![]() An ordinary motor-less scooter is also controlled by body position, similarly to a motorcycle or a combustion-engine scooter. Riding an electric scooter requires working actively with the whole body and constantly shifting your center of gravity. Your center of gravity and the scooter’s center of gravity are far apart, which is why the scooter and your body behave differently in borderline situations. With a scooter, it is very much the opposite. Unlike riding a bicycle when your center of gravity and the bicycle’s center of gravity are relatively close to each other, a fact greatly improving stability. Moreover, you stand on a scooter, which means that the weight is distributed in a different manner and always rests entirely on your feet. Your weight is distributed differently and the wheels are much closer to each other, which is why a scooter will never behave the same way as a bicycle. Even riding with a single hand on the handlebars is a dangerous experiment when it comes to riding a scooter. If you try doing it on a scooter, you will quickly find that it does not possess any such stability in the direction of travel. When you take your hands off the handlebars on a bicycle, such bicycle continues straight thanks to its large wheels and their gyroscopic effect. Scooters do not have large wheels that stabilize you by their gyroscopic effect. ![]() An electric scooter is a completely different vehicle type that behaves utterly different than anything else travelling on our roads or sidewalks.Įlectric scooters have nothing in common with bicycles! If you are an experienced bicycle rider, it does not say anything about your scooter riding skills. These days, the scooters can easily reach speeds not even cars or bikes are allowed to travel at inside a city, and for good reasons. ![]() “Well, it’s just a scooter… What riding technique are you talking about? Just step on it and ride!” – Actually, it’s not that simple. Electric scooter is utterly different Riding technique ![]()
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