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It is ironic that the number one feature of Bo - the great innovation that makes it such a different experience to all other scooters, regardless of their price - is also the feature that is generally least understood.
When people look at Bo, they can immediately see that it has different design to other scooters. Most people make the mistake of thinking those are body-panels, with a 'normal' scooter hiding underneath.
All other scooters follows the basic same layout whether they are rentals, cheap commuter scooters, or big enthusiast scooters.
The classic scooter layout
They all have a tread board - much like a skateboard - with a wheel at each end. At the front of this tread board they then have a thin, angled neck of either one or two tubes, and at the top of that neck there are two bearings in a vertical headset arrangement.
Normally these bearings are separated by by the 70 to 100 mm (that is about 4 inches for American readers).
That is the upper of the two headset bearings poking out
These two little headset bearings are attached to a long steering shaft. This is a tube with a handlebar on the end of it, stuck through the two bearings - and on the other side of those two bearings is your front fork with your front wheel attached. In summary, imagine the micro-scooter we all had around 1998-99, on steroids.
To anyone who has studied elementary physics the issue here quickly becomes obvious. You have an extremely long lever which is applying force onto very small, closely spaced bearings. You could not conceive a fundamentally weaker layout if you tried.
The result of that is not something that you can defeat with Engineering. There is no Formula One precision tolerance that will beat physics. Physics is the law and everything else is a recommendation.
The result is that every scooter, at every price point suffers from the exact same flaw: there is a disconnect in the way that your hands holding on at the end of this long steerer pole woggle and waggle about, and what your feet on the tread board experience. To exaggerate, it's a bit like when someone tells you to rub your tummy and pat your head.
This is at the heart of why scooters tend to feel unstable and unsteady. Quite literally there is no other vehicle on earth where it is normal to feel a disconnect between your feet, your body and your hands.
Leverage is leverage, no way of avoiding that...
So how does Bo go about solving this particular problem.
Well, we call it the Monocurve. It is a monocoque chassis, built the exact same way that modern vehicles, cars, airplanes and boats are built.
All that 'monocoque' means is that rather than a spindly tubular frame, you use a structural skin. That is to say - the silver surfaces that you see are not aesthetic vanity panels, they are quite literally the structure of the vehicle. All the forces Bo experiences when riding the travel are dispersed through that metal .
Naked Monocurve
Why does this help with this flimsy scooter problem?
The best analogy here is imagine trying to flex a twig. If I gave you a thin twig it's extremely easy to flex - and even snap - but if I hand you a bundle of thin twigs it becomes significantly more difficult to flex it at all. The further the distance between the outside of that bundle, the more difficult it becomes because the twigs have more leverage to resist your bending motion
What does this mean to you as a rider? The best way to describe it is a sense of supreme confidence and solidity. 
Whatever the opposite of this is...
The most surprising aspect of it for the Bo team has been scooter enthusiasts - the riders who have covered the most miles on scooters - are consistently the most surprised at what an incredible difference the Monocurve makes when they actually try it.
We think it is because enthusiasts have the