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tonyk 01-05-08 09:35 AM

Re: Have some Patience !!!!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Baph (Post 1496065)
I assume you haven't considered the fact that the bloke riding the scooter may of recently been SMIDSY'd while riding his normal bike, and has bought a cheap scooter as a run around until his pride & joy is repaired??

99% of all bike riders indercate / look / point / position themself for a turn or something ........
scooters riders i have noticed do nothing.. but turn......
could be me then ........
but i do give scooter a lot of space as i have observed their riding style..

Alpinestarhero 01-05-08 09:47 AM

Re: Have some Patience !!!!
 
Guess what my dad uses when he;s not using the car, his legs, his GSXR, my bike, anyone else bike, or anyone elses car, or the bus, or the train, or a plane, or a helicopter, or a boat?















a pugeot speedfight 100 :cool: black, beasty, and wreacked twice by both me and him

Matt

21QUEST 01-05-08 09:56 AM

Re: Have some Patience !!!!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Baph (Post 1496065)
I assume you haven't considered the fact that the bloke riding the scooter may of recently been SMIDSY'd while riding his normal bike, and has bought a cheap scooter as a run around until his pride & joy is repaired??

I agree :thumbsup:

Oh it never fails to amaze me the cheek of 'gurly bike' riding folks :confused:

I do love the big bike riding twots who try and take the pish with me while I'm(now written off in accident) on my scooter.... :cool: ;) :rolleyes:



Ben

21QUEST 01-05-08 09:58 AM

Re: Have some Patience !!!!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by tonyk (Post 1496089)
99% of all bike riders indercate / look / point / position themself for a turn or something ........
scooters riders i have noticed do nothing.. but turn......
could be me then ........
but i do give scooter a lot of space as i have observed their riding style..

Definitely not 99%(don't ask me how I arrived at that figure :p) of the ones I come across everyday ;)

ETS: Yeah, I do give all bikes a lot(read ample) of space....most scooter riders just get that little bit extra


Ben

tonyk 01-05-08 10:20 AM

Re: Have some Patience !!!!
 
I’m being totally biased here, because the scooters riders I have come across are …….Enthusiastically tackling traffic filtering on the verge of being dangerous …..Apologies to all sensible scooter riders out there…….

SoulKiss 01-05-08 10:25 AM

Re: Have some Patience !!!!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by tonyk (Post 1496129)
I’m being totally biased here, because the scooters riders I have come across are …….Enthusiastically tackling traffic filtering on the verge of being dangerous …..Apologies to all sensible scooter riders out there…….

I have to agree with you tho Tonyk based on my Central London experience, the only thing worse than cyclists on Londons roads are Scooters.

It seems that the saleman told them it would be quicker and they wouldnt get caught up in jams, and they believed it and that belief means that they must live up to that

21QUEST 01-05-08 10:44 AM

Re: Have some Patience !!!!
 
Okay, lets put it another way.

If I saw a police driver making a 'school boy' error, I'd be more anoyed by that compared to Joe public. I see plenty of bikers with a full license who make me cringe.....from where I'm standing, the difference isn't as much as proper bikers sometimes claim.

In a lot of cases, of bikers having a go at scooter riders, it's a case of the blind leading the blind ;).

I'd bet good money that if I watched a lot of scooter haters, I'd be able to point out stuff, they are completely oblivious to but to me, couldn't be more obvious. ;)

Anyhoos, I generally don't trust any vehicles/driver on the road. The standard of observation/speed of processing what they see, of most drivers/bikers just do not match up to mine......saves me waiting for their brain to catch up with stuff that I had already seen and processed 5 mins ago.



Ben

Scuba1 01-05-08 02:02 PM

Re: Have some Patience !!!!
 
Oh come on folks. Its only the 99% of the scooter riders, that give the rest a bad name.

ATB

Michael


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