Vespas are only cool in a scenic coastal vacation-type setting like the French Riviera or the Tuscany vineyards...
In my teenaged days back packing around Europe, I was staying at a place on the Greek Island of Corfu geared to that crowd. On the cab ride to the resort the cabbie warned us not to rent scooters due to the bad roads and crazy drivers.
My two travel companions decide they're going to do it and rent scooters. I was under capitalized for this venture so I opted to stay at the beach. An announcement is made for anyone with a certain blood type at the resort to give blood as someone staying there requires a blood transfusion. So I wandered if it was one of them.
I make my way back to our room and my two travel companions had returned and had a fair bit of Ouzo by that time. So they're ranting about how safe scooters are and how you would have to be an absolute idiot to get hurt. As we make our way to dinner we encounter a guy who I can tell is pretty messed up and a girl who's with him helping him along. My companions are two hammered to notice. So exchange hello's and I ask how's it going, and the guy says not so good. My travel companions pipe up and say "Dude you need to rent a scooter, they're so safe, you'd have to be an idiot to get hurt." This guy intersects, " I did rent a scooter, I had to avoid a guy and fell off and just got out of having a blood transfusion." He was quite polite about it and they felt like asses.
So it depends on your experience. Some will love them. Rasmus Anderdon might disagree.
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Regardless of how cool or romantic a Vespa would look in the European countryside or cruising around Rome, a motorcycle would still objectively cooler in those scenarios.
Unless it’s a Harley, then you look like a poser.
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In my teenaged days back packing around Europe, I was staying at a place on the Greek Island of Corfu geared to that crowd. On the cab ride to the resort the cabbie warned us not to rent scooters due to the bad roads and crazy drivers.
My two travel companions decide they're going to do it and rent scooters. I was under capitalized for this venture so I opted to stay at the beach. An announcement is made for anyone with a certain blood type at the resort to give blood as someone staying there requires a blood transfusion. So I wandered if it was one of them.
I make my way back to our room and my two travel companions had returned and had a fair bit of Ouzo by that time. So they're ranting about how safe scooters are and how you would have to be an absolute idiot to get hurt. As we make our way to dinner we encounter a guy who I can tell is pretty messed up and a girl who's with him helping him along. My companions are two hammered to notice. So exchange hello's and I ask how's it going, and the guy says not so good. My travel companions pipe up and say "Dude you need to rent a scooter, they're so safe, you'd have to be an idiot to get hurt." This guy intersects, " I did rent a scooter, I had to avoid a guy and fell off and just got out of having a blood transfusion." He was quite polite about it and they felt like asses.
So it depends on your experience. Some will love them. Rasmus Anderdon might disagree.
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My daughter has been twisting my arm and pleading so I relented this spring and bought her a Vespa for college. I have ridden it a few times when going to visit, it's pretty damn fun.
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My daughter has been twisting my arm and pleading so I relented this spring and bought her a Vespa for college. I have ridden it a few times when going to visit, it's pretty damn fun.
Where are you at? It is a pretty good vehicle for various commutes, but they are limited.
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They’re lame, but then again some people spend an hour squeezing into aerodynamic tights so they can ride a bicycle on a highway, all while being mere feet away from animorphing into a meat crayon. Those people think they’re cool, and vespas are cooler than that.
They’re lame, but then again some people spend an hour squeezing into aerodynamic tights so they can ride a bicycle on a highway, all while being mere feet away from animorphing into a meat crayon. Those people think they’re cool, and vespas are cooler than that.
Why on earth would a road cyclist wear a wet suit?
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In my teenaged days back packing around Europe, I was staying at a place on the Greek Island of Corfu geared to that crowd. On the cab ride to the resort the cabbie warned us not to rent scooters due to the bad roads and crazy drivers.
My two travel companions decide they're going to do it and rent scooters. I was under capitalized for this venture so I opted to stay at the beach. An announcement is made for anyone with a certain blood type at the resort to give blood as someone staying there requires a blood transfusion. So I wandered if it was one of them.
I make my way back to our room and my two travel companions had returned and had a fair bit of Ouzo by that time. So they're ranting about how safe scooters are and how you would have to be an absolute idiot to get hurt. As we make our way to dinner we encounter a guy who I can tell is pretty messed up and a girl who's with him helping him along. My companions are two hammered to notice. So exchange hello's and I ask how's it going, and the guy says not so good. My travel companions pipe up and say "Dude you need to rent a scooter, they're so safe, you'd have to be an idiot to get hurt." This guy intersects, " I did rent a scooter, I had to avoid a guy and fell off and just got out of having a blood transfusion." He was quite polite about it and they felt like asses.
So it depends on your experience. Some will love them. Rasmus Anderdon might disagree.
You should have seen what went on in Thailand. I met multiple people who'd spent weeks in hospital recovering from various scooter injuries.
I'd never ridden one and a few British guys I met pressure me into riding one all day. We got caught in multiple monsoons. I eventually crashed it, but thankfully only as I was parking it. I was pushing it into a parking spot and accidentally pulled back on the accelerator, sending it into a wall of bottles.
Looking back on that, not entirely sure how I didn't end up in a much worse state somewhere along the line. We spent the day riding along winding roads with trucks to one side and a cliff/ditch to the other. One of the British guys actually peeled out and crashed as we were leaving the parking lot. Maybe that took the edge off knowing I wouldn't be the first to crash?
