Scooter advice for a first timer!

Scooter :motor_scooter: ?
Not :kick_scooter:?

It’s these you need to look out for :red_car: :bus: :minibus: :articulated_lorry: :blue_car: :truck:, etc

Us other drivers can be terribly inattentive and careless. If we were any good at driving on 4 wheels we would not run into other vehicles or things.

The problem around here with open air transport of any variety including footpath legal options is the weather. It rains on 65 days each year, out of the approx 130 predicted by the BOM. Wet weather gear and a plan B for wet days? Not needed on the farm bike even when it is raining although you tend to take on the appearance of a motorised cow pat along with other characteristics rather quickly. A good place to practice your skills at avoiding obstacles in wet and slippery conditions, encountering the unexpected ( 3m pythons) and untangling yourself from barbed wire fences.

Some of us, I’m one were never intended to ride on two wheels of any design. Others are very good at it, although one friend was run over by a car in suburbia and has spent the last decades as a 4wheeler. There are only so many times you can watch the same rerun of F-Troop.

Practice core skills and do some extra training in a safe environment if you are not an everyday rider?

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