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Electric Kick Scooter does 60: Safe?

TylerW said:
I don't really care about legality in this case. Those 200mph hyperbikes have proper geometry to be manageable at those speeds. I wouldn't trust this vehicle's geometry to go above 25-30. Those tiny wheels and steep rake look like an instant recipe for injury.
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Agreed. But the engineering on these things seems pretty trick. These aren't kids Razor scooters with a motor strapped on. Full suspension and two drive drive with full hydraulic brakes? Wow. The really expensive one has an interesting stiff notched steering system to prevent steering wobble. Would be fun to try.
 
TylerW said:
I don't really care about legality in this case. Those 200mph hyperbikes have proper geometry to be manageable at those speeds. I wouldn't trust this vehicle's geometry to go above 25-30. Those tiny wheels and steep rake look like an instant recipe for injury.
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This. At that wheel diameter all it takes is one pothole / one of the cracks or bumps on 101 (like, for example, the fucking miniature model of the Colorado Rocky Mountains between the #1 and #2 lanes right by Moffett).

Let alone the whole getting mushed between vehicles / sucked into a backdraft throwing you off balance issues.
 
berth said:
CHP pulled me over once on the freeway on my Riva 180. Made a claim that it wasn't freeway legal talking some nonsense about wheel size and brakes.
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That just means, they, CHP, been reading too much bBARF, and learned that small wheels are unsafe!!

.. I mean look at the OP and other threads.

Cool scoot though. Would be probably fine for city speeds. And considering the OP vid is shot in a city..highway…
 
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The problem with these scooters is that the stopping capability is significantly less than anything else on the road. The first time the traffic around them goes into hard stopping mode they are going to be in deep trouble with only luck being between them and the hospital or the morgue.

Yeah, it can go fast, but it's not built to deal with anything unexpected.
 
I've used one of those Bird scooters before. They're not even remotely as fast as these but even the slow speed they can get up to felt like a problem.

Walking through downtown cities recently like San Diego, LA, Austin, San Antonio, I've seen a ton of people crash and fall using them.
 
A lady I took the CALTRAIn with rode her BICYCLE with a full face helmet now after face planting....her bicycle helmet didn't do shit and this was a push bike. Her doctor says he sees a law of jaw damaged bicyclists.

Anyway yeah I don't even max out my ebike past 18ish without a clear straight. I don't want to die.
 
sanjuro said:
.. I had to brake from 40 to 18mph on a steep descent, which I did in about 5 seconds, maybe 40 feet distance.

I don't think I could do that on a kick scooter.
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You could probably go from 40mph to 0mph in less time on the kick scooter, but it would likely be painfully. Like stated in the OP, the wheelbase is too small to negotiate uneven terrain at that speed, like commonly experienced potholes or debris.
 
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