MOPED ARMY

I get coffee every morning at the same place and it's a magnet for your usual harley/corvette owning retired and fat old white guy.

I'll put over there weather permitting but never interact with them because they all sound like theyre in high school with the gossip (theyre ALL in their late 60s, early 70s btw)

when i first moved up here one of them asked why dont i get a real bike instead of a little scoot.

glanced over and told 'em i got nothing to prove and my dick still works without pills

lol, they wont even look in my direction anymore

people just suck, fuck 'em

Im not worried about it. That's just what I thought it was. The reason I filed a report was because they were on the sidewalk.... I don't care about being passed, happens all the time.

C'mon, man. I use the sidewalk often to jump ahead or park in front of a place. I'll spin my pedals slowly so it looks like im just riding a bike.

Anyway, i always try not to be that guy.

Find your own personal zen in mopeding, just let the world move at its own pace and pay it no mind.

Be at peace with your limits and appreciate the things you'd otherwise fly right by.

Basically start smoking lots weed.

Can't say I've ever had that with classic car owner/Harley guys, they all seem interested in my mopeds, the sport-bike guys ignore me, but that's quite alright! :) Regular traffic on the other hand, seems to despise mopeds, prob because there are not many around, and they don't know they are slow?

I chalk it up to people's ignorance of what a moped is, is/is not capable of, and the laws that pertain to them. We can't use the bike lanes here, and even if we could I would not, nor will I lane split, no one in MN knows what a turn signal is, and I think they are driving from a camera on the front of the car playing on their phone screen, they just go wherever, whenever, it is scary, I just take my lane, even if I have to wait. Good news is Aug 1 we go hands free for the phones, it's a ticket if you are holding your phone and driving! :) :) :) I believe it to be a moving violation, so if you get 3 in a year you get your DL suspended for 30 days! Hopefully this will get people back to actually looking out their windshields again.

People did abuse them, back when, '80 or so? The first moped I saw up close was my neighbors brand new red JC Penney Pinto, I was either 12 or 13...he offered to let me ride it...my Dad would not let me...kid rode it for a summer, left it outside over the winter, when it would not start in the spring he and his friends got drunk, beat it to pieces with a bat and threw the pieces on the garage roof....I cried. Spoiled shit....I would have killed for that..and taken care of it too. The forks and the mangled front wheel stayed up there for 2 yrs until they were foreclosed on. Unbelievable.

Harley bikers, (the real ones) not dentists with money and a AAA card, but guys who really ride, are super cool people, show them respect you get it back, ride at all, they are cool. A bit course, but will do anything to help, so long as you don't look down your nose at them. Sport-bike guys, NOT all, but many tend to be jocks who never grew up and have something to prove, but never had any real issues with them, too busy lane splitting, driving reckless to even see me.

The real danger is regular traffic, blind to all but their e-mail, twatter feed, face-book or wherever their "online persona" is besides going down the road. I hope our new law nets millions in fines from the screen people. :) I hope many lose their Dl and slow their roll a bit. Fingers crossed.

I honestly think it is how you come of, both verbally and riding style, when 18 yo my vw bus threw its belt, it was close to soft seizing, I shut down and pulled over, while looking for my spare belt, which I realized was the one thrown, 8 Harley riders rolled up on me, asked what was up, patched outlaws! One said get on, and they rode me to a Napa, I bought a belt, they rode me back, the highway patrol was behind my van, prepping to tow it, I hopped off, those guys did not miss a beat, the cop asked if i was ok, were these guys bugging me! Told them the truth, they HELPED me, leave them be! Back-up came but the Outlaws rode away, told the cop to let them go, levered my belt on drove off. Highway patrol cop told me I should not associate with "people like that" I told him to go fuck himself, those "people" helped me out! Don't judge a book by its cover. Act like you wish to be treated, granted, the world is different today, but I will place my trust in any patched member of any Motorcycle gang. Stand up, act a man, they will treat you like a man.

Most biker types around me are cool, or ignore me.

A while back I was riding my 57 Moto Beta with a 50cc morini three speed in Newport Beach. Not the fastest bike, but keeps up with traffic. Except for when traffic is doing 60+ in Newport Blvd.

Some ass in an SUV was tailgating me, like five feet behind, honking, and flashing his lights, and I was a little nervous on a 50 year old Italian death trap, when two patched bikers pulled up along side of him and scared him off my ass.

They passed me, thumbs up, and took off...

This bike:

Can't help it...……….I'ma drooling! Wow!