Electric Cycle Scooter Review
While having a car has its benefits in an urban sprawl, an electric bicycle is a much more affordable and efficient option for a college student. For one, college campuses are often laden with walking areas where cars cannot travel. Because of this, often students are forced to park their car in a parking lot, and walk to their classes. However, with electric bicycles, it’s possible to traverse the campus, and even avoid the expensive costs of parking. Let’s face it, car insurance is a real concern for a college student. Even those who have a perfect driving record pay an arm and a leg when compared to adults over the age of 30. With an electric bicycle, there’s no need to pay expensive car insurance dues, and that savings can be spent on books, tuition, or even entertainment! Electric bicycles can also travel significant distances on a single charge, and are great for traveling throughout the city while avoiding traffic and the cost and inconvenience of parking.
While there’s not a lot required to use an electric bicycle, it is necessary to have a solid bike lock. Don’t even bother with the reinforced cables, make sure to get a U shaped bar lock. These are the safest and will ensure the bike is secure while it is parked on campus.
For all those thrill seekers out there, kids and adults, here are a few gifts sure to get the adrenaline pumping and widen smiles.
~Electric ATVs; super fun for kids and adults, these machines will have you whizzing down the street or on a miniature race track.
~Skis and Snowboards; great for a trip to the slopes, or for those snowy winter days. For the unlearned, accompanying lessons can also be a great gift!
~Laser Tag Equipment; this is a fun game playable in a variety of environments by kids and adults; endless hours of indoor or outdoor entertainment.
While in college, I lived in New York City, and had a job at McGrady’s Colossal Pizza. Evan McGrady himself was one of the coolest bosses I ever had; he was strict about pizzas being delivered on time, but he was always courteous, funny, and passionate about his work. When I started at McGrady’s Colossal Pizza, I had a regular old bike to deliver pizzas, and when someone ordered the 22 inch colossal pizza for which McGrady’s was famous, I had a lot of trouble carrying it on my bicycle. Evan told me that his previous delivery boy had used an electric bike to save time and energy on pedaling.
I expected to have the job at McGrady’s for a while, so I bought an electric bike for myself and used it to deliver pizzas. The electric bike worked out great! I never found myself out of breath again (except after climbing eight story apartment buildings!). In addition, McGrady gave me a raise because he knew I had spent money on the electric bike and he also thought I was doing a great job!
There are numerous different factors that led to our current state of environmental pollution and climate change, but perhaps the largest contributor is automobiles. It’s a fact that all automobiles that run use petrol pollute the environment through releasing carbon into the atmosphere. But of recent, consumers have started to push back, demanding vehicles with cleaner emissions that don’t harm the environment. The major automobile manufacturers are all working on cars that are more gasoline efficient, and cars that run on alternative fuels. Electric power is one of the cleanest sources of energy, and while hydroelectric dams can cause some amount of pollution and can be of harm to native marine species, the impact is much less than that of automobiles. There are electric cars, electric scooter, and even electric powered bicycles that are all sensible options for reducing our impact on the environment.
While these vehicles aren’t designed for cross country travel, they’re great for all those day to day tasks driving around town. In addition, as more companies start to shift their focus towards electric vehicles, the technology will advance and one day provide the same benefits as automobiles that are powered through fossil fuels.
Scooters are fast becoming more popular with people who live in the city and are looking to save money on gas, car insurance, maintenance, and all the other expenses of owning an automobile. Electric scooters have become much more common on city streets in the past few years. These scooters are feasible for short and middle range travel, and are excellent for navigating city streets. Electric motor scooters are also great for parking in the city, as most of the time you don’t have to pay and can just lock up with a railing and keep your scooter secure. While these scooters can’t travel at significant speeds, they’re great for the city which tends to be packed with traffic.
Electric motor scooters save on all the costs of an automobile, and also provide a helping hand to the environment. In countries outside the U.S., automobiles are much less common on the road than bicycles, motorcycles, and electric motor scooters, and are much of the reasons these countries have less pollution. If everyone owned a scooter, imagine what a difference it would make in cities like Los Angeles!
Electric vehicles not only mean freedom from having to buy expensive gas and oil, freedom from smelly exhaust, freedom from loud noise but they are nearly maintenance free. At this time of the year the weather has gotten cold, wet and nasty. Most of us have had to put away our bicycles, scooters, mopeds for the winter. In the past if you had gasoline burners you had to add expensive chemicals so the gas wouldn’t go bad. Now days most of us are having to use Ethanol gasoline which attracts moisture and compounds the storage problems. Come Spring most of us have a hard time getting our vehicles started and running up to snuff. For a lot of us the Spring ritual required time and expense.
Not so with the new Electric vehicles
. I just park mine and cover them to keep them clean. Come Spring all I have to do is uncover them and give them a quick charge. They are ready and dependable plus they are not adding pollutants to our enviroment. Better yet if we have a couple days of good weather I can break them out and use them with out any problems or work.
