It was almost amusing the way the bikes were treated with such disrespect in san diego. Most were stolen and stripped or painted and ridden by the homeless... Those that remained were destroyed by average citizens. The whole fad lasted maybe 6 months.Scooters are super easy to ride at low to moderate speeds, anything less than running speeds and you can pretty much just 'step off' and you are back to walking. Potholes/curbs are certainly more of an issue though.
I think part of the 'danger' aspect has more to do with others, than the rider themselves. They are popular in cities, but they don't really fit neatly into either bike lane traffic or crowded sidewalk traffic. They probably should not be ridden on crowded sidewalks but people do.
Another issue in SF (nuisance not danger) was people would just leave them anywhere, leave them in bushes/sidewalks/doorways/etc, much more of a nuisance than the bikeshare type systems in that respect. Forming social etiquette could sovle this last problem, or gamifying it somehow (some of the bikeshares give you a small credit if you return a bike to a hub or return a bike that was left outside of the area of operation).
Do you pedal it or is that one of those power wheels?
Do you pedal it or is that one of those power wheels?
Seriously though that color... Dont tell us you have a modified (loud) exhaust too. Theres no way you can drive it fast shouting to the world (police) "look at my fast car!"
When I bought my '86 C4 coupe it was silver beige, that kinda champagne color. At dusk it disappeared into the concrete of the freeway and I kept the pipes stock.
Drove it as fast as I wanted cops never noticed it.
This was my 7th and last motorcycle it was perfection in its time.I freed up the exhaust system and it has a few other tricks under the hood. Race sway bars front and back, zero body roll, very high cornering speed. When I roll off a drive way sideways, one tire is in the air. And when there's no traffic around, I drive it very hard. A Uniden scanner kept me out of trouble so far, but any modern fast car is a risk.
I used to race in SuperBike class, on a club level. 200 horses to the rear wheel at 370 pounds dry. THAT was fast.
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I don't think my Z51 got less attention.
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