Thread: Scooter Drivers!

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

and health insurance and income protection is very important. You'll be a statistic waiting to be recorded

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...

Originally Posted by feraldisco

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.

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)

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

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.

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.

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

Originally Posted by 45tr0

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.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Bike hits car, car is dented, bike is a write-off, bike rider somwhere between repairable and written off, ...

Ayup, been there, done that. More than once.

Some drivers are amazingly blind spotted.

Originally Posted by Tango51

Left me stumped when I learned they 'ride' horses

Yeah well I wouldn't get to close to that one if I were you