'I’ll even go a little farther out on a limb and call riding a Revel scooter the greatest, easiest, cheapest thrill in the entire city.'
, “Now Crowding New York Streets: Rented Mopeds Going 30 MPH”—if only they could have put the whole headline in—which seemed hell-bent on scaring up a populace wary of silent, battery-powered two-wheeled scooters being “unleashed” upon a city that’s been “raising concerns about safety.
Much has been made about Revel’s usefulness in navigating within and between Brooklyn and Queens, as the city’s subways, for the most part, are focused on ferrying riders to Manhattan and back—and that’s certainly true. But after a few initial spins on the things to see if they could possibly be as simple, as cheap , and as hair-raisingly fun as they seemed to be in theory , I find myself going out of my way to ride a Revel instead of a Lyft, an Uber, a bike, or—heaven forfend—the subway.
If I sound a little blithe about the risks of, yes, riding a battery-powered scooter through the mostly well-paved leafy outer boroughs of the city, well, okay, full disclosure: I’m a long-ago bike messenger who still loves riding in city traffic—and I used to think nothing of trying to ride my motorcycle through a blizzard on top of rail tracks to avoid the shake, rattle, and roll of Georgetown’s cobblestone streets on late-night cigarette runs in my splendidly wasted youth.
As for those safety concerns, while they may be overwrought, they’re real: After a rollout generally free of major accidents, about a week ago a Revel scooter was hit by a ride-share car at a Brooklyn intersection; the scooter rider was seriously injured. But let’s be clear about where we should be directing our concern. It’s not Revel scooters—thus far, at least—that are killing people, whether cyclists or pedestrians, on the streets of New York.
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