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You can really be happy with anything, people are happy with scooters/bikes less than $500 but their main complaint is low range and long charge time. How about isinwheel gt1 or gt2? I have a mutual that rides an s9max for 2k+ miles, it’s pretty ragged but still going and the company actually sent him some parts. Maybe you would like one of those s9 or s10 models

Exactly. I've owned and rode an isinwheel. Its not good. A kqui1 base model NIU or the base ninebot is the way to go.

Isinwheel makes decent cheap scooters- I have three but the welds gave way on one but they say they've fixed the problem

A better brand than this or Roinside, and better, solid specs, could be worth $400 without suspension, especially with air tires (tubeless or split rim, or even air front only since the back is more likely to have problems). If you can only spend $400, look at isinwheel or Freeboy, avoid iscooter lots of bad press. Or a less exciting Segway or Niu to play it safe. $250 yeah maybe Roinside.

This- I bought an Isinwheel direct from their website and it came broken. They wouldn’t help me. If I bought from Amazon it would have saved me $900.