Scooter Deals
Prices quoted on the World-Wide Web, for inexpensive scooters available in the U.S.A. (Higher-end ones can be found through the Links page.) Prices don’t include shipping, unless noted otherwise.
• The mysterious Mogo scooter, which had been knocking around retailers, once landed at Zany Values, who sell through Amazon.com. (FootbikeUSA ‘blog entry 99 says said, “We even took a hot air balloon ride with Diamond Jim Upyerski and fashioned a scooter called the Mogo, which turned into a big fat Chinese made el choke-o of a scooter.”) They’re no longer being manufactured, at least for Mogo.
The Mogo is intermittently available at The Sportsman’s Guide, CloseOut Source, InStockShipsNow, and the Zany Values and Toys4U stores at Amazon.
• FootbikeUSA deals … $[price]
• Kickbike deals … $[price]
• Amish Scooters – $169.95 to $345
I think these Amish-made scooters are very elegant (and a great argument for the form-follows-function ethos) and very likely built to last and last, with reasonable care. They’re available from a variety of outlets, and appear to be made either in the same few shops or to an established specification.
Sizes are generally described as: 12″ (wheel size) for children up to age 6; 16″ for children aged 6-12 or small adult; 20″ for young teens to adult; and 24″ for folks 6′ high and taller. It probably has to do mostly with handlebar height: the bars seem integral to the scooters: they can probably be raised and lowered, but I don’t know if they can be swapped for aftermarket stems and bars. I would think so, as they almost certainly use standard head tubes and headsets, but you never know.
Here’s what I found on the Internet:
AmishScooters.com Available in lots of colors; 12″ scooter (“for children up to age 6″), $167 $177; 16″ scooter (“sized for ages 6 to adult”), $233 $243.
AmishShop.com; 12″ Children’s Scooter, $169.95; 16″ Scooter, $249.95; Adult 24″ Scooter, $289.
Lapp’s Coach Shop; Medium Scooter with 16″ Wheel, $184 $196; Large Scooter with 20″ Wheel, $239.
ReForm School Scooters in orange, black or green; 16″ Scooter, $245 $265; 20″ Scooter, $285 $305; 24″ Scooter, $325 $345.
• Sidewalker USA “The City” Road Scooter, 5.5″ deck height and all, is $329 $349 – available at Sidewalker USA.
• There’s always eBay and craigslist
• Twitter [+] (Another G.D. site that has disabled the “back” button [not to mention the site's heavy use of javascript]! Therefore the link will open a new window): That dubious (to me) social network, of which messages 40% are said to be “pointless babble,” nonetheless has its own “long tail“: only 4.85% of the messages are “self-promotional” but they are out there for the (twitter) world’s perusal. But if you created a search for “footbike OR kickbike” (back in the day when you could do anything on twitter without creating an account* [can you say "spam magnet"?]) you would find that about 90% (my estimation) of those results are ads for people selling footbikes, mostly through the Amazon Marketplace.
Here is an RSS feed of a twitter search for “footbike OR kickbike.” Caveat Emptor!
*”If you find someone whose messages, or tweets, you wish to regularly read, you can follow that user if you have a Twitter account.” (citation)
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