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On the way home early to save the house from the brood, Mrs Ballon out on the
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Bumbling along a cut through I use regularly, spot a scooter in the mirrors a fair bit behind, no probs, I slow down as there is a queue of 5 cars waiting at T junction, the road is quite narrow and is also a bend. Anyway there is a bike coming towards me on the opposite side of the road. As it's narrow decide to let him go by before filtering, considerate biker and all that.
Please note that I am making forward motion and sat in the middle of the road on the white line so it's bleeding bloody obvious that I am waiting for the other bike to pass by, quick glance as I start to pull out and the feckers along side me
trying to overtake me. He shouts but not as loud as me and he gets the full Ballon invective plus the bird and a clean pair of heals. Twat.
Why do so many of them act like prats.
Now I've typed this I'm bloody late taking the youngest to swimming club.
!!! Bumbling along a cut through I use regularly, spot a scooter in the mirrors a fair bit behind, no probs, I slow down as there is a queue of 5 cars waiting at T junction, the road is quite narrow and is also a bend. Anyway there is a bike coming towards me on the opposite side of the road. As it's narrow decide to let him go by before filtering, considerate biker and all that.
Please note that I am making forward motion and sat in the middle of the road on the white line so it's bleeding bloody obvious that I am waiting for the other bike to pass by, quick glance as I start to pull out and the feckers along side me
trying to overtake me. He shouts but not as loud as me and he gets the full Ballon invective plus the bird and a clean pair of heals. Twat. Why do so many of them act like prats.
Now I've typed this I'm bloody late taking the youngest to swimming club.
They can't all be bad as I know some bikers who have a scooter for carving up the city traffic instead of their sports bike. Mind you, I do tend to give scoots a wide berth, expecting them to do suicidal filtering or other unwise manouvres.
Myself included in fact - the only times I've ever crashed have been on a c90
Myself included in fact - the only times I've ever crashed have been on a c90
Edited by 711 on Wednesday 15th November 21:00
Me and a few mates were out of a hack a few years back and as we were pootling through a town they came flyingish past thinking they were being clever over taking 3 sports bikes , terry hoiked the tl on to the back wheel and put it back down beside one of the chicken chasers then just yelled whaaaaaaaaaa! at the hairdyer pilot , her nearly lost it and fell of , ok not the cleverest things to do , but i nearly binned my ninja due to laughing !
It's not the young hoody types that feck me off, it's the selfish 
commuting types riding that mincing type of scooter that they all seem to. Like Ballon says, they're completely self absorbed and have no conception that someone could actually be waiting for a reason. s s s !!! I despise them.
commuting types riding that mincing type of scooter that they all seem to. Like Ballon says, they're completely self absorbed and have no conception that someone could actually be waiting for a reason. s s s !!! I despise them. Dare i say chaps its the fashion with the 16 y.o brigade.
When i was 16 it was the reign of the DT,AR,TS,MTX 50's...
But in my defence atleast my DT had gears and i've been riding bikes ever since..
I cant quite work out what happened with these scooters.. When i had my DT, if anyone had a scooter well they would errr be questioned if their wrists were a little on the limp side..
(note: no offence to those with a weak wrist condition 
)
If you learn on a scooter its too flippin easy in my book.. Twist that limp wrist off you go p!ssing off the rest of the biking world!!
Right time for a coffee!
When i was 16 it was the reign of the DT,AR,TS,MTX 50's...
But in my defence atleast my DT had gears and i've been riding bikes ever since..
I cant quite work out what happened with these scooters.. When i had my DT, if anyone had a scooter well they would errr be questioned if their wrists were a little on the limp side..
(note: no offence to those with a weak wrist condition ) If you learn on a scooter its too flippin easy in my book.. Twist that limp wrist off you go p!ssing off the rest of the biking world!!
Right time for a coffee!
A lot of what you all say is true.
I ride a scooter, not a full size bike through choice - it's a very easy commuting machine - and make the same prejudices as you for the same reasons. Scooter riders on the whole are worse than 'proper' bike riders and I assume the worst when 'negotiating' with them.
There are some considerate scooter riders out there, just as there are some a-hole bike riders out there.
I ride a scooter, not a full size bike through choice - it's a very easy commuting machine - and make the same prejudices as you for the same reasons. Scooter riders on the whole are worse than 'proper' bike riders and I assume the worst when 'negotiating' with them.
There are some considerate scooter riders out there, just as there are some a-hole bike riders out there.
