I went to work on the GTS today. A bitch in the office called it a moped. She can wash her own mug now, I'm done with her lol

Blasphemy!!

Of course you should get annoyed....but idiots even call Tmaxs mopeds! At least there are 50cc Vespas....

Ah! My favourite subject! I've had a Burgman 400 called a moped.

In my opinion there are two reasons for the 'moped' thing. Firstly ignorance. People just don't know what a moped is and are unaware of the legal definition. 50cc/30 mph. So they call any scooter a moped because it has an open step-through frame and thus fits with their image of what a moped should be. The other one really p's me off. People who call a scooter a moped because it isn't a 150 mph race-rep. Been watching too much World Superbikes on the telly, and 'it's only a scooter.' Almost invariably this sort of people have never owned a bike themselves. Either that or they 'used to.'

A moped surely should have pedals to propel it? For a moped my Burgman seems to go faster than most of the cars driven by these wankers drive.

By the same token I look at their £50/60K car & think/say it's just a tin box.

I had a customer come round in a yellow Ferrari. Wasn't too impressed when I commented that it was the same colour as my skip.

rayb wrote:I had a customer come round in a yellow Ferrari. Wasn't too impressed when I commented that it was the same colour as my skip.

Nice one! Bet that brought him down a peg or two!

Burgman1958 wrote:

rayb wrote:I had a customer come round in a yellow Ferrari. Wasn't too impressed when I commented that it was the same colour as my skip.

Nice one! Bet that brought him down a peg or two!

Probably an ex-customer now though.

rayb wrote:I had a customer come round in a yellow Ferrari. Wasn't too impressed when I commented that it was the same colour as my skip.

...and they say that the era of good customer service is dead....