Electric scooters are a surprisingly effective means of getting from A to B. Cheaper than a car or a motorbike, easier than a bicycle or roller-blades, they fill a need and they fill it well.

Essentially, scooters are mini-motorcycles with smaller engines. Historically, they have been petrol-powered, but the new generation of electric scooters has brought many advantages. Electric scooters are much less noisy than any other kind of motorcycle, and they require no fuel apart from being plugged in to the mains electricity. They don’t pollute, and generally need far less maintenance. Read the rest of this entry »

Shoprider Scooters have been around since 1988. They back each of their mobility scooters with a comprehensive warranty. If you like working with companies that have a lot of experience and you like having the peace of mind that comes with knowing that your scooter will get fixed if there’s ever any problem, then Shoprider scooters might be a great place to start looking.

The Shoprider company offers 16 scooter models, including the Shoprider Flagship, which is an enclosed scooter with a canopy, windshield, and even windshield wipers, offering a rather unique mobility scooter experience. In spite of looking like a little car, however, this outdoor scooter does only make it up to 4.8 miles per hour. If you don’t want to be enclosed in your Flagship (if, for example, it’s really hot outside) you can remove the doors and push back the canopy, creating a scooter that looks a lot more like one of the traditional mobility scooters. The weight capacity offered by the Flagship makes it a mid-size scooter.

Each of the Shoprider products meets ISO9001 quality standards. That means that Shoprider followed the International Organization for Standardization Guidelines and processes in order to create a reliable end-product. If knowing that a company has external accountability and high standards is also important to you, again, it’s hard to go wrong with the Shoprider company.

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