Category Archives: Scooting

Okay, you’ve watched the videos, you’ve examined the pictures and you’ve read all the online blurb, all the articles you can find and found this amazing blog. You are now thinking about getting a Swifty scooter for yourself. What should … Continue reading →

By the beginning of November, the nights are well and truly drawn in and I was determined to keep riding my faithful Swifty Zero, despite the lack of daylight. However, scooting away from the well-lit streets and footpaths of my … Continue reading →

A Sunday in mid-October and a chill 4 degree start, saw me driving round the A720 City of Edinburgh by-pass heading for Queensferry, a small fishing port nestling below the three bridges that span the Firth of Forth, the Forth … Continue reading →

Kick scooters, as well as bicycles and motorcycles, are strange contraptions that are only stable when moving forward, simply falling over when stationary, unless propped up by some means of another. I have no idea how the physics of this … Continue reading →

My Swifty Zero arrived at 1.00 pm on Wednesday 26th September 2018, having only been ordered the previous day. At 1.05 pm that very same day, with some degree of excitement, I carefully opened the box, removed the very well … Continue reading →

A phone call from my parents, whose new smart television had lost its connection to the Internet, was the perfect reason for a trip down to Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, the place where I grew up, spending my teenage … Continue reading →

The really neat thing about flexy-time is that once you’ve build up enough hours, you get an extra day off work and that’s what I did today, a very cold Friday in mid-December. My plan was to take the Swifty … Continue reading →

A useful tip I put to good use is to keep a list of locations or routes where you might like to take your kick scooter. My list is kept on the Blog index page, where they get listed as … Continue reading →

The great thing about kick scooting is that you can simply jump on your scooter and just scoot away. It does not matter what clothing you are wearing at the time, be it the business suit you are wearing to … Continue reading →