Scooter fever *chortle*

[I-K]

I was absolutely mortified when a close friend, who at 30 years of age has just got her drivers licence but has always loved motorbikes, accounced to me that she was going to get her motorcycle licence (YAY!) and get.......a 250cc scooter!! Jeff & I have been trying to talk her into getting a real bike, but she won't be swayed.

If all she wants to do is ride to work and drag the shopping home, a 250cc scooter is perfect. Better fuel economy and more weather protection than a "proper" bike.

What we do isn't for everyone.

[Jonno]

Well I am am a fisherman and a happy one at that, but you are an obliging biter of the old hook line and sinker and in Beta Max and I seen it in the phillips style tape (only because we bought the wrong machine back then), hehe. gottya and u knew it, can't help ya self.

[LEO]

Da shcooter iz fulli sic Maate , ya pull da chicks Maate an do da really good shkids Maate

[esie]

I was absolutely mortified when a close friend, who at 30 years of age has just got her drivers licence but has always loved motorbikes, accounced to me that she was going to get her motorcycle licence (YAY!) and get.......a 250cc scooter!! Jeff & I have been trying to talk her into getting a real bike, but she won't be swayed.

If all she wants to do is ride to work and drag the shopping home, a 250cc scooter is perfect. Better fuel economy and more weather protection than a "proper" bike.

What we do isn't for everyone.

LOL no! She is going to join a local scooter club that goes out on planned rides, over Glorious and Tamborine and what not!

[Tack]

I found this in the latest WHO newsletter.



Vancouver: 29/11/05. reported by Makollig Jezvahted and Levdaroum DeBahzted
World Health Organization officials announced today that a deadly new strain of "Scooter Fever" (techicnically known as Lambretta-Vespa Syndrome) has hit countries all around the world with Australia being the latest causality. WHO officials said that Doctors and scientists in Australia reported increasing numbers of outbreaks in capital cities in every state. One Australian Official said the outbreak was worse than the bird flu threat as many catching this fever faced at least a long stay in hospital and, in some cases, death.

"There doesn't seem to be any hope for those that have it and we don't know how to treat it" said Dr Hertz Van Rental leading research scientist for scooter fever. "It seems to affect people's brains first causing them to run amok outdoors with ridiculous clothes on. It then causes minor abrasions on the skin and in some cases broken bones. We really are concerned."


Crisis talks are under way at the moment with Dr Fujimoto H.Onda, Dr Kawa F. Saki and Dr Sue Zuki trying to come up with strategies to minimize the damage caused by this fever. The World waits and hopes that something will be done soon.[/url]

[Damon Z1000]

Suzie Fischer, who teaches kayaking, "got the shits" with her big motorcycle

Well try learning how to fuckin ride it properly, ya Latte drinkin, marital aid usin, jumped up farkin 'kayak' usin waste o space..........

Sorry guys, just thinkin of havin a mornin off work and whippin down to Balmoral..........for a farkin really loud session on the '9 outside the 'Latta" bar

Fancy a ride down Kaw, mite get in the paper.......headline.....

THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN

[chalkbored]

Bunch of poofters ponces posers and pratts.

The only good thing about scooters is how easy they are to blow over as you go flying past.

Funny as feck

[zx'er]

"We're talking as much about cool as about economy. The scooter is … a fashion accessory."


Well they got that right.....cause it ain't nothing else worth mentioning. I ride a bike cause I enjoy the feeling and the lifestyle.......not because my life is so sad that i have to follow the latest trend and spend $x,ooo on a 'fashion accessory'. I s'pose it goes better with a skinyy latte then a ZX-12 though

[RichB]

"Scooters, with their low centres of gravity, are safer than other motorcycles, and riders must pass a stringent test. Most importantly, riders must realise safety is all about constant awareness of other road users. "You can only be in an accident if you are there."

Is it just me or did that paragraph make no sense at all and contradict itself at the same time. Seriously, what stringent test do scooter riders pass? And what constant awareness has a scooter rider ever displayed besides looking like a posessed grandma crouched over her walking frame.

If and when I find myself on in an accident, I'll be glad I'm wearing proper gear. They may find out the hard way that the outcome of an accident doesn't give a hoot whether or not they were riding a scooter or a motorcycle at the time.

[chalkbored]

Scooters, with their low centres of gravity, are safer than other motorcycles,
CoG, in itself, has no relationship to safety

and riders must pass a stringent test.
The same test as every other motorcyclist

Most importantly, riders must realise safety is all about constant awareness of other road users.
Yeah we already know that genius

"You can only be in an accident if you are there."
talk about stating the bleeding fucking obvious



see told you they were all queer

[Tack]

I understand if no one appreciates my sense of humour but I just wanted to point out the reporters names in that made up report: Makollig Jezvahted and Levdaroum DeBahzted.

If you say there names correctly it should sound like: My colleague just farted and left the room, the bastard.


well I thought it was funny.

I found this in the latest WHO newsletter.



Vancouver: 29/11/05. reported by Makollig Jezvahted and Levdaroum DeBahzted
World Health Organization officials announced today that a deadly new strain of "Scooter Fever" (techicnically known as Lambretta-Vespa Syndrome) has hit countries all around the world with Australia being the latest causality. WHO officials said that Doctors and scientists in Australia reported increasing numbers of outbreaks in capital cities in every state. One Australian Official said the outbreak was worse than the bird flu threat as many catching this fever faced at least a long stay in hospital and, in some cases, death.

"There doesn't seem to be any hope for those that have it and we don't know how to treat it" said Dr Hertz Van Rental leading research scientist for scooter fever. "It seems to affect people's brains first causing them to run amok outdoors with ridiculous clothes on. It then causes minor abrasions on the skin and in some cases broken bones. We really are concerned."


Crisis talks are under way at the moment with Dr Fujimoto H.Onda, Dr Kawa F. Saki and Dr Sue Zuki trying to come up with strategies to minimize the damage caused by this fever. The World waits and hopes that something will be done soon.[/url]

[aardvark]

I understand if no one appreciates my sense of humour but I just wanted to point out the reporters names in that made up report: Makollig Jezvahted and Levdaroum DeBahzted.

They stole it. A few years ago a couple of blokes dressed up as limo drivers and went to the local airport. They presented the "announcement" desk with those, and other simlar names and asked if they could page them.

The audio files are hilarous.

[I-K]

"Scooters, with their low centres of gravity, are safer than other motorcycles, and riders must pass a stringent test. Most importantly, riders must realise safety is all about constant awareness of other road users. "You can only be in an accident if you are there."

Is it just me or did that paragraph make no sense at all and contradict itself at the same time.

No, it's not just you. Gives you an insight into how little idea journalists usually bother forming on topics they're tasked with writing articles about, dunnit?

Keep in mind the truck-suzed logic holes your familiarity with motorcycles enabled you spot in this story the next time you read something else in the paper and find yourself starting to believe it.

I spent my mid-teens thinking it'd be fun to become a journalist, then I met some and saw just how true the idiom "Those who can, do, those who can't, write about it" can be.

[chalkbored]

I spent my mid-teens thinking it'd be fun to become a journalist, then I met some and saw just how true the idiom "Those who can, do, those who can't, write about it" can be.

As evidenced by the large number of posts you have?

[I-K]

I spent my mid-teens thinking it'd be fun to become a journalist, then I met some and saw just how true the idiom "Those who can, do, those who can't, write about it" can be.

As evidenced by the large number of posts you have?

In one of those posts, and a fairly recent one at that, I ask other Canberra riders to come along on the 800km day ride I've got planned for Sunday week...