| You are searching avidly online for either a kick | | | | metal surface provides an excellent support for |
| scooter for your child or someone else. During your | | | | grinding and its light aluminum frame is easily hoisted |
| search you keep running across powered scooters | | | | into the air for jumps. |
| but you are questioning the safety of an electric | | | | In contrast, an electric scooter can actually be safer |
| scooter. If the issue of price is not a factor than your | | | | due to its hefty construction. To support and protect |
| probably turned away by the "speed". Normally, we | | | | the electric motor and batteries, these scooters are |
| associate an increase of speed with being more | | | | normally made out of thicker aluminum. Consequently, |
| dangerous for our kids. Let me make this clear - less | | | | there is an increase in weight and rigidity, which will be |
| speed does not equal a safer ride. | | | | discussed later in detail. This is not to say that "electric |
| Ask any parent with a child that rides a skateboard; | | | | scooters are safer than kick scooters" but the heavy |
| jumps, grabs, flips and rail riding (a.k.a. "grinding") are just | | | | bulk of these scooters limits certain tricks. For instance, |
| a few risky skateboarding maneuvers exercised on a | | | | jumps, grinds, and flips are dramatically (if not |
| board no quicker than a kick scooter. In no uncertain | | | | completely) limited due to the weight of electric motor |
| terms the kick scooter can essentially do similar tricks- | | | | and batteries. |
| though the technique may be done differently. The | | | | |