I’ve been riding scooters for a few years now and absolutely LOVE it. With any mode of transport there is inherent danger. People drive SUVs and think they are invincible and they place a lot of people in danger.

Just as you take driver’s education classes to learn to drive a car so too one should take the motorcycle safety foundation course when buying any motorized two wheeled conveyance.

My scooter is my primary mode of transport and I would not have it any other way. My scooter takes a bad day at work and turns it into a good evening just by riding it.

They’ll take my scooter when they remove my cold dead hands from the throttle.

Put it plainly and simply

SCOOTERS RAWK!

close your eyes for second relax and imagine going to work riding your bike from your home in Manchester to St.Louis. Imagine that there are millions of bike trails paved through out St.Louis. Imagine an efficient public transportation that is aided through taxes. After all in order to get something you have to pay for it right? I’m a resident in a college in Minneapolis but live in St.Louis, MO and I recently found use of Minneapolis green way which can take you all over. Many people ride it and I think St.Louis could invest in a green way system itself!! Up here scooters are common!!

Dave Mishem,

This isn’t Europe and it’s none of your d*** business what other people drive.

The United States is “spread out” because its nearly 3,000 miles from coast to coast and 1,500 miles from northern to southern border. Within that vastness, we grow the majority of the food consumed in the world.

As one goes from east to west, cities and towns become farther apart. Leave St. Louis, and the nearest cities of similar size (Kansas City, Springfield MO, Inidanapolis, Memphis) are 200-250 miles away. Go farther west, and that distance increases (From Salt Lake to similar cities is closer to 500 miles).

Travel 500 miles from nearly anywhere in Europe, and you have entered another country. Do that in the U. S., and you might only be in the next state.

People here enjoy the freedom of being able to go place to place to pursue their lives, visit friends, or enjoy seeing other places. To cover the distances, they prefer vehicles that allow them to do it in comfort.

People have used the freedom and economic well-being this nation provides to live where they choose. As they have done so, they have accepted both the negatives and the positives that accompany their choice.

Had people been happy with living in the cities where people like you would force them to remain, they would have stayed. The main reason people left cities (as half of those living in St. Louis, for example, did in thirty years) is because they disliked it, and preferred to make their homes elsewhere.

The mostly Democratic and liberal politicians that dominate nearly all our cities hate seeing those people, and especially the taxes they pay, leave, and would do anything and everything to force them to stay. Apparently so would you.

Once again, it is none of your business or theirs where the rest of us choose to live. Furthermore, you have no business dictating who, or what, should be taken from the roads in order for you to construct the utopia in which you would force all to live.

The chauvinism and prejudice that people like you display in judging who should live where, and how and when they should be able to travel or get around, is breathtaking. Those attitudes fit better in the kind of “top down” regimes found in places like China and the Soviet Union, and should remain totally foreign to, and scarce in, a freedom loving society such as ours.

If I can find one, absolutely. 56 yr old female, never driven a motorcycle before

Just relax 7dez7. All these good people are trying to do is give the rest of us some valuable information on viable transportation alternatives, that’s all. I’m sure they are quite well aware of the nature of our country and as noted, they all also own other vehicles. Nobody is trying or advocating taking anyone’s freedom away, ok? Just chill.

Think about a motorcycle instead of a scooter. Scooters are inherently unstable with small wheels and a screwy center of gravity. You may not notice how screwed up until you try to avoid an accident with a tight swerve and you can’t do it. Most scooter stores aren’t training folks in just how invisible they are on a scooter. I see so many going slower than traffic flow and that’s just asking for trouble. When I ride my motorcycle, there are many times that good acceleration gets me out of a jam. I hope folks stay careful, but I am afraid we will have more accidents as scooters become more common. They aren’t used to them here like in some other countries. Americans are SO aggressive in traffic. They are in other countries too, but at least in other countries more folks seem to know how to drive. We really drive poorly in this country. Our police chases don’t last nearly long enough thanks to poor drivers!

The problem with scooter riding in st. louis is the hoosiers. While st. louis does have a good amount of civilized urban dwellers, there’s also the same amount of ignorant non progressive truck driving hoosiers, the kind that think it’s funny when someone rides a bicycle on the street, and they honk and taunt them.

St. Louis will be the last city to adapt. Scooters are taking off in San Fran, NYC, Chicago, forcing lawmakers to make more scooter friendly streets and parking accomodations. Maybe that will happen in stl in the year 2020?

If st. louis passed a ban on hoosiers from entering the city boundaries, then I think scooter riding will take off. It’s those damn ignorant non-adaptive folks that st. louis is so famous for that’s the problem.

7de7,

Thank you for reinforcing the stereotype of ignorant white boring redneck st. louis, the kind of stereotype that sways people away from settling in the city, and the hidden cause of death and crumbling of it. To all people reading: NOT ALL PEOPLE IN STL SHARE THE VIEWS AS THIS DOUCHE.

Idiot hoosiers like you need to keep your neo-con redneck fake nationalism festus raised mouths shut.

“freedom loving”. wow. I don’t feel free at all, given the fact I have to have neighbors like you. Maybe if I had the freedom to chase you and your pathetic family out of the city, I’d feel free. Please stop making our city look bad to the rest of the world. Then maybe…just maybe…we’d have a chance at actually avoiding our city crumbling and becoming a ghost town.

Get them commies! ….1989, 7de7, 1989. That was almost 20 years ago.

It’s so funny to see all the somments of st. louisans on this board, and it makes me so happy i left that city. Despite the crossed fingers hopes of the youth that things will change, I really don’t think it will.

The city is too infested with negative pessimists and non-progressive people it’s scary. “YOU”LL DIE.” “Don’t get a scooter because people will kill you”.

I understand my comment above was about not getting one because of hoosiers, but that was completely sarcastic, trying to illustrate this lack of progression in people’s minds. Gas is increasing. Cost of living is increasing. Inflation is increasing. Commutes are longer. DUH!

Why is that cities that are actually successful are the cities that get concepts like this. People are moving closer to urban areas. Some of the arguments of why not to get a scooter (which is ridiculous…why not get a scooter) is as if these people in st. louis are trying so hard to justify themselves and their state. Why would you be “against” other people getting a scooter? So you can remain lazy and unaware on the road?

Like it or not, you big gas guzzling st. louis has beens, you’re going to have to adapt, or deal with the law suit you’re going to face because you weren’t paying attention and hit a motorcyclist or scooter rider. Share the f’in road.

People in st. louis are always trying to figure out “why” “why” why is our city declining when it is so clear. It’s the people and the culture of anti-progression, and the inability to see the obvious future. It’s the denial of the need to adapt. Darwinism? The darwinism isn’t those who ride without helmets, it’s those who lack the inability to adapt to a changing society and global economic state. It’s those who don’t have the ability to see the rest of the world, being content living in a st. louis bubble of non-progression. This thread is a direct representation with the problem of st. louis. People trying to fight against a cause (and getting angry about) a great revolution of transportation that is happening.

To all you neo con non-progression st. louisans, screw you, and enjoy your property value decline.

Anheuser-busch takeover? Hmmm, why did that happen? Think about it. Global economy. Global world. Stop being stuck in 1950. Stop the parochialism. If st. louis doesn’t realize this fact, start bowing to charlotte, NC. Jack asses.

I LOVE seeing more 2-wheelers on our roads!! The more scooters, bicycles & motorcycles, the better. Drivers will naturally become more aware of their responsibility to drive with all road users in mind, and politicians will see the need to mandate safer street designs.

Ride on!!