Eh-Scooters. You have been warned, my British Friends

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#109

The series, which uses all-electric scooters, will take place in locations across the world, with London announced as the first round, on 13-14 May.

The track will weave its way in and out of the Printworks in front of fans watching racing speeds of over 100km/h on the S1-X eSkootrs.

It made me smile post this thread anyway :slight_smile:

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#110

eh?

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#111

:joy: :joy:

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#112

Hey. Take off you hoser. That’s cultural misappropriation! Unless you can wash down a dozen Timbits covered in maple syrup with a litre of Clamato juice you have no right to use that phrase. Eh!?

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#113

I’m sorry, I don’t understand what you are saying. Are you from Wisconsin or something?

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#114

next gen e-scooters are to compete with the useless Southern Railway, with rail based ‘e-Scootas’ to use empty rail capacity. New company ScootRail says the carbon fibre Scootas will bypass all the traffic and bikes on the roads to give a trouble free and fun rail trip into the heart of the city. Details in Railway News here.

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#115

I honestly don’t think anything motorised (or actually anything) should be doing 15 mph on a pavement. And I get your point that if you and your family are on the pavement and the scooter is on the pavement that is more of a risk to you than if you are on the pavement and a car is minding its own business in the road.

On the road, scooters are more of a risk to themselves I think. I do have a pet hate of motorised transport in cycle lanes but I think now e-bikes are so prevalent it’s going to be even harder to give non powered (or person powered) bikes anywhere where they are away from motorised vehicles of various sorts. But overall the scooters are much less of a threat on the road. Although I was cycling up Perry Vale to the station today and two whizzed past me - I hadn’t realised how quiet they are and I didn’t know they were behind me so a good reminder (if I needed one, given I’d already cycled back from croydon purley way this morning) of the multiple hazards that can be around you on the road!

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#116

I so wish this had been true :rofl:

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#117

Am probably really late to it but finally got round to checking this out: ‘The beat-poet Attenborough’: meet Ogmios, the mysterious star of the BBC’s best new comedy | Television | The Guardian

It is glorious! Has great relevance to this thread with his take on Scooterboys but, really, has much deeper resonance about the approach to travelling by road in the urban environment. Flow :sunglasses:

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