My Razor E200 Electric Scooter review

• Author: DigitalMind
• Filed under: Techie Toys'n'Games
• Date: Jul 29,2008

Last Thursday I was at a customers and noticed this tiny little electric scooter inside the IT guy’s office.  I asked him about it, and he told me that he uses this scooter to get to and from work regularly during the summer.  By car, it would take him 20 minutes to get to work.  He comes in with the scooter, then plugs it in his office to recharge so that it’s ready to go back at the end of the day ! Wow !

Needless to say I went online and started looking into this scooter.  It can go up to 12 MILES per hour for 40 minutes.  That’s more or less a 15 km drive with a single charge !   The selling point for me was the low price tag:  $200 dollars !  I bought one the next weekend.

I went to a couple of stores that were supposed to sell it, but they were all out.  I lucked out to find this one, the last one on the shelf, at Toys’R'Us. (I can’t believe this thing is made for children 12 years old and up!)  The box was in bad shape so I was worried about the contents, but everything was fine.

Pro’s :

• Decent speed
• Good Battery life
• Built SOLID
• It’s Quiet
• Eco-Friendly and gas free !

Cons :

• It’s very heavy.  About 55 pounds.
• When the batteries are dead, you can’t really use it as a regular scooter and push yourself along because there’s too much drag on the wheels caused by the motor that’s attached.  (A neutral button or something would have been helpful)
• Do not turn too sharply with it or the sides of the bottom will hit the floor.
• 220 lb weight limit.  No problem for me, but I know some friends that would buy this if it wasn’t for that limit. (They’re a little too close to that number for comfort) 

So far, i’m very happy with this new toy of mine.  I take it on the metro (subway) and then scooter around from there to customers downtown.  It’s a lot faster than walking that’s for sure !  I have big plans for this scooter.  I will attempt to double up the batteries that are in there to get more runtime, and up the voltage a little bit to get some more power from the motor in order to go a little faster.  (It’s at 24 volts now, I might set it up to run at 30 or 36 volts)

I recommend this product for adults who don’t weigh too much, and for responsible children.  When I was 12, I would have killed for something like this !

Edit : I’ve had it for 2 weeks now and it’s still running great.  I had to tighten the chain after a couple of days because it was making noise, but even that was easy and it came with detailed instructions on how to do it in case you can’t figure it out by looking at it.  Since then haven’t had to do anything.  Still planning on adding more batteries, and i’ve read about people that push the 24 volt motor at 36 volts which makes it go faster, but I haven’t decided if I want to risk killing my motor.