Scooters are not real bikes...

[Athame57]

[Laverdaroo]

They're not real bikes they're petrok egg whisks with wheels.

[adespin]

  So i'm looking for the humour.

[SteveD CB500K0]

I’m looking for the images!


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[Athame57]

I don't know where that image went!

[K2-K6]

Usually quite a few of them seized up on the A3 August bank holiday heading for the IoW mod festival, maybe it's still there.

[MrDavo]

The only time I ever rode a scooter I nearly fell off on the first corner as I discovered that ground clearance was non existent. I turned round, rode back and returned it to the owner. Despite it being nearly 50 years ago I just remembered his name was Hector.

I did enjoy pretending to be caught up by a huge gang of them, on their way to Blackpool for a Bank Holiday weekend, then dropping a gear and nailing it. In the 70’s there would have been serious consequences if they had caught me.

[ka-ja]

We used to sit on a pub wall near a roundabout on a main route to the seaside, and when the poor old scooter boys went past, we used to shout "get of and milk it", which just about summed up the ride quality of a scooter, but they ended up more popular in those days.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

tbh I liked my scooters - aside from some basic weather protection the perching on the seat with no crossbar is quite comfortable below 60 mph.
Scooters with floor pedals were even better, more for cruizing than racing - I guess a Harley is as far away from a straight motorcycle as you can get - they seem popular enough.

[SumpMagnet]

around town...scooters are OK....but as an engineering concept, they are awful for speeds. Small wheel, wierd frames, engines hung on the suspension...

Oddly enough, if you wanted a 2 wheeler to electrify...I reckon they would be perfect. Fit a hub motor, fill the space up with batteries, and it would look pretty much the same without any loss of performance or character. In fact...it would go better and sound better. Brushless hub motor would probably mean less unsprung weight

[royhall]

The only time I ever rode a scooter I nearly fell off on the first corner as I discovered that ground clearance was non existent. I turned round, rode back and returned it to the owner. Despite it being nearly 50 years ago I just remembered his name was Hector.

I did enjoy pretending to be caught up by a huge gang of them, on their way to Blackpool for a Bank Holiday weekend, then dropping a gear and nailing it. In the 70’s there would have been serious consequences if they had caught me.

As I live in Blackpool we had plenty of that. One Saturday afternoon in 1976 whilst walking through town we came upon a group of around 100 mods and only four of us. We got chased off up Dickson road by a group of about 20. Unfortunately one of them was a better runner than the rest and pulled away from his group, when we looked round the others had given up and he was on his own. He went from shouting abuse to terror in a second, I can still see the panic on his face it was a picture. As we had run about half a mile already we just slapped him a bit and let him go. Fun days.

[neat street]

Sorry guys, but if its got two wheels and fun, does it matter?? and yes I have a Lammy as well as my CB750, also have a Mini, so quite a mix to have fun on/in.... gone are the days of hatred, and although some of you claim being chased by scooter boy`s, I remember the same the other way round... I just enjoy bikes of all types and the work that has gone into their restoration.

[royhall]

Sorry guys, but if its got two wheels and fun, does it matter?? and yes I have a Lammy as well as my CB750, also have a Mini, so quite a mix to have fun on/in.... gone are the days of hatred, and although some of you claim being chased by scooter boy`s, I remember the same the other way round... I just enjoy bikes of all types and the work that has gone into their restoration.

This was in 1976 when opinions and ideas were different. By the way, it was them that chased us we didn't ask them to react that way. Personally I have never had any animosity towards scooter riders ever, just a funny story (real not claimed) that fits the thread.

[Rozabikes Tim]

I'm if the age where I had never heard of mods etc before Quadrophenia film. Suddenly as a motorcyclist I was labelled a rocker.... Then I saw  tension with the scooter types, whom I had only ever seen as bikers if a different ilk. Sure many scooterists felt the same. Labels!

[haynes66]

nothing wrong with scooters!!  and it's a honda...


     

slightly slower than my firestorm though.



pete