Electric Cycle Scooter Review
Archive for December, 2009
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’
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