1. I cannot bring the bike in to many places such as the office or the gym, it must be parked outside exposed to the elements. On the other hand, scooter, wheel, and longboard can all easily be picked up and carried indoors basically everywhere, including public transit, shops, gym, and office.
2. The bike requires physical effort, which is great if you're biking for fitness, but when I'm commuting somewhere I don't like to have to shower as soon as I get there.
3. Onewheels and skateboards in particular are so much more fun to ride than bikes on regular roads. (Bikes are still way superior on trails and mountains though).
An electric skateboard or scooter just seems completely superior on almost all axes.
Electric skateboards and scooters have tiny wheel diameters. Especially with esk8, it's very difficult to go on any rough terrain: pebbled asphalt, cobblestone, grassy park, gravel, sand, dirt road, up or downhill. Scooter wheel diameters are also a safety issue due to that combination of easy brainless riding and small wheel diameter.
Electric skateboards and scooters interface with your hand, but EUC and OneWheels interface with your balance - your whole body. There's an intuitive sense of where you're going, and you have many degrees of freedom along your entire body that you can leverage to maneuver for incredibly fine tuned and synchronized control of your acceleration to the point where it feels like flying. The fact that acceleration and balance are intimately tied together without your hands interfacing eliminates a huge category of problems from accelerating or braking too hard vs. your centre of gravity. When you're riding in any situation where hand dexterity is compromised (i.e. wrist guards, considering none of these vehicles are any safer for your wrists should you fall), this is an amazing preventative safety element.
The Razor scooters have tiny wheels that will flip over even on the tiniest pothole and you'll end up scraping your skin off flying into the road, and possibly smash your face into the ground as well. They also occupy a weird middle ground of being dangerously fast for the sidewalk and dangerously slow for the road.
I’d love an electric motor scooter. But that’s not really comparable to e-bikes, e-scooters, or e-unicycles.
I imagine it would, although it's probably easier to wash whatever stink sauce is inside off your bike than off your clothing (if you're the thief).
It seems like the idea is that the thief gets halfway through cutting the lock and then gets the hell out of dodge - although i guess maybe if they're thinking straight, they might realize the cost of stank is already sunk, and just finish the job.
> respirator
I would think that any thief who knows enough about these locks to come prepared would rather not walk around smelling like skunk. But I guess just like any lock, it's easily defeated if the thief is sufficiently prepared. The idea is to make the theft such a pain in the ass that they choose a different target.
BRB going to print up some warning stickers for my lock.
I'd rather wash down the stink than have to spend $800 for a new bike.