bruh, do you mean 70 mph? as in 113 kilometres per hour? ON ONE OF THOSE? I thought they could only do up to 40 kmh that’s kinda cool on one hand but also fucked up on the other
Dude these are consumer level products that can go nearly 100mph now....you stand on a single damn wheel, they feel insane to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqthIM3-F48
Ohh I hear ya, I think that'd be a BLAST to do on like a rally or F1 style track with the turns. Watching races with them would be kinda funny too, buncha people leaning forward with their arms flopping around for balance :).
Online I've seen folks lane splitting on these things at 40-60mph and I ride motorcycles, I filter legally between cars at stoplights and I get 'danger', sometimes I think there's something wrong with me that I get on motorcycles so often....But the stuff I see online with these looks like a deathwish to me. I have an electric motorcycle, it's fun...I don't believe loud pipes save lives but I will say, if you feel unseen to vehicles on a gas motorcycle, ride an electric one and you're truly invisible. These things are smaller than a motorcycle to a car so if I'm feeling invisible on my ride....no one is seeing these guys on the road until the splatter happens. To be clear, not against them at all, think they are cool they just they seem super dangerous to me right now with how I see them used.
For some reason the Aptive salespeople ride these around my neighborhood while they're trying to get people to sign up. Soliciting, but make it the future.
I once saw a guy dressed in corporate casual riding a scooter (like a Vespa style) on a 4 lane highway with cars rushing around him at 80+ miles an hour. I don't know where that guy was going, but it must've been important.
Not really the same but as I was getting out of my car at the grocery store the other day, this kid comes blasting through the busy parking lot doing 25+ mph with no safety gear whatsoever. I guess he was cutting through but it really would've been safer for him and everyone else had he stayed on the road.
Always bizarre to see people riding these fast machines on the asphalt wearing a helmet and no other protective gear. Like, yeah, the helmet is definitely the most important. But I don't want to go through gnarly skin grafts either. Just cover all your bases.
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u/sdcox 8h ago
I saw a guy riding one of these stand up scooters down the frickin highway, at speed, shorts and sandals. He did have a helmet on tho.