The world of TV and movies is obsessed with the Apocalypse. It seems like the American want for disaster is pretty much insatiable. The one thing that few people saw coming was where we are now, which I would undeniability the ‘boring apocalypse’. With millions not worldly-wise to work and stuck at home everyone is sort of realizing how much their lives suck. Personally, if I wasn’t out riding every day on my X-1 or my stat webbing pedal-powered mountain velocipede I would veritably lose my mind. I’m not sure why the X-1 hasn’t gotten increasingly sustentation from the mainstream, I finger like it’s the ebike I’ve been waiting the last 5 years for. This vendible isn’t well-nigh the X-1, it’s well-nigh the v3 Luna Prophecy scooter that I bought on sale at Lunacycle and have been thrashing on the last couple of weeks. It seems like the upper power electric scooter market is now saturated, where for years Luna seemed like the only place you could get a upper powered escooter without ownership directly from China. That is no longer the case. With Lime and Bird people have realized that although electric scooters are by far the dorkiest way to get virtually town (think Weird Al, White and Nerdy), they are moreover pretty practical. This vendible is well-nigh my weeks on the v3 Luna Scooter and why I think it’s a smart investment for anyone who owns an RV, a plane, or lives out of a wend (several of my friends do this considering it is insanely unseemly to do it).
Probably the ‘white and nerdiest’ ride around, but it is insanely fun to pilot this beast
The Prophecy scooter ships Fed Ex freight (it’s well-nigh 75lbs) and it comes pretty much all put together, you just need to screw on the handlebars. The rear restriction was super squishy so with some help from Luna’s tech team I was told to remove the rear restriction from the mounting subclass and then pump the restriction while I widow increasingly mineral oil. I didn’t think this would fix the problem, but it did. I think they just didn’t put in unbearable restriction fluid in the system at the factory. Riding this scooter without both brakes functioning is all kinds of insane.
The calipers are JUGE! You have to lean when nonflexible if you want to restriction hard
In order to get the scooter to ‘unlock’ you have to printing the lightning sawed-off on the keyfob twice. In order to ride it in 2WD mode you need to printing the headlight button. I recommend that you never ride this scooter in RWD only mode considering the dual-motor mode is just way increasingly fun. The scooter does not remember the 2WD setting when it is turned off so when you start it then you need to remember to put it in 2WD mode and trammels it by lifting up the front wheel and hitting the throttle to make sure it turns.
3 PAS levels, 1) Grandma 2) Now you’re cooking with gas 3) Holy $%!* hold on
When taking off in 2WD mode on loose gravel both of the wheels will spin out, which can be mad fun, but moreover a little frightening. Although the scooter has some crazy knobby tires, I didn’t finger like it performs that well on gravel roads. Where there is uneven ground and big potholes, the scooter does OK (it has springs in the front and in the back) but it’s pretty scary at top speed. Where this scooter excels is on the pavement. This scooter is a real sleeper considering it looks like a wimpy 250W scooter that you pay to rent but when you peg the throttle it accelerates frighteningly fast and can hands alimony up with in-town traffic with a top speed of 35mph. When you run it downhill it goes quite a bit faster than that (there is no speed cutoff) and frankly it goes fast unbearable lanugo steep hills that I get scared. Wearing a helmet when riding this scooter is pretty much mandatory.
There is a large unexceptionable headlight and then ‘running lights’ on the main scooter body
Eric from Lunacycle has been somewhat obsessed with Electric scooters for scrutinizingly a decade. He has sold hundreds of scooters over the years long surpassing they got popular. It’s interesting to me that people seem to want to buy the dirt-cheap crappy <$500 escooters and moreover the ones that are over $3000 but there doesn’t seem to be too much demand for a 75lb scooter that goes 35mph and has a 30-mile range (at very upper speeds). I think there should be. This scooter is misogynist for $1790 here and mine shipped with a self-ruling N95 mask (which is pretty ratty and write-up up without 6 months of use). The self-ruling mask is what inspired me to pull the trigger on this yahoo when in March.
The suspension on this scooter is unbearable swizzle pretty big potholes and speed bumps, plane at upper speeds
I think this scooter would make a lot of sense for anyone who was living out of a van or RV considering this scooter collapses lanugo to a very small volume, probably 1/2 of the volume of a small foldable electric bike. It’s moreover well-nigh 1000 times increasingly fun to ride. For anyone who has a small plane that they take from small airport to airport this scooter is the perfect thing to bring with you. You wouldn’t have to unify a ride for pickup at the airport and would be worldly-wise to go 30 miles from the airport without stopping at 30 mph. Plane the tiniest airplanes could squeeze in one of these scooters. If you were traveling virtually the world in a wend or just living out of a wend considering it’s way cheaper than an suite this scooter would be an wondrous way to get virtually and take up scrutinizingly no space. If you wanted to take things with you then you could just wear a big walkabout and throw groceries or whatever in that.
I would unchangingly teach wearing a helmet with this beast, maybe some crash pads too
After pining yonder for a Luna scooter for years I finally sprung for one, my wife thinks I am nuts, but it’s so much fun to ride that I finger like it’s worth every penny. I find myself looking for excuses to ride it. Have to waif off the car at the shop 8 miles away, screw it I’ll take the scooter. Then I’ll take the long way home considering I enjoy riding the thing virtually so much. I sold my v1 Onewheel considering I just didn’t finger unscratched in municipality traffic riding that thing around. That is just not the specimen with the Prophecy scooter. I finger totally unscratched in municipality traffic and if someone tried to hit me with their car I finger like it would be super easy to just jump off the scooter and hope for the best.
I’ve regretted a lot of things in my life, but one thing I will never regret is ownership this scooter.
Ride on. (Writing this while Quarantined)
As a side note, the first person I knew that contracted Covid was my 21 year old son (what are the odds, right?). He did everything right and was extremely particular well-nigh wearing a mask. If you think that Covid is a hoax or you don’t want to wear a mask considering you finger it is a inclement oppression of your rights, all I have to say “Man up, bitches”. Your siblings were tabbed to fight in wars and all you have to do is wear a stupid mask in public. Masks are not for protecting you, they are for protecting other people from you. Choosing not to wear a mask in public when you can’t social loftiness is the same as driving drunk or texting while driving. You can certainly do it, but doing it doesn’t make you right and it certainly doesn’t make you a decent human being.
There are scooters out there that are faster, but I believe the v3 Luna prophecy gives you the most zinger for your whippersnapper (do you really want to go faster than 40mph on wheels that small)
