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I agree about a “not so fast” approach to letting a new/young driver get a cycle or scooter…. Especially in the metro area you’re in.
A good bicycle is a better option right now!
Fully agree!!

Something like this might be fun - eventually: > Puch Maxi - Wikipedia <

A high school boy in the area has one. The kid is super-friendly and appreciates it when I fawn over it! (No, you may not date my daughter! :smile:)
 
I think the "vehicle" isn't the problem - the problem is how they're used, racing and weaving through cars on crowded streets and people on sidewalks.
Not to mention the other drivers on the road... It is not the vehicles, it is the knucklehead behind the handlebars / steering wheel.

(I am in favor of EVERYONE ELSE driving a self-driving car. I am an above average driver! :jester:)
 
Bad driver road rage, circa 1928

 
Fully agree!!

Something like this might be fun - eventually: > Puch Maxi - Wikipedia <

A high school boy in the area has one. The kid is super-friendly and appreciates it when I fawn over it! (No, you may not date my daughter! :smile:)

I had a puch maxi as my first road legal transport in the uk a moped (restricted power 50cc) is all you can have at 16 years old.
The rich kids had Honda ss50 and Yamaha FS1E and the like.
They had the required pedals that would lock in the traditional foot peg positions of a “real” motorbike.
But I found that on these 2 strokes - some head skimming and inlet and exhaust porting I could get nearly 40mph out of mine ( restricted to 3mph by law) and if you had the bicycle style pedals moved for cornering clearance ( as you would on a pushbike) you could out corner any motorbike style moped.
Thanks for reminding me :love:
 
Anybody remember the Solex from the 1960’s?
It attached to the front of your bike and had a roller to drive the front wheel. Could not convince my dad to get one.
 
My neighbor's kid had one - I think they were around even back in the 1920s.

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And what the heck is on that kid's head???
 
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