By Jeffrey the Barak. Scooters. I am obsessed with them. I have so far owned at least sixteen human-powered scooters and three electrics. The Flykly scooter is something altogether quite new. It seems to have checked many boxes from the wish lists of the scooter ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak Sometimes, as humans, we measure the value or worth of a hapless animal by how much money we can get from it. A performing whale is worth millions of dollars in ocean zoo admission fees. A dairy cow is worth thousands ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak. Recently in the-vu we reviewed the Zumaround Zum electric scooter and consequently we recently received a press release for a new German design, still in it’s capital crowdsourcing stage. The prototype Skujou Cruise looks great and the specs are excellent, so ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak. Edit: date 2019. This article was researched and written in 2015, shortly before the appearance of many fast electric scooters with full suspension and smaller tires. In this article we are coming from the perspective of rigid frames and large bicycle ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak. One of the tallest, A Phoenix Session 2015 Just lately I have been finding that riding a scooter for a few miles is too tiring to be all the fun it should be, so I have taken to using a bicycle ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak Readership of the-vu is quite small these days. A few dozen reads per day are all we see, from everywhere in the world. Back in the early days, when the-vu was one of just a handful of Internet magazines, we had ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak. For the last thirty years or so, I have been slightly unwell. A constant pressure, bloating, inflammation. The ever present acid inside. I have taken pills and put up with it, and even become used to it except when it really ... Read More

After more than fifteen years of keeping every post and every comment, except in a few cases where an author requested that the article be unpublished, the-vu did a little cleaning up today. One entire section of articles was removed. It was prominent many years ... Read More

Not mine! Not mine! By Jeffrey the Barak I am a happy owner of a gasoline engined, Volkswagen Rabbit, (USA Golf Mark V), that I bought new in 2008, and which is in near perfect condition with exceptionally low mileage. It has more value to ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak Walking around the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show gives us the opportunity to see cars, almost every type of car. Even the marques who choose not to display here are usually to be found in the aftermarket hall. The big newcomer ... Read More