Scooter Yoofs - Your Thoughts....

[Rich_Eason]

Climbing onto my very large soapbox without the risk of sounding old...

 

Is it me or do the "yoof" of today buzzing about on flipping scooters/mopeds have absolutely no perception of risk or danger?

 

Over the last three weeks I have seen the following from the scanky chavs

 

1. Pull up at some traffic lights on a dual carriageway and a number of "yoofs" distribute themselves equally across the lanes. As we sit there at the red light they rev the "bikes" on the brakes so they lurch forward. As the lights go to green they all jump off the bikes and continue to walk them down the dual carriageway. They guy who was beside me in his car nearly had two under his bonnet.

 

2. I recently watched a yoof turn out of a tee junction looking left but positioned himself on the far right of the central white line following right hand apex of the kerb so if anyone did come round the corner the only place he would be going is on the dashboard/windscreen.

 

3. Again at traffic lights....the revving of bikes and brake routine again, as the lights change yoof leans over and takes the keys out of the ignition off the bike and rides off.

 

4. I drove down a road behind group of 3 yoofs one of which was kneeling on his seat. As we pulled up to some traffic lights he then decides to do a donut not realising a double decker (bus variety) was coming down the adjacent bus lane. Very nearly a one under.

 

5. I take a sharp left hand bend to find a group of moped riders coming the other way all linked arms and over the white lines.

 

Do they think that doing what they are doing is just some sort of game, like playing a game on a Playstation in that you just hit "restart" when you come off? Get back on your bike and everything is alright?

 

We all know that it don’t work like that. Unfortunately there is only one way they are going to find out and that is the hard way.

 

I feel sorry for the ambulance, police and fire service that have to peel said yoof of the road and inform his parents that Little Jimmy is dead.

 

Unfortunately when you read the stories in the press they are always "a promising bright young lad/lass with a bright future"...are they were really that bright not to understand that a car hitting you can kill?

[Ciaran2903]

I know how you feel!

 

In the past two days i saw 2 superbikes doing whellies!! :)

I dont care if they are stunt riders, what they are doing not only puts them in danger, but also other road users!

 

One of the idiots was coming up a steep hill, pulled a huge wheelie with a passenger on the back!!! :P :( It was also right by a main turn on!

Yesterday i saw two bikers come up behind me at a high rate of knots, and saw one of them pull a massive wheelie! Idiot!

 

He then carried on his dangerous run of events by sitting inches from my back end! Why do bikers think that they can tail cars so much!?!?!

What happens if some1 pulls out infront of me and i need to brake hard!?! He's dead, thats what!

[Stuey]

I think the crux of the problem is that the average age of a rider of a scooter is 16 and 17 (just before they can buy a corsa or nova to put a massive exhaust on but thats another rant for another time). I know what I used to do on my pushbike when I was 16, and it does resemble a lot of what those morons do, wheelies. Cant really nick the keys out of another bike but we all pushed a stick into our mates wheels didn't we?

[Rich_Eason]

I think the crux of the problem is that the average age of a rider of a scooter is 16 and 17 (just before they can buy a corsa or nova to put a massive exhaust on but thats another rant for another time). I know what I used to do on my pushbike when I was 16, and it does resemble a lot of what those morons do, wheelies. Cant really nick the keys out of another bike but we all pushed a stick into our mates wheels didn't we?

Yes but the fact I used to fold cardboard and put it in my spkes to sound like a motorbike and messed about on my bike with me mates (e.g. a neigbours son who went over a ramp with loose wheel nuts :blink: "insert outcome here) all happened away from the public highways and byways and the worst we came off with was a bruise and battered limb, at the age of 16 I was mature enough to know that cars belong on the road and needed respect.

 

These numptys are messing about on the UK highways thinking that it is ok to pull wheelies, go on the wrong side of the road and watch the cars swerve as its hillarious. Almost as funny as the one the cars that didnt swerve and sonny jim looses a limb.

 

The local plod recently had a massive crack down one weekend here on the yoofs and reported that "the majority" of the yoofs stopped had been modified some how or exceeded the noise regs, and at least 10 were not insured, great for when he steams in to the side of your car on the wrong side of the road....

[Stuey]

I understand your point completly!

 

I dont think that the CBT test be remarkable easy to pass helps any too. Unfortunately the large majority of scooter riders are as you desrbibe "yoofs" and they are destroying the reputation of the normal people who ride them following road rules that you and I do and thus raises insurance premiums and generally gets them more attention form the rozzers. My brother rides a scooter and he doesnt tit around on the highway, he would be no good at it anyway, he tried to pull a wheelie on the street and failed miserably...