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My nan has just taken delivery of an electric mobility buggy. It's a bit like a golf cart and exceptionally good fun for a little cross pavement blat. Highly reccommended! It could almost be a mini moto replacement. Can you imagine a load of blokes racing these around tesco's car park on a sunday?!
I jumped out of my car one day at a junction after an old dear rounded the corner and tipped over. The pavement camber threw the darn thing over and it landed on her foot. She was OK but it could easily have been a fatality if the traffic had been heavier. She landed right in the road and trapped her foot under the main unit. Quite heavy they are too! Poor old dame! She didn't know her understeer from oversteer obviously.
I have seen several people using these in the road, and I don't meant trundling along next to the kerb.
The last one very nearly met their maker when I was travelling along a 50 limit road and rounded a bend to find a buggy doing 5mph in the middle of my lane with his right arm outstretched, approaching a busy crossroads presumably intending to turn right! Oh, and this was in the dark and his little glow-worms had very little effect.
The last one very nearly met their maker when I was travelling along a 50 limit road and rounded a bend to find a buggy doing 5mph in the middle of my lane with his right arm outstretched, approaching a busy crossroads presumably intending to turn right! Oh, and this was in the dark and his little glow-worms had very little effect.
4WD said:
My nan has just taken delivery of an electric mobility buggy. It's a bit like a golf cart and exceptionally good fun for a little cross pavement blat. Highly reccommended! It could almost be a mini moto replacement. Can you imagine a load of blokes racing these around tesco's car park on a sunday?!
Send her to Olney, just outside Milton Keynes on a Thursday. It's market day and looks like the motorbility olympics. Nan'd love it!!
Le Mans 2004. Van full of dutch lads had one of these in its very own tent. 2am, countless beers and spliffs later the music started and in a plume of firework the thing emerged from its tent - on the back wheels, at pace and proceeded to wipe out an entire row of their neighbour's tents. Probably the funniest thing I've ever seen. Transpires the buggy had about 8 car batteries on the back, which explains the pace and the slightly nose up attitude.
Parrot of Doom said:
I don't want to be a killjoy, but AFAIK a fair few old biddies meet their maker on these things.....
True...saw one fall out on a tight downhill left. She left her pace notes at home.
That particular Buggy of Doom was being piloted with the armrests folded up, so there was nothing to hold her in, and out she popped.
Petrol_noggin said:
ahh but do you prefer a forced induction or N/A mobility wagon?? I hear the '06 model ScootaGran STI is good for some drifting.
But PMB (Performance Mobility Buggy) complained about the turbo lag on the STI making high speed cornering a bit 'spikey'. IIRC the manufacturer Cumberland win a lot of the PMB of the year awards. They've also had lots of OAPs write in to say that they feature too many super buggies costing as much as a whopping 150 quid. I can see their point to be honest.
>> Edited by _VTEC_ on Tuesday 24th January 01:00
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