I had this
It got stolen.
I had a dumb joke thread once. It got stolen.
Those scooters are loud as fuck. I hate it.
[quote=toast][quote=spacetime]Dude I would totally ride a scooter. A friend of mine literally talked to me about his for an hour at a party last week - gets decent speed, insane gas mileage, and fun as fuck he said. Plus, the fact that you can justifiably just ride near the shoulder and people can pass you takes away some of the motorcycle danger of driving between cars and shit.
So ya, I want a hip Puch as well.[/quote]
is there a bike rack for your scooter so you can haul your fixie to go to alleycats?[/quote]
There’s a guy who races at Pir and gets there on a street bike, with his carbon orbea or whatever right above the muffler. also, in case you really haven’t seen these,
^That’s badass and not an idiotic, trendy vintage two-stroke scooter.
[quote=Rusty Piton]When I see one of those shitty scooters I see the heavily polluting equivalent of those electric Rascal things the morbidly obese people ride around on.
In fact, one time I almost got beat up by a huge fat dude when I laughed out loud at the hilarious appearance of his enormous bulk perched atop his diminutive little put-put.
In any case, scooters suck and are for lazy assholes and when they ride in the bike lane I feel like killing.[/quote]
where did this happen?!
and i totally agree on the other point. when i think of scooters i think of assholes riding into the bike lane on elston as soon as there’s a little bit of traffic in front of them. fuck that.
would rent again
[quote=Joe][quote=Rusty Piton]When I see one of those shitty scooters I see the heavily polluting equivalent of those electric Rascal things the morbidly obese people ride around on.
In fact, one time I almost got beat up by a huge fat dude when I laughed out loud at the hilarious appearance of his enormous bulk perched atop his diminutive little put-put.
In any case, scooters suck and are for lazy assholes and when they ride in the bike lane I feel like killing.[/quote]
where did this happen?!
and i totally agree on the other point. when i think of scooters i think of assholes riding into the bike lane on elston as soon as there’s a little bit of traffic in front of them. fuck that.[/quote]
Not a lot of this in Milwaukee fortunately but I remember it driving me crazy in Chicago. It’s especially frustrating when they keep doing it after they know it’s wrong.
[quote=Sandbagbear][quote=toast][quote=spacetime]Dude I would totally ride a scooter. A friend of mine literally talked to me about his for an hour at a party last week - gets decent speed, insane gas mileage, and fun as fuck he said. Plus, the fact that you can justifiably just ride near the shoulder and people can pass you takes away some of the motorcycle danger of driving between cars and shit.
So ya, I want a hip Puch as well.[/quote]
is there a bike rack for your scooter so you can haul your fixie to go to alleycats?[/quote]
There’s a guy who races at Pir and gets there on a street bike, with his carbon orbea or whatever right above the muffler. also, in case you really haven’t seen these,
[/quote]tony kic? or does someone else have a bike rack on their motorcycle?
Nah dude. BMW GS is a bit of a pig. Nice in theory, though.
I keep reading this thread title and think it says they want a hip pouch, which makes me want to think them considering becoming a kangaroo.
[quote=smash][quote=Joe][quote=Rusty Piton]When I see one of those shitty scooters I see the heavily polluting equivalent of those electric Rascal things the morbidly obese people ride around on.
In fact, one time I almost got beat up by a huge fat dude when I laughed out loud at the hilarious appearance of his enormous bulk perched atop his diminutive little put-put.
In any case, scooters suck and are for lazy assholes and when they ride in the bike lane I feel like killing.[/quote]
where did this happen?!
and i totally agree on the other point. when i think of scooters i think of assholes riding into the bike lane on elston as soon as there’s a little bit of traffic in front of them. fuck that.[/quote]
Not a lot of this in Milwaukee fortunately but I remember it driving me crazy in Chicago. It’s especially frustrating when they keep doing it after they know it’s wrong.[/quote]
LOL it happened on clark just north of fullerton @ about 2AM after drinking a shitload of whiskey at some comedy show. I was riding along with a buddy and saw this huge dude and exclaimed something like “Holy shit it’s a huge fat dude on a moped!”. Immediately after I yelled that, we saw two people we knew walking on the sidewalk so we stopped to talk to them. We were chatting away when the huge fat dude rode his scooter right up onto the sidewalk and started getting in my face. I apologized for what I thought was an innocuous comment to my friend and he rode off after yelling at me a bit more.
I got a hip puch. maybe they are not hip anymore seeing as this is a thread from 2009.
I got a hip pouch.
no I didnt.
Nice. Bumped thread meets my need to revive 2009-era hipster hatred.
So tired of sucking up the exhaust from the Eastern Bloc vehicles that hipsters drive here. Pretty sure the tuktuks are two-stroke. It’s a comical variety of useless vehicles…two wheels, three wheels, personnel carriers…it’s fucking clown-like. The old Ossis (Easterners) who restore their rides and keep them for the right reasons are another story.
Get a fucking ten year old Volkswagen for less money and spare our lungs, you idiots! Or get a new scooter that goes fast, saves gas, rides on the highways and doesn’t make you an idiot.
I love how in America we’re all about getting more people on bikes, like in Europe and China.
In Europe and China, they’re all about getting more people in cars, like in America.
Yea, they’re still trying to convince the citizenry that families should have more than one car. Lots of incentives, and cars have become much cheaper than they used to be. Not so long ago, two mid-sized cars = a decent house in Western Europe.
In Holland they even tax you (for roads, etc.) based on your annual mileage, and you get a much lower rate if you have more than one car.
It kind of disgusts me that Europe is ready to erase a lot of the things that makes it more livable in order to compete with the US as a consumer market.
Renting a car in Europe is hilariously cheap, too. Take a look at the Auto Europe rates. I dunno, maybe it is just compared to what you’d pay in the NY metro area but to me it is ludicrous.