Tag: scooter
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Shopping With an E-Scooter
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the years I have enjoyed driving to the shops with a petrol driven scooter for daily shops. I liked that it was small, light and convenient. I only got rid of it, after sixteen years of use because of the cost for a service. Usually it was about 500 but I…
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Experimenting with an Electric Foot Scooter
Reading Time: 4 minutesDecades ago, by now, someone decided that they needed to make something like a scooter that could stand by itself, and that people could ride. they created the segway and for several thousand francs you could buy one. Some people did, but many did not. Several decades later someone else decided “Let’s…
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Getting Cold On A Scooter
Reading Time: 2 minutesI don’t often spend two hours on a scooter driving from Geneva to Nyon and back, especially not when it’s about 1°c. In such conditions, I’d drive to the closest train station and be done with it. I waited until ten or eleven in the morning to drive. Any earlier and it…
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View from the vineyards – Fun little trip
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEveryone’s always sitting in an office or at least in cities. I’m breaking away from that to stream the countryside. Remind people that it also exists.
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Too Much Academia Has Disconnected Me From World News
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToo much academic research and concentrating on dissertations has cut me off from world news to such an extent that apart from tech goings on I had no clue. I hardly followed the French elections, hardly noticed the death of Yeltsin, hardly noticed the regional elections. There are three reasons for…