I recently took a friend to watch his very first scooter racing practice session. “You guys are f&*^ing crazy” was his opinion. Over the years he’s ridden bikes and did briefly own a scooter. Riding a scooter is easy, but he thought riding one extremely fast was ’kin hard, and he’s basically correct. Riding a scooter is indeed inherently easy: just pull the clutch in, rotate the handlebar into gear, open the throttle and off you go. We
