After getting stranded, walked to find a bird and it was night and day! Fix your scooters, the lack of maintenance is going to ruin your business. After unboxing the E100 Glow, Razor’s smallest scooter, I had it assembled in minutes using the included hex wrench. I snagged its charger from the box, found the port on the side of the E100, and plugged it in.
Some 20 years ago, Razor invented the scooter craze with its simple, iconic aluminum scooter that quickly became an icon during the dot-com boom. While many of the companies from that era have gone bust, Razor is still around, and has revisited its original design for the electric scooter era. As a jack of all trades, Rasmus handles videography, photography and review write-ups as well as website development.
The options are plenty and you’ll have no difficulty in finding a model that suits your requirements. Leave other rides in the dust with 250 watts of high-torque chain driven, electric punch, hitting speeds up to 15 mph (24 km/h) for up to 40 minutes of continuous use. With a larger deck, frame and tyres for teens, the E300 is one of Razor’s speediest electric scooters. Loved by children and teenagers all around North America, it is without a doubt the most popular and most fun electric scooter for kids aged 13 and up. The Razor E200 has a brake on the rear wheel, activated by the brake lever on the left handlebar. The brake is pretty strong and safe, and the scooter comes to a complete stop just a few seconds after engaging it.
The full-featured Segway Ninebot comes in several models to cater to a wide age range of kids. Each model offers a different maximum speed, maximum weight limit, and handlebar height. While most electric scooters go 10 mph or more, that is really fast for a young kid!
While it sat there, I admired its black, tubular construction. I couldn’t wait to grab the handlebars and put my feet on the deck, covered with non-skid rubber. As a bit of decoration, Razor includes a strip of blue LED lights around the edge of the deck, hence the “glow” in its model name.
If you stick to pavement, it’s a pretty smooth ride, and the soft seat was an added bonus for young bums. The brakes offer great stopping power, and there’s a small storage compartment under the seat that could fit a cell phone, keys, and a snack. Faster than its little brother the E8, the Ninebot ZING E10 has a 10 mph max and a razor electric scooter higher handlebar, best for kids at least 8 years old and 4’3 tall. All other features are identical, and you can read about those above. In full disclosure, we did not test this 3 wheel electric scooter for kids. We’re including it here as the only option we could find for parents looking for an electric scooter for toddlers.
They are also offered in different colors, but are otherwise the same. Typically, the part that you may need to replace is the battery. But, with that being said, I think it’s highly unlikely that you’ll need to do this unless you absolutely run the scooter into the ground by riding it consistently every day of every week.
To slow down, the child can raise their rear foot which stops the motor, and also engage the rear fender brake. In all modes, the scooter will beep a warning at you if you’re going faster than the maximum recommended speed to remind you to brake to slow down. But even if you ignore the warning, the scooter’s motor actually shuts off to slow the scooter down.
The torque of the scooter is pretty good, so the scooter climbs much better than you might expect from such a cheap model. It will struggle on the steeper hills, but some regular ups-and-downs will not be an issue, especially for riders within the weight limit. There is no officially known climb angle provided by Razor, but judging from user reports, we might say the scooter can easily climb slopes of at least 10° / 18%. The power button is on the left side of the deck, and the charging port is right next to it. This is typical for Razor scooters, but not very common in other scooter models.