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Each team has one scooter-borne child and a number of adults.
Each adult may only move within a marked-off section of track, a few metres long.
These sections do not overlap, but are separated by long adultless sections, preferably straight.
Each adult in turn takes hold of the front of the
scooter, runs a few steps to get up speed, then launches it, child and all, towards the next adult.
The child tries to stay on and steer. The child is allowed to push if they run out of power before reaching the next adult.
Scooter Butters
http://www.hardlyri...k/album%20page1.htm
A very pleasant group of fellows. [Twizz, Jun 07 2011]
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It's scarcely believable that this isn't already an Olympic event. |
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I thought it was already! |
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// launches it, child and all, towards the next adult // |
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Please provide more detail on the design of the trebuchet used. |
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I should add that the team is disqualified if their child doesn't cross the finish line with a big grin. A terrified rictus doesn't count. |
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This is actually going to be the main component of
the opening ceremony for the 2012 games. Seb Coe
is spearheading the fundraising campaign to raise
money to but the scooters. |
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How expensive is scooter-butting? |
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Scooter butting was, until recently, outlawed under the 1698 butting act. |
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Because of this, all scooter butting was carried out in back street establishments and experienced butters tend to be associated with the criminal fraternity. |
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Would the winning child be tested for botox? |
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Scooter-butting, while outlawed in 1698, remains the last direct remnant of the olde traditional sport of jousting, in which opposing knights errant face one another on Brighton promenade, astride their trusty Lambos. They each accelerate towards one another with the aim of delivering one critical head butt that will unseat the other rider and leave them ensprawled upon the tarmac to be picked up by the local ambulance service and hence to A&E. |
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Since the group has disbanded, it is probably now safe to mention the hardcore scooter-butters who used stripped-down Vespas and fought without the benefit of headgear. Some of the former members are believed to be associated with the Hardly Rideable Scooter Club (Link). |
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Sounds like the cycling madison, with cyclists tagging in their
partner with a hand-sling. Best cycling race there is, that
one. |
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Gosh, I enjoyed this idea. But, it brought to mind a
Vernonesque-flintstone mobile (Pebbles' scootching ina
'bam-bamlev-bumper car'). |
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Slalom course with cones for the more advanced kids. |
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I just realized, the sub-title should have been "It takes a village to race a child"... maybe. |
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