Saw an electric skateboard in Buenos Aires last week

[Cackalacka]

Saw quite a few bikes down there, couple of choppers, but no e-bikes.

I am delighted to note that our neighbors to the south have e-skateboard technology.

Saw a dude cruising at around 15 miles an hour, on a busy street between the Ricoleta and Ritiro barrios, on an electrically powered skateboard the first day we were down there. He was moving to fast for my jetlagged hands to get a good video, so no proof.

Had pretty fat tires, and it was a full fledged board, sans scooter bar.

This wasn't a Wal-Mart deal, this looked homegrown.

Anyone who has travelled the streets down there knows it takes some balls to ride anything propelled like that (think Rome, but with sidewalks, but without the healthy respect and courtesy to laws and other motorists/cyclists/pedestrians.)

 

[Kaño]

I’m from Buenos Aires. You happened to miss my echopper!

And yes the traffic is terrible, but you get used to, in fact you get to develop some good reflex, too!

I know the eboard you mention, but it is not homemade, actually I think they came here from the US.

Edit:
Here is a link: http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-72963290-skate-electrico-hunter-motor-800w-a-l-u-c-i-n-a-n-t-e-_JM

 

[Cackalacka]

Yep, that could be the model I saw. Incidentally, I saw it the Saturday before last, over by the street market at Recoleta, on that wide diagonal street that goes to Quintaña.

Dude, I tip my hat to anybody that rides in anything smaller than an armored car on those streets. Be safe. If you don't mind my asking, do you take any additional safety precautions, either gear-wise or tact-wise? As your town is a big city, with the types of little hands that can only be found in a big city, what security precautions do you take when you park your echopper?

Had a marvelous time there last week; I've spent my whole life wanting to visit it, and now I will spend the rest of my life wanting to go back.

When we took of Saturday evening, it was during that heavy spring thunderstorm. When we landed at JFK Sunday morning, it was during a late fall blizzard. The atmosphic/hemispheric contrasts could not have been more stark. Almost didn't make it home because of it. Got out of New York, and back to North Carolina, via rental car in under 9 1/2 hours. With the weather and the holidays, I am certain there are folks we passed in the terminals at JFK that are still there.