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The Razor e300 Electric Scooter is an electric version of the traditional foot- propelled scooter kids have been riding for generations. It has a plank to stand on, called a deck, and a pole with handlebars on the end to serve both as a handle for balance and to house a hand- operated throttle and hand brake. To conduct our reviews, we provided all the essential safety gear such as helmets, knee pads, gloves, elbow pads, and made sure that all the kids arrived in sturdy tennis shoes. Then we turned the kids loose, each with their own Razor e300 Electric Scooter, in a large concrete play area. On one end, we had just a large open space and on the other end, we set up several obstacle courses to test functions such as steering, short stopping, and bumpy surface handling. The entire play area was a flat surface, just as the owner’s manual instructs.

The kids were quite cautious at first- after all, the scooter goes up to fifteen miles per hour, and that’s faster than the ride on toys they are used to. The chain- driven motor is surprisingly quiet and very steady, although it can’t handle an incline- even a shallow one. But the kids had lots of fun riding around on the flat surface we provided. During the testing phase, we learned that it is perfectly safe to come to an abrupt stop on the Razor because the brake is on the back tire, so there is no chance of flipping forward during a sudden stop.

Because it has a generous weight limit of 220 pounds, and because it is electric and therefore environmentally friendly, a couple of our adult reviewers are talking about buying a Razor e300 Electric Scooter to ride to work and back. Since they both live fairly close to work, that idea would probably work for them as long as they also pack a lunch. The scooter only has 45 minutes of continuous use per battery charge, so as long as you live within a forty minute drive (at 15 miles per hour, that is) of your workplace, and you can plug in the battery to charge for a full eight hour work day, then that idea might work for you as well. Everyone is concerned about gas prices, and many are also concerned about the environment, so a product like this is appealing as alternative transportation.

As a part of our review, we feel compelled to let parents know that this thing does move pretty quickly for a child’s ride on toy. Fifteen miles an hour doesn’t seem too fast to parents who have been driving at 65 miles an hour on a regular basis for many years, but fifteen miles an hour is faster than the majority of parents can run at top speed. The average ride on toy goes a maximum of six miles per hour. We must also strongly caution parents to provide all the proper safety gear and insist that their children wear all of the gear every single time they ride the scooter.