This Terrifyingly Fast E-Scooter Can Hit Highway Speeds
This Terrifyingly Fast E-Scooter Can Hit Highway Speeds
Solar Scooters introduced its Hyperion electric scooter that can top out at 65 mph and has a maximum range of 70 miles.
Solar Scooters introduced its Hyperion electric scooter that can top out at 65 mph and has a maximum range of 70 miles.
Highway speeds with 11" tires is basically assisted suicide.
Have you seen the wheels that were used on the electric skateboard land speed record?
82.25 mph
I'm not saying this scooter is definitely safe, but it is absolutely possible for tiny wheels to be stable at speed.
The problem is more to do with the fact that idiots will hit these speeds that they can't safely slow down from in places where the will suddenly need to.
And even a smart rider will never have reason to reach speed that high because you can't really ever be sure you won't hit a pothole or make a mistake that leaves you sliding across pavement in a way that sands your buttcheeks off.
82.25 mph
I’m not saying this scooter is definitely safe, but it is absolutely possible for tiny wheels to be stable at speed.
In fairness, on a race track any size tire would be safe.
Ride that skateboard in my municipality and good luck!
The point is, e-scooters with small tires and high speeds = high risk. The way an e-scooter rider crashes when they hit a small pothole is face first. There was a demo I watched on YouTube comparing these smaller e-scooter tires to one with a much larger tire (I'm thinking 16"+) when they hit an obstacle, and the results were dramatic.
I love my e-scooter, but I would hate to see high-speed e-scooters become the norm. I very rarely see people with hyper e-scooters riding them safely, maybe because they think how they are marketed is how they're supposed to be used.
Hey, you can hit the freeway at highway speeds!
[meat crayon intensifies]
Didn't know that term, wish I had continued in my ignorance.
New donorcycle just dropped
soooo many loooooong lines drawn down the roads.
As a person who got hit while driving a Vespa 150cc at 40mph (64kph), and hit my head on the pavement at speed with a helmet on: absolutely categorically emphatically no fucking way.
I used to take that on highways. I question my sanity every day.
Sounds like the crash knocked some sense into you
Only rode one more time after that, and that really brought the trauma back. Sold that thing afterwards.
Honestly, I don't trust anything with wheels under 20 inches going above 15mph. I remember the days of eating shit as a kid on an electric scooter and unpowered scooters. I think the max powered speed I'd ever want to go is about 30mph anyways, even on an ebike.
Exactly. Small narrow wheels and fast speeds spell doom.
Not only that, but the tires they put on these things are designed for off-road, not pavement.
Yeah fuck that.
Darwinian selection in progress ..
Lol came in here to say the same thing as everyone else. Wtf are they thinking
The main reason why I like micromobility is that the vehicles are fun to ride. I also just like to see the ridiculous contraptions being made with the ever-improving EV technology.
If I didn't just blow all my money on a Triumph Street Triple R (really fast motorcycle), then I'd totally get a fast (maybe not this fast to start) e-scooter.