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PostPosted: 14:43 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Does anyone ride any more? Reply with quote

Normally at this point of the year there's loads of bike out. I haven't seen more than 2 any time I've been out this year. Have people just said fuck it, or are the potholes taking everyone out?
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PostPosted: 15:57 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can tell its summer
I was flitting about on me scooty today getting me messages and saw two Harley riders in spotless gear
riding their similarly spotless garage queens.
the big gay bastards
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PostPosted: 15:59 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

It might be perceptions. Unless it's my imagination, there are more learners and scooters on the sort of roads that used to have groups of sports bike riders tearing along them. Not sure.
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PostPosted: 16:10 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

WD Forte wrote:
You can tell its summer
I was flitting about on me scooty today getting me messages and saw two Harley riders in spotless gear
riding their similarly spotless garage queens.
the big gay bastards


Says someone who rides a scooter...... Wink
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PostPosted: 16:17 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm proper scooty boi gay you rassis! not Harley gay
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PostPosted: 16:18 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Re: Does anyone ride any more? Reply with quote

xX-Alex-Xx wrote:
Normally at this point of the year there's loads of bike out. I haven't seen more than 2 any time I've been out this year. Have people just said fuck it, or are the potholes taking everyone out?


Nah I see fucking loads of people out on their scooters and 125s. OK most of them are Just Eat and Deliveroo cunts but hey it's two wheels so I support it. Laughing
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PostPosted: 16:26 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bhud wrote:
It might be perceptions. Unless it's my imagination, there are more learners and scooters on the sort of roads that used to have groups of sports bike riders tearing along them. Not sure.


Around here I'd say 90% are 125 Delivery scoots with L plates
Occasionally I'll see one that doesn't have them.
I reckon its cos few want be 'real bikers'* and So £100 or so every two years
to be able to work is affordable and makes better financial sense.

After all, having a full license wont make you any more money


* cos they dont like stinkin of piss
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PostPosted: 16:47 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bike is pissing oil somewhere and i cba to sort it atm so thats why i'm not out
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PostPosted: 18:02 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Loads round here on the past few weekends now the weather is getting nice, weekdays everyones at work and too busy to have fun.
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PostPosted: 18:10 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does cycling count? Cycled up the cut today with no. 1 son so he could buy me a pint.
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PostPosted: 18:19 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

round my way the weather has generally been crap. but when the sun shines im seeing bikes on the roads.
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PostPosted: 18:32 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Considering it has been unusually chilly and showery or foggy until very recently I seem to have seen quite a few in a 'popular' riding area.
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PostPosted: 19:29 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seeing loads here in Wales every weekend.
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PostPosted: 19:33 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

WD Forte wrote:


Around here I'd say 90% are 125 Delivery scoots with L plates
Occasionally I'll see one that doesn't have them.
I reckon its cos few want be 'real bikers'* and So £100 or so every two years
to be able to work is affordable and makes better financial sense.

After all, having a full license wont make you any more money



It's exactly the same around here, too. I don't understand them. They're like dogs who've had the soul beaten out of them. And their riding is unbelievably incompetent nowadays. No road sense at all.
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PostPosted: 23:36 - 16 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have rode my 1927 Ariel 500 all through the winter, not an everydat form of transport but out on it most weeks.
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PostPosted: 00:23 - 17 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't ride anywhere near as much since switching to working from home but I was out this weekend round the City and out in the Surrey Hills and there seemed to be a fair few bikes about, not hordes though.
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PostPosted: 01:32 - 17 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Went out on my spotless garage queen for the first time this year today. Just had a bit of an urban ride around in
the centre of Bristol and then out to Hanham to a pub I used to frequent often. There I slooshed a couple of pints of
Korev down my hole and then rode back home. Half my problem is I never really know where to go for a ride
and a distinct lack of bike buddies to go for a blat with. I doubt as the crow flies I was at no point any more than
4 miles from my house.
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PostPosted: 07:24 - 17 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bhud wrote:
It's exactly the same around here, too. I don't understand them. They're like dogs who've had the soul beaten out of them. And their riding is unbelievably incompetent nowadays. No road sense at all.


Well they wont have any road sense, as they have only ever had a days worth of training

I've never been able to understand how you are legally allowed to use a vehicle for buisiness purposes, that you are supposed to be using to learn how to ride, and have no license to ride it, all on top of never having even done a motorcycle theory test....... but hey, thays another discussion entirely

As for bikes about, there have been loads around in the Peaks this last couple of weeks since the weather has started to improve and Matlock Bath is as rammed as always on a weekend
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PostPosted: 14:57 - 17 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

WD Forte wrote:

Around here I'd say 90% are 125 Delivery scoots with L plates
Occasionally I'll see one that doesn't have them.


I'd say the balance around Manchester of the delivery rider crowd is something like;

1% riders on motorbikes/scooters without L plates
2% on petrol scooters WITH L plates
10% on electric mopeds (with L plates)
87% on aftermarket "import special" e-bike kits gaffer-taped to 20 year old Halfords mountain bikes with handmuffs, doing 40mph while looking at their phone and wearing a balaclava (but not nicking anything)
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PostPosted: 15:14 - 17 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

I see quite a lot out at the weekends when the weather is OK. I’m out in the sticks so get a fair few groups coming through on a ride out to the country.

Loads of just eat scooters wizzing about in the town as always.
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PostPosted: 15:18 - 17 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

ThunderGuts wrote:
WD Forte wrote:

Around here I'd say 90% are 125 Delivery scoots with L plates
Occasionally I'll see one that doesn't have them.


I'd say the balance around Manchester of the delivery rider crowd is something like;

1% riders on motorbikes/scooters without L plates
2% on petrol scooters WITH L plates
10% on electric mopeds (with L plates)
87% on aftermarket "import special" e-bike kits gaffer-taped to 20 year old Halfords mountain bikes with handmuffs, doing 40mph while looking at their phone and wearing a balaclava (but not nicking anything)


That's a requirement of riding an e scooter round my way. How they never get Darwined ̶b̶e̶a̶t̶s̶ saddens me.
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PostPosted: 15:38 - 17 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Those fuckin E scoots are pestilential nuisance
you often see them two up around here and on the pavement too
I nearly got hit twice on the way to the shops the other day
arseholes...
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PostPosted: 16:44 - 06 Jun 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

The roads in West Yorkshire are abysmal. I spend more time dodging the potholes/shit bit of tramlining road than actually enjoying my ride.

That said, last time I went to Wales it was awesome, the roads are so much nicer. Just going for fewer rides these days but further afield to nicer roads.
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PostPosted: 20:00 - 06 Jun 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

The fine weather of the past two weeks have brought all the wankers out. Today I saw a particularly 'special' wanker with a rack of LED DRL's on the front of his spangly clean bike. Plenty of them about but this guy had twin air horns that he used with abandon which also strobed his LED's when he pressed the button, which he did, a lot.
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