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I wish they didn't look so silly to ride. I know that scooters will slowly become more ubiquitous and, as a result, will be considered more normal and less goofy to ride.

But for now, it just kinda looks goofy to a lot of people.



Honestly, they're so fun to ride that I don't think anyone's going to care for much longer.


To each their own. IDGAF.


I totally agree, the current design language of almost every electric scooter makes the rider look like a total goober.

There seems to me to be a clear gap in the market for a scooter that... looks good. One that elevates the rider as little as possible, 2-3cm seems ideal. One with a front pole that lets the rider's arms stay mostly extended downward, rather than the current "water-skiing" posture. And one with significantly larger wheels, to handle anything other than perfect asphalt.


If electric scooters continue to become more widespread (I think they will), they'll become normalised and people will stop thinking they look goofy.

For now, it's easy to not worry about the goof factor.


One looks like a complete idiot riding an 1880s highwheel bicycle (well, in the 1880s for sure, at least). Bicycles still caught on.

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Owner of an 1886 Columbia bicycle and 2019 Boosted Rev scooter


To use your own example, bicycles only caught on once they started looking reasonable. The huge front wheel on pennys was a huge damper to adoption.


Or is it that the modern version of a bike looks reasonable to you because it caught on and you grew up with it?


Why do you care what other people think?




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