SFist: Film du Jour: Fun-Size Motorcycles Invade SF

September 29, 2008

Film du Jour: Fun-Size Motorcycles Invade SF

Did you all see these mini bikes zooming around the City this weekend? (These ones were caught frollicking along Great Highway.) Adorable.

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[1] | 09/29/08 04:44PM

oh brock.... didn't you guys dis the moped (whis is what these are, mini bikes are an entirely different demographic - the one your readers cross the street to avoid)"gangs" as yet another silly hipster diversion?

[2] | 09/29/08 04:45PM

social genres aside, fun-sized things are charming things.

[3] | 09/29/08 04:57PM

Fuck that. Like we need another Critical Mass of self-important twats who run red lights because they're fuckin' anarchists, man.

[4] | 09/29/08 05:00PM

i think they're just out having fun. hopefully. lords knows people here in sf feel too guilty to have a blast for fun's sake.

[5] | 09/29/08 05:13PM

They rode by my house and they are about 100 times louder than motorcycles and about 1 million times louder than Critical Mass which also rides by my house monthly. So, I do not find them so "cute"....

[6] | 09/29/08 06:08PM

They rode by my apartment. They were loud as hell. Looked like a gaggle of annoying hipsters displaying their "originality" and "creativity" by all riding around on the same underpowered mopeds.

[7] | 09/29/08 06:28PM

They are also 2 stroke and each belch out as much particulate, and unburned oil as a Hummer.

[8] | 09/29/08 06:38PM

sorry kids, no love for ya.
30 years and they'll be on Harleys.

[9] | 09/29/08 06:40PM

Aw, relax. They're alright.

[10] | 09/29/08 06:44PM

Its nice to see young wanna-be SF hipsters who can be as cruel to the environment as a Alaskan wolf hunter in a helicopter.

Also, they are chicken shit: They don't actually ride them far, the trailers they brought them in from OUT OF TOWN were parked all over the Haight this weekend. Just like a trailer queen Harley who parks at the edge Sturgis or Daytona Beach, leathers up and comes powering in.

[11] | 09/29/08 10:06PM

Suck it, haters.

[12] | 09/29/08 11:30PM

now that has to be embarrassing

[13] | 09/30/08 11:11AM

I would not mind them so much if they were not so loud. Other than that it looks fun.

[14] | 09/30/08 12:29PM

No no no! Clicky, hipper-than-thou kids storming city roads with the mentality that with numbers you can make your own rules does not strike me as adorable.

More like douchbaggy.

Can't they just jump rope or something?

[15] | 09/30/08 03:51PM

If only we could convince them that being quiet and remaining indoors was ironic.

[16] | 09/30/08 03:53PM

really, folks, i just think they're out having fun on motorized bikes. i know i would.

[17] | 09/30/08 04:49PM

predicting these folks will be future harley owners is like saying the driver of a volkswagon beetle will own a Maserati.

Sorry Mr. Bundy, ain't gonna happen.

[18] | 10/01/08 01:59PM

It's nice to see others loathe these noisy 2-stroke POS vehicles as much as I do.

Q: Why don't the cops bust these people when only a small amount of these polluting hipster vehicles have license plates?

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=veh&group=05001-06000&file=5030-5039

Apparently, it looks like you DO need some kind of special plate.

All it would take would be for a small group of cops just to sit in the Haight or the Mission for a few hours. The accumulated fines from one bust alone would keep them in donuts for weeks.

[19] | 10/03/08 12:57AM

ah hmm. so, in case you are wondering, they are two stroke engines. they get over 100 mpg, and pollute as much as a lawnmower. when you take into account the gas used to transport gas from a refinery to a gas station, (not to mention the fuel it takes to transport crude to a refinery) and the fact that it is designed for efficenty. You would realie that it has a smaller carbon footprint then your toyota hybrid.

one person getting 50 mpg is still using twice the gas that one person on a moped uses. so next time you are filling up you tank think about the moped rider who filled his tank up for 2$ and wont be back for another week.

oh, and the 2008 model mopeds passed the strict new epa standards for 2008.

Yes the ones in the video are all vintage. Meaning that they have been around for thirty years, but most cars last about 15 at best. Also mopeds use about 1/20 the amount of steel in their construction. I wonder how much gas it takes to transport the steel to the foundry for just one car?

ah well, I guess they are just hipsters having fun, god we should probably kill them. people having fun make me wanna puke...

[20] | 11/17/08 06:50AM

my god (most of) you people are dicks. all you do is complain about everything, and in the process quickly spin it into some way for you to sound cool, while making a half assed statement based around no fact whatsoever. which always goes back to the environment. and god forbid someone have fun in your general vicinity. you people need to lighten the hell up. and you mock them because they use trailers to get the as you can clearly see "trailer Queen" bikes to the rally. so I guess you would rather they ride them illegally on the highway? so you can "have a small group of cops just to sit in the Haight or the Mission for a few hours" and bust everyone. real cool guys.... you are all just ironic hipsters without the tight pants anyway. always having to be better then the next person.