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Old 20-04-09, 07:35 PM   #1
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Default Scooters getting on my nerves - anyone else?

This may be posted quite a bit but lunatics on twist and go scooters are driving me mental. Probs posted quite a bit but I need to vent.

I doubt it is just a London thing but I'm faced with hundreds of the b*ggers on my commute, undertaking, overtaking, parking right in front of me at lights only for me to pass them before stopping at lights and then they pull up right in front of me again.

I should certainly ignore them as one day one of them is going to get me involved in an accident.

Rant over.

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Old 20-04-09, 08:07 PM   #2
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I should certainly ignore them

Rant over.

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Old 20-04-09, 08:08 PM   #3
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Black visor, carbon gloves and out-nutter the nutters. Seems to work fine with any chavs around here who insist on chopping the throttle to make it sound like they're changing gear on their LED ridden 50's.
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Old 20-04-09, 08:10 PM   #4
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I've not ridden in london but i bet that's the only reason people buy push and go scooters. They probably don't even realise they're annoying you.
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Old 20-04-09, 08:19 PM   #5
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They annoy me, but only cos they can fit through smaller gaps than me my bike has eaten too many pies.
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Old 20-04-09, 08:35 PM   #6
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insist on chopping the throttle to make it sound like they're changing gear on their LED ridden 50's.
lol!! dicks
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Old 20-04-09, 08:39 PM   #7
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There's a pack of 5 or 6 keep bombing round the town center and making an annoying noise while I'm outside the pub having a smoke. Got the tw4ts a belter the other week... straight through the middle of them at 10krpm.
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Old 20-04-09, 08:41 PM   #8
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Its the bleeding pushbikes that have started cycling up the white line and won't move, came soooo close to kicking one off under a bus this morning.

tho the guy on a scooter with his open face lid hanging off his handlebar with a mobile clamped to his ear and running every red lamp like the push bikes made me quite angry too!
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Old 20-04-09, 08:42 PM   #9
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Default Re: Scooters getting on my nerves - anyone else?

annoy the hell out of me when they're on their very legal ones pelting around the back field disturbing the tranquility of my back garden on a sunny day as today.

Shame the bushes are too tall to fire an air rifle over!
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There's a pack of 5 or 6 keep bombing round the town center and making an annoying noise while I'm outside the pub having a smoke. Got the tw4ts a belter the other week... straight through the middle of them at 10krpm.
hehe, I was going to attempt that today when I stumbled upon 3 little ****es that buzz around my area in a line...but remembered I was baffled
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