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Originally Posted by Ian
How does the joke go...'Riding a scooter is like 'getting intimate' with a 'large person' (being non sex specific here) - it's a lot of fun but you wouldn't tell your mates about it!' ;)
Seriously though, don't be tempted to wear an open face like a lot of scooter riders...most of us need our lower jaws to chew food properly...
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Originally Posted by WhiteD3
That's a bit grim...it is possible to enjoy bike riding and stay uninjured/alive...just make sure you get the right advice/training/attitude and wear the right safety gear...
True, and each to their own. But having run over a bloke on a bike (no fault of his or mine) I'm a bit biased.Quote:
Originally Posted by feraldisco
IMHO it's not the bike riding that's the issue, it's the cars and trucks, and the lack of protection in a fall.
Oh, IMHO I do think scooters (the smaller one's) are underpowered and have too smaller wheels to be driven safely at any serious speed or over anything that is not smooth bitumen.
Qld motorbike fatalities 'nearly doubled' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I'll second that! As a small matter of physics, the larger the wheel size, the easier a bike is to keep upright (centrifugal force and that sort of business). Scooters are fairly unstable things.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiteD3
The other thing to consider is how big a bloke you are - i'm 100kg and on a 50cc scooter i'd be lucky to break 40km/h.
I ride a postie bike as my daily driver - so far 15,000km in two years including two round trips Brisbane to Bundaberg. 110cc, so you need a bike licence, but it goes places that scooters will never, they are faster (90km top speed), the motors are virtually bulletproof and parts are dirt cheap
The weight side of things is not a problem as i only weigh 65kg. I have been wanting to get a CT-110 but they seem a little difficult to find :( plus i have not gotten a motorcycle licence yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by 45tr0
How old are you? Healing is a lot slower at 60 than it is at 26!!!!!
Bike hits car, car is dented, bike is a write-off, bike rider somwhere between repairable and written off, car hits bike, bike and rider written off.
Gave up motor cycles when I realised that car drivers are no more considerate forty years on, and there are now not only lots more of them, but they now have air conditioning, tinted windows, loud stereo systems, and mobile 'phones to occupy their attention. "Bike? What bike? Oh, is that what that noise was".
I have riden scooters before. they are great if you dont wont to go over 60km/h. As you REALY have to push them to get them above that.
Ayup, been there, done that. More than once. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm
Some drivers are amazingly blind spotted.
Yeah well I wouldn't get to close to that one if I were you :p :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tango51
I think there is a cultural thing happening.
In Italy, every body rides. No licencing required. So every one you know, you kids your mum, your grandma, rides. You are aware of riders because it is personal.
I'd like to see legislation that made riding compulsory before driving. It'd make for more careful drivers I think.