Herodotus wrote in
:

Have you experienced any difficulties with the authorities regarding
riding such about?



About the first time you rode a GoPed down the dock, you'd probably find
your boat adrift up in the marsh the next day. The engined peds are
very noisy and THAT will make them raise hell on the docks at any marina
I know of.

My ped is:

http://store.monstermotorscooter.com/pb-sm816s.html

and it works just fine for riding around the neighborhood, up to the
bank or a nearby diner for breakfast (much to their dismay...(c. It
has two 12V 12AH AGM batteries in series (24V) with an automatic quick
charger that will recover it in 4-8 hours quite nicely. The batteries
are in a little carrier case with handle and you can add more units if
you want to quick change them and keep riding. It's not really
necessary. It runs about 8 miles at 16 mph on a charge. About as far
as I ride it is to the garage that takes care of my truck. I take the
truck up in the morning, ride the scooter about 6 miles home to its
charger, ride it back up when they call and load it back into the truck
for the trip home.

If you run low on power, you can always let it sit for an hour and
probably make it back as the AGMs recover from being loaded. If you
have a long ways to go, you can ALWAYS BACK OFF ON THE THROTTLE. At
double walking speed, around 1/2 throttle, I've never run it dead. At
WOT, 8 miles.

The chain drive 450W motor will pull my 260# carcass up a fairly steep
grade from my house on the river up the hill to the main part of the
neighborhood....but not at 16 mph...(c;

Coming out of the neighborhood, there is a sidewalk made for electric
scooters sold to old people with restrictive walking. This keeps the
cops off me as I point out all the money we spent making the sidewalks
ELECTRIC SCOOTER FRIENDLY, when stopped. The kids have a T-shirt that
says, "Skateboarding is NOT a CRIME!" I agree.

I rarely put the seat or basket on it. It rides better if you're
standing up on it, which is really easy, with your knees slightly bent
to absorb the shocks of the heaved up sidewalks and speed bump
jumping...(c; I can get some air off the speed bumps...(c;

Take the seat off, push back on that big release handle and the front
folds over the rear tire and locks in place so the steering post becomes
the lifting handle. A grownup can carry it for a few feet, but two 12AH
AGM batteries and the nice steel construction isn't light...

One tire got a bulge in it, so I replaced the original tires with lots
nicer tires from a local scooter store ($25 ea installed) and they
increased my range and speed because they run higher pressure and have
lots lower resistance (steel belted radials!).

When you got it on the dock, don't use the kickstand. Fold the handle
down so the front of the scoot is sitting on the dock and cannot fall
over if some wiseass rides by waking the floating dock. The XLR
microphone jack the charger plugs into has a nice cover to protect it.

There's lots of nice electric scooters from GoPed, Xtreme, Ego to choose
from. Buy one that has LOCAL SERVICE where you live.....

They never hassle me riding the very quiet electric down the dock.
Forget the gas scooters as they'd never allow them....too fast...TOO
LOUD!!