Ken Baileys Ghost
Plastic
Nothing,
apart from having a larger carbon footprint, being potentially dangerous to users and pedestrians and serving to real practical purpose.
Non - E-Scooters
- Thread starter billythekid
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Nothing,
apart from having a larger carbon footprint, being potentially dangerous to users and pedestrians and serving to real practical purpose.
wingsnwheels
Star Player
It's not the scooters, just some of the idiots who think they have priority over everything else on the road/pavement. No thought of any sort of signal as to where they are going, why there have not been any scraped off the front of lorries I don't know. Some sort of head protection should be compulsory IMO.
Druss_the_Legend
UTC Legend
A larger carbon footprint than a car? More dangerous than a bike?
wellsworld
Star Player
its a case of pick your idiot to hate. some don't like scooter idiots, some hate bike idiots, my preferred idiot is anyone who chooses an oversized "car", generally a range rover, audi, bmw, merc big (usually black) tasteless vehicle that is unnaturally clean, and loved by their owner at the expense of anyone or anything else.
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Ken Baileys Ghost
Plastic
You're comparing apples with bananas.
How about comparing like for like.
A scooter over one mile and walking.
Which would I rather fall off at speed?
A bike.
Which would I rather be run over by?
A scooter, there's more chance that the git who ran me over will get hurt.
A few weeks ago I spoke to 2 officers...those who help the police... and they told me that these scooters are being made legal soon and that they couldn't catch them anyhow because they can travel at 50mph. I blew my hooter at one of them who was swerving along the road in front of me and he was quite indignant saying take my number if you like but I'm insured. I told him that he may well be correct in that aspect but you've got no road sense. I was sad to read that a young child is in the news today having been hit with a scooter and has a broken collar bone. I was of the opinion that they could not be used on Public Highways. I saw 2 school girls with flowing hair who looked like twins who were having great fun racing along a pavement but they were acting in a v dangerous way.too many people. we're like ants. squabbling over space. making more & more rules & laws because we're too close to each other (with no one to enforce them). polarised views, strong self-entitlement, over- privileged, aggression - not a great mix is it? people mock gb news yet 95% of people I know could be on it. today I am going to embrace being a grumpy old ****************************. up the chezzers!
wellsworld
Star Player
I think the day is nearly upon us.... when we can finally merge the echo readers comments and this forum into one glorious, weird whinge world
Ken Baileys Ghost
Plastic
You could well be right, I fear we are straying into OHEC territory.
"I saw 2 school girls with flowing hair who looked like twins who were having great fun racing along a pavement but they were acting in a v dangerous way."
LewSwimmin
Star Player
For goodness sake don't let Cherrybright know or he'll think it's safe for him to come back on here to irritate the hell out of us
tedisking
Fans' Favourite
No danger of that.......Brian will see him off.....well that's what he keeps telling us
Druss_the_Legend
UTC Legend
You're comparing apples with bananas.
How about comparing like for like.
A scooter over one mile and walking.
Which would I rather fall off at speed?
A bike.
Which would I rather be run over by?
A scooter, there's more chance that the git who ran me over will get hurt.
Again...why are you comparing scooters with walking? Why not compare walking with driving? If you regularly commute into London and work 2 to 3 miles from Waterloo, why not use a scooter? Many people take bikes on the train to use when they get there...Its an option.
In an ideal world we all work from home and travel where we need to by bike or on foot but as you know thats not going to happen.
PS...you'd prefer to fall off a bike thats going twice as fast as a Scooter? Really?
Druss_the_Legend
UTC Legend
I can post video of a car driving over 100 mph and mounting the pavement the other day...or a cyclist hitting a pedestrian. Not sure we should define the safety or effectiveness of transport based on the odd newspaper article on an idiot using it.
Oh joy!!! Cherrybright, jimnnina and stanthevan all in one place…….can’t wait.
SteveJonesLegend
Fans' Favourite
The simple solution is to make them all legal but follow the same path that hire scooters have, in that you need to be over a certain age (for even the smallest bit of common sense to prevail), hold a provisional licence (for accountability and repercussions if ridden like idiots or drunk), and tag the scooters with some form of identifiable marker (again for accountability), so effectively you're making them like a car to ride, but with less of the outlay and not quite as strict...
There was a comment earlier about ladies being drunk on one (I think it was NSM)... I wonder how many people actually realise you can lose your licence for being drunk (over the limit) on Beryl scooters... A lady in Bournemouth has already been caught for drink driving on a scooter in around the Talbot area a few months back, and was fined and lost her licence...
Make them accessible, make the laws behind them fair and sensible, and make people accountable for owning and riding them... Then it's up to them and hopefully in time the grey space they currently fill, will be come more black and white...
It's worked for cars and motorbikes and whilst you do see some chavs hooning around illegally, 90% of the time, people respect the laws behind these forms of transport... It would certainly stop parents buying them for their young kids, who probably make up the lion's share of the complaints atm...
There was a comment earlier about ladies being drunk on one (I think it was NSM)... I wonder how many people actually realise you can lose your licence for being drunk (over the limit) on Beryl scooters... A lady in Bournemouth has already been caught for drink driving on a scooter in around the Talbot area a few months back, and was fined and lost her licence...
Make them accessible, make the laws behind them fair and sensible, and make people accountable for owning and riding them... Then it's up to them and hopefully in time the grey space they currently fill, will be come more black and white...
It's worked for cars and motorbikes and whilst you do see some chavs hooning around illegally, 90% of the time, people respect the laws behind these forms of transport... It would certainly stop parents buying them for their young kids, who probably make up the lion's share of the complaints atm...
Druss_the_Legend
UTC Legend
Stop being sensible and providing a framework in which scooters could be a viable transport option.
Its not the done thing around here
Ken Baileys Ghost
Plastic
You've seen a pushbike doing over 100 miles an hour?
If these scooters did about 10 mph then I'll take the being knocked over by a scooter option please.
But they don't, they go like the fucking clappers.
Druss_the_Legend
UTC Legend
Most are limited at 12mph. Not exactly 50 miles an hour.
R
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Guest
You're legally allowed to buy them to use on your own land. That's how they are being bought.
