Question for my fellow British escapists..

[A Raging Emo]

So lately in Wales, I'm seeing Kids riding scooters around everywhere. Seriously. Wherever I go.

No bikes, no skateboards, no rollerblades, just scooters. Is this happening anywhere else in Britain, or is it just in Wales where there's a scooter invasion?

North Wales here. Yup. Scooters. Scooters and BMX Bikes, although mostly Scooters, with a ratio of around 5:1.

Scooters errywah.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

A lot of kids on horses pass by my place... I think I may have fallen through a time warp.

 

[applesandoranges]

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[thylasos]

I cna attest to a slightly increased prevalence on the few roads around my house in Essex over the last... while? Few months? Whatever.

Regardless, yep, they appear to be back, in so much as they were around about ten, fifteen years ago.

 

[GonvilleBromhead]

The infestation has reached Sussex

 

[IntangibleMango]

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.

 

[Random Fella]

Mid-Wales appears fairly clean of them, actually. Mostly people in my area just go around in tracksuits and write various poorly spelled insults on the bus shelter wall. Ancient humans had cave paintings, we have "kely iz a slag" in sharpie.

However, my cousin's child has been begging for a 'trick' scooter. I'm not sure how you discern it from normal ones, perhaps it sits if you offer it a treat? Either way, that's in Northern England where apparently scooters are a big thing in schools.

I'm guessing he means one of <spoiler=these>http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_H2QcTP9zNuM/R1YAIbSnuEI/AAAAAAAAB0U/3aCXPyuFccc/s400/trick+scooter.jpg

as opposed to one of

Spoiler: these

The first style was in fashion in the U.S. about 12 years ago, same time as Daystar said they were in the UK. The second kind I don't think has been "in" since at least the 80's. Which is a shame, because they're a lot more fun to ride, unless you're lucky enough to live near a skatepark and good enough at it not to kill yourself.

OT: I'm American, I know nothing.

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

 

[Danial]

Tenby in Wales and we are infected buy the horrible fucking hazards. We have a disabled ramp out side our shop that we have had to ban kids from riding on Due to the 5 fucking people that have been hurt so far.

The worst thing is kids WILL ride them round the shop. Lost about £230 worth of Self Display once... (due to them thinking these metallic death traps make them Rebels, they refuse to stop even when we say we will kick them out, or there Parents complain that they will get stolen if they leave it outside. Shockingly they are less responsible when the idea of paying for the full self of ruined whiskey comes up.)

 

[Andy Shandy]

I haven't seen too many in Dundee, but there is a group every now and then.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Not where I am.
When I was about 9/10 they were all over though.
My city is fat and lazy though, so I suppose they wouldn't use anything that requires effort.

Where I used to live (Hull) was full of people with bikes. I'd never seen so many people ride bikes :s we lived next to a bridge and there was always people biking around underneath it.

 

[Matan]

The infestation has reached Sussex

Well I'm in West Sussex and I can't say I've noticed a lot of them. However this is how I feel about kids when I see them:



So it's possible that they are riding them but I just haven't noticed.

 

[rob_simple]

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.

You're not lying, I was going down some rough-arse country hill on one and the damn handle bars came off because it was shaking so much. I had to dive into a hedge at about thirty mile an hour or face losing three pounds of flesh to the gravel.

OT: I remember them being big about ten years ago, but the more recent irritating mode of transport for kids appears to be those fucking shoes with the wheels in the heels.

 

[Frostbyte666]

this craze has come as far south as Jersey though I never realised they were called scooters. When the OT wrote that, I like a few others, thought mopeds (or beewee's), anyway things that go up to 30 and sound like an angry hornet, and for some reason think they can outrace me when I'm on a 600cc motorbike.

 

[Charli]

Yup Surrey. EVERYWHERE. My little brother and his friends all have one.

I have no idea how they became 'the thing to ride' again for kids since I haven't even seen one advert but ...there we go.

 

[Griffolion]

So lately in Wales, I'm seeing Kids riding scooters around everywhere. Seriously. Wherever I go.

No bikes, no skateboards, no rollerblades, just scooters. Is this happening anywhere else in Britain, or is it just in Wales where there's a scooter invasion?

They've been around for ages in Preston and the general North West.

 

[ninjaRiv]

Fucking scooters

 

[Ambitiousmould]

everywhere in the north of england

 

[ramboondiea]

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

 

[Hugh Wright]

Not many in Cheshire, mind you the pavements and roads are rough enough in a car with supension

 

[Snowbell]

Reporting in from Aberystwyth and I've seen no scooters.

Then again we're all students here so maybe there's not enough kids for me to notice it?

Perhaps on topic, I'd love to rollerblade around the town but the pavements aren't really flat nor wide enough