Ways to crash a Vespa rider
06-25-08, 11:42 PM
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Ways to crash a Vespa rider
Sorry couldn't help but ask after reading Today's BSNYC and comments.
If a Scooter rider crosses their front wheel with your back wheel whilst you're on a road bike - can you crash them? Or do they have too much weight on their front wheel?
If a Scooter rider crosses their front wheel with your back wheel whilst you're on a road bike - can you crash them? Or do they have too much weight on their front wheel?
06-26-08, 04:15 AM
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Throw a CO2 cartridge into their spokes.
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13" wheel with maybe 100lbs on it. You're better off pulling the bar, but it might work if your a track bruiser.
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Love this quote:
Originally Posted by bikesnobnyc
If you want to break traffic laws, ride a bicycle like the rest of us.
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06-26-08, 11:04 AM
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Sorry couldn't help but ask after reading Today's BSNYC and comments.
A truck unloading in the bike lane makes me angry, but a Vespa in the bike lane makes me furious. Even more infuriating is when they come bearing down behind you. At first it sounds like someone’s mixing a margarita or firing up a vibrator in a convertible or something—then you realize you're not in a Van Halen video and it’s actually the diminutive whirr of yet another dandy on a neutercycle.
I'll have an even harder time not laughing next time I see one. Of course I do realize the irony of a roadie making such a comment.
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