Female What you are looking at is no ordinary scooter. This is the Go-Ped Trail Ripper; it weights only 46 pounds or 20 kilos. It has got four horse power engine and a unique tunable suspension system. Basically, it is stands on scooter like you have seen but it is being designed to handle rough conditions in a way small vehicles never have before.
Suspension scooters are not new but according to test rider Tim Pitman, the trail ripper is unique.
Tim: We do not have a frame or a seat to have you know, suspension linkages and shocks, other people who have done it where they got across the deck and you lose your standing platform. You see here, we still have our full standing plot form, we actually incorporated the suspension into the frame and that is something that I do not think anybody has ever done before and anything.
Female: Tim are those, you have not even got a fork at the front here, so where is this suspension?
Tim: Well, it is a canal levered suspension and a suspension is actually in this knuckle right here. As you see on the other side, it is spinning around, it is actually the four adjuster bolts, this actually adjusts the compression of it.
Female: Traditional forks or shock absorbers are too heavy and big for a scooter. This small, lightweight, fully adjustable painted labored system means the scooter, the highest lock a dead bike. Allowing half of wheel diameter in suspension trouble, ideal for those jumps and bumps. You get 15 centimeters or six inches of trouble on both wheels, which means you can do things like this.
The trail ripper also has front and read this brakes, chain drives and full nobly tires and for serious grip. Even so, I know what you are thinking, because it is exactly what I am thinking.
You can go off road in a dead bike and it is crop so, why get scooter?
Tim: Basically, it is 1/6 the price and you bike is going to be $6,000.00, this is going to be a thousand. Also, as if you are biking a truck to get your tour bike around this thing, you can throw it in the truck of the car. The have all our pulls right down.
Female: Alright Tim, enough talk, time for me to have to drive.
It is haze of fun once you know what you are doing and I feel surprisingly safe. It got a top speed of 13 miles per hour so, it think I need a bit more practice before I make him eat my dust.
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