Scooter riders are lunatics

Two posts in one day. You lucky, lucky bastards.

While I'm on the subject of bikes and bikers, has anyone else noticed how batshit insane scooter riders are?

I see them daily taking their lives in their hands (as, to be fair, all motorcyclists do to a certain extent) with a minimun of safety gear on. They sit so low to the ground, and swerve around traffic so much, it's only a matter of time before someone cleans them up.

Yes, I know they law in NZ technically allows someone to wear Speedos and a helmet, as long as the helmet is approved, but c'mon, do the sums. Did it hurt when you fell off your pushbike as a kid? It can't not hurt to fall off a moving scooter. Tarmac doesn't have a lot of padding.

I blame the advertisments that show a smiling European couple wearing shorts and a t-shirt with their open-face helmets riding on their new Vespa. How have the local PC Brigade not complained about these ads yet?? My guess; the PC brigade aren't smart enough to figure it out.

Could also be that many of them a car drivers trying to save some cash on their daily commute, and don't hold motorcycle licences. Could it be time to change the law?

Probably works for ACC. They can blame the dangerous motorcycles for all these injuries every year, and therefore justify hiking up the ACC levies bikers have to pay. Sneaky like a corrupt Governmental Fox.

And those fricken suicidal clowns on mini-choppers on public roads. Don't get me started.