Fooled my friends

[Popeye]

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! )

 

[Popeye]

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! )

 

[NutmegCT]

Bad driver road rage, circa 1928

 

[Hamish Racing]

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! )

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 30mph 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

 

[Gliderman8]

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.

 

[NutmegCT]

My neighbor's kid had one - I think they were around even back in the 1920s.

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

 

[JPSmit]

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.

we had one. You started it by pedalling and then moving a lever to lower the drive wheel onto the front wheel - starting the engine. We would goo and use it in the foelds behind the house, but, my father got it for my mother to use. In Dutch, Mother is Moeder. (pronounced moo-der) So we called it the Moeder Scooter.

 

[Basil]

So we called it the Moeder Scooter.

And since it was your mother’s it was mudder’s Moeder scooter!

 

[BobHaskell]

Yea, from all the things I've seen it's the how they are used with little regard for other folks out there.

"Little regard" can be extended to those that drive cars today. No turn signals, not coming to a stop at a stop sign / red light, passing on double yellow line, not keeping right except to pass, tailgating, texting/talking on phone, etc.

You kids get off my lawn!

 

[Basil]

"Little regard" can be extended to those that drive cars today.

Boy howdy, no kidding!

 

[NutmegCT]

As folks say - using your turn signal is a sign of weakness!

 

[mikephillips]

Yea, I notice that all the time too. I make sure to use my signals all the time and watch all round me, my phone while with me most of the time is in my pocket when in the car. Doesn't matter if I see other traffic or have the road to myself, the habit is always act like there's others around.

 

[BobHaskell]

Yea, I notice that all the time too. I make sure to use my signals all the time and watch all round me, my phone while with me most of the time is in my pocket when in the car. Doesn't matter if I see other traffic or have the road to myself, the habit is always act like there's others around.

Same.

 

[AngliaGT]

Most people here don't use them.If they do,they put them on
as they're turning,changing lanes,etc.

 

[mikephillips]

Has to be something you develop as an automatic habit that you don't even think about. All good driving tasks do like looking round so you know what traffic looks like no matter what you're doing, going straight or turning, noting the lights and not saying it just turned I can squeeze through and all the 101 other things. Maybe having vintage and keeping them safe helps heighten awareness. And that includes walking across parking lots and crossing streets too.

 

[equiprx]

automatic habit that you don't even think about.

I have noticed that about my use of seat belts and turn signals.
When I do think about it they are already in use.
It really fries me when people don't use signals.

 

[Bayless]

Maybe 10 years ago Oklahoma passed a law requiring turn signals for any lane changes or turns. there was a pretty still fine for not doing it, something over $100 IIRC. I don't know how seriously it is enforced but I do know that most Oklahoma drivers are usually pretty good about it. Before that they had to be the world's worst. If you turned on a signal to change lanes, someone always seemed to take that as a challenge to block any such attempt.

 

[BobHaskell]

I have driven on I-70 and I-71 in Ohio many times. Both have sections that are 3 lanes in each direction. In spite of the "Keep Right Except To Pass" signs, most cars are in the center or left lanes. The state has recently placed a sign on top of each "Keep Right" sign that says "State Law". I didn't notice any difference in where people drove. Until it's enforced, drivers won't change.

 

[mikephillips]

I have noticed that about my use of seat belts and turn signals.
When I do think about it they are already in use.
It really fries me when people don't use signals.

Yep, I don't even think about fastening the seatbelt, it' just automatic when I get in. Same with reaching over to wiggle the stick to be sure it isn't in gear before starting, even though the Toyota requires holding the clutch pedal all the way down to complete the starting circuit. 51 years of driving a manual got me doing that.