Scoooooter

[Command Prompt]

So I think I'm gonna buy one of these things. They are 49cc's and cheap to insure ($200/year) and you only need your basic drivers licence to ride them. Here in Manitoba, average car insurance on a newer car is about $1000 (usually over) and gas hovers around a lofty 85 cents/litre, which would be 3.40 a gallon :eek but with exchange I guess that would be about 2.30 or so. Still pretty fucking high.

Anyway, these things used to piss me off and I used to think they were pretty faggy, but not as faggy as spending my paycheck on gas. I took my friends out for a spin the other day and Goddamn it, it was so fun. The people on the sidewalk didn't appreciate me at first, but once I got comfortable enough I hit up the road. You can get these things up to about 70 Km which I assume is about 50 Miles an hour. Not as fast as a car, but pretty okay for city driving, since the gas will cost me 2 dollars a week. :)

Anyway, I'm still shopping around. I may finance a new one (they are about 3000 new, so I guess thats about 100 bucks a month to pay it off :lol rather than 350 or so for a new car :lol) or try and find a decent used one.

The people in this part of the world are finally feeling the effects of relying soley on fossil fuels and it turns out that this convienience is the harbringer of doom. I'm not going to go all granola about this issue since I'm probably as bad as the average college student for waste but c'mon, we've known this was going to happen for the past 40 years. Looks like we're in for some severe changes in the near future.

[FartinMowler]

What are you going to do in the winter stupid? :/

[GADZOOKS]

Don't use my avatar, you unoriginal twit.

[Pub Lover]

When I read this earlier I was all confused as to why Gadzooks was suddenly Canadian. :lol

I'm such an idiot. :dunce

[GADZOOKS]

He should be banned for his racism on his location.

[FartinMowler]

I thought Gadzook's was Canadian, well sorta, french Canadian :/

[GADZOOKS]

OH IF I WAS FARTON MOWLER, I would be over at your house everyday.

[Command Prompt]

In the winter I will just use the bus. I live like 5 mintues away from campus.

[Pub Lover]

Walk, you lazy bastard. >:

[Command Prompt]

If I were richer, then I would ride a fat person.

[kellychaos]

I've never ridden a llama.

[FartinMowler]

YOur going to get killed. You will most likely not wear a helmet because that isn't cool and you will get brave and try to act like a real motorcycle and venture out into traffic and get broadsided by some poor bugger that won't see you and you will make his insurance go up because you think that riding a scooter will save you money.

[kellychaos]

Do you wear a helmet when you're driving your lawn mower, Fartin?

[Command Prompt]

I already crashed my buddies after being on it for all of half an hour. These things don't take to gravel roads very well :(

I could only imagine what would happen if I was on a crotch rocket going twice the speed.

As for someone hitting me, I work nights so I'd probably be the only one on the road and I've been hit by cars a few times on my bike so I'm not that scared of asshole drivers.

[ArrowX]

http://ve2.ele.etsmtl.ca/~va2mek/paris_trucs/scooter.jpg


BAD

ASS

[Command Prompt]

http://www.speed-sports.com/Scooters/SHARED/Dragster/Dragster_side.jpg

VROOOOOOOOOOOM!!!


These things are main lines of transport in Europe and Asia. There, the population is so dense that cars are pretty much outlawed. They are talking about doing the same thing in Califonia soon.

[FartinMowler]

I dont' need a helmet....

Nice scooter, If I must say :)


http://img23.photobucket.com/albums/v68/fartinmowler/martymower.jpg

[ArrowX]

One of my friends skitched on a scooter once then jumped off when it was going 50km/h and tried to run :( It was funny

[Matt Harty]

You're missing an H Fartini.

[FartinMowler]

MOzilla sucks... I'm going back to explorer

[kellychaos]

One of my friends skitched on a scooter once then jumped off when it was going 50km/h and tried to run :( It was funny

That's the first clip ... so far ... from I, Robot that pisses me off. Will Smith is going about 60 mph on a motorcyle and then ditches the bike as he is about to crash into a parked car. He then proceeds to role over the car, slide down the hood and then get up virtually unscathed. Hasn't anyone involved in that movie ever heard of momentum? Geesh! It was like watching that Bugs Bunny cartoon when he was the pilot taking a nose dive and just steps out of the plane at the last minute to avoid crashing with it.

[ArrowX]

I forgot to add he dindd't run very fanr before he tripped and slid across the street into a patch of broken glass

[eggyolk]

my cousin bought a razor scooter, i put it together for it
its awesome, its electric and would be great for campus life :lol

[Mockery]

I still want a Go-Ped (http://www.goped.com/Products/). :(

[AChimp]

If you get a scooter, I will have to laugh at you for being a huge FAG like all those English professors who drive them already. Fuckin' things only go 30kph down University Cr. >:

[ArrowX]

theres one in my town that looks like a mini CrotchRocket (racing Bike)

Go Peds glisten with badassery

[Sajuuk]

I'm going to get a Vespa soon. :flclfag

[executioneer]

lol are you prince valium :lol

[Command Prompt]

I was at Wildwood sports today and I was looking at the Yamaha BWs:

http://www.miketours.gr/images/bikes/bws.jpg

The 2005 line is coming in next week so I might put a down payment on it :lol They retail for $2500.

These are fun as shit and if I do get it, I will make sure I get plenty of pics. Its true! They are only 200 a year to insure and they get 80 miles to the gallon. Of course the gas tank is only a gallon big but it should be good for a broke college student like me.

Mock, you should buy one too. Find one of those 80's fuckers that Linda Hamilton had in the Terminator and pimp it out.

[Command Prompt]

Like This:

http://www3.telus.net/dougsimpson/scoots84.jpg

YOU GIVE ME THE SWEETEST TABOO

Edit: My god, look at the people in the background! High School Student, Yuppie, Florida Oldsies and Cyndi Lauper! Fucking A! The yuppies probably pondering how much coke he can stash in the trunk :lol

[sadie]

that doesn't look like cyndi lauper. more like olivia newton john in her "let's get physical" phase. and the yuppie looks like kevin bacon.

[Anonymous]

I want a Faggio :<

[DashingBolognas]

The first time I saw a real Vespa was in Victoria B.C. and I thought they were awesome. The street setup seemed very European so I guess riding a scooter made sense. Fun fact, I swear the Vespa's are always seen in packs of 5 or more, so there is probably some sort of super secret Vespa gang.:die

[FartinMowler]

i had a HOnda Elite. I rode it to the Airport (took me an hour on side streets) when I worked there about ten years ago. I was tired when I finished my shift so I thought why not try taking the highway home a few exits to speed up my return time?. I got it up to 80 km and every little line in the highway made if feel like I was about to die. I made it two exits and by the time I got home I was burnt from anxiety...