I Get Around…

Most students have a lot on their mind. Juggling school with work and a social life can be stressful and time management becomes key. The last thing we want to do is waste time by walking, or using some other form of inferior transportation (skateboard, bike). Now a car is great, but with the price of gas you may want to save the 5 dollars it would take you to drive from work back to residence. A bike is also a nice mode of transport, it keeps you fit and feeling great. However when you finish up a late project, the last thing you want to do is pedal home at 3am.

This brings me to…the scooter.

Above; Bitchin wheels

Now I may be biased here, I do own own myself and use it to get around. But even if I didn’t own one, you can’t argue with facts, so I present to you:

Requiem For The Scooter

• First off, these things look great, their sleek and small allowing you to weave through traffic and catch peoples eye
• Easy. Can you drive a car? That’s great, you need even less skill to drive a scooter; throttle to go forward, break to stop. No clutch or gears at all
• Speed. A 125cc scooter can top out at around 90 km/h depending on your weight. I’m 6′4, 215 pounds and this thing lets me go 80 km/h.
• How much gas? Well depending on the scooter it can vary, the one pictured above take $5 to fill up. Seriously. It gets around 100 km to the tank which means that you can drive around campus for around 3 weeks without having to fill ‘er up
• Parking is a joke. Imagine this, you’re late for class, you drive up in your sedan and scan the lot for a spot, but the only one you find is halfway across the campus. You get out and run to class, only to make it in just in time to hear the professor tell you the last hint for your exam. Bummer. Or you pull up in the scooter, park on the sidewalk or in between 2 cars, mosey into class, take a seat, set up and hear some useful tidbits from the prof.
• Variety. Don’t like the one pictured above? That’s fine, you can find hundreds of other ones online, a sportier one, a more unique one, or even an electric version.
• Pick Up Chicks. If you drive one of these bad-boys your more than likely to get a few questions, and if you play your cards right you can score some numbers using the following explanation. “I’m trying to go green, you know we really have to reduce our carbon footprint because this is the only earth we have” After that, regurgitate whatever you remember from Al Gore’s movie and you’re set.
  

until next time, keep it spazztic