Scrambler bikes

pablo128 · 25-12-2019 11:24AM

I just saw the first jackass of the day outside. 2 stroke scrambler being wheelied up the road and your man in a t shirt and no helmet.

whisky_galore · 25-12-2019 11:25AM

guyfo wrote: »

The fight against the Motorsport enthusiast continues.... Don't tar everyone with the same brush, plenty of responsible parents buying their kids bikes, or karts, to start them off in racing. It's no more dangerous than contact sports.

If they are using them in a housing estate then yes they should be punished, that is if it anything other than taking the bike for a quick first spin. Plenty of appropriate places to use them.

Shur what harm that they do their quick first spin on a public road, no tax, no insurance, no licence?

guyfo · 25-12-2019 11:28AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I've yet to meet someone that got a scrambler for christmas whose family i wouldn't class as wasters.

Pretty sure you just proved my original point about Motorsport enthusiasts being tarred with the same brush as the scum that terrorise people in public areas there...

As I said plenty of suitable places to ride across the country, I know plenty of lads that lived in housing estates as kids whose parents took them out to me tracks to ride at weekend. Responsible ownership is fine.

Tippsman · 25-12-2019 11:30AM

It isn't Christmas morning without the smell of a 2 stroke.

Vroom vroom.

Guy:Incognito · 25-12-2019 11:30AM

guyfo wrote: »

The fight against the Motorsport enthusiast continues.... Don't tar everyone with the same brush, plenty of responsible parents buying their kids bikes, or karts, to start them off in racing. It's no more dangerous than contact sports.

If they are using them in a housing estate then yes they should be punished, that is if it anything other than taking the bike for a quick first spin. Plenty of appropriate places to use them.

If they weren't using them in housing estates then people wouldnt know they had them for the most part and this thread wouldnt exist. So let's make the assumption they are using them in housing estates.

They should be confiscated and crushed. People are idiots.

guyfo · 25-12-2019 11:32AM

pablo128 wrote: »

Well that would be the correct thing to do. Or have the use of a van.

You don't even need a van, a lot of competitors on pitbikes that show up at the circuit I work for turn up with them he boot of a people carrier, and I've seen karts strapped to the roof of everything from a hatchback to a Porsche 944.

pablo128 · 25-12-2019 11:33AM

Imagine handing your child 1500 in cash and they go out in the street and a Garda takes every euro off them and they will never see it again, with no comeback.

No different to handing them a scrambler and letting them out on the roads.

JuanBerrosa · 25-12-2019 11:34AM

It's a great indicator of people to avoid to be fair, if I see a kid on a scrambler bike I immediately know his parents are moronic inbreds.

LirW · 25-12-2019 11:39AM

8 y/o girl in my estate got one, dad is quite into motor sports. I wouldn't really care but it drives me demented that he doesn't take her to a track but she's riding up and down the hill on the green and the road where all the other kids play. It's so loud and it stinks.
No problem with kids in unusual sports but why in an estate where others play too?

Guy:Incognito · 25-12-2019 11:39AM

guyfo wrote: »

Not necessarily, no matter where you live there will be somewhere within reasonable driving distance to take the bike out for a rip in a controlled environment.

And of course these responsible people transport the bikes to said place properly and dont ride them on the roads with no tax, insurance or safety gear.........

guyfo · 25-12-2019 11:41AM

LirW wrote: »

8 y/o girl in my estate got one, dad is quite into motor sports. I wouldn't really care but it drives me demented that he doesn't take her to a track but she's riding up and down the hill on the green and the road where all the other kids play. It's so loud and it stinks.
No problem with kids in unusual sports but why in an estate where others play too?

That's ridiculous, there are classes for that age group in racing, no excuse to be doing stuff like that.

pablo128 · 25-12-2019 11:43AM

LirW wrote: »

8 y/o girl in my estate got one, dad is quite into motor sports. I wouldn't really care but it drives me demented that he doesn't take her to a track but she's riding up and down the hill on the green and the road where all the other kids play. It's so loud and it stinks.
No problem with kids in unusual sports but why in an estate where others play too?

Ring the Gardai before another child is hurt by her.

guyfo · 25-12-2019 11:46AM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

And of course these responsible people transport the bikes to said place properly and dont ride them on the roads with no tax, insurance or safety gear.........

Yes, but the propaganda I've head on the radio leading up to Xmas didn't mention that. Scramblers are bad, don't buy your kids one was the jist of it. Not only buy your kid a scrambler if you are willing to put in the effort, and weekends spent away at race tracks!

whisky_galore · 25-12-2019 11:46AM

LirW wrote: »

8 y/o girl in my estate got one, dad is quite into motor sports. I wouldn't really care but it drives me demented that he doesn't take her to a track but she's riding up and down the hill on the green and the road where all the other kids play. It's so loud and it stinks.
No problem with kids in unusual sports but why in an estate where others play too?

It's all fun and games until one of them gets a slap of a bike or she breaks her neck.

