I have a suspicion that for many people the idea that a kid can ride a scooter without the required helmet makes for some kind of wild parental madness going on here. My mother loved motorcycles so much she got me my first Vespa 50 when I was just twelve, where in Italy the legal minimum age is 14. She never did buy me a helmet, and as I am child free myself I have no idea what is appropriate or not. I just hope the kid grows up learning to love the freedom of the ride.
I know when I pull onto the highway on my wife's Vespa car drivers sink into despair at getting stuck behind the moped. When I disappear over the horizon faster than they can imagine I'm not sure they feel any better about the damned moped. When I see elderly vans pulling out in front of me my heart, in turn, sinks. I just hope they aren't going too far down the road...
I had to wonder if it was a last minute plan to take off and bring the surf boards as well. How they got this far without getting lifted off by the slipstream I don't know, but there again neither do they probably. I hope the boards were worth the complexity of the journey to Key West.
I will never quite fit the mold of the pirate biker. I watch them come and go by the thousands along highway one and I wonder how they all fit the mold and I never will.
A nerd on a Bonneville. Strictly speaking Fat Albert isn't going anywhere but the blimp has a pilot on the ground I'm told and the idea is to use the blimp to interrupt the journeys of other people who may be trying to make illegal entry into the United States. Fat Albert may be the anti-traveler.
I know when I pull onto the highway on my wife's Vespa car drivers sink into despair at getting stuck behind the moped. When I disappear over the horizon faster than they can imagine I'm not sure they feel any better about the damned moped. When I see elderly vans pulling out in front of me my heart, in turn, sinks. I just hope they aren't going too far down the road...I had to wonder if it was a last minute plan to take off and bring the surf boards as well. How they got this far without getting lifted off by the slipstream I don't know, but there again neither do they probably. I hope the boards were worth the complexity of the journey to Key West.I will never quite fit the mold of the pirate biker. I watch them come and go by the thousands along highway one and I wonder how they all fit the mold and I never will.A nerd on a Bonneville. Strictly speaking Fat Albert isn't going anywhere but the blimp has a pilot on the ground I'm told and the idea is to use the blimp to interrupt the journeys of other people who may be trying to make illegal entry into the United States. Fat Albert may be the anti-traveler.There are so many ways to travel by motorcycle and if I am not the bandanna type then I can also say with some certainty I am not the trailer toting type either.
But however you do it the Overseas Highway needs to be done. Bucket list stuff.
But however you do it the Overseas Highway needs to be done. Bucket list stuff.
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I never wore a helmet while buzzing around town on my old Honda Elite when I lived in Key West, but I was always nervously aware of other drivers.
What I never understood about Florida's is why riders can go helmet-free, but lane splitting is not legal.
Because florida is daft. Lane splitting probably would get you shot, however i do it in Miami when the freeways are jammed, following the example of the locals (though not at the speed of a squid on crotch rocket).
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