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I don’t see how they’re going to convince people to buy their scooters when they’re over triple the price of a Honda Metropolitan…

  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    And for the same money you could buy either a new middleweight sportbike that’ll do 130+, or you could buy a few years old literbike that will easily triple the speed of this scooter.

    Or, you could pay 1/5 of this price to get an e-scooter (of the stand-up variety) and get the same performance with a lower weight and smaller size.