I see many of these every day. There are now too many illegal escooters for such low numbers of Police to seize, I expect they'll talk tough saying they'll send in the army. Again. I doubt that modifications to make them legal, will be possible on many of these escooters.
Have you seen a kid on a standard non motorized scooter. They go a hell of a lot faster than that guy on his Escooter. They bomb around, caution to the wind.
I disagree, he should have looked obviously, but he's coming out from the rear passenger seats, so he has no mirrors to look out. For him to have acted deliberately, you'd have seen the door open, his head pop out, swivel backwards, then swing it open fully. He opened the door, then pushed it wide.
It's too late, the genie is out of a bottle which never had a stopper. They'll impound a few for publicity/scare tactics but so long as people can buy them, they'll use them, largely untroubled by too few cops. They all seem to be sold with such different specs - speed limits, power (up to 1000W, 30mph+). I can't see that many can be made to conform to any sensible set of new escooter laws which don't require licensing, number plates and insurance.
Great post and video Batman. Also very true.
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A 1000W scooter could tow much heavier trailers, than my 250W bbs01b converted bike can. In the unlikely event that the government make all escooters legal "In use" at under 15.5mph, irrespective of motor power (or some limit substantially higher than 250W - there are so many high powered models about, they must be a sizeable proportion of those in use, and too many for cops to seize) I might buy one, and try to adapt a trailer to attach. A 1000W escooter trailer tower would have to have fat tyres, deep treads, several gears, a hitching point or structure welded or bolted on, and probably at least three wheels?
Recorded using a Sennheiser MKE-400 condenser mic and no processing, but it doesn't pick up low voice frequencies well enough. I use that voice when answering calls, it gets rid of telemarketers fairly quickly when I say things like "I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE" and "I WILL FIND YOU AND KILL YOU" lol. They're telemarketers, and can't prosecute me for making "Death threats" from wherever they are. There's a gravelly bit deep in everyone's voicebox, which when the lower throat is opened and the muscles higher up are tightened, produce that tone.
I have never seen an issue with the 16" wheels on my Brompton, its stable and safe when ridden properly.
