06-07-2011, 12:48 PM
Since you grip a cycle with your legs, a cycle cannot tilt to the left or right without your body moving also.
A scooter however can tip out from under you, and you'll have the contact of only your hands to try and correct/recover.
Ridiculous.
If you start to tip over for whatever reason, one will instinctively do on a scooter what the would do on a motorcycle- stick a leg out.
And no decent rider "grips a motorcycle" with their legs, unless they ride in the cold. It's not a horse.
Scooters, in their environment are not less safe than motorcycles in theirs.
Anybody who has ever ridden a bike with floorboards can appreciate riding a scooter. Your feet are far more comfortable than on pegs.
And scooters have a far lower center of gravity than motorcycles, so any tendency to tip says more about the rider than the vehicle.
I had a lot of time on a Honda 125 Elite with a hide-away headlight. Very cool. At the time I owned a 1000 GoldWing, and it was fun to use the Elite for short trips. If I had the room, I'd own a small bike or scooter for local stuff.
Mopeds are not for me. Far too under powered for my use. A common problem I've seen with them is driver error. They try to drive in traffic as though they're a scooter or motorcycle, but instead tend to impede it. Or worse, they drive it like a bike, but faster and carelessly. I've seen people pass on the shoulder of the road far too fast and drill a car making a right turn. It the right environment, they are practical, but not for me.
People who worry about how they look to other people have problems of their own.
And for those of you forum members who have overweight wives or girlfriends, I apologize for the idiocy of some of the others.
And of course, Pam is right.
A scooter however can tip out from under you, and you'll have the contact of only your hands to try and correct/recover.
Ridiculous.
If you start to tip over for whatever reason, one will instinctively do on a scooter what the would do on a motorcycle- stick a leg out.
And no decent rider "grips a motorcycle" with their legs, unless they ride in the cold. It's not a horse.
Scooters, in their environment are not less safe than motorcycles in theirs.
Anybody who has ever ridden a bike with floorboards can appreciate riding a scooter. Your feet are far more comfortable than on pegs.
And scooters have a far lower center of gravity than motorcycles, so any tendency to tip says more about the rider than the vehicle.
I had a lot of time on a Honda 125 Elite with a hide-away headlight. Very cool. At the time I owned a 1000 GoldWing, and it was fun to use the Elite for short trips. If I had the room, I'd own a small bike or scooter for local stuff.
Mopeds are not for me. Far too under powered for my use. A common problem I've seen with them is driver error. They try to drive in traffic as though they're a scooter or motorcycle, but instead tend to impede it. Or worse, they drive it like a bike, but faster and carelessly. I've seen people pass on the shoulder of the road far too fast and drill a car making a right turn. It the right environment, they are practical, but not for me.
People who worry about how they look to other people have problems of their own.
And for those of you forum members who have overweight wives or girlfriends, I apologize for the idiocy of some of the others.
And of course, Pam is right.