Question for my fellow British escapists..

[Skipper zammo]

Down here in Kent everyone has started wearing roller skates. Not even roller blades but proper roller skates. It's like living in a gritty remake of Xanadu.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

A few people I knew in school have gotten scooters. There do seem to be a lot about...

Wiltshire, by the way.

EDIT: Wait, you mean the kid's toy thing? I thought you meant one of these.

I'm with you there... I am Wiltshire too and I see more Motorbike/Scooters than kids toy ones...

However I did see a lady the other day taking her kid to school, and they were both riding scooters... I nearly wet myself laughing... she didn't look remotely chavvy, and she didn't seem to know how odd she looked at all! :S

 

[Sexy Devil]

Scooters are back?

12 years ago, nearly every kid had a scooter

I didn't because I was cool, and edgy, and it had nothing to do with me spending all my birthday money on video games instead.

I wonder if that means yo-yos and Skip-It are going to make a similar comeback. Here's hoping.

I had a Razor scooter at one point, those things are ridiculously dangerous on any pavement that's less than perfect.

No idea what skip-it is but yo-yos were always totally bitchin', man. Though I usually only ever got one successful motion in before I screwed it up.

 

[vrbtny]

Scooters are back?

12 years ago, nearly every kid had a scooter

I didn't because I was cool, and edgy, and it had nothing to do with me spending all my birthday money on video games instead.

Holy Shit i remember that infestation!! Mainly because i was one of the scooter riding kids, i was only about 10 at the time, but I remember scooters being damn fun when i was little.

Now i'm too big for scooters, grrr *ragefist*

 

[Hazy992]

Haven't seen that many up here in West Yorkshire

FYI West Yorkshire is best Yorkshire

 

[Hugga_Bear]

Cambridgeshire is clean, aside from the infestation of chavs.

None in Cambridge proper. Though I did see one guy rollerskating down the road (as in, in the road). That was unusual.

On the whole though I got no scooters here. Hipsters though, hipsters everywhere.

 

[Kiardras]

I see loads in Norfolk, but they are limited to kids aged between 8-13. Anyone older than that has a board or blades (or is a chav, but they aren't really people).

 

[Ickorus]

I live on the Isle of Wight, I've seen a couple of kids with scooters but I never thought anything of it.

I don't go out enough to form a proper opinion.

 

[Luke3184]

*Somerset reporting in*

We're overrun send back up or we won- tsch tyhng thswf*

*end of message*

 

[Ickorus]

A few people I knew in school have gotten scooters. There do seem to be a lot about...

Wiltshire, by the way.

EDIT: Wait, you mean the kid's toy thing? I thought you meant one of these.

I'm with you there... I am Wiltshire too and I see more Motorbike/Scooters than kids toy ones...

However I did see a lady the other day taking her kid to school, and they were both riding scooters... I nearly wet myself laughing... she didn't look remotely chavvy, and she didn't seem to know how odd she looked at all! :S

As my previous post states I live on the Isle of Wight and the Scooter (adult version) has become the vehicle of choice for Chavs, they also remove the muffler to be extra scummy.

I've also seen some remove the muffler on Motorbikes and run them almost exclusively in first gear so it sounds like a Scooter, which seems stupid as fuck to me because Motorbikes rock (and Scooters suck) and they're completely destroying their engines by not leaving first gear.

 

[Blunderboy]

Essex seems pretty clear of them, but in fairness I'm not the most observant of people.

 

[MadMechanic]

The second one, was the damn best scooter design ever
Easier to ride, safer, goes faster
Seriously, why did kids change to the new ones? Damn new age

I hear you there. When I was... 9 or 10, I had the first one, the folding one. Damned thing flipped me forwards, giving me a massive scar on my chest and really hurting and damaging my knee.

I always wondered with those folding scooters, did anyone really ever lose a finger folding them? 'Cause if all those stories I heard of kids lopping off their fingers when they folded the scooters were true, I assume there must be thousands from my generation with missing digits...

On topic - I'm in London at the moment, and my answer is 'sort of'.
I have seen a lot of kids with scooters but they aren't like the ones you've posted. They're three wheeled (2 wheels up front, very close together, 1 at the back), they're brightly coloured, and look to be made from plastic. Only seen really young kids (primary school I assume) riding them, and only on the school run.
I'm going back home to Yorkshire this week though, so I'll see if the plague has spread.

Seen plenty of wazzocks with skateboards though. They're either really badly dressed hipsters, or 40 year olds. Can never tell the difference.

 

[Evil Smurf]

seeing more and more scooters lately, also seeing a lot of people falling off scooters. so i welcome this new trend purely for that alone ha.

but i will tell you what i have been seeing alot of lately these:

[img/]http://stuntscooterz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/3-Wheel-Scooter.jpg [/img]

i mean whole gangs of people just waddling along on these, you can literally walk quicker then these things move, its like the lazy-mans scooter

what the shit is that? how does it work? ?

 

[JWRosser]

A few people I knew in school have gotten scooters. There do seem to be a lot about...

Wiltshire, by the way.

Whoo! Wiltshire! Represent!

lol jk

I've seen a fair few here yes, also I go to University in Yorkshire, and all the kids seem to be riding them. I guess the fad has come back around, in record time I might add.

Wiltshire gang high-five!

OT: I haven't really seen any around my hometown, however a fair few people ride them around campus. My friend brought his up for a bit...tried to start a trend...but soon got bored.

 

[RustlessPotato]

I'm not from the UK (what you gonna do about it, huh ?!), but it's spreading in Belgium too. I've got assholes riding those things in the middle of the night. It sounds like a bee in a megaphone. I'm planning on waiting for them behind a corned with a baseball bat.

Is this what the mayans predicted ?

 

[Elate]

There's a bloody infestation of them up here in Yorkshire.

I don't see any.

Damn I always, always wanted a scooter as a kid.. Never had one..

 

[ubersyanyde]

I suppose there has been an increase in scooter usage in Cheltenham but it's nothing compared to the longboards.

So many longboards...

 

[SpAc3man]

It's not just the UK. Here in New Zealand scooters have been the in thing for a year or two.
I remember ten years ago when I was about 11 it was the cool thing too. Its all been done before. Although those swivel skateboards (Ripstick seems to be the most common name here) that were the thing before scooters were pretty different.