More Scooters Now

  Carla Spooner is working hard to help her long-time friend Heather Kinch, who has multiple sclerosis and is in need of a mobility scooter to increase her quality of life. Spooner said she first became friends with Kinch four years ago when their daughters were attending Palsson Elementary School in Lake Cowichan together. She said Kinch had MS then and was unable work, but was still able to drive and physically get around with a walker or a cane. “But I’ve watched Heather steadily decline since then and now she’s been isolated in her home, a rented single-wide trailer on the outskirts of Lake Cowichan, since before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic,” Spooner said. “She and her husband managed to get some funding for a stair lift to at least get her down the stairs from her house to ground level. Before that she couldn’t even leave the house after a series of falls and a broken ankle.” Spooner said, despite the difficulties in her life, Kinch continues to remain positive and real...

  You see them scooting around the streets of Grand Rapids — and now the city’s micromobility pilot program, which introduced electric scooters to city streets, is adding electric bikes. Mobility company Lime has  put 300 new scooters on the streets  and added 150 bikes with an electric push to the mix. The program gave South Dakotans Jim and Veronica Cunnigham, here for their semiannual vacation to Grand Rapids, a new way to get around town this time. “This downtown is beautiful and the way to get around, man, these just make it excellent,” Jim Cunnigham said. “It’s not hard at all. You get it like right away. You look all around without getting tired,” Veronica Cunnigham added.

  Riding off-road means you will encounter hills. Most hoverboards do not have the power to climb even low-grade inclines. You will want a model that can move you uphill or else your off-road adventure isn’t going to be much fun. You need a hoverboard that can easily support your weight. If you want to take your hoverboard off-road, you must have a shock-resistant, dust-resistant and waterproof model.