steveb leatherworks: the blather

Been seeing lots of scooters lately. I am rethinking my position on them due to the fact that you can pretty much park them anywhere (yank the license plate when you do, an old NYC trick) and they let you stay above ground to get around, thereby avoiding the subway and other odious methods of NYC travel. They are good on gas, they have storage and maintenance is minimal. No one frigs with a scooter… no fun in vandalizing a weenie vehicle I guess.

So – who are the folks who use Scooters? Well they used to exclusively be the vehicle of choice for NYC’s messenger community…. to that point, check out the enterprising fellow blasting through an intersection. More and more-so i have been seeing fancy little units like the two below being used by the prep/ yup community.. I think they are kind of a fashion accessory for these folks. Albeit a dangerous as hell accessory – because you have none of the drama danger of a real bike, yet they mix it up in traffic as if they did. I have seen some pretty hairy close calls between pissed off motorists (all NYC folks are pissed off when they are in their cages) and clueless, untrained unaware scooterists (?). I don’t see these vehicles being good for a person life expectancy , messing with the actuarial side of things…lol.

But I ‘spose they do have their place and if I spent my life in NYC, I’d consider one of these wankery things if for no other reason, it’d keep me above ground, on 2-wheels and in control of my own destiny.

Come to think of it…what the hell am I thinking?  
Ya know, I would’nt be caught dead on one of these things.

I’d rather walk.