It’s that time of the year, the weather has gotten cooler, winter is on your doorstep and so are the holidays. This week marks the start of the holiday shopping season with the usual Black Friday that starts earlier and earlier every week.

In the scooter industry, we are seeing big campaigns promoting escooters and one might think that the usage and sales of escooters would decrease with the cooling weather but that isn’t really the case unless it really snows in. As long as the roads are clear it isn’t really really a problem, just suit up and off you go.

Hence we don’t think that the scooters sold this holiday season is going to be put in the garage for the winter and taken out in the spring. In a matter of fact, even ride-sharing companies are now launching Winter safety driving programs to educate the public about the differences between winter riding.

As mentioned it doesn’t really differ from riding a bike in the winter. The main points are increasing visibility with good lights on the scooter (head and rear lights, turn signals), reflectors, this is important as the days are growing shorter. Streets don’t differ that much especially in warmer cities but those of us living in the cities where we go below freezing are a must to keep your eye out for black ice on the road. Don’t slip on those and keep in mind that you might need a longer braking distance. Other than that just remember to dress warmly, with good gloves, a jacket, and a nice warm helmet that you should wear year-round anyways to keep yourself safe.

In practice, it’s not even impossible to ride escooters when snow hits the ground but that’s when you need to up your game. Typical shared solid and slick tire escooters are not going to cut it. That’s when you need to get some good nubbed tires with traction, slick ones are not going to get you moving and if you manage to gain speed it’s going to be slippery, hard to break, and when you hit a hill you ain’t going up as the wheels are just going to spins and slip.

Another thing is that if you go below freezing levels it’s going to be harder for the battery as most of them are rated to have optimum performance around room temperature or at least above freezing point. It’s not going to stop you from riding but remember to charge your scooter and bring it inside when you are not using it. The latter is true also because of slush and snow that might get stuck on your scooter outside. Wipe it dry once you have a chance and don’t let the melting snow drown it. For that good performance having a scooter with a removable battery is optimal as you can easily have one warm and fully charged battery ready.

Anyways for many major cities of the world, we see lots of people riding those scooters this winter and there’s going to be more on the streets after the holidays as escooters are in many people’s wishlists. Some ride-sharing companies are going to take their fleets to shelters though so this might also nudge people in getting their own scooters we are also already seeing news about cities currently running escooter pilot programs getting requests to extend the test periods deep into the winter. 

So be it rideshare fleets or people using their own escooters this winter is going to see more escooter traffic than the last and the trend is upwards. No stopping escooter boom now!

If you want to join on riding the wave of escooters contact Langfeite. Be it for Dealers or Ridesharing company we design and manufacture escooters for all kinds of needs!