Ah, so you have a problem with the people who ride scooters and the way they are ridden rather than the machinery itself....
Yes, there are some cheap scrawny mopeds around, as there are motorbikes too!
Always fancied a blast on a TMax...
Those figures are for 2008 from Bikesafe Essex... doesn't really bear out that scooters are more likely to have/cause accidents... but statistics can be manipulated to say whatever you want them to ;o)
Can't find anything giving a breakdown on theft... and most other information I can find just gives PTW figures, no breakdown as to type.
The recent increase in road accidents seems to be connected to an
increase in motorcycle ownership and use. In particular, there has been
a big increase in the number of high-powered machines with an engine
size of 500cc or above.
There were 155,000 vehicles like this in 1992, which increased to
482,000 by 2002. Concurrent with this have been significant changes in
the demographic profiles of people involved . In 1982, almost half of all KSI casualties were under 20, which had decreased to a little over one in 10 by 2002.
(Citing research by Oxford Uni Transport studies unit in conjunction with ACPO/POlice Federation)
I was playing out around North Yorkshire on Sunday and it reminded me of the seventies, scooters everywhere, even saw a couple with dozens of mirrors on crash bars and a couple of foxtails flying from the whip aerials. Of course it wasn't really like the seventies as no one tried to kick me off the bike or beat me up!!
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How many of you were at Matlock last summer for one of the meet ups. When we got there you could hardly see for blue smoke. You couldn't move for scooters.
The scooter club had organised a run to matlock to fill it before the bikers got there. I mentioned it to a freind at work who is a scooter nut and he showed me the article in the magazine.
On a personal note. Scooterists are as mad about their rides as we are. If not more so. I know a few bikers who are closet scooter owners.
As for insurance. I think i'm right in saying that its the born again bikers that are the biggest problem. Had a fizzy when they were 16. Now they no longer have a wife to moan at them they go out and buy an R1 and think they can handle it. With the obvious consequences.
Yer sooo right blue1 I see and hear em evry day on the A64 past my place, its one of the most dangerous roads in Nth Yorks.
Hardly a week goes by in the summer without some plastic crotch rocket stuffing it into a field/car/hedge!
They get serious bikers a bad reputation.
I've been riding over 40 years and in my opinion its just getting silly now.
Yea....at last some people after my own heart.......i hate the fookin things.....esp those really sad 'custom jobs'.....would rather be a trainspotter myself!!!!!
My personal opinion(which i am happy to say loud and proud)is scooter riders are bikers with no balls.
We often pass a pub where a scooter club meets and i so wanna kick just one then watch the domino effect up close and personal....Blue will never stop tho
Seriously tho,i know that not all scooter riders are tossers,and when i came off baby the other week it was a scooter driver(proper old school mod,not some kid on a hairdryer)who doubled back to come and see if i was ok and if i needed any help,and i would like to think i would do the same,can't help it tho,just love to hate 'em
By the way Dips,as much as i hate to say it,i (as some of you know!!)have spent more than my fair share of time standing at the side of the road with a buggered bike and not once has a fellow biker stopped...not once.Considering that the last time i was en route to a popular biker stop and was passed by at least a dozen bikers and the first i was on the side of the A90(the main aterial to the north in Scotland) for over four hours.
Just a sign of modern times i guess
Scooters ain't my thing but being involved in the custom scene there are alot of customized scooters around with longer forks,nice paint jobs etc. Totally different to the local kids on the street. Each to their own. I personally don't ride stock bikes,doesn't mean to say they should all be banned.
The bike/scooter thing was back in the 60's,it's all gone now.
As for wanting to kick over a row of them,how would you feel if they did that to a row of bikes with yours included?
I was left single-handedly pushing my Morris Minor off a busy roundabout some 20+ years ago... 2 work colleagues even beeped and waved at me FFS!
When I pulled them up on it the next day, they just said "Well you looked like you were doing fine, so we figured you didn't need any help" Gee thanks! What am I supposed to do? Stand there fluttering my eyelashes like some helpless eejit?!
Mind you... the same motor also won me a round of applause from a couple of bored coppers, who also watched me pushing the thing, jumping in and getting it going. Applause appreciated chaps, but hey, any time you want to lend a hand?
Hey buddy,wouldna be the first time but i wudna change a thing....lifes for living and i've got some great stories to tell....you know...those interesting ones that people like to hear.
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