Egret One

[sk8norcal]

http://www.egret.de/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Egret-Ele ... 5333133738
http://www.ultramobility.net
http://www.scooter-system.fr/dossiers/1 ... t-one.html
http://wackyboards.blogspot.com/2010/03 ... ooter.html

36v
small hub motor?

u can buy it here,
http://www.elecstore.fr/trottinette-electrique/

[SamTexas]

Yes, small front hub motor.

33 lbs
20wh/mi
12.5mph top speed
14.4 miles range.

It's ok, not impressive.

[sk8norcal]

i babblefished the page,
its a rear hub motor....

my personal scooter is 12mph max,
its not bad when sidewalk cruising,
its like someone running down a sidewalk at a 5-minute mile pace.

I think the wheel size should be bigger. (looks like solid tires)
just looks like a rough chattery ride...
smart for them to have the front suspension...

[SamTexas]

You're right. It's a rear hub.

I think the wheel size should be bigger. (looks like solid tires)

Solid tires would be really bad. I hate them.

[Chalo]

Looks like a splendid way to wipe out and get hurt by hitting a huge obstacle-- you know, like an acorn or something.

Chalo

[sk8norcal]

btw 960 euros,

[sk8norcal]

Looks like a splendid way to wipe out and get hurt by hitting a huge obstacle-- you know, like an acorn or something.

Chalo

from what i have seen and experience, that's actually very unlikely...
rocks and acorns gets flicked to the side,
you will more likely to slide out corning too fast than anything else...
I see hitting a raised sidewalk crack be the worst, gotta keep your eyes open, would be much tougher in the dark....

[Chalo]

Looks like a splendid way to wipe out and get hurt by hitting a huge obstacle-- you know, like an acorn or something.

Chalo

from what i have seen and experience, that's actually very unlikely...
rocks and acorns gets flicked to the side,
you will more likely to slide out corning too fast than anything else...
I see hitting a raised sidewalk crack be the worst, gotta keep your eyes open, would be much tougher in the dark....

My relevant experience with small solid tires is in grocery stores and warehouses. Ever noticed how a shopping cart with a couple hundred pounds of stuff in it can have a wheel stop dead and skid upon running into a bean?

Oh, also my short time with inline skates-- terrible. They can turn relatively decent asphalt pavement into foot-stunning torture, and make you fall from running into surface flaws that you wouldn't even notice if you were walking.

Chalo

[sk8norcal]

Well, weight have something do with it, the hardness of the wheel, and other factors.
most industrial caster wheels are designed for high load and easy rolling on smooth surface, therefore they are hard as hell...

street skateboards also have small and very hard wheels (and short wheelbase), so they also lock up and skid with small rocks. (done it many times


but big soft longboard wheels just flicks rocks out of the way,
rollerblade wheels and Razor scooter wheels just don't have this problem, narrow profile.
you just dont see kids on Razor scooters fall by skidding to a stop from a pebble
my kid brother had a knowped (motorless goped) with semi-hard solid rubber tires, fat profile, not that bad also.
I never really seen gas goped with the same solid rubber tires skid to a stop from a pebble.
yes these egret wheels are smaller, but I don't see the pebble lockup thing happening.
even if it manages to happen, most likely at lower speed, your back foot would naturally plant forward, thus unweighting the scooter and pop over any pebbles.

Rgarding riding inline skates its quite different from riding a scooter...

the big problem like i said is elevated cracks, but with a light scooter you can plant-hop over them fairly easily ..

with this ride its probably not suited for anyone over 180lb,
the harsher the shock the more u weight,
heavier riders are probably better off with at least a 8" or 10" air tire,
or those big xootr wheels but the ride is also very harsh on those.

[sk8norcal]

http://www.ultramobility.net

[mvly]

Wonder how it compares to this:

http://motorboards.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

This is around 250 shipped at most. I do like the 36V lithium battery though compared to the NiMH of the motorboard.

I wonder if they sell just the hub motor rear wheel so I can hack it to work with my motorboard.

[Kin]

2 cents about the longboard business and cracks: Longboards can deal with all the reasonably large cracks you want at above 5mph, but send you flying when you're going slow and hit a crack. That said, I believe it has more to do with their 175mm diameter wheels.


About the larger scooter in the picture with the scantily clad somewhat distracting females, it looks exactly the same as the old S1000 Schwinn Stealth. Just saying that because it was my first electric fix-up and so I'm reasonably familiar. 1 difference, that scooter seems to have a chain drive.

[sk8norcal]

2 cents about the longboard business and cracks: Longboards can deal with all the reasonably large cracks you want at above 5mph, but send you flying when you're going slow and hit a crack. That said, I believe it has more to do with their 175mm diameter wheels.

I think u mistyped there,
most longboard wheels are @75mm
yes, the wide profile wheels don't like horizontal sidewalk cracks, (even worse with smaller/harder street skating wheels)
if you go at an angle, they will climb up the crack easier.
I like to longboard on the street than the sidewalk due to this...

here's an attempt to maximize wheel size for a longboard,
http://www.longboarddirectory.com/image ... _front.jpg
140mm wheels with narrow profile.

About the larger scooter in the picture with the scantily clad somewhat distracting females, it looks exactly the same as the old S1000 Schwinn Stealth. Just saying that because it was my first electric fix-up and so I'm reasonably familiar. 1 difference, that scooter seems to have a chain drive.

I believe the S1000 schwinn was by Currie.
That one above is branded Tante Paula in Germany, which is an Ezip 1000 (currie)
they went from chain to enclosed gearbox.

[Kin]

^As always, you have your scooter knowledge A-game.

(Yup! Whoops, I meant 75mm)
(That oversized mountain board looks hardly able to turn without the wheel getting stuck under the guard. Might as well get a mountain board.)
(Ah! Good call. That schwinn was definitively made by Currie, and thats the direction I went for a few replacement parts that I had needed.)

[sk8norcal]

That RollsRolls is actually pretty amazing,
its specifically designed for long distance pushing with very low deck height.
very light carbon deck,
those narrow wheels are very fast, but no side grip
(i test rode one, they were using it to push across America (4 man relay), they were gonna use those 140mm wheels but ended up with ABEC11 97mm wheels (sponsor)

[grindz145]

Egret is a perfect name. That's exactly what you'll have after buying one, lots of egret.

[sk8norcal]

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