Scooters - should you use one?

[deepsea21]

When I was young and dumb I did lots of things I don't do anymore... One of them was renting scooters. No need to recite the other 99 of the top 100 dumb things I used to do.

 

[RayfromTX]

Renting scooters is silly. It is far better to own one.

It is unwise to attempt to drive the speed limit on Cozumel on a scooter generally. Limited visibility makes it dangerous or at least risky to approach cross streets at anything approaching the speed limit. Riding a scooter in the same manner in which you operate a car in the states is reckless and arrogant. Drivers are distracted and dangerous. I have had far more close calls as a pedestrian on Cozumel than I have on my motorcycle.

I drove a motorcycle as my sole means of transportation in Texas for many years. I was involved in several accidents caused by motorists and two by my own stupidity. The speeds involved are far different than those in Cozumel. I don't ride in the states very often now. I do ride tens of thousands of miles on my bicycle, another activity that I have been told I shouldn't do. I also have hundreds of skydives in my logbook. I also scuba dive which I have been told is crazy. I work cattle on foot and work with heavy machinery and have used a chainsaw in the heavy brush for literally thousands of hours. By far the most dangerous thing I do is driving to work and I will probably choke to death on a corn chip.

Be safe out there y'all.

 

[ggunn]

Renting scooters is silly. It is far better to own one.

It is unwise to attempt to drive the speed limit on Cozumel on a scooter generally. Limited visibility makes it dangerous or at least risky to approach cross streets at anything approaching the speed limit. Riding a scooter in the same manner in which you operate a car in the states is reckless and arrogant. Drivers are distracted and dangerous. I have had far more close calls as a pedestrian on Cozumel than I have on my motorcycle.

I drove a motorcycle as my sole means of transportation in Texas for many years. I was involved in several accidents caused by motorists and two by my own stupidity. The speeds involved are far different than those in Cozumel. I don't ride in the states very often now. I do ride tens of thousands of miles on my bicycle, another activity that I have been told I shouldn't do. I also have hundreds of skydives in my logbook. I also scuba dive which I have been told is crazy. I work cattle on foot and work with heavy machinery and have used a chainsaw in the heavy brush for literally thousands of hours. By far the most dangerous thing I do is driving to work and I will probably choke to death on a corn chip.

Be safe out there y'all.

You know that it's not folks like you (experienced riders) that we are talking to, right? Just checking.

 

[WetInPortland]

By far the most dangerous thing I do is driving to work and I will probably choke to death on a corn chip.

Don't eat corn chips and drive!