>>2037040I've put a few hundred miles on a Razor A5 Air and a Kickbike Sport.
1.) If you can do the shuffle to change feet on the fly, it's fabulous exercise. If you really go hard it'll work out your whole leg and ass in a way that running, squats, and bicycling never could.
2.) It is super fun. Way more fun than bicycling.
3.) It doesn't take much practice to get good. If you can ride a bicycle, you can ride a kick scooter. The only thing you need to learn is how to switch feet on the fly.
4.) I don't think getting groceries on a kick scooter would work. MAYBE if you had a small backpack with a chest strap and waist strap to keep it snug against your body, and maybe if you didn't get any heavy groceries.
5.) People DO look at you weird and snicker about you.
6.) You really need to tailor your choice in scooter to your environment. The pavement where I live is trash so I needed pneumatic tires. The A5 Air is I think literally the only pneumatic conventional kick scooter on the market, and dealing with those tiny clamshell wheels is a bit frustrating. A KickBike is a much better alternative, but they're not as small and transportable, so they're not really an option for a city person.
Overall I encourage everyone to get into kick scootering. I can take my bicycle out on the steepest hills in the area for 4 hours, and I'm not even sore the next day. I take my kickbike out for an hour on some gentle rolling hills and my whole legs and ass are worked like crazy. You even get some upper body activation.
So yeah. Get one for noodling around and having fun while getting serious exercise. Probably not for getting groceries though.
