I'm glad I have 29 inch wheels & fork suspension. Imagine hitting a pothole & coming off in three or four lanes of traffic...Scary on a bike, seems a bit scarier to me on something with wheels that size. A small hole to my bike wheel must be a yawning chasm to those things
. plus, this happens:
I remember the massive skateboard craze of 1977. We all had 'em & one discovered quite quickly that your nemesis was a piece of grit. Well, by 1978 the craze had died down as my mates & I opted for fun in a galaxy far, far away...
. Skateboard in loft for about a decade, eventually chucked out. Of course, they still got used & are around now. But the fad was very much over from it's heyday when you couldn't move for them on the streets and lots of skateboard shops popped up out of nowhere just like quantum particles. but a year later...gone. I look on e scooters a bit like that, everyone goes nuts over them, but eventually it subsides, probably when the accident stats start climbing.
Speaking of skateboards, the inevitable e-skateboard has problems too:
I'll stick to cycling. My legs have never spontaneously combusted
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