reduced speed has a habit of pissing car drivers off. Also the small wheels can cause issues with groves in the road etc.
And don't get me started on the standard scooter rider only wearing shots/Tee and an open face helmet.

On the plus side I still find my scooter fun to ride, after riding the bike, it feels like sitting on a skateboard, it's so light and small.

Also it's much easier to carry stuff with the scooter as well.

**vifferman** · 7th March 2007, 10:12

Originally Posted by Dodger

Agreed,
On the plus side I still find my scooter fun to ride, after riding the bike, it feels like sitting on a skateboard, it's so light and small.

Also it's much easier to carry stuff with the scooter as well.

You forgot to mention, "... and you don't have to wear proper bike gear, coz it's only a scooter/glorified bicycle/substitute for a car, etc.."
And unlike bikes, gurrrrlz can wear short-short skirts and stilletos.

**zeocen** · 7th March 2007, 10:31

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

Gotta admit I had an attitude change a while back when I had to do a rural mail drop down/around Pukekohe. Traffic blasting past at 120kph a meter from your right handlebar... SHITE!

The Posties that do that day after day deserve a medal. There's a little bike with a postal dude on it out our way now and I'll nod to him every time. Respect where it's due.

Haha I wave to the postie bikers too, partly because they're on bikes and partly because I'm jealous and want to ride a (albeit slow) motorcycle for a job hehe.

I too always get perky when someone waves or nods to me, I always give cruisers the super enthusiastic waves just to see what they do hehe

**Korumba** · 7th March 2007, 10:44

Come down to Whangarei tonight and you may even get your first Nodrog...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/ca...3-7&e=1196&c=1

**Indiana_Jones** · 7th March 2007, 10:46

Originally Posted by vifferman

That's not it.

The scooterists on here, they get it. But your average scooterist is like, "Um... yeah... I ride a scooter coz it's cheap/I can't handle a car/Bikes are dangerous". For them a scooter is a glorified bicycle.

yea, that's kinda what i was thinking. it's not a ride, it's just a A to B machine for them

-Indy

**unhingedlizard** · 7th March 2007, 11:01

Im sure that my 50cc bike used to go a bit faster when people nodded at me.

**Dodger** · 7th March 2007, 11:27

Originally Posted by vifferman

And unlike bikes, gurrrrlz can wear short-short skirts and stilletos.

Yep, and I've seen this in Wellington.

some of the scooter riders in the CBD are nuts, or maybe they just don't realise the mess a car can make of them.

**mstriumph** · 7th March 2007, 11:44

Originally Posted by zeocen

......................I always give cruisers the super enthusiastic waves just to see what they do hehe

------- hey! i've done that TOO ........ it's a dead giggle watching them trying to work out how they should react to me closing on them waving hands and feet and grinning like a maniac!

i'm soooooo ashamed .......

**peasea** · 7th March 2007, 12:30

Originally Posted by ceebie13

Fark me!! Treasure that nod, Hitch. It was a rare event coming from a Harley rider.

I ride a Harley, so does my missus, we wave to all and sundry, whatever they ride. I would say that people don't wave, not raise a finger or cock their head for a variety of reasons; often they're 'busy'. In the last few years I must say I've noticed the swing back to this tradition and it's all good.

**hitch** · 7th March 2007, 15:49

Originally Posted by Korumba

Come down to Whangarei tonight and you may even get your first Nodrog...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/ca...3-7&e=1196&c=1

Thanks for the invite. I have seen your links for rides and though must go one day. It will happen someday (when my kids move out lol) Whats a Nodrog.....???????????????