Maryland to ban scooters?

[King Vino]

(AP) Maybe. The Maryland general assembly is looking at the issue. Since Maryland like many other states have rather vague definitions pertaining to street legal vehicles. Pocket rockets have been banned in many cities in the state such as Frederick, Hagerstown and Cumberland. Cities are looking to do the same for scooters which are not equipped for slower speeds. The moped laws passed several years ago we designed for actual mopeds, two wheeled vehicles with pedals, no step through motorcycles. There is a possibility that scooters will be required to have scooter tags and a scooter endorsement on the license.

We'll wait and see...

[Elliott]

Is that you King Vino on that Avitar? :)

[marylandmark]

HAHAHHAH

LV and "The Ron" are look-a-likes!!!

Elise- are you really Jenna?

HAHAHAHHAH

Anyway- I am in MD and now that I have found a scooter shop to work on my bike I will be getting my MC permit soon- just easier than having to worry about all this mumbo-jumbo I think even if the MVA is a pain in the $^%^*(.

[Elliott]

Did it take long to find a Shop to work on your bike marylandmark

i could not find any shops at all!! HEHe

but thats good that you have MC Permit

i dont HEEHE :)

[marylandmark]

Well I thought I found a shop that would work on my bike but they don't touch any Yamahas...So that is out the window.

I am going to get my MC permit as soon as I need it but for right now I am too lazy. Once I am able to blaze past 50ish MPH without going down a steep hill I will get it.

[King Vino]

Mark where are you in MD? I know you're in southern MD, guessing, St. MNary's County?

Eliiot, I'm not Ron, and Elise, is Asian, so she certainly not as tall as Jenna, or as blonde!

[marylandmark]

I am in Charles County- LaPlata to be exact.

Remember the tornado? That was less than a mile from my house. Had the dude next doors mini-van fly through my front yard and into the house next to me.

Why? Are you tired of me belly-aching and want to stage me scoot for me?????

Asia Carrera just popped up in my head for some reason.....

[King Vino]

I know LaPlatta, we had a lodge there when I was in back in the day. It was kinda funny, Camp Springs chapter, the only all Asian membership in all of Maryland.

[marylandmark]

Even google doesn't know what a DeMolat is- what is it?

[Nik]

In California scooters are treated as motorcycles already. I don't see the big deal. Getting a license is easy and insurance/registration is cheap.

[King Vino]

Part of the reason scooters are so popular in most states is that they are registered as mopeds, there's a few freak states like CA :D that make a separate licensing class, but most states class them as a moped which had lead to a recent popularity spurt to them. One of the main reasons people are buying them in droves right now is that they only require an auto license to drive.

[XPS1210]

It's kinda funny you mention the freak states... My plates are "REGULAR MOTORCYCLE" plates...

no difference between mine and a R1...


However whats the difference if you can still ride them but have to license them as motorcycles and get a motorcycle drivers license? It's safer for the rider and the other vehicles around you anyway, RIGHT? :eek:

Just my change talking again...

[King Vino]

You know, I don't even try to figure out state laws anymore!

[Nik]

Part of the reason scooters are so popular in most states is that they are registered as mopeds, there's a few freak states like CA :D that make a separate licensing class, but most states class them as a moped which had lead to a recent popularity spurt to them. One of the main reasons people are buying them in droves right now is that they only require an auto license to drive.

Even so, I still see many of them everywhere. Though the laws do make the 125and up scoots a bit more popular, since there's no real benefit to 50cc models, unless you're a gearhead.

[King Vino]

I haven't seen more than two scooters over 50cc all year here except for the vintage scooters but those are the die hards, and older riders. Since the laws are on the east cost 50 and under require just an auto license that seems to have spurt the popularity as well as places like Pep Boys selling 50cc non-DOT street legal Geely's while telling parents that you do not need a license to ride, as well as minors under 16 can ride them on the roads legally. The reality is that in a couple of years the fad will again die as it always does, and 2/3rd of the scooter makers out there will disappear to Asia not to be heard from again for another decade.

[marylandmark]

Good is what I say-

I have had the good fortune of not being pulled over yet.

A cop pulls over a Pep Boys special one time and find out it is not legal then I am sure they will be pulling me over more just to check me out.

I do get cops breaking their necks looking at me but once they see the tag I think they assume I am legal.

[King Vino]

I think a lot of the cops know the street legals from the non legals. The nice YAMAHA lettering is a good heads up.

[XPS1210]

our scooters say yamaha...

Wow... I guess I should back off on the stickers!

I'll post a pic... half of my ZUMA is covered now...

[XPS1210]

here's y pics of my stickers

[King Vino]

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