[anal_reactor]

I live next to a road and combustion-engine mopeds vary from "holy fuck this is loud" to "I can't wait to move out". I used to live close to an airport and that was much better. The specific noise that mopeds make drills into your head. Funnily, I'm never bothered by nails on chalkboard or cutlery on plate, but mopeds, holy fuck, if hell exists, it's full of mopeds.

[prmoustache]

I own a Piaggio 300cc Scooter, not called a Vespa because it is one of the big wheel variants (similar to Honda SH line) but it has the same engine as the Vespa 300GTS.

It is not at all noisy unless I rev it high, which I try to avoid doing most of the time. It is not loud like for instance a Yamaha T-Max, not helped by it attracting mostly complete retards.

Obviously there are always dumb people mounting akrapovic or other noisy aftermarket exhausts on any bike brand but it is also the same with cars.

[zakki]

Hell is exist but it is not full of mopeds.

[aziaziazi]

Of course, mopeds only runs on the vestibule, then lucifer and its friends wait on bigger and noiser bikes.

[mulmen]

Vespas aren’t mopeds.

[bootlooped]

For better or worse, probably worse, the definitions of both "moped" and "scooter" vary from person to person or jurisdiction to jurisdiction. "Moped" is often used to describe a light motorcycle.

[dmd]

Language changes. I guarantee if you ask 100 people to draw a moped, maybe 2 will put pedals on it.

[porknubbins]

Ive been riding scooters and motorcycles for 20 years and I to this day I have no clear image of what a moped might be. I always imagined a theoretical spectrum from pure bicycle -> gas motor equipped bicycle-> moped -> pure motorcycle, but have never encountered a moped.

[prmoustache]

Scooter do not have pedals, mopeds do, hence the name.

The Piaggio Vespa is a scooter. The Piaggio Ciao is a moped.

[mulmen]

No. Mopeds have pedals. That’s the “ped” part of motor pedal.

[bootlooped]

I'm not disagreeing with the origin of the word, I'm just saying it's expanded and changed.

Have you ever "shipped" something that at no point in its journey was carried on a floating vessel? Do you correct people when they say they're shipping something by ground or air?

[mulmen]

I’m a big advocate of two wheeled transportation. The differences between bicycles, e-bikes, mopeds, and motorcycles are important and meaningful. The misuse of terminology by entitled car drivers and the ignorant public literally kills people every day. Yes, I am aware people are wrong. No, I don’t care to compromise.

[bootlooped]

I'm not sure the difference between moped and scooter is killing people everyday. I don't think it is. Can you give an example?