104 kg for normal people
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Oh, I thought you meant a mobility scooter,,,,
Find yourself an old Honda elite 125 or bigger on Craigslist or marketplace. You won't have any problems. If you are lucky you can find one with the dope flip up headlight
I know! I was born too early for Heelies and monowheels. I'm too heavy for the former, and don't heal well enough anymore for the latter.
I used a Razer scooter when I weighed 150kgs and the weight limit was 80. It was fine until I went down a main road breaking the whole way and the rear wheel melted and I had to bail onto the side of the road. Still, the metal was fine, just the wheel, so yeah, it can be done, but it can be way too much fun
My weight fluctuates between 190 & 250lb; never had an issue with weight limits in vehicles of any kind.
What the heck are you doing for a 60 lb fluctuation my man? I'm guessing seasonal trade work?
Getting hired and fired from various jobs. Some more laborious than others. Can't seem to hold a job down for too long thanks to my bipolar depression.
Tie a bunch of helium balloons around your waist. Weigh less and you get to enjoy balloons. And your (SO/cat/dog whatever you have) will be able to see where you are easier 👍
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Skip the balloons and just inhale the helium. It’s better for the environment and a lot more fun for you.
This guy gets it
Like this type of Scooter? This is rated for 300ish lbs. 230 isn't that heavy. Yoru weight will be worse for range but that means find the biggest battery you can.
I'm 290 and just got a cargo electric bike. Things are out there for the bigger guy.
300 seems pretty solid, I just didn't wanna find a 240 one and go over a bump and suddenly snap it
Focus on that then, use the scooter as a goal to lose weight. I personally went from 235 down to 195 in the past 5 months by not eating carbs/sugar (essentially keto). Didn't change my actual activity levels, just stopped eating foods that pretty much do nothing for you and are very hard to process which results in excess body weight.
I'm at that weight because of my job, I have to be able to push literal tons of weight on wheels for hours a day. I'm actually not that high in body fat
One of my buddies is built huge too, he rides an ebike though.
Some of those have really low weight limits too though, my ebike is 250 pounds but I'm comfortably under that.
There are, but mine are 330 and 355lbs(I'm around 200, but like room to haul stuff. Dedicated cargo bikes can do even more.
My e-bikes are nothing special either, just a Portola and EP2 Pro
Have you looked at the Piaggio MP3? I recall that it had a much higher than normal carrying capacity, at least on the higher displacement versions.
How much do you weigh? Mantis makes some that do at least 265 lbs and I'm sure there are some with higher ratings. Let me see if I can find some stuff.
What kinds of scooters are you looking at cause from what I can tell 220 tends to be the low end of what is acceptable
Maybe I'm wrong then, when I did some research I looked at 3 or so different brands and they all said around 220-230, so I assumed that was pretty standard. They certainly didn't look too flimsy
100kg-125kg (220-275lbs) are fairly common weight ratings yeah. Half of it is because the frame needs to handle you dropping a curb without snapping like a pretzel, but the other half is because gravity is a bitch and trying to go up even a small hill takes a lot of power.
Most escooters promise 25-30% climb capability, but hauling 300lbs up a 30% grade at just 10mph requires 2200 watts, while most smaller escooters max out at 500-1000W.
Even that 1000W is only enough for ~4.5mph.
Wow that limit seems really low. They don’t have models for heavier folks?
I've got a 200 Amazon scooter and it's fine with my 230lb ass.
For the extra money you can stab yourself with some selmaglutide meds instead, so that you stop being obese. Did this myself, lost 4kg in 1 month, and that has stayed off. You can even buy em cheap out of china, if you dare.
Net result is you're probably about as likely to die as you were beforehand (increased longevity from weightloss offset with scooter incident risk) but at least you'll have more fun.
Where's the source out of China these days? AliBaba?
I found a link to some dodgy discords somewhere and joined them out of curiosity. Seemed like people were receiving the product and it was working
What is bro is not fat? I'm currently around 285 freedom weights and have about a 34 inch waist ATM.
Mate, you're from Brisbane, same as me, so of course we're chiselled titans. OP on the other hand is posting in both Linux and Elderscrolls subforums and complaining about his flag-waving HOA, there's no way he's 105kg of muscle.
Hahhaha, good point! Also hey fellow Brissy human!! Seems there is a reasonable number of us on here these days!
Also legit question, what was your experience like using semaglutide? Seems you got good results! And nice work with that., But while using it, no gnarly sides or other less than stellar symptoms etc?
Yo man!! Yeah I didn't know lemmy was popular here! I'd go to a meet if someone else organised it 😁
So I was 92kg, but my snoring starts kicking in when I'm over 90kg. Went to doc and he put me on the lowest dose of Monjaro (2.5mg). I found that was way too much, so I dropped the pen to 20 clicks (full dose is 30), so 2/3rds dose each time. Full dose almost made me pass out at work, I just had zero appetite.
I work from home and exercise often, but my snack impulse is very strong, especially when training hard. I found on 2/3rds dose that my snack impulse was significantly suppressed, but I didn't have the negative effects others were having around insomnia etc. Working from home, the fridge is always open, and I have returned to snacking now, but my weight has stabilised at 88kg after just the one pen.
Doc gave me a single repeat, and once life calms down a bit, I'll try using it again to go lower. For my height the absolute optimal weight for longevity is around 81kg, so I may use or or two more repeats to get there. I'd never bother trying to lose weight without it again, it made the whole thing so much easier, and I probably saved the cost of the pen on junk food/restaurants. I also wanted to break up its use with some time off to wean my body off the extra hormone, as the standard arrangement is to keep cranking up the strength of the pen as the body gets used to it. Right now I'm 6 weeks since I stopped taking it, and admittedly I've put 1kg back on, but I've also added 15kg to my squat.
Overall, 5 stars, it's absolutely unreal. I paid $279AUD for the 1 pen, and got back $80AUD from my extras health cover.
Did you have any issue getting semaglutide in Australia from china? Have looked around and seems like the general consensus is that abf will intercept it, what supplier did you use?
I absolutely wouldn't bother in Aus. Chemist Warehouse is selling 2.5mg of Monjaro for $279, which is what I took, and I got $80 back of that from my health insurance. I was more making reference to the good old USA, where my understanding is that each pen is around $1k.