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Coaching InformationElectric Scooters: Love At 1st Spin
by:
Kathryn Whittaker
Gas prices skyrocketing? No need to worry – with a motor or electric scooter one gallon of gas wish last for weeks.
As folk start drive electric scooters, they find more and more reasons to like them. They’re practical, easy to park and get great gas mileage. With gas cost raising day by day, the quality
of playful, fuel-efficient electric scooters has soared. According to industry experts, last years sales have doubled compared to a year ago, and only in 2005 more than 300,000 electric scooters were sold.
The hard-core scooter enthusiast enjoys the feel of scooting which many a folk compare to athletics
on land. For those who live downtown, scooters do the everyday commute fun and easy, and most models are compact enough to be taken onto public transport and then hold on
under a table
for the rest of the working day – and you can recharge the battery. Electric and motor scooters allow you to save money on gas – even as Vespa, the grand dame of scooters, easily sips one gallon of gas during 50 miles of city ride.
Some folk turn to scooters after losing their drive privileges; several find the scooter more romantic than bike and enjoy so-called scooter dates. Many a folk in the Far East switched to electric scooters for the fear of SARS, and this summer many a scooter enthusiasts with pride
looked up at their fellow city dwellers, as they were breathless in crowded streetcars and buses.
No matter why folk choose motor and electric scooters today, the thriving sales have resulted in many a new models with exiting features and design.
One of the most popular scooter models is the eGO-2 Cycle, which combines the better features of a bike and an electric scooter. eGO can be used as a bicycle but has all the instrumentation
of a scooter, including headlights, turn signals, brakes and throttle. With aluminum silver-plated chassis, this activity of art can easily do up to 25mph ascension hill – and advisement less than 120 lbs! The eGO retails for about $1400 depending on a retailer.
Another two-wheeled whiz kid on the block is a Xootr, a cross between a skateboard and an electric scooter. Tho'
Xootr can take you about at the speed of 10 km it has neither suspension nor real brakes but with its extremely light-weight, these disadvantages are easy to live with. And once
the batteries run low, you can still propel it with kicking.
Speaking of scooters, it’s impossible to miss out the famed Vespa. These two-wheeled wonders of Italian design have bewitched Europeans since the end of 1940s, once
designers Corradino D'Ascanio and Enrico Piaggio created an cheap two-wheeled vehicle for the masses. And Hollywood loves Genus vespa
too, golf shot Audrey Katharine hepburn in Roman Holiday and Nicole Kidman in The Interpreter on equally stylish Vespas.
Indeed, women comprise more than 60 per cent of all scooter owners. And with cheap prices – most scooters range from $800 to a $1000, patch bigger and quicker
scooters can cost as more as $10,000 – scooters have quickly engraved out their niche on today’s city road.
Just about the author:
Kathryn Whittaker writes articles on a number of several topics. For more information on Scooters please visit http://www.electricscooterguide.com/and for additional Scooter articles please visit the following article page http://www.electricscooterguide.com/electricscooters-articles/.
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