> > > > Scooters are for kids, dude.
> > >
> > > Apparently *some*body's got bees in their underwear....
> >
> > A popular misconception. For some reason, people are confused by the term. A 19-year-old told me he had a couple of old scooters he would sell, and when I went to look they were toys made for the sidewalk, with no power but your foot.
> >
> > "I have a scooter" can mean an old dirt bike, a small motorcycle, a moped, a motorized bicycle, a powered wheel chair, a mini bike, a Segway, and just about any toy with two wheels.
> >
> > It comes with the territory.
> > Howard
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> I thought the same way before reading Howard's posts here. I thought a scooter was just the foot-powered kind, and they were in fact named scooters because you "scoot" them along with your foot.

A logical assumption, considering that the foot powered scooters are scooters too. But like a lot of things, the word had various meanings.

I remember when I was about 11, I got a foot powered scooter with a folding seat over the back wheel. I lived in a hilly town and there was a hill two and a half blocks long near our house. I practically rode the wheels off that thing.

The ones I have now have to have an engine, because my foot is getting old.
Howard