Finally, all of the stars aligned and made everything come together so Seth could accomplish a maiden trek on his scooter. We found a paved path - check, helmet on - check, the weather was actually nice - check, had Seth and scooter at the paved path with nice weather - check!
It wasn't without some difficulty of course, Seth always assumes first that he cannot accomplish the task at hand. So, after I unloaded the behemoth scooter and had it all ready to go, Seth would not get on it. We had a little struggle but he eventually got on and made his way across the parking lot and onto the path. Then, there was maneuvering around the post that blocks the path so vehicles won't decide to go for a joyride. He got off the scooter and was done. Well.....Mom wasn't done so we had a little standoff -- about 5 minutes -- but I'm pretty good at waiting him out anymore. After a small amount of bribing (I might have threatened to take away his movies for life), and a healthy staredown to see if I really meant it, he got on the scooter and took off at full speed.
He had a blast! I am so glad that this turned out to be such a fun experience because he now knows that he is more than capable, I mean just check out the turns he was doing!
He is excited to do this again and I now know that there is no problem with him keeping up with Lacey and I on a bike. We did 5 miles (2.5 each direction) and the scooter didn't even come off a full-charge. It is supposed to do 10 miles easily and I think it would have done 20. The entire path is 6.25 miles so I don't know if I would chance it unless I had another adult with me who could ride to the car and drive to our nearest location just in case it ran out of juice. I would be curious to know how far it would actually go. There are a few nice rises on this path where the scooter can be heard bogging down a bit but it didn't really slow it much and for the most part the path is relatively flat. The hillier the path of course the more the battery would be drained.
All in all, I am very pleased with how the ride went. I have a few obnoxious bruises for my troubles, both of which were not totally the fault of the scooter but happened as I was preparing to put the scooter in the car or when I was securing it once there.
Is this absurd or what!?
