#42

"What do you see when you look at me, Manny? I’ll tell you what. You see me and you think to yourself, “Hey! There’s Evan. He’s a young guy. He listens to the Stereophonics, he rides a scooter - LETS SEE HOW FAR I CAN PUSH HIM!”

#43

I’m getting a lot of pushback on the concept of scooting here

#44

Also, as a 6ft7 BURMA, commuter scooters are just one of life’s little pleasures/embarrassments that I cannot participate in. Impossible to not look completely ridiculous riding one of those with my Greek god like stature

#45

Missed this thread initially. Good to see that DiS continues to be incredibly conservative about non-motorised forms of transport.

I’ve got a push scooter. Comes in handy for short trips, plus the kids like to scooter to the park/library/swimming so it’s nice to be able to join in. Has come in handy a couple of times also with tricky parking - drop the family off, park a couple of miles away, grab scooter out of boot and roll back. They take up very little room when folded so convenient to have around the place.

That said, obviously a bike has much greater range/flexibility. But then again, why not both?

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#46

This is what I was thinking, but I can’t afford to get both right now so I need to pick whichever one makes most sense. Thanks for validating the scooter idea though, that is literally the exact scenario I had in mind.

#47

Can you just get a cheap £80 second-hand bike? That would be my instinctive response to this, but just noticed your workplace does the cycle hire scheme.

My instinct would be to just get a bike, but then I’ve never used a scooter, so am probably not the person to ask. I’ve changed my vote in the OP from the slightly-Tory option, partly due to @petagno’s post…

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#48

Just got back from Paris, where there is a complete plague of electric scooters for hire in the centre. Fucking nightmare stuff with nobheads whizzing around pavements, roads, bridges, sometimes two to a scooter. Bar owner told me there were something like 50 fatalities within a couple of months of them being introduced.

#50

Well I mean, that’s obviously irresponsible

#51

when i was in paris the other week, google maps kept suggesting that i hire a scooter and kept telling me how much quicker i’d get to places.

obvs on the pavements they’re terrible but they really should legalise them for road use here imho.

#52

“stupid Cupid, stop picking on me” for me

#53

Not just your ho, also the ho of London’s Transport Commissioner.

You still wouldn’t catch me dead, or more accurately alive and then quickly dead on one in London traffic.

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#54

I have two scooters and a bike. The bike is for fun and local travel, the scooters are for the commute/other train travel. The small one is this one and I use it for ad-hoc travel when I don’t want to be encumbered and/or don’t know the area I’m going to. The larger scooter still folds up but has 16" pneumatic tyres and rides like a dream. Being able to alternate between road and pavement in London when the traffic feels unsafe is great. It’s also almost half the weight of a Brompton. I love it.

My main piece of advice is not to buy new unless you’re particularly flush with cash. People are always trying scooters, deciding they’re not for them, and selling them on. You can always pick one up second hand.

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#55

Would like to hear a geordie say commuter scooter, I think

#56

I’m being won back around to scooters!

#57

I was wondering how well those things handle the more challenging potholes around London.

#58

bus > walking > real bike > brompton > skateboard >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> scooter >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> electric scooter >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> rollerblades

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#59

>Raditude

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#61

>>>>>cars

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#62

Might be that daft but it’s not that small. It’s basically a BMX with a flatbed rather than a frame.

I have no objective view of how it looks. It is genuinely fun but it also shaves so much time off my commute I wouldn’t stop doing it for anything. Probably my best decision this year.