Over the last year or so I have seen an increasing number of people riding mopeds/scooters/ motorcycles with one foot (and sometimes both feet) just above the ground. I am not talking about being at a virtual standstill but at speeds above walking pace. The reason I find it scary it that when I broke my leg some years ago there was a guy in outpatients who had done just exactly that. Unfortuneately his foot had dug into the road and in his own words he had polevaulted using his leg. This resulted is a very unpleasnat compound hip fracture as his femur had been forced into the pelvis. Extremely nasty! So why do people do it?