Hunter Quad First in New York City / Electric Scooter Thread
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..i`m good
I know the chino from across the street next to laundromat not feeling this.
yep, scoot to your demise!
no fewer than 3 wheels for me.
no fewer than 3 wheels for me.
The new nyc… like I said mobile vechile city going on past several yrs… mad electric bikes ,scooters, etc… I got to show this to 1 of my boys cause he was just talking about buying either a e bike or scooter
Looks likes hella fast fun...them NYC streets..?
Im tryin to tell dudes, nyc is ebike and scooter fuckin heaven,
Especially in Manhattan around central park...
Got me a cheap throttle ebike on amazon for 999, and picked up a scooter
for a lil over a gee...
the scooter I got was the mercane wide wheel pro, bruh that fuckin throttle
just goes two speeds, zero and fuckin FAST....
and zipping through central park on that muthafucka got a knigga
feelin like batman....
lol
Oh yea that shit up there, has to be HEAVY as fuck..... looks fast.. but I aint trying to lug a hundred pounds
up and down subway stairs.....
supposed you run out of power and you miles from home..
you gotta lug that bitch....lol...
mine is heavy as fuck but managable at sixty pounds...
Unless you not keeping track of your power and distance no way you should run out of power when you out
Youd be surprised, sometimes you gotta take detours, sometimes they will tell you, hey this scooter gets
fifty miles per charge..
come to find out.. its only forty eight miles....
they do that shit a lot..
and that can easily throw you off...
and running out of power isnt the only thing,
you can get a flat if you have air tires and dont
put any sealant in it...
Always suppose to test it out first.. never try to over do it
thats the thing many brands caught a lot of people out there,
and they had to walk, thats normally the chinese brands,
which by the way, most scooters are just variations of cheaper
scooters you can purchase on ali baba...
there are few that are domestically manufacutred tho,
Id rather go with those, they tend to have better customer
service and you gonna need that if you purchase a scooter directly
from china, and you tech help... good luck with THAT shit...lol...
but the top brands like the segways ninbots and the xaomis or someshit like that..
they are going to be pretty fuckin accurate and they light as fuck,
you just wont be the fastest scooter on the block....
Looks like another scooter to me. 
If you have a scooter in NYC, and you plan to use it for street commuting, it needs to be capable of 20 mph. And really should have shocks on the front wheel at least.
I was given a Yadea KS5 Pro (Ninebot clone/upgrade). It’s a decent scooter, capable of matching speeds with traffic on side streets. Wheels large enough to take rough streets, cracks and small potholes. Nice size deck. About 15 miles range if you mix normal and max speed modes.
I discovered that:
1. Repair parts and mods are part of the game. Get a known brand or a manufacturer with good support and large aftermarket. Yadea is the worldwide leader in electric scooters and trying to break into kick scooter segment. Incredible support - but no aftermarket. No mods.
2. Consumer scooter lifetime is two years. They build them to last that long. They expect that you will buy a new one when battery reaches end of life. By that time your tires will be bald and the fenders and other plastic elements will be cracked. Try removing and replacing a tire…. Shit. Talk about labor intensive…. Buy a third party battery and watch the house burn down. Buy shit out of warranty and you might as well buy a brand new scooter. Especially if scooter was originally in the $700 range.
3. Pro scooters are more of a platform and should last faaar longer that a consumer scooter. But pro scooter is dangerous as fuck in a city like NYC. Potholes, car doors, fuckboys … so many ways to wipe out. You must wear a helmet and hard gloves if you are going more than 18mph. Pads if you are going more than 25. Motorcycle helmet, and maybe a backpack if you are going more than 30. But I don’t recommend faster than 25 on NY city streets with small wheels. Without a helmet, without any gear, it’s only a matter of time…
4. 3D printers are real useful for scooters. Every scooter shop needs to own a printer with a 300mm bed and some PetG/Carbon Fiber, PetG Kevlar, or ABS filament. You can design and print new fenders, deck elements and all sorts of replacement shit. I’m thinking about getting into this (via eBay or Amazon) but worried about liability if a fender fails and causes a crash. Fools try to use fenders as brakes when they are obviously not designed for that on midrange and above scooters. And a deck failure can lead to water infiltration and battery damage.
