Gio italia thoughts?

ebiku

Hi!

I’m new to the whole e scooter thing, and I recently bought a Gio Italia Premium for my skipthedishes job. It’s not the stand up e scooter type but everyone keeps telling me its an e scooter and not an e bike so I assume it fits this forum? Anyway, my main concern is that it already has issues with the trunk not closing sometimes and the battery disconnecting if I hit a pothole too hard (and I’ve literally only owned this thing for a week). Plus the whole thing feels ridiculously cheaply made. I don’t even think the battery indicator is working properly. Yet I see so many people riding this around Canada and loving it. Is mine just a defective model? It’s genuinely nerve racking riding this thing because I’m scared any second now it’ll somehow break which is NOT something you want while you’re doing deliveries.

Also I noticed that there isn’t really a … welcoming? place for e scooters such as this. Since it looks like a vespa, people on the road hate you because they think you should be going faster (since they don’t get that it’s an e scooter and is capped at 30 km/h), and on the bike lane alot people think your some crazy biker whose cheating the system by using the lane (since they also don’t seem to get it’s an e scooter). Plus, cops are constantly stopping me to ask why its not licensed. It’s quite annoying, and I’m confused how so many other people are riding these things without issues like this? Should I just sell it at this point and get a Gotrax ebike?

Thank you!

MichaelKelley

ebiku . If you put a little electrical tape around the plug before you plug it in . It will not come unplugged. I have a seated scooter that did that when it was brand new.

justin

ebiku Unfortunately, as early adopters with new transportation technologies like this, we sometimes have to endure flack from cars, bicycles, etc who just don’t get it.

Just keep in mind that as more people see electric scooters on the road and have friends that start riding them and perhaps even riding themselves, they will get it.

This technology is proliferating very quickly and as people become more familiar with e-scooters, they will start to view them positively.