Literally the day I’m about to call Sound Speed Scooters to see if they have an ETA on my bike, my phone rings, and they announce that it is here and will be ready to pick up the next morning.
Whee!
I take an early lunch the next day and bus down to fremont, walk over, and finish all the paperwork, buy a helmet, and get ready to head back to work. I get 10 feet from the store, and the scooter just dies. No beeps, no lights, just dead. ARGH. At least it rolls well on a flat surface, so I take it back, and after checking all the obvious stuff like the fuse, the dealer is conflusterated and asks if I can go have lunch and give him a few to check it over.
So, it’s off to George and the Dragon for Shepherd Pie, and by the time I get back, he has figured out that it was a bum battery, and swapped that out. Sure enough, all is well, and I zip back to work. I call State Farm, get it added to my policy (even with comprehensive, it’s still fairly cheap), make another drive out to ballard to get the plates, and back to work again.
So far, I’m quite happy. In “power” mode, it has lots of zip and a decent top speed. The “economy” mode cuts something off the top-end, but the initial acceleration seems mostly the same. I’ll have to do some proper mileage tests at some point. It looks like the thing is light enough, I could take it home and bring it up to my apartment in the regular elevator, for charging. For now, it will live at work though, I think.