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Savvy trips on two wheels • 2025-05-06

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Good evening. It is time to write my weekly report.

There are two pieces of news: one good and one bad.

  • The good news is that I have already reached 800 kilometers on my electric scooter according to the built-in odometer. This means I will hit 1,000 kilometers soon, and we can celebrate that.
  • The bad news: I watched a video about electric scooters and learned that they usually need maintenance after 1,000 kilometers because various parts begin to wear out and break. How to do that—well, of course, I don’t know.

Now for the statistics:

  • Bicycle. 🚲 Total trips: 262
    • Trips this week: +1
    • Hypothetical income to date: $750
  • Scooter. 🛴 Total trips: 99
    • Trips this week: +5
    • Hypothetical income to date: $183

Here are the adventures from last week:

  • 🖥️ I commuted to the office on my scooter every day
    • 10 kilometers there, 10 kilometers back
    • To charge the scooter, I bring it right inside the office
    • The one-way trip through the city takes about 40 minutes
    • E-scooter riders travel a bit faster because bicycles don’t have such rigid speed limits… but tired cyclists on mechanical bikes move slowly.
  • 🌳 There was also an interesting trip on my scooter to another city in the forest by train
    • As I already wrote in one of my previous posts, taking a scooter on a train is a risky undertaking. You can travel in comfort, or you can end up stuck in a crowd of people—it depends on your luck. Last week there were many people wanting to ride on my train, and there were five bicycles standing in my carriage. It was very crowded.

That’s all for now. It will be interesting to see whether I can reach the 1,000 km mark and beyond on the scooter. With daily commutes to the office, the kilometers add up very quickly.