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Originally Posted by kz1000st
I wouldn't take that study personally. There has to be a reason why scooters are called "Liquorcycles" in that State. The people who they speak so badly of are no more scooterists than gangs on motorcycles are motorcyclists. Sadly the bad people are the ones the public relate to.
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Due to our lack of moped regulations, guys with dwi charges (and other traffic offenders) ride them when their licenses get suspended/revoked, hence the "liquor-cycle" label. And often you'll find that habitual dwi guys (and other habitual traffic offenders) are the kind of people whom commit other types of crimes (which, in part, explains the scooter-rider crime stats)
And then, of course, the lack of moped regulations means that there are china-scoot shops selling low cost 50cc scooters all over the place, making them a very attractive means of transportation (or toy) to people in poor neighborhoods. Drug dealers, teenagers, crack heads, everybody's got em around here (or at least that's how it is in my little city of 200,000).
I'm not being judgmental, its just how it is. So yeah, scooter-riders catch a bad rap around here, its always assumed that we're drunks, crack addicts, and/or criminals of some sort lol.
The vast majority of scooter riders here are guys without license, you'd be hard-pressed to find many grown men whom actually
want to ride a scooter. Occasionally you'll run across a "Scooterist" but most often you'll find them riding the Italian bikes or modded Ruckus and Zumas--not very many of them.