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  • Getting Around by Foot Scooter

    Getting Around by Foot Scooter

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWalking three kilometres one way, and then back is easy. It takes about half an hour for me. If I walk fast then it takes less time. For me, walking is easy. Using the foot scooter is more of an effort too because it requires the use of different muscle groups, than…

  • Using the Small EV

    Using the Small EV

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI write this as a joke, rather than as a serious post. I have access to two EVs. The first is a Fiat 500 that has a potential range of 180-200 kilometres although in Switzerland with the hills and more the range is theoretical, rather than practical. The second option is much…

  • Shopping With an E-Scooter

    Shopping With an E-Scooter

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the years I have enjoyed driving to the shops with a petrol driven scooter for daily shops. I liked that it was small, light and convenient. I only got rid of it, after sixteen years of use because of the cost for a service. Usually it was about 500 but I…

  • Experimenting with an Electric Foot Scooter

    Experimenting with an Electric Foot Scooter

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesDecades ago, by now, someone decided that they needed to make something like a scooter that could stand by itself, and that people could ride. they created the segway and for several thousand francs you could buy one. Some people did, but many did not. Several decades later someone else decided “Let’s…

  • Getting Cold On A Scooter

    Getting Cold On A Scooter

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI don’t often spend two hours on a scooter driving from Geneva to Nyon and back, especially not when it’s about 1°c. In such conditions, I’d drive to the closest train station and be done with it. I waited until ten or eleven in the morning to drive. Any earlier and it…

  • View from the vineyards – Fun little trip

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEveryone’s always sitting in an office or at least in cities. I’m breaking away from that to stream the countryside. Remind people that it also exists.

  • Too Much Academia Has Disconnected Me From World News

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToo much academic research and concentrating on dissertations has cut me off from world news to such an extent that apart from tech goings on I had no clue. I hardly followed the French elections, hardly noticed the death of Yeltsin, hardly noticed the regional elections. There are three reasons for…