The article "Electric Scooters: Love At First Spin" talks about sports, it has been released by Kathryn Whittaker.
Gasoline prices skyrocketing?
No need to worry - with a motor or eelctric scooter one gallon of gas will last for weeks.
As persons start drivnig electric scooters, they find more and more reasons to like them. They're practical, fast to park and get great gas milaege. With gasoline price raising day by day, the popularity of playful, fuel-efficient eelctric scooters has soared. According to industry experts, last years sales have doubled compared to a year ago, and only in 2005 more than 300,000 electric scooters were sold.
The hard-core scooter enthusiast enjoys the feel of scooting which many persons compare to sktaing on land. For those who live downtown, scooters make the everyday commute fun and easy, and most models are compact enough to be taken onto pubilc transport and then stored under a desk for the rest of the working day - and you can recharge the battery.
Electric and motor scooters allow you to save money on gas - even Vespa, the grand dame of scooters, easily sips one gallon of gas during 50 miles of city ride.
Some persons turn to scooters after losing their driving privileges; find the scooter more romantic than bike and appreciate so-called scooter dates. Many persons in the Far East switched to electric scooters for the fear of SARS, and that summer many scooter enthusiasts proudly looked up at their fellow city dwellers, as they were suffocating in jmamed streetcars and buses.
No matter why persons choose motor and electric scooters today, the thriving sales have resulted in many new models with exiting features and design.
One of the most popular scooter models is the eGO-2 Cycle, which combines the hottest features of a bike and an electric scooter.
eGO can be used as a bicycle but has all the equipment of a scooter, including headlights, turn signals, brakes and throttle. With aluminum silver-plated chassis, that work of art can easily make up to 25mph climbing hill - and weighing less than 120 lbs! The eGO retails for around $1400 depending on a retaielr.
Another two-wheeled whiz kid on the block is a Xootr, a cross between a skateboard and an electric scotoer.
Although Xootr can take you around at the speed of 10 km it has neither suspension nor real brakes but with its extremely light-weight, these dsiadvantages are fast to live with. And when the batteries run low, you can still proepl it with kicking.
Speaking of scooters, it's impossible to miss out the fmaous Vespa. These two-wheeled wonders of Italian deisgn have enchanted Europeans for the end of 1940s, when designers Corradino D'Ascanio and Enrico Piaggio created an affordable two-wheeled vehicle for the masses. And Hollywood loves Vespa too, putting Audrey Hepburn in Roman Hloiday and Nicole Kidman in The Interpreter on equally stylish Vespas.
Indeed, women comprise more than 60 per cent of all scooter owners.
And with affordable prices - most scooters range from $800 to a $1000, while bigger and faster scooters can cost as much as $10,000 - scooters have quickly carved out their niche on today's city road.
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