Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: Re: GoPeds and broken bones

Author: Skip & Jane

Date: Apr 18, 2004, 8:17 AM

Post ID: 1716575405



The cops down here around Tampa, started handing out 100 dollar tickets
around Xmas for kids on Gopeds, after a few got hit by cars. They have
slacked off now that the story has died down. One of the local old bike
shops started selling them and I was told they can hop them up to run 50
mph. That is a little fast for a 2 wheel skateboard. One bump on those 6
inch wheels and it is by by


Skip & Jane Kologiski
Bird at The Wheel Vintage Motorcycle Stuff
http://home.earthlink.net/~kkologiski/bird.html
Central Florida Reps for the MGNOC (Moto Guzzi National Owners Club).
----- Original Message -----
From: "tom short" <TSh-@phx.devry.edu>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 6:44 PM
Subject: GoPeds and broken bones


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Last night at 11, I heard the nieghbor kids riding thier gopeds around
the block. I heard them coming around again, then quite, then shouting.
I knew that they had crashed. I got up out of bed and grabbed a
flashlight.

As I jogged across the front yard, I could see a group of kids and a
pile of gopeds. One young lad was crying loudly and clutching his arm.
Another boy just lay quietly on the curb, wincing in pain. Both boys,
age 12, had a broken arm.

They were riding two up on two gopeds and 'bumped' into each other,
dumping one of the gopeds and its riders.

I called 911 and got the fire dept rolling, they arrived in about 5 min.
I told the oldest boy to go home and get his parents, and he said that
they were not home, but at work! The FD took the boys to a local
hospital for casts, and prolly a good chewing out by thier folks
whenever they arrived!

The Arizona Kid
LFL 001

Tom Short
AZ MGNOC Rep
Phoenix, AZ

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