Guy:Incognito · 25-12-2019 11:47AM

guyfo wrote: »

Yes, but the propaganda I've head on the radio leading up to Xmas didn't mention that. Scramblers are bad, don't buy your kids one was the jist of it. Not only buy your kid a scrambler if you are willing to put in the effort, and weekends spent away at race tracks!

It's clearly aimed at a certain demographic.

How many of your actual motorsport enthusiasts you're protecting heard the ad and decided to give up the sport?

guyfo · 25-12-2019 11:53AM

JuanBerrosa wrote: »

It's a great indicator of people to avoid to be fair, if I see a kid on a scrambler bike I immediately know his parents are moronic inbreds.

So these lads are all just scum are they?

https://images.app.goo.gl/85iegpadcuspJjsp8

lawred2 · 25-12-2019 11:57AM

gmisk wrote: »

Are parents buying these in order to get rid of their kids?
Is George Soros behind it!!

Initially I was like holy crap next door are cutting the grass very early!

Scrambler free around here. But then not too many sink estates around here either.

JuanBerrosa · 25-12-2019 11:57AM

LirW wrote: »

8 y/o girl in my estate got one, dad is quite into motor sports. I wouldn't really care but it drives me demented that he doesn't take her to a track but she's riding up and down the hill on the green and the road where all the other kids play. It's so loud and it stinks.
No problem with kids in unusual sports but why in an estate where others play too?

At least you know immediately that they are a family of knackers.

Bobblehats · 25-12-2019 11:58AM

guyfo wrote: »

So these lads are all just scum are they?

https://images.app.goo.gl/85iegpadcuspJjsp8

Tea cosy won’t save his skull

JuanBerrosa · 25-12-2019 11:58AM

guyfo wrote: »

So these lads are all just scum are they?

https://images.app.goo.gl/85iegpadcuspJjsp8

I would say yeah ...

guyfo · 25-12-2019 11:58AM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

How many of your actual motorsport enthusiasts you're protecting heard the ad and decided to give up the sport?

None, all sports need new competitors to survive, mommy and daddy who aren't really that into Motorsport being told that they are irresponsible if they buy their bike mad child the scrambler they want is the issue. Again tarring everyone with the same brush.

guyfo · 25-12-2019 12:00PM

JuanBerrosa wrote: »

I would say yeah ...

Wow, some piece of **** you are...

Markcheese · 25-12-2019 12:02PM

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Where’s an appropriate place to drive a scrambler for a young fella from an inner city with no land.
Are you suggesting that the parents buy a trailer to ship the bike around on aswell.

Well maybe ,maybe ,if there's no where handy to safely ride an off road motorbike then maybe the kids shouldn't be given scramblers...

25-12-2019 12:08PM

Water charge protestors are very likely to buy their kids scramblers for use in housing estates.
There's a homeless crisis largely due to these wasters who were housed in the past largely at the state's expense..... Discuss &#55358;&#56595;

Markcheese · 25-12-2019 12:08PM

There's a small green area out the back of my house ,it's a pain when someone gets a scrambler and decides to tare around and around ,can't use the back garden , one of them cocked up last summer and managed to go head first into the garden wall, obviously no helmets , the noise chilled out a bit after ,( but not what you want really )

lawred2 · 25-12-2019 12:17PM

guyfo wrote: »

Yes, but the propaganda I've head on the radio leading up to Xmas didn't mention that. Scramblers are bad, don't buy your kids one was the jist of it. Not only buy your kid a scrambler if you are willing to put in the effort, and weekends spent away at race tracks!

What's your point?

Clearly these actions and messages are not aimed at such people who are active in organised Motorsports.

They are aimed at those lawless fools in estates buying these for their children to run amoc within those estates wherever they can find a bit of room.

Knock off the ridiculous indignation.

guyfo · 25-12-2019 12:28PM

lawred2 wrote: »

What's your point?

Seriously? It puts off prospective new competitors.... Come on lad your not that thick

Seth Brundle · 25-12-2019 12:29PM

guyfo wrote: »

The fight against the Motorsport enthusiast continues.... Don't tar everyone with the same brush, plenty of responsible parents buying their kids bikes, or karts, to start them off in racing. It's no more dangerous than contact sports.

If they are using them in a housing estate then yes they should be punished, that is if it anything other than taking the bike for a quick first spin. Plenty of appropriate places to use them.

Nothing to do with motorsport. It's the gobsh1te parents who let their kids tear around public spaces usually in inappropriate attire and pose a risk to those around rhem.
Expect to see more cases like whilst some cretins defend the behaviour...
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/sunbather-critically-hurt-after-scrambler-bike-lands-on-head-1.3526552

blade1 · 25-12-2019 12:29PM

pablo128 wrote: »

I just saw the first jackass of the day outside. 2 stroke scrambler being wheelied up the road and your man in a t shirt and no helmet.

Jesus,If he only got it today, he's a quick learner :eek:

pablo128 · 25-12-2019 12:31PM

blade1 wrote: »

Jesus,If he only got it today, he's a quick learner :eek:

Honestly by the cut of him I'd say it was the father showing off to the kid. This wasn't up the back of an estate either. Out on a main road.

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