I agree. I ride an '82 Vespa (Italian import) to get to and from work, and don't consider myself to be of the ilk described above. I ride the Vespa exactly as I would a bigger bike, albeit somewhat slower! (Maybe this is because I learned on a bike. The CBT for a scooter is just "this make you go, this makes you stop - well done, you've passed!"
But I know exactly what you mean, I see them day-in day-out riding like eedjits and giving everyone else a bad name. I never tell people I ride a 'scooter' so as to avoid this (unfortunately generally correct) tar brush.
But I know exactly what you mean, I see them day-in day-out riding like eedjits and giving everyone else a bad name. I never tell people I ride a 'scooter' so as to avoid this (unfortunately generally correct) tar brush.
Edited by JohnnyPanic on Thursday 16th November 14:16
I certainly wouldnt class all Scooter riders the same.. I remember a guy in my college class when i was 16 had a classic Vespa and he cherished that bike..
I think the problem is partly cause there seems to be far more scooter riding teens around than there were 50cc motorbike riding teens a good few years ago.. No doubt in part due to how easy they are to ride.
Also i think there is certainly a bigger culture of teenagers being little b*stards than there used to be and this seems be carried forward into the Scooter population as well..
I think the problem is partly cause there seems to be far more scooter riding teens around than there were 50cc motorbike riding teens a good few years ago.. No doubt in part due to how easy they are to ride.
Also i think there is certainly a bigger culture of teenagers being little b*stards than there used to be and this seems be carried forward into the Scooter population as well..
remal said:
Scooters give bikers a bad name. young tts who onyl ride cus they want to show off or get the birds.
Fecking nobs most of them around my way, hoodies and should be taken off the road. unfortunately not many good Scooter riders on the road
sorry end of my rant
ts who onyl ride cus they want to show off or get the birds. Fecking nobs most of them around my way, hoodies and should be taken off the road. unfortunately not many good Scooter riders on the road
sorry end of my rant
i agree, but most of mates ride mopeds and granted they do d**k about, but on deserted car parks at night time etc. yeah they are all into their mods etc, but makin a moped go 50mph doesn't appeal to me. My boyfriend has one, but it is just coming back onto the road after 8 months, but i wouldn't have got with him just cos he had wheels. i run a car and have unfortunately had to sell my bike (suzuki gs 125) to pay for my bike test which i am taking early next year. i don't understand why people see it that lasses only get with men for their house/car/bike. we ain't all that shallow.
but i do agree that more enforcements should be made on clothing for scooter riders and bike riders, it hurts just as much whether u come of at 5 mph or 50 mph (i know i've done both). and cbt's shouldn't be as easy (my friend retook his the other week cos it had run out, he got to ride 2 miles)
sorry not had a rant for a while, so its all come out at once
Not that they ever wave back, the c@nts.DennisTheMenace said:
Might be an idea to stripe the pan up and get a high vis jacket , just to scare the crap out of them
You can get lots of ex-Police bits off Ebay, from guys buying decommissioned ST11s and returning them to standard. A lot of them have had the panniers and fairings chopped to hell for lights etc., and most Police bikes had the single-seat conversion that few people want on a bike like this.
Must admit, when I was alongside the daft slapper in the people carrier on the M62 last week, two kids in the back, mobile phone wedged into her shoulder at 85mph, I wished I'd had blue strobes to frighten some sense into the dozy cow...
Oddly enough, the rider of the unmarked ST11 that used to operate round here just wore black leathers, the only clue was the small 'Police' logo on his BMW flip-up lid.
scooterboy75 said:
I have a full bike licence,I have had a couple of fully tuned Speed triples and know my bikes but love riding my Vespa with my club, no I'm not a Mod but a skinhead and please do not get us confused with the teen crowd
Most certainly don't.
I most definitely do not tar all scooter riders with the same brush, but commuting every day you see and experience more w******s on scooters than bikes, not saying all bike riders are saints either.
ballon said:
scooterboy75 said:
I have a full bike licence,I have had a couple of fully tuned Speed triples and know my bikes but love riding my Vespa with my club, no I'm not a Mod but a skinhead and please do not get us confused with the teen crowd
Most certainly don't.
I most definitely do not tar all scooter riders with the same brush, but commuting every day you see and experience more w******s on scooters than bikes, not saying all bike riders are saints either.
Would second that but there's a huge difference between the three groups of Scooter riders:
the Vespa riders, the City Lawyer step-through chaps, and the PedBoiz. Its only the latter who ride badly, although the second lots parking skills sometimes leave a little to be desired.
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