Zappy 3 pro-flex scooter
My wife has MS, and can not walk much more than around our campsite. She misses being able to move around the campground, to visit, and just see other areas. I have noticed these scooters in CW, an...
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We bought 2 Zappy Pro Flex scooters last November from Camper's World in Grand Rapids, MI. Not $1000 each but around $800. Less when on sale! We took one Zappy down here to Florida with us for my disabled wife. Didn't have enough room with the truck and 5th wheel to take both. She loves it and I use it a lot too and also for exercising our Siberian Husky and sure do wish we could have taken both of them with us.
They are extremely comfortable for sitting and aren't a bit tippy even at top speed while turning. Carry laundry or whatever in the basket. Has an LED headlight for night use and battery charge level inbdicators plus very good brakes. However, be advised that they will go PLENTY fast (17 MPH) and will go 13 miles on a charge and we found that's not an exaggeration either. Our dog absolutely loves it when I take her for a run with it. I put a 3' long leash around the seat post and it's held up under the seat with a stainless hose clamp so it can't get under the back wheels and she can't get over 3' away from me either. We go 1-3 times a day for a run about 1 to 1-1/2 miles each as she needs the exercise and I can't run 17 MPH. At 17 MPH she's just loping along and the people in the RV park love watching her and must have hundreds of pics by now.
To haul it:
I took the front wheel section off where the 2 bolts go thru in front of the battery. About 3-4 minutes. Took the basket off and folded the handle bars down along side the front wheel like it's supposed to and wrapped a 5 X 7 plastic tarp around it and put a bungee to keep the tarp tight. Tarp is to keep it dry and clean and then I set it on one side of the rear truck bed. About 50 lbs weight. Took the seat off the back half by loosing the 2 clamp screws at the seat post bottom and wrapped a 5 X 7 tarp around the back half just like I did the front half (wheel). About the same weight as the front wheel section also. Set it on the other side of the truck
s bed rear and put a steel cable thru both halves and around the locked leg of the 5th wheel hitch. Don't want anyone "borrowing it" while we are in a restaurant or a store!
For your wife's use, it's up to how nimble she is and if she can use her thumb and forefinger to turn the motorcycle like control. It goes back to off when it's let go of. Spring loaded twist throttle.
It's front wheel drive so she can't pop a wheelie as the drive wheel would come off the ground. Has a center wheel in the middle behind that's about an inch off the ground so it can't tip backwards either because id tipped backwards, the wheel hits.
In short, we love ours and will find a way to take both next year and plan to use them at the many events in town at home too as that's also part of why we had bought them. Some of the events are a mile or so apart and parking close will no longer be a problem with our Zappys.
BTW, we seem to recharge it about every 3-5 days and it takes 4-6 hours usually.
They are extremely comfortable for sitting and aren't a bit tippy even at top speed while turning. Carry laundry or whatever in the basket. Has an LED headlight for night use and battery charge level inbdicators plus very good brakes. However, be advised that they will go PLENTY fast (17 MPH) and will go 13 miles on a charge and we found that's not an exaggeration either. Our dog absolutely loves it when I take her for a run with it. I put a 3' long leash around the seat post and it's held up under the seat with a stainless hose clamp so it can't get under the back wheels and she can't get over 3' away from me either. We go 1-3 times a day for a run about 1 to 1-1/2 miles each as she needs the exercise and I can't run 17 MPH. At 17 MPH she's just loping along and the people in the RV park love watching her and must have hundreds of pics by now.
To haul it:
I took the front wheel section off where the 2 bolts go thru in front of the battery. About 3-4 minutes. Took the basket off and folded the handle bars down along side the front wheel like it's supposed to and wrapped a 5 X 7 plastic tarp around it and put a bungee to keep the tarp tight. Tarp is to keep it dry and clean and then I set it on one side of the rear truck bed. About 50 lbs weight. Took the seat off the back half by loosing the 2 clamp screws at the seat post bottom and wrapped a 5 X 7 tarp around the back half just like I did the front half (wheel). About the same weight as the front wheel section also. Set it on the other side of the truck
s bed rear and put a steel cable thru both halves and around the locked leg of the 5th wheel hitch. Don't want anyone "borrowing it" while we are in a restaurant or a store!
For your wife's use, it's up to how nimble she is and if she can use her thumb and forefinger to turn the motorcycle like control. It goes back to off when it's let go of. Spring loaded twist throttle.
It's front wheel drive so she can't pop a wheelie as the drive wheel would come off the ground. Has a center wheel in the middle behind that's about an inch off the ground so it can't tip backwards either because id tipped backwards, the wheel hits.
In short, we love ours and will find a way to take both next year and plan to use them at the many events in town at home too as that's also part of why we had bought them. Some of the events are a mile or so apart and parking close will no longer be a problem with our Zappys.
BTW, we seem to recharge it about every 3-5 days and it takes 4-6 hours usually.
