How is the center of mass is lower on a scooter? It is the same or higher. The head is the heaviest part / cm³ of the body and on a e-scooter you’re standing up, on a bike you’re sitting, bringing the head a bit lower. The tiny scooter wheels will react enormously to tiny disadvantages in the road surface and the consequences of it. Hitting an tiny rock on the asfalt with a e-scooter will result in way nastier accidents than hitting a similar rock on the asfalt with a bicycle.
Same with sudden breaking: imagine the situation where you suddenly have to break and the rear break fails (on both bike and scooter) so only the front break works. The forces required in that situation to get you “flying” head first towards objects with a e-scooter are much much lower than with a e-bike (wich is heaver and more distributed over a larger surface). The chance of being sent “flying” is simply way way lower on a bicyle vs scooter in many situations, making bicycle typically much safer than e-scooter.
I’m never in my life riding e-scooters again, after having read a few articles with interviews from doctors in hospitals about how people look when they come in after accidents with scooters. And most of those were accidents with no other parties involved, just someone on a scooter hitting a tiny pothole, rock, sidewalk thingy etc.
@freebee@tunetardis regarding centre of mass - the bike, itself, is heavier than the scooter too. And “sit-up-and-beg” positioned shopper-style town bikes move your mass even further back - little chance of catapulting forward on one of those. The centre of mass is *far* lower on a bike.
How is the center of mass is lower on a scooter? It is the same or higher. The head is the heaviest part / cm³ of the body and on a e-scooter you’re standing up, on a bike you’re sitting, bringing the head a bit lower. The tiny scooter wheels will react enormously to tiny disadvantages in the road surface and the consequences of it. Hitting an tiny rock on the asfalt with a e-scooter will result in way nastier accidents than hitting a similar rock on the asfalt with a bicycle.
Same with sudden breaking: imagine the situation where you suddenly have to break and the rear break fails (on both bike and scooter) so only the front break works. The forces required in that situation to get you “flying” head first towards objects with a e-scooter are much much lower than with a e-bike (wich is heaver and more distributed over a larger surface). The chance of being sent “flying” is simply way way lower on a bicyle vs scooter in many situations, making bicycle typically much safer than e-scooter.
I’m never in my life riding e-scooters again, after having read a few articles with interviews from doctors in hospitals about how people look when they come in after accidents with scooters. And most of those were accidents with no other parties involved, just someone on a scooter hitting a tiny pothole, rock, sidewalk thingy etc.
@freebee @tunetardis regarding centre of mass - the bike, itself, is heavier than the scooter too. And “sit-up-and-beg” positioned shopper-style town bikes move your mass even further back - little chance of catapulting forward on one of those. The centre of mass is *far* lower on a bike.