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Post by americanpsycho on Jan 21, 2014 20:03:44 GMT -5
A mix of public transportation and scooter is a really good and economical way to get around. Sadly, the bus system in Vegas usually only gets me within an hour and a mile of where I work. Not their fault. I work in a localized industrial area and while I can see my workplace from the bus stop, I have to walk around several walled in areas to get there and the timetable puts me there early or late. Still good to have. Great to have a scooter for grocery and laundry runs. (And fun runs of course) I wouldn't use a scooter or moped for laundry, mainly because the laundry room is only 10 yards from my apartment. |
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Post by urbanmadness on Jan 21, 2014 21:04:30 GMT -5
I'd use a milk crate... you can get so much more in one then a truck....
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Post by SylvreKat on Jan 21, 2014 22:32:25 GMT -5
I'd use a milk crate... you can get so much more in one then a truck.... Uhm, not true, unless you're talking a REALLY small truck...like, maybe...a toy truck....  >'Kat (sorry urban, but I totally could NOT resist) |
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Post by scootnwinn on Jan 21, 2014 22:38:05 GMT -5
If you stack em Asian style Kat you can get more than a truck...
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Post by urbanmadness on Jan 21, 2014 22:41:24 GMT -5
In Mother Russia, a scooter is a truck
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Post by scootnwinn on Jan 21, 2014 22:44:18 GMT -5
Yes and bear can be your wife or something resembling one...
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Post by spandi on Jan 22, 2014 2:11:37 GMT -5
A mix of public transportation and scooter is a really good and economical way to get around. Sadly, the bus system in Vegas usually only gets me within an hour and a mile of where I work. Not their fault. I work in a localized industrial area and while I can see my workplace from the bus stop, I have to walk around several walled in areas to get there and the timetable puts me there early or late. Still good to have. Great to have a scooter for grocery and laundry runs. (And fun runs of course) Unfortunately public transportation here is a joke. Years ago I was in England and there they don't mess around. About every FIVE minutes a bus going to a certain destination would roll in. (you couldn't have "missed" your stop if you tried) |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Jan 22, 2014 3:20:19 GMT -5
Yes and bear can be your wife or something resembling one...
True story follows!
Some years back, I obtained off eBay, some model engines from a swell fellow in Siberia. He spoke JUST enough English so that we could (sorta) communicate by e-mail. He described Siberia's truly AWFUL winters, and, I asked him why he stayed there. He said "because I can't afford to move to California". OOOH-KAAYY... I then asked him about the women in that remote place. He said: "...Not much womens. Just bears!"
EEEEWWWWW! Scootnwinn is RIGHT! It's truly a GRIZZLY situation! I can BEAR-LY believe it... LOL!
Leo (glad to be) in TEXAS! |
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Post by SylvreKat on Jan 22, 2014 6:49:58 GMT -5
Leo, maybe he should've considered moving to TX instead of CA.
scootn', even then you couldn't haul a piano, I bet.
And you want the biggest joke about public transportation? How about Clay Chastain (aka Clay No-brain) who doesn't live in KC yet constantly--CONSTANTLY--pushed a light-rail onto us? And finally getting enough idiots to vote yes. But not thinking up how the city's supposed to finance building the system, and instead scurrying back home to whatever city in a different state he actually lives in. How's that for a good joke on the residents of KC?
>'Kat
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Post by JR on Jan 22, 2014 7:57:26 GMT -5
I kind of found this thread kind of eye opening, scooter rant?
I actually found it to be nothing more than being critical of others who own a scooter and do a variety of things on how they ride them. Milk crate, luggage rack, ride for fun, ride to work, etc. = different strokes for different folks and the last time I checked if you're the one who bought, maintains and owns whatever you ride it's your right to use it as you please.
While I might not like or agree with how you do any of the above I wouldn't tell you nor criticize how or what you put on it to ride it.
So while we're on the don't be cheap (and that's what the message is all about) and use a milk crate on a scooter, I'll just post my "pretty" milk crate that I use on my scooter for one thing:
It's got a nice red pillow in the bottom so my pups can be comfortable while riding. I have 3 yorkies and they love to ride, just strap it on the seat, hook their collars with a little chain for safety and ride down the road and watch all the people I pass by get a big hoot out of seeing these dogs.
Could I afford to do better? yep but I don't know, maybe I'm just a redneck too, after all I still do the save a buck on electricity and (gasp) hang out laundry:
I happen to remember a fellow from years back, actually sit in a old time café and drank a cup of coffee with him on several occasions that when he made rounds to check on some of his stores still drove a 1967 Chevy pickup and wore just plain every day working man clothes lots of times.
He built one of the world's largest empires financially that headquarters are located here in Arkansas a state with less population than the Dallas/Ft.Worth metroplex. His last name was Walton and he would have thought the milk crate was cool.
JR
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Post by americanpsycho on Jan 22, 2014 8:04:33 GMT -5
It's more of a pet peeve.
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Post by Jarlaxle on Jan 22, 2014 10:30:57 GMT -5
I see it all the time and it looks ridiculous....
Your opinion doesn't mean squat. I have a $4,599 MSRP Vespa. I have a $25 Rubbermaid 8 gallon Actionpack box.
I did not buy for a scooter for fun. I bought the scooter for transportation. I got the Vespa because I expect it to last at least 10 years / 80,000 miles. My Scooter is a shopping cart. I can stash 30 pounds of groceries in the lockable tail box, more under the seat, and I now have a front rack so I can carry case of 24 bottles of beer foreward. Err...I would bet that 30lbs of groceries is WAY, WAY more than that rack is rated for! |
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Post by Jarlaxle on Jan 22, 2014 10:34:32 GMT -5
.... You shouldn't be proud of being able to haul 24 bottles of beer What? You don't need to do a Beer Run?  Old picture -- I can carry two cases, I now have luggage racks front and rear. Do you don't drink, or is it that you use your Hamster Cage for carrying groceries? I can verify that I can, in fact, put not two 12-packs in my scoot's top box!  (I don't drink...but Sam Adams is a nice bribe when you need help moving furniture.) |
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Post by novaraptor on Jan 22, 2014 10:36:06 GMT -5
It's more of a pet peeve. :)Yup, at some point, this conversation was going to the dogs... |
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Post by americanpsycho on Jan 22, 2014 11:07:11 GMT -5
(I don't drink...but Sam Adams is a nice bribe when you need help moving furniture.) So is straight CASH. |
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