By Jeffrey the Barak. If Dr. Seuss were to illustrate a motor scooter, it might get skinnier and taller, and the wheels might get smaller, and it would probably look a lot like this OJO. For some strange reason, for a few days in January 2018, on the Best Buy website, the Ojo Commuter Scooter, […]
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The Nimble Urban Cargo Scooter
By Jeffrey the Barak. I wrote briefly about the Nimble Cargo Scooter after trying one out at the Dwell on Design Show back in June 2014. It was a great concept that placed a heavy cargo in front of the handlebars of a scooter and employed a steering linkage to turn the distant front wheel. But […]
Kickbike Cruise Max 20 Reviewed. Comfy all-day cruiser.
By Jeffrey the Barak. The Kickbike Cruise Max 20 is a special Kickbike model designed for easy all day cruising at a comfortable speed. It is not a racing scooter, although it can keep up with one, and can even sail past one when the road gets a bit bumpy. The combination of the very […]
America, it is time to get off your sore butt and ride a Kickbike
By Jeffrey the Barak. Some people love bicycles, but many cyclists have a love-hate relationship with them. The phrase Pain In The Butt is perfect for describing it. A soft saddle hurts your butt. A large saddle hurts your butt. A gel saddle is hard as a rock. A narrow leather racing saddle hurts a […]
Personal Transportation Devices for the 21st Century
By Jeffrey the Barak. A personal transportation device can be anything that gets a person around town, without a car. It could be the common, world-changing, bicycle, but we all know about those machines. This article introduces a passion of mine, personal transportation devices that are not bicycles. In many of my scooter reviews and […]
The new all-terrain commuter scooter
By Felix Dorling. “Scooters are for kids aren’t they?” I’ve received mixed responses since bringing my new scooter into the office but it doesn’t bother me one bit. My commute to work used to be a minefield of car dodging, maneuvering between buses and avoiding those pesky white vans but since I swapped my bike […]
Freestyle Pro-Scooters without the tricks?
By Jeffrey the Barak. Just lately I have been finding that riding a scooter for a few miles is too tiring to be all the fun it should be, so I have taken to using a bicycle for these intermediate to long distances. Now with a bicycle being a machine, it will give you about […]
From a one foot hop to E-Bikes
By Jeffrey the Barak. How much do we want to exercise, and how much help do we want from machines and electricity? With electric bicycles, or e-bikes, becoming more common, we can begin to wonder whether we are still pedaling bikes or if we are just gradually switching to quieter and slower motorcycles. Not that […]
Scoot USC
By Jeffrey the Barak. Los Angeles is a better place to be than many cities when it comes to finding a nice place to scoot. But sooner or later the 26 mile beach bike path becomes so familiar that the urge to explore further kicks in. Google Maps has a bicycle overlay with puts bright […]
The Mibo Gepard Kick Scooter Review
By Jeffrey the Barak. I have been waffling on in recent articles about kick-scooters about how much I miss pneumatic tires. Yes, the small solid tired folding scooters are convenient and portable, and in the cases of the Know-Ped and the KickPed are also reasonably comfortable at slower speeds on slightly rougher surfaces, but it […]
KickPed and Know-Ped Family Reunion
By Jeffrey the Barak. A search for the word scooter on the-vu.com will reveal my passion and obsession for this type of vehicle. I much prefer scooters to bicycles, even though I have to admit I won’t be tackling a hundred mile charity ride on one. I have this year reviewed the KickPed, an amazing […]
My road to the KickPed
By Jeffrey the Barak. Most kick scooter riders and potential kick scooter buyers are thousands of miles from being able to stroll into a certain New York City bike shop called NYCeWheels, but thanks to the Internet anyone is able to choose to buy the scooter that I have personally chosen as my current favorite […]
KickPed versus Xootr, a scooter review
By Jeffrey the Barak. The KickPed is a custom Know-Ped, manufactured in the same factory in California, Patmont Motor Werks, but made to a lean and mean customized set of specifications, exclusively for one retail store, NYCeWheels in New York City. In some ways it is less of a scooter than the Know-Ped but the […]
You can’t keep me away from MyPoP
By Louis the Scooterer. You can’t keep me away from MyPoP, coz I wont allow a beautiful place..on the beach, to just go away..even if some smokers spoils it. Only in reality I havent been able to go for a couple of weeks as I had a tiny fall-off from my scooter and have been […]
Scooterer Stories, Part Sixteen – Around the Sea of Galilee
By Louis the Scooterer. “Round and around the Sea of Galilee we go”! Good morning all. Don’t leave anything behind. We ain’t comin’ back to Kare Deshe. Route decided… lets go.. early start..have packed breakfast..lets go watch sunrise from Syrian plateau ?? On the way I will let you walk for a few minutes on […]
Scooterer Stories, Part Fourteen – Furthest point North
By Louis the Scooterer Well we had another good night sleep at Kare Deshe… okay so after watching sunrise and eat breakfast, we make a quick getaway..quick stop to take pics at ruins close by and head directly for the snow Another quick stop at Arik Bridge over the River Jordan (old wooden bridge).. and […]
FootBikeUSA
By Jeffrey the Barak Racing scooters are still an extremely rare sight in the United States, and most lifelong cycling enthusiasts who see a Footbike or Kickbike on the road are seeing one for the first time. But in Europe, it is not too unusual to see dozens of scooters competing in a road race. […]
Visiting, coffeeing, chatting and seeing at MyPoP
By Louis the Scooterer As I said in my previous post, I go to MyPoP (almost) every morning and spend a couple of hours, and have found my favourite spot, where I place a chair under a big umbrella together with the bright orange color low settees and a low table…(I prefer a higher chair […]
This day at MyPoP (My Piece of Paradise)
By Louis the Scooterer Dear Readers, Maybe you already know that I live in Netanya, Israel, a coastal city on the Mediterranean, and that my transport is a scooter (usually 50cc). Since I arrived on 1 Nov 1999, I have found and visited many coffeeshops at the square and in the city, and coffeeshops in […]
Scooterer Stories, Part Ten – Route 6 to Elvis
Scooterer Stories By Louis the Scooterer The travels of Louis the Scooterer, a retired former South African who has found an unusual way of getting to know Israel. Part Ten – Not Route 66, just Route 6, but at least there’s an Elvis. Editor’s Note. It seems that this article was originally assembled using external […]
Exion Scooters
Exion Scooters – Cees Bakker’s amazing home-built speedsters By Jeffrey the Barak Just one look at the carbon fiber creations above tells you, now those are some fast looking scooters! And fast they are. Designed for the racing circuit which exists in Europe, but not in the USA, these home built human-powered scooters make everything […]
Scooterer Stories – Part Two – Eilat
Scooterer Stories By Louis the Scooterer Published January 2005 The travels of Louis the Scooterer, a retired former South African who has found an unusual way of getting to know Israel. Part Two – Eilat Editor’s Note. Originally this article contained pictures that were external links. Unfortunately these no longer work and the images have […]
Dog-Powered Scooters
By Mark Schuett How many ways have you seen people being pulled by their dogs? There are dogs out in front of bicycles, skateboards, Rollerblades, scooters, skis, etc. And don’t they look like a great deal of skill is required and potentially dangerous for the dog as well as the “rider”? Have you heard of […]
Human Powered Scooters
Human Powered Scooters – The Undiscovered Transportation Solution By Jeffrey the Barak Energy Efficient or Exhausting? Apart from the in-line scooter craze of 1999, the use of scooters in our society has been almost totally non-existent. Many would-be scooter riders have observed that it can be much less tiring to ride a bike for mile […]