With the high gasoline prices today, many people are looking for more efficient ways to travel, especially over short distances. Here are a few methods of efficient travel that are quick and won’t break the bank.
~Bicycles: the classic pedal machine, for short trips to the grocery or corner store it doesn’t waste gas, doesn’t pollute, and is also part of a healthy lifestyle.
~Electric Mopeds: for longer distances, electric powered mopeds are not a bad way to get around. With a helmet, they’re safe for kids and teens and can allow them to visit friends or nearby locations without parental transportation.
~Motorcycles: for adults and can be a more permanent solution for gasoline efficient travel. The typical motorcycle can get upwards of 60 mpg. They are great for getting to work or even traveling longer distances, as long as you don’t need to accommodate other passengers.
I was watching my grandson ride his little electric scooter and remembering when I would make a scooter out of a couple of 2×4’s and a roller skate. Then I got to thinking one of those might be good for me to use for short jaunts. My grandson got me to try it and it was a kick in the pants, but where would I put packages. He said they have some with storage compartments and seats, they also had Electric Bicycles. Then from the mouths of babes he said they even had a 3 wheel bike. He took me inside and he showed it to me online. It was the X-treme 420 Electric Three Wheel Bicycle. It appearred to be perfect for my life style. I live in a small area and most of my trips are less than 2 miles. We have a grocery store, hardware store, coffee shop, library, several resturants, auto parts store and other retail or service businesses within a four to five mile range. I hate to start up my truck or car for such a short trip. It’s hard on the engine never really warming up and what an expense for gas.
The idea of a bicycle just never caught on with me as I am getting older and I am usually hauling things around with me and pedaling a bike while doing that would be awfully hard and possible dangerous for me. But this electric three wheeler appeared to be stable and it had lots of safety features like brake lights, turn signals, head lights, and more. It also had a large storage compartment and an exterior rack, and easy to get on and off.
I ordered one and let me tell you it was ‘love at first ride’. It is fast and stable, no warming up the engine, and it is comfortaable to sit in the big drivers seat. The speed limit in town is twenty five mph and it nearly does that, and I can use the bike lanes legally. It is saving me a lot of gas. One of the other guys at the coffee shop got one not long after trying mine out. By the way that is the only problem, everyone wants to take it for a spin around the block.
signed,
’an old dog learns a new trick’
The Electric Bicycle has been completely re-invented. The electric bicycle of old was just a bicycle that someone bolted up an electric motor to and it turned one wheel through friction. Cheap, clever, and inefficient. Until recently there has been minimal improvement, they were still a conventional bicycle in most ways. Today’s new high tech electic bicycles are completely re-thought out and re-invented. Of course much of the credit goes to the new batteries and electric motors. Today’s batteries have much more power and storage capabilities. The newest motors are so much lighter and more powerful while being very efficient. The combination allows higher speeds, much improved mileage per charge, and greater reliability.
But the story doesn’t end there. The whole concept of Electric Bicycles has been changed. X-treme Scooters has redesigned them and made them look more like Motor Scooter/Mopeds. Motors are mounted integrally on the rear hub. They have full suspension front and rear giving a much more comfortable and stable ride. Tires are designed for a more stable and comfortable ride. Large brakes for safe stopping. You can now step easily through the frame and sit comfortably on a large padded seat. There are fairings to block the wind. Safety equipment included are mirrors, headlights, tail lights, brake lights, and turn signals. Most have multiple and/or large storage compartments. Pay loads of 250 to 350lbs accomodate up to two adults. They travel up to 20 miles per hour and 25 to 30 miles per charge. They charge on normal 110 volt outlets. They have pedals so in the rare event of no charge you can pedal them. The fact they have pedals is one of the best features because it allows them to be classified as a bicycle and can go anywhere a bicycle can legally go, plus you don’t need a drivers license or vehicle registration for them.(Federal Electric Bicycle Law HR727). Today’s Electric Bicycles are perfect for those short trips to the store, a friends house, school, or work, a weekend bike cruise, sight seeing on a trip, around the college campus. Clean, quiet, no gas, no emissions, ecologically sound. And at prices of only $600 to $2000 and nearly no operating expense they are economically smart as well.
Gearing Up for an All-Terrain Excursion
While many people in the Midwest look forward to hunting season because of the opportunity it provides them to take down a trophy buck and acquire some tasty venison, I enjoy the time for a different reason. Every year in November, I take my two sons out to our hunting camp for a weekend of bonding. We might spend an hour or two in the deer blind, but for the most part we’re out fishing, sitting inside playing cards or otherwise enjoying nature.
Last year I bought them a kids electric ATV, and now it’s all they talk about when the weather turns cold. They aren’t able to get much use out of the vehicle at home in the city, so our trips to camp become that much more special. I’m even considering buying a full-size ATV of my own. Perhaps it’s better to put that money toward the boys’ college education, though.
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