Cider and Scooters

[huskyteer]

Many thanks to porsupah for alerting me to Saturday's Cider Dog festival at the Miller, near London Bridge!

I went along with televassi and slightlyfoxed. We enjoyed a few decorous halves and some excellent writer chat, despite the efforts of the miniature digger which was eating the road a few metres from our table

Comments

[schnee]

They did have a comprehensive range of sweet, medium, dry and perry

Heh, this made me chuckle. I don't suppose "perry" is the next step after "dry", then? Moelleux, demi-sec, sec, brut... :P

[huskyteer]

Ah, no indeed! But it is worth remarking on that perry has got popular enough to be offered in several variants.

[venta]

I slightly fear asking this question, but I genuinely don't know: what is the actual difference between a scooter and a motorbike?

I'm still not sure where I stand on flavoured cider. I like cider, I don't want it to taste of "forest fruits" or "dark fruits" or any other red-flavoured fruit du jour. If strawberries want to get in on the cider action, they can go and do their own thing, like pears did. I make an exception for ginger, which is basically a condiment and not a fruit :-)

[huskyteer]

It is a perfectly reasonable question, since it's one on which many bikers are divided!

Certainly scooters are a subset of motorcycles, but it's hard to draw the line. Some characteristics of scooters:

- automatic (but older scooters have gears, and some newer bikes are autos)
- 'step through' rather than 'leg over' design (but I have to swing my leg over mine)
- small wheels (but not always)
- footboards instead of footpegs (but some large motorcycles have this)
- more weather protection, big fairing at the front + legshield
- large storage space under the seat (but not always)

My own machine, which is a Honda NC700D Integra, shares an engine and many components with the very much motorcycle-shaped NC700X and NC700S. It looks like a scooter next to bikes and like a bike next to scooters.

Mopeds have 50cc engines and may be bike-shaped or scooter-shaped. Ire is provoked when 'moped' is wrongly used for anything shaped like a scooter, e.g. my 700cc beast.

[venta]

Ok. I think I'll find it's a bit more complicated :)

I think I had confused scooter with moped, as I was exciting engine size to be the defining characteristic. And your machine looked far too grunty! Thank you fit explaining!

[huskyteer]

All that and I didn't even get round to the cider bit! I'm quite pro fruits in cider, especially blackcurrant, but then I liked alcopops...

[allaboutweather]

That parking job wasn't THAT bad. :O)

[huskyteer]

Technically, I parked first, so the other two are wrong!

[allaboutweather]

Ohhhh. XD

[sandman_jazz]

Sounds like a hell of a festival. There was a beer festival near me this weekend but I totally failed to go.

[huskyteer]

I had plenty of notice for this one - usually they pass me by completely, or I only find out about them when I have other plans!

[sandman_jazz]

It's only due to my shift pattern that was able to go. Had I still been working at the Kynn I wouldn't be able to go even if Iwanted too.

[sandman_jazz]

It's only due to my shift pattern that was able to go. Had I still been working at the Kynn I wouldn't be able to go even if Iwanted too.

[whitetail]

That building looks very last-century American.

[huskyteer]

Heh, I'd have called it 1930s British - it's quite similar to the Ace Cafe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Cafe