Just as the evening news warned last week, a ton of moped riders descended on SF over the weekend. Here they are idling in Dolores Park, and then setting out on another leg of their journey. (WARNING: Not much happens in this video.)
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Yaaa! That was so much fun!! Cue haters in 3…….2…….1……..
Ah yes, ain’t nothing like two-stroke smoke and the sound of a chainsaw on steroids.
You don’t have to be an all-around hater to hate the fact that each one of these things pollute worse than an entire fleet of hummers. Look at that cloud of smoke! It’s like downtown Beijing.
Plus, they’re loud as shit in a really annoying high-pitched whiny sort of way.
C’mon guys, it’s just fixie with an incredibly loud and shitty engine, what’s wrong with that……?
Totally hating on it! Dirty, loud, and from the looks of it usually navigated by someone that would benefit from the cardiovascular workout of a bicycle.
Seriously… fuck those things and every douchebag that rides one. No exceptions.
Grow up.
Wow.
Those bikes are so gross.
Oh well.
People keep blowing Cig smoke in my face so I’m gonna keep riding my recycled vehicle from 35 yrs ago. Never buy new.
It sucks that those bikes are so poorly tuned and spewing so much smoke. It really burns very clean when running properly.
100+ MPG
and running on bean oil whenever possible. No worse than cooking it.
Rafter, how about justifying the loud and obnoxious motor?
You are lame.
Two strokes do not run clean no matter how well they are tuned. You either pre-mix the gas and oil or the oil is injected into the carb from a separate tank(Yamaha RD’s). Either way oil is being burned in the cylinder resulting in that mist of blue smoke two-strokes emit. I haven’t heard of two-strokes running off anything other than gasoline. Please fill me in on two-stroke mopeds running alternate fuels.
Matt, the motors are loud because everybody swaps the stock pipes for chambers. This allows for a boost in horsepower but makes them sound like an extremely loud mosquito.
yea how dare people have fun riding around on mopeds. its way better to just hate on everything online. if these people are having wtf do you care?
As Glenparker notes, two-stroke engines are environmental disasters — here’s a < a href="/2008/11/25/mopeds-are-stupid/" rel="nofollow">classic 2008 MIssion Mission moped thread.
If you get an electric moped, I will not mock you. Until then, you’re selfish and you suck.
Why not just buy a motorcycle? Clutch, room for a sexy passenger, actual power, capacity for touring, etc. Given the state of disrepair most of these toys are in when these kids buy them, the investment in a mechanically sound motorcycle would give greater returns.
Other things that are loud & fun:
- Music
- Motorcycles
- Crowds at DP
- Bars
Seriously, y’all are super uninformed. Quit trying to rephrase the same statement “I hate them because I have never ridden one” and dress it up with pseudo-facts.
but I don’t wanna ride a fixed gear, I’m too lazy.
motorcycles are waaaaay more money then a moped so these arguments are fucking dumb. Its like why ride a bike when you can fly in a plane? anyone that uses the word hipster, either is one or wants to be one. so all this i hate hipster this and i hate hipster that on the most hipster blog there is makes no sense.