Modern Vespa

is he for real??

AKA....
The Camero Cut
Kentucky Waterfall
Tennessee Tophat
Neck Blanket
The Achy Breaky What a Mistakey
The Missouri Compromise

Florida plates while in Atlanta.

Georgia plates anywhere else!

Around here I find that the boy racers in their WRX's with the bazooka exhaust will always give trouble, they just cannot stand it when a scooter is quicker off the lights, it seems to be a threat to their ego or something.
Whenever I see a Subaru WRX or pimped up Forrester WRX wannabe I always get ready for trouble, they usually tailgate you, yell abuse, cut you off or generally just drive like the wankers they are........unless of course they are on their own & don't have there mates with them to back them up.

I have to stick up for BMWs as I work for them and drive one - BUT I also drive a MINI - so does that only make me a jerk when I'm driving the Beemer? My vote is for Subaru WRX and Mitsubishi Evo, both of which are easy to avoid as you can hear their bass speakers from 3km away! - Unstt - Unstt -Unstt

i had a eureka moment yesterday whilst giving some gestural feedback to a twit who was so desperate to get ahead of myself and another scooter at a set of lights that he pulled over into our lane and started cutting us off. he knew we were there, i don't think he was being malicious, he was just a garden-variety bonehead with poor judgement. at any rate both of us gunned it past him and i flashed him a polite but firm 'V'.

seeing the look of utter shock and fear on his face it occurred to me that a lot of car drivers seem to believe that anybody in a motorcycle helmet IS A DANGEROUS MANIAC. they'll cheerfully shout abuse at each other but it seems like they need the support of a gang of mates (or a very large pipe wrench in the back of the van) before they'll try it on with a motorcyclist or scooterist.

this is probably way too broad a generalization but it did provide me with a few minutes of enjoyable reflection on my way home

I FEAR the Porsche Cayenne's driven by the rich women of St John's Wood.

It's not just car drivers. Perhaps controversially, I often find riders of 50cc scooters to be among the least considerate road users about.

I think it's because you don't need any training or certificate whatsoever to ride one, so a lot of the riders simply don't consider things that people on bigger bikes do.

drivers sucking on giant spliffs at 9am worry me

theyre easy to sort out if your on a gts. a quick flick of the wrist and theyre eating dust. they always try and race me :? who in their right mind would try to race a vespa on a 50?? even well tuned itll do around 70. even the ones with runner 125's aint got a chance with a gts.

all they do is shove an air filter on and a noisy exhaust.

when i had the scorpion,i had no one try to race me on any 50 :?

Oh yeah, obviously I enjoy the overtaking shortly afterwards.

It just amazes me that so many people on mopeds obliviously pull straight in front of massive motorbikes at lights - it's just antisocial! I had a 50cc Yamaha for a few years before getting the GTS, and was always at pains to avoid getting in everyone's way.

Anyway, I'll stop there, as I've just read that and sound like a right moany git.

i re-read my posts and cringe at the amount of moaning i do!

it's important to keep these things in perspective, tho: compared to the amount of moaning i did when i was commuting on public transit, this is nothing!

No point racing Suit scoot - he's the fastest. All 50cc scoots should read about his journey to Margate?

I find jerks ride red Vespa ET4s.
Oh wait, thats me.

Indeed! I came in on the tube today - after-work drinks and Vespas don't mix too well - and really missed the ride in.

Around my parts it's the older Asian community that routinely try to kill me. As my half chinese brother-in-law told me " the easiest way to blindfold a chinese person is to put them behind a windshield"

I save my ire for nitwits who tie a mattress to their roof with string. A couple of years ago I was going to work the day after a track day and nearly hit one coming around a freeway onramp. It made me realize the racetrack is, in many ways, much safer than the street.

In general, I'll take aggressive but attentive drivers over distracted morons any day. People talk about Italian drivers being bad, but they aren't - they're just fast and don't like people dawdling in the left lane. They are always predictable, and don't get their panties in a bunch if you pass them. Contrast this with many US drivers who drive slowly in the left lane and don't seem to notice that they're being passed on the right again and again, or who do random bonehead moves like cutting across 3 lanes of traffic to get to the freeway exit they were going to miss. Well, you get the idea.

It's an over generalization here in California that BMW/Mercedes owners seem above normal traffic laws because they dropped the coin on their cars and the rest of us pleabians didn't. I wouldn't worry too much.

I miss the San Francisco Bay Area Traffic. Yes I said it! Why, Sacramento-ens aren't in a hurray to get anywhere. Stupid, crazy drivers in the bay? YES, but all you have to do is be aware and see that they are idiots trying to get somewhere faster than you and get out of their way. I say this because I used to commute up and down 880 from San Jose to Oakland every work day.

If another freaking asshat cuts me off in the fast lane and goes SLOWER than me I am going to start stocking maltolf's in the car!!! In the bay, I never quite understood rode rage. There's a ton of people living and working in a very small area with not enough freeway lanes. DEAL! Up here in Sacto...that's why I'm getting a scooter to put-put around on surface streets. EVERYONE I see around town scooting is smiling. I want to smile again and enjoy the northern CA weather!