Cool new scooter

[shmokes]

http://www.retrothing.com/2005/08/surgical_steel_.html

I might just get one of these.  It's cheap and for a scooter, damn cool looking.  And at only 18 Mph it's pretty safe for a motorbike.  I live in a pretty small town and share a car with my wife.  This would erase most of the inconveniences that go along with that sharing.

The thing only weighs 70 lbs and folds up pretty small.  A helluva a lot better than a Segway, that's for sure.

edit:  Oh yeah....it's $1000

[ChadTower]

If we see you riding that thing, even Paige is going to throw rocks at you.

[Stingray]

I just bought a full sized truck for $500. Okay it's a little heavier than that, and it doesn't fold up at all. Paige won't throw rocks at me when I drive it however. Well maybe he will, but it's already so beat up that I won't care.

-S

[shmokes]

But the truck takes gas which is expensive.  And it takes insurance, which is REALLY expensive.  The truck would certainly eliminate all the inconveniences that go along with sharing a vehicle with my spouse, but it would also eliminate all the benefits.


And I won't hold it against you for throwing rocks at me.  People who drive things like this deserve it.  Hopefully I will dodge most of them.

[ChadTower]

IMO, medical coverage for one of those should be about 5x the cost as for a car... if Stingray comes along and hits you in his truck, you're going to be FUBARed.

Plus, the stitches you'll get from being hit by golf ball sized rocks all the time.

[fredster]

It's like the car on the jetsons.
 

[ChadTower]

The car on the jetsons had a huge plastic bubble.

[Dartful Dodger]

From the article:

Best of all, you won't look like a complete dork riding one. Hell, it might even get you a few dates.

If you don't look like a complete dork people don't throw rocks at you.

[ChadTower]

I went to the company website looking for a picture of a person riding it.  They do not have one.  That would imply to me that they do not feel secure in their ability to get a cool looking person pictured riding one.

Thus, one would look like a dork.  One would not get dates, one would get rocks.

[Avery]

The way things are going, if you drive a pickup truck you won't be able to afford rocks.

A Trek 7200 will only run you about $400 though and you can cash in on that Lance Armstrong thing.

[Dartful Dodger]

A Trek 7200 will only run you about $400 though and you can cash in on that Lance Armstrong thing.

..but will it get you dates?

[ChadTower]

The same amount of dates as a $500 pickup truck, at least.

[monkeybomb]

Be sure and get the right hat for that bike.

[ChadTower]

And, appropriately, no shirt.  Flaunt those mantits proudly.

[Stingray]

The same amount of dates as a $500 pickup truck, at least.

Hey, I'm married. I don't need dates, what I needed was a way to get my boat to the lake.

-S

[TOK]

You'd get pulled over within 10 minutes riding that around where I live.
Make sure you local laws allow you to ride it on the side of the street or sidewalk. Wouldn't be a bit surprised if they don't. 
You could also get a really nice mountain bike for less than a grand, and wouldn't look like a tool riding it.

[ChadTower]

He would if he dressed up in the ugly spandex crap and pointy helmet that the riders in my town insist on wearing.

Seriously, you're riding 5 miles on sidewalks, why do you need to dress up in $350 of bright yellow spandex?

[TOK]

He would if he dressed up in the ugly spandex crap and pointy helmet that the riders in my town insist on wearing.

Seriously, you're riding 5 miles on sidewalks, why do you need to dress up in $350 of bright yellow spandex?

Thats a whole 'nother mess! 

[Stingray]

I'm sure their moms think they're cool.

-S

[ChadTower]

I do a good bit of trail biking, but I use regular clothes, a regular helmet, and have an old mountain bike that was cheap in 1990.

[shmokes]

I bet you had some serious aerodynamics problems.

I wouldn't get pulled over here.  I'd stick to the neighborhoods (at 18 mph I'd kinda have to).  Honestly, I doubt I'll get one, but I really would like to have one.


Oh yeah....Can anybody here tell me WTF Fredster is talking about?

[fredster]

caUSE IT folds up

[melarky]

You're in Utah shmokes, and I think any motorized vehicle needs to be registered "technically".  I'm in Utah too and I have a little 49cc moped that I got a ticket on (it only goes about 20 mph too, 25 mph down hills ).  When I asked DMV about it they said any motorized vehicle needs to be registered (which is pretty stupid as most mountain bikes can go faster than my moped).  Just an FYI...

[shmokes]

caUSE IT folds up

LMAO....does it?  Haven't seen that show in a while, I guess.  Which brings up two questions:

1- What's with the smiley from your original post, the one who looks like he's about to vomit or, possibly, burst out laughing.  (My clothes and portable/wireless keyboard also fold up, by the way)?  What is that smiley doing, BTW?

2- Why did you capitalize USE IT?

[ChadTower]

Yeah, the Jetsons car does fold up into a briefcase when he jumps out.

[Bones]

I no longer have any respect for you shmokes.

[shmokes]

Oh.....JETSONS!!!  I thought he said Jem and the Holograms.  Yes, Jetsons.  Of course his car folds up into a briefcase.  Everybody knows that.   

[shmokes]

Or...if that wasn't it....

Pfft....I was wondering if anybody would fall for it.  Yeah....I would never be seen in public on one of those things.

[ChadTower]

yo wut

sofa king

i punch ya plums

[DrewKaree]

a 600W electric motor capable of propelling you or your loved ones to a peppy 18 mph (29 km/h).

With a range of up to 18 miles, the IKOO is the ideal vehicle for a commute to the train or across campus.

So this is the ideal vehicle to get to and from......other modes of transportation?

Dude, you'd be better off getting a skateboard, then Chad might not throw rocks at you!

My question is how long it takes to recharge.  If 18 miles is its max range, and it takes a friggen HOUR to get that far at TOP SPEED (I can just feel the wind blowing through my back hair now ) why wouldn't you just get a bicycle and do the REALLY tree-hugging frog-licking dirt-eating thing and save the planet by not wasting the electricity to charge that thing?

[missioncontrol]

let's see

Stingray's $500 gas hogging truck has the ability to haul cabinets.....

Shmokes $1000 18 m.p.h. scooter makes him target practice......

I think I'd stick to the truck.........

[ChadTower]

I can see Stingray driving his truck, with a power inverter, with a guy in the back playing two cabs at 30mph, and another guy throwing rocks at the scooter on the sidewalk.

[missioncontrol]

I can see Stingray driving his truck, with a power inverter, with a guy in the back playing two cabs at 30mph, and another guy throwing rocks at the scooter on the sidewalk.

That is a funny visual to have in your head........

[Stingray]

I can see Stingray driving his truck, with a power inverter, with a guy in the back playing two cabs at 30mph, and another guy throwing rocks at the scooter on the sidewalk.

60 mph.

-S

[missioncontrol]

better yet just keep driving circles around him......

 

[Sephroth57]

Worst. Episode. Ever.

[missioncontrol]

 

[ChadTower]

60 mph.

Now how are you going to play Ms Pac Man at 60mph?  What is more important, gameplay or travel time?  If you have a good game then travel time doesn't even matter!

[Stingray]

60 mph.

Now how are you going to play Ms Pac Man at 60mph?  What is more important, gameplay or travel time?  If you have a good game then travel time doesn't even matter!

Hey don't ask me, I'm just the one driving the  truck.

-S

[Thenasty]

let me see a pic of you hauling a cabinet with that thing