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Re:How to stay safe and happy on an electric unicycle by alistairSH on Monday July 24, 2023 @03:45PM (#36853272)
Electric scooters (Razor, not Vespa) could be a happy middle. More stable than the unicycle, more portable than the bicycle.
Re:How to stay safe and happy on an electric unicycle by dheera on Monday July 24, 2023 @06:12PM (#36854953)
Oof, no. I had a Vespa-style electric scooter for a few years and I felt much safer riding it than any Razor scooter.

The Razor scooters have tiny wheels that will flip over even on the tiniest pothole and you'll end up scraping your skin off flying into the road, and possibly smash your face into the ground as well. They also occupy a weird middle ground of being dangerously fast for the sidewalk and dangerously slow for the road.

Re:How to stay safe and happy on an electric unicycle by alistairSH on Monday July 24, 2023 @06:33PM (#36855187)
Yeah, the tiny wheels on the old kids Razors are terrible. But the electric kick scooters are a bit better. I wouldn’t want to go 20mph on any of them, but that speed is unsafe on sidewalks regardless.

I’d love an electric motor scooter. But that’s not really comparable to e-bikes, e-scooters, or e-unicycles.