Scooters are fun as fuck, but the wild west…. In another few years they may need something like CC reqs for cycles. A 16 year old could ride that scooter in the video, in traffic, with no protective gear. Shits cray cray.
I was given a Yadea KS5 Pro (Ninebot clone/upgrade). It’s a decent scooter, capable of matching speeds with traffic on side streets. Wheels large enough to take rough streets, cracks and small potholes. Nice size deck. About 15 miles range if you mix normal and max speed modes.
I discovered that:
1. Repair parts and mods are part of the game. Get a known brand or a manufacturer with good support and large aftermarket. Yadea is the worldwide leader in electric scooters and trying to break into kick scooter segment. Incredible support - but no aftermarket. No mods.
2. Consumer scooter lifetime is two years. They build them to last that long. They expect that you will buy a new one when battery reaches end of life. By that time your tires will be bald and the fenders and other plastic elements will be cracked. Try removing and replacing a tire…. Shit. Talk about labor intensive…. Buy a third party battery and watch the house burn down. Buy shit out of warranty and you might as well buy a brand new scooter. Especially if scooter was originally in the $700 range.
3. Pro scooters are more of a platform and should last faaar longer that a consumer scooter. But pro scooter is dangerous as fuck in a city like NYC. Potholes, car doors, fuckboys … so many ways to wipe out. You must wear a helmet and hard gloves if you are going more than 18mph. Pads if you are going more than 25. Motorcycle helmet, and maybe a backpack if you are going more than 30. But I don’t recommend faster than 25 on NY city streets with small wheels. Without a helmet, without any gear, it’s only a matter of time…
4. 3D printers are real useful for scooters. Every scooter shop needs to own a printer with a 300mm bed and some PetG/Carbon Fiber, PetG Kevlar, or ABS filament. You can design and print new fenders, deck elements and all sorts of replacement shit. I’m thinking about getting into this (via eBay or Amazon) but worried about liability if a fender fails and causes a crash. Fools try to use fenders as brakes when they are obviously not designed for that on midrange and above scooters. And a deck failure can lead to water infiltration and battery damage.
Scooters are fun as fuck, but the wild west…. In another few years they may need something like CC reqs for cycles. A 16 year old could ride that scooter in the video, in traffic, with no protective gear. Shits cray cray.
right....
Hey, just know that one day you will come off that MF and wipeout! Just saying! Everybody gets one! Better hope yours is on a good day!
Like I said new New York… been like this for a few yrs now.. mobile electric vechile is probably 1 of the best modern tech that got added to nyc culture.. every Nyer like why we didn’t have shit like this in the 90s
Sometimes its ok to wish death on a muthafucka.
Word. Scooters and electric bikes are all over the city like bird shit and bubble gum stains. It's now common for me to step out anytime of the day or night and see a scooter or electric bike parked or left somewhere on the sidewalk or in the street uptown in the Bronx. Mind you I also remember up to 10 years ago when ebikes came out and Black people were summarily harassed and ticketed. However, not the Asians and Hispanics racing all over the fucking sidewalks delivering food.
I agree, they laced the uptown part of Bronx with them shits for no reason.
Man cool but dangerous.
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~thanx!
my motto - 3 wheels or more!
BUT - the Slingshot is a little too beyond the bike experience
I'm still amazed when I have to pull over on the highway for one, I'm doing 70 - 80...
5k? Nah man, get an awesome E bike for that price! May be good in a under 5 mile commute or if you was a chicken delivery boy but the price is going to get killed by the competition. Also you may as well suit up like you was riding a motorcycle cause when you hit that pavement…..