{"id":56963,"date":"2021-04-22T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/?p=56963"},"modified":"2022-06-21T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T12:32:26","slug":"bikes-in-the-city-clean-living-in-difficult-circumstances-martin-sticky-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/bikes\/bikes-in-the-city-clean-living-in-difficult-circumstances-martin-sticky-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikes in The City: Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances, Martin &#8216;Sticky&#8217; Round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>To be truly modern is undoubtedly to be electric. But will scooterists in rapture over their mid-century masterpieces ever embrace a new millennium\u2019s modernism?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"999\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MG_5226.jpg\" alt=\"Sticky in the Sahara: not the scooter\u2019s natural habitat: but fun all the same\" class=\"wp-image-56965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MG_5226.jpg 999w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MG_5226-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MG_5226-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MG_5226-278x185.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MG_5226-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MG_5226-526x351.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MG_5226-666x444.jpg 666w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MG_5226-572x381.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><figcaption>Sticky in the Sahara: not the scooter\u2019s natural habitat: but fun all the same<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a bit of an oddball, and I accept that. In the past I\u2019ve ridden classic Lambretta scooters to Istanbul and Ukraine and raced a Vespa in the Sahara, but that\u2019s not what they are really intended for. Scooters weren\u2019t even conceived as weekend transport for a ruck with the Rockers at a seaside resort 60-miles from home. Scooters were always destined for the daily commute. However, Italian designers did such a thorough job of making their machines look cool that generations of riders have fallen in love with the styling as much as their practicality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very few people feel as strongly about other utility objects like fridges, washing machines or tumble driers. You will notice that all of those machines share dull, boxy styling and run on electricity. I wonder; does the fuel they use make it harder to love them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Electric Lust Orchestra<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve tested quite a few electric scooters over the years \u2013 not the stand-up barely-legal type beloved of city centre drug dealers and hipsters \u2013 but road legal electric versions of a traditional scooter. So far, they\u2019ve consistently fallen short \u2014 not in terms of styling; that\u2019s personal and it\u2019s just as easy to make a stylish electric scooter as a petrol one. Not in terms of the ride, either. I might love the smell of two-stroke and changing gear on a petrol engine but I can fully understand the appeal of a silent, twist-and-go, low-maintenance electric scooter with tooth-pulling torque. I totally get that, if your priority is practical transport. What sucked on early electric scooters \u2013 and still isn\u2019t entirely solved to this day \u2013 is range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Scooterboys of the 1980s \u2014 but equally for teenagers from the 1950s onwards \u2014 a scooter primarily represents freedom. Freedom to customise. Freedom to go where you want, whenever you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Electric scooters aren\u2019t there yet in terms of utility. You might be able to buy one with enough range to get you to work and back if it\u2019s a short commute, but you aren\u2019t going to be visiting the seaside unless you plan to stop somewhere and charge it up on the way. In terms of utility we are at the technological equivalent of a washing machine that only allows you to wash one sock at a time, or a fridge that only accepts five cans of beer. It\u2019s close. There may be a cigar, but you don\u2019t have a lighter and it\u2019s a no smoking zone anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gogoro-Family-Shot-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Gogoro: new infrastructure breeds new possibilities\" class=\"wp-image-56966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gogoro-Family-Shot-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gogoro-Family-Shot-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gogoro-Family-Shot-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gogoro-Family-Shot-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gogoro-Family-Shot-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gogoro-Family-Shot-278x156.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gogoro-Family-Shot-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gogoro-Family-Shot-854x480.jpg 854w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gogoro-Family-Shot-526x296.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gogoro-Family-Shot-789x444.jpg 789w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gogoro-Family-Shot-572x322.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Gogoro: new infrastructure breeds new possibilities<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Change is a comin&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The core problems of electric vehicles are energy density and recharge time. For scooters you are either offered good range with crappy performance or good performance with miserable range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want good performance and range then the scooter needs to be big; something like the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vectrix\">Vectrix maxi-scooter<\/a> of 2006. That would zip along at almost 70mph, but then you still had to wait hours to recharge it. Taiwanese scooter firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gogoro.com\/\">Gogoro<\/a> solved the refuelling time conundrum by establishing battery banks around some cities. You could navigate to them using the Gogoro App. Once you place your empty battery in spare space in the wall of charging points, another fresh battery would appear like a gigantic game of whack-a-mole. Sadly, the Gogoro principle only works where the specialist recharging infrastructure has been built. Outside of a city, a Gogoro is back to the painfully slow-charging problem of its rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the world really needs, in order to make modern electric scooters as useful as their petrol counterparts, is a universal swappable battery system that you can exchange as easily as you can fill up with petrol. The good news for 2021 is that four of the main motorcycle and scooter manufacturers (Piaggio, Honda, Yamaha and KTM) have agreed a common standard for a swappable battery. In theory, with easy battery exchange, you could ride your electric scooter wherever you wanted without waiting to charge it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this way, the freedom principle at the heart of the scootering impulse is restored. If any vehicle provides freedom then people will love it \u2014 particularly if it looks cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"892\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image00001-1024x892.jpeg\" alt=\"An illustration of a Lambretta SX 200\" class=\"wp-image-56967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image00001-1024x892.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image00001-300x261.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image00001-768x669.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image00001-278x242.jpeg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image00001-526x458.jpeg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image00001-510x444.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image00001-572x498.jpeg 572w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image00001.jpeg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Classic scooters may remain exempt from ULEZ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Old Skool Rools <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the rest of us in the UK, if you still have a classic scooter, it\u2019s currently not all bad news either. For the moment there remains an exemption to most of the inner-city emission restrictions for historic vehicles over 40 years old. As such, many Vespas and Lambrettas can still be used without paying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For when that no longer works, several companies (e.g. Retrospective Scooters in London and also Saigon Scooters in Vietnam) have both developed electric conversions for classic models. For now: I will be sticking to my exempted two-strokes. There\u2019s something about that smell that never gets old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"999\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20180925-4980.jpg\" alt=\"Sticky on his scooter\" class=\"wp-image-56964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20180925-4980.jpg 999w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20180925-4980-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20180925-4980-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20180925-4980-278x185.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20180925-4980-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20180925-4980-526x351.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20180925-4980-666x444.jpg 666w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20180925-4980-572x381.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Sticky is an aficionado and commentator on all things scooter<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Martin \u2018Sticky\u2019 Round is author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Scooter-Boys-Tribe-Finger-Salute\/dp\/190821175X\"><em>\u2018Scooterboys<\/em><\/a><em> \u2013 The Lost Tribe\u2019 \u2018Frankenstein Scooters to Dracula\u2019s Castle\u2019 and \u2018The Complete Spanner\u2019s Manual for Lambretta Scooters\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be truly modern is undoubtedly to be electric. 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