SO MANY MOBILITY SCOOTERS.

There are a bewildering array of mobility scooters out there, small ones which fold up and lift into the boot of your car, middle sized ones that seem to be very popular, probably because they are not too big to store away, and you can, if you really want to, take some of them apart easily enough and put into your car or van to take with you wherever you go, though not so easy to sort out by the looks of it as the foldable ones. Some even fold down into a suitcase! There are big ones which you can use on the road, though how safe I would feel riding on one of those in front of a lorry or a bus remains to be seen! Some of them are almost the size of a small car, which begs the question, why not just get a small car? Some are off road, with larger wheels to enable you to go into the countryside, maybe to take the dog for a walk, though quite how off road they are makes me wonder. The prices of these mobility scooters vary enormously too, a foldable one can be £499, which ofcourse is so much less than £500! Ones with hard bodies on them to save you getting wet in the rain can be £6000! The seats are small or large, some looking a bit hard and plastic, not very comfortable at all, some look almost like your favourite armchair - I said almost! You can have a basket at the front in which to put your shopping, or a bag at the bag, hanging from the seat. I don`t think I would want to put my handbag in either the basket or bag, someone could easily snatch it!You have to study them carefully as most have a maximum user weight, some will go for 20 miles on one charge, some smaller ones for only 5, one or two will go for 30 miles on one charge if you choose the bigger batteries, so it depends on the range you want to travel and where you actually want to go. Using them on the flat the battery will not run down as quick as it would if you use the scooter on a hill or incline, you can get a soft cape type of affair, waterproof, which you drape over yourself in an attempt to keep dry, or you can have a soft plastic cover on a frame or a hard plastic or fibre glass frame and cover. You can have soft tyres which can have a puncture or solid tyres which never puncture but which give you a bumpy ride in comparison. As I said the whole range of different scooters, different manufacturers making similar scooters is diverse and the prices vary quite a lot. So it all boils down to this, I am totally confused!