Riding to work on an e-scooter is awesome.

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Ah it is great gets you a little outside time before inside work, and it's fun just cruising along on your electric scooter. The one I have is not quite full e-scooter, but mostly it accelerates on its own if I push the accelorator. It struggles up hills so I usually have to give it a few kicks(like you'd do with a regular manual scooter) to get it up the hill but other than that it's pretty awesome. I can certainly get to work and back on one charge there is a bus from my work to home but the scooter is fun so I think I will just ride that back most days. Today though it was really windy and part of the route home is kind off a narrow sidewalk by the main road so I folded down my scooter to bring on the bus because I did not want to be on that narrow sidewalk near cars with high winds.

It goes up to 12 mph but half the time I don't put it up to that, but if I have a good clear path without pedestrians I do like to bring it up to full speed and go as fast as I can. But for sure I do try to be considerate of walkinng pedestrians or kids. LIke today is the second day I have taken my scooter to work, but there is usually a kid with just a kick scooter going down the sidewalk so I usually pull off to let them pass cause I am sure they are trying to get to school on time. But idk it's fun to ride an e-scooter to work if you live close enough to your job to do that. That said the e-scooter I got was 300 dollars, but it was cheaper because it is actually a childrens scooter made for 'big kids', but it said it could hold up to 165 pound and the heaviest I have ever gotten is 120 pounds and I am just 5 feet tall so for sure I determined the scooter would work for me since I am small size. But yeah unfortunately the adult scooters that can probably hold more weight than that are like twice as much so I think I lucked out by being small enough to use a e-scooter built for big kids. Cause yeah an actual adult scooter is like 600 bucks which would have required more saving but I am small enough the kid sized one is just fine for me.

I got a helmet, but admittedly did not use it...idk I have to adjust it to my head and didn't have time before work, but I prrobably should figure how to get it strapped right so I can wear it. I don't feel I'd crash easily but probably better safe than sorry/

Yeah please do get that helmet on. I cycle to work sometimes and have seen some horrible incidents involving e-scooters. The little wheels don't fare well when they hit minor bumps in the road, and I've seen quite a few people crash after going over something really small... and bang their head.

Also, a lot of the e-scooter riders don't seem to have any road riding or driving experience and so don't obey standard rules of the road like signalling, stopping at red lights, and end up getting into a lot of trouble. So watch out for other e-scooter riders. They're more dangerous than cars in my experience!

E-scooters have always interested me. They're probably the most compact self propelled vehicle humanly possible. Easy to make, almost free to run, a potentially massive battery and folds up small enough to fit in a suitcase. What's not to like?

I think laws on e-scooters and e-bikes need to be relaxed. Batteries and motors work great when miniaturised unlike engines. For people without a car licence or living in cities they're ideal. Even for people with licences living outside of cities they're still good and I'm very tempted to make my own e-bike.

Have you taken it apart yet?

I would only do it if you have top rate medical insurance because if you had a really bad wreck u could be 300 grand in medical debt Also be sure to get disablity insurance in case you cant work if you have a e-scooter wreck that makes unable to work for the rest of your life.