By Jeffrey the Barak. Before buying the S2020, and based on my usage, I had decided that a modest Yedoo City (a 1612 BMX style scooter) or one of its limited edition variants would be perfect for me, but with more expensive shipping from other sources, it would have cost more than the considerably more… Read More Yedoo S2020 Scooter Review
By Jeffrey the Barak. Towards the end of this ever-expanding article I have added edits updating to this year, but the article was first published in 2015 under the original title “Half a Century of Scooting”. Edits are ongoing, so this article is like a blog in itself. Written in 2015: I may have a… Read More Six Decades of Scooting
By Jeffrey the Barak. This article was written in 2012 but has been revised and shortened in 2022, because while ten years has brought new categories and new considerations, the original article had a little too much detail. As I begin this rewrite, I am also moderator and admin on a Facebook group called Let’s… Read More Kick Scooter Classifications
By Jeffrey the Barak. Why is this article here? the-vu has been publishing articles about scooters for two decades, mostly written by myself. Lately, reviews and descriptions have been commonplace on YouTube and in many ways a YouTube video is a better way to get information about scooters and scooting. However, there are so many… Read More Things to consider before you buy a scooter
By Jeffrey the Barak I recently gave up scooting electric. I suddenly felt that being out in the street with the traffic and riding at anywhere between 12 and 27 miles per hour (19 to 44 kilometers per hour) was too risky for a man my age. In fact on one of my last rides,… Read More Using a Pro Street Scooter for Sidewalk Cruising
By Jeffrey the Barak. Yesterday I sold my Kickbike CruiseMax. I got a good price for it, and today I can say for the first time in many years, that there is not one single kick scooter in my stable. There is a car and an electric commuter scooter, but no kick scooter. So what?… Read More Stepping off the footboard
By Jeffrey the Barak. A personal transportation device can be anything that gets a person around town, without a car. It could be the common, world-changing, bicycle, but we all know about those machines. This article introduces a passion of mine, personal transportation devices that are not bicycles. In many of my scooter reviews and… Read More Personal Transportation Devices for the 21st Century
By Felix Dorling. “Scooters are for kids aren’t they?” I’ve received mixed responses since bringing my new scooter into the office but it doesn’t bother me one bit. My commute to work used to be a minefield of car dodging, maneuvering between buses and avoiding those pesky white vans but since I swapped my bike… Read More The new all-terrain commuter scooter
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 tires. This design approach is nearly extinct in 2019. But… Read More Zumaround Zum Electric Scooter Review
By Jeffrey the Barak. 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 for these intermediate to long distances. Now with a bicycle being a machine, it will give you about… Read More Freestyle Pro-Scooters without the tricks?
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