My Vespa is a Moped

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My Vespa is a Moped

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I went to work on the GTS today. A bitch in the office called it a moped. She can wash her own mug now, I'm done with her lol

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Blasphemy!!

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Re: My Vespa is a Moped

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Of course you should get annoyed....but idiots even call Tmaxs mopeds! At least there are 50cc Vespas....

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Ah! My favourite subject! I've had a Burgman 400 called a moped.

In my opinion there are two reasons for the 'moped' thing. Firstly ignorance. People just don't know what a moped is and are unaware of the legal definition. 50cc/30 mph. So they call any scooter a moped because it has an open step-through frame and thus fits with their image of what a moped should be. The other one really p's me off. People who call a scooter a moped because it isn't a 150 mph race-rep. Been watching too much World Superbikes on the telly, and 'it's only a scooter.' Almost invariably this sort of people have never owned a bike themselves. Either that or they 'used to.'

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Re: My Vespa is a Moped

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A moped surely should have pedals to propel it? For a moped my Burgman seems to go faster than most of the cars driven by these wankers drive.

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By the same token I look at their £50/60K car & think/say it's just a tin box.

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Re: My Vespa is a Moped

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I had a customer come round in a yellow Ferrari. Wasn't too impressed when I commented that it was the same colour as my skip. :)

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Re: My Vespa is a Moped

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rayb wrote:I had a customer come round in a yellow Ferrari. Wasn't too impressed when I commented that it was the same colour as my skip. :)
Nice one! Bet that brought him down a peg or two!

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Burgman1958 wrote:
rayb wrote:I had a customer come round in a yellow Ferrari. Wasn't too impressed when I commented that it was the same colour as my skip. :)
Nice one! Bet that brought him down a peg or two!
Probably an ex-customer now though. :)

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Re: My Vespa is a Moped

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rayb wrote:I had a customer come round in a yellow Ferrari. Wasn't too impressed when I commented that it was the same colour as my skip. :)
...and they say that the era of good customer service is dead.... :lol:

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