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While searching for scooters(with large wheels for forest roads etc) for the kids, i happened across mountain scooters. Any of you guys seen them in action/had a shot or even heard about this before? I'm thinking they look pretty cool, but i'm struggling to understand why you would buy one over a bike(apart from price..)
http://www.digglerstore.com/scooters_mountain_home.html
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doesn't do it for me but can see that it would be fun to try, but it would involve a lot of pushing it uphill
Yeah saw some of them In Meribel (French Alpes) in the summer, only saw an oldish couple on them and his Mrs looked scared to death.
get a mountain board. cooler.
Wouldn't buy one as i can't see the point of them, but it would be good fun for a day on the trails(uplifted!)
Saw a group out on something similiar, but with massive tyres, up superbagneres... I suppose it depends what you want from your day out- they were coming down the mountain by fireroad but looked incredibly terrifying, so possibly even simple stuff worked up just as good as our route down 😉
You can buy these in the UK. Ultimately they're not really aimed at mountain bikers and I'm not sure whether they have any real purpose outside big mountains like the Alps, but there you go.
I like their robes, they'd look ace in the Peak on a long-travel hardtail.
We did a descent from Lagginhorn cable car station on them Monster Scooters, far more scarey than the high alt narrow ridge traverse we'd done earlier in the day
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why feet side by side and not skateboard style fore and aft? the video scooters look unbalanced as all weight is at the back, with no opportunity to shift back and forth. Silly.