{"id":10958,"date":"2015-11-25T12:46:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T12:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10958"},"modified":"2015-11-29T20:46:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T20:46:53","slug":"two-wheeled-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10958","title":{"rendered":"Two-wheeled confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw a smart scooter today.<\/p>\n

It was in Royal Blue, with the Union Jack boldly painted across the front.<\/p>\n

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I mean it was a big paintjob, not that it was a bold decision to paint the UJ on a Shanghai scooter.<\/p>\n

Obv.<\/p>\n

The thing that made this particular scooter stand out, though, wasn’t the trim.<\/p>\n

What made it stand out was the way it was being confidently, nay, assertively ridden,\u00a0through the wall of pedestrians, as they went about their business.<\/p>\n

It seems to be accepted practice here, that scooters, like pushbikes, and electric bikes, can thread their way, at speed, through the near impenetrable wall of footists.<\/p>\n

Yes, it is a word.<\/p>\n

Do keep up.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

I reckon the reason why the cyclists, mopedists, and electric bikeists use the pavements, is because duelling with pedestrians is considerably less life-threatening than duelling with the wall of metal, that slowly\/speedingly grinds\/darts its way through the city streets.<\/p>\n

None of the two-wheeled brigade have any lights.<\/p>\n

This makes an evening constitutional somewhat more of a challenge than back in the UK.<\/p>\n

I managed to get some photographic evidence.<\/p>\n

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\"Shanghai<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Shanghai<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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