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"Jay Honeck" wrote:
We always see the annoying gas-powered versions of those things at OSH. I've never yet seen anyone kill themselves on them, yet, but I always watch anyway... I regularly do some pretty stupid things on mountain bikes (scars to show for it) but wouldn't be tempted to actually use one of the motorized scooters (aka "gopeds") for transportation. The front wheel is small enough that even a small obstacle can cause an endo, and the geometry is usually such that there's little or no trail in the front end geometry (trail is what makes the rear wheels in a shopping cart and the front wheel on a bike tend toward inherent stability). Without that, the front wheel will want to take off one direction or the other at the slightest input. There's no reason there couldn't be a "safer goped" design, with a front wheel in the 12-14" range, and inherently stable geometry (draw a line through the steering axis, and if the wheel's contact point with the ground is behind the axis, it's stable). Mark "brave but not stupid" Hickey Former wife would disagree |
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