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To ride a scooter over 50 cc (3.1 cu in) you need a motorcycle licence in all states, but you can ride a scooter (max 50 cc or 3.1 cu in, 50 km/h; 30 mph) with a car licence in QLD [18] and SA [19] and with a moped specific licence in WA [20] otherwise a general motorcycle licence is required.
Packer is a Michel Foucault-inspired historian who sees the approach to motorcycle safety found in mainstream sport and touring motorcycling media, supported by the MSF, and generally consistent with the advice of transport agencies, such as the US National Agenda for Motorcycle Safety, [37] as an ideology or "discourse", and places it as only ...
Note there is no single fixed definition of a scooter (also known by the full name motor-scooter), but generally a smaller motorcycle with a step-through frame is considered a scooter, especially if it has a floor for the rider's feet (as opposed to straddling the vehicle like a conventional motorcycle). Other common traits of scooters can ...
A man riding an electric kick scooter. A motorized scooter is a stand-up scooter powered by either a small internal combustion engine or electric hub motor in its front and/or rear wheel. Classified as a form of micromobility, [1] they are generally designed with a large center
Self-balancing unicycles at 'Paris sans Voiture' (Paris without cars) in 2015 . A personal transporter (also powered transporter, [1] electric rideable, personal light electric vehicle, personal mobility device, etc.) is any of a class of compact, mostly recent (21st century), motorised micromobility vehicle for transporting an individual at speeds that do not normally exceed 25 km/h (16 mph).
The term scooty has become the generic term for scooter in India [1]. A scooter (motor scooter) is a motorcycle with an underbone or step-through frame, a seat, a transmission that shifts without the operator having to operate a clutch lever, a platform for their feet, and with a method of operation that emphasizes comfort and fuel economy.
Electric motorcycles and scooters are plug-in electric vehicles with two or three wheels. Power is supplied by a rechargeable battery that drives one or more electric motors . Electric scooters are distinguished from motorcycles by having a step-through frame , instead of being straddled.
Motorised scooters first appeared as autopeds enjoying a brief boom in popularity in 1915. [24] The aluminium folding scooter popularised the push scooter in the 1990s. [25] E-scooters first appeared in 2003. [26] In 1882 a sports newspaper in Stockholm first reported a kicksled as a vehicle that could be kicked forwards on ice and snow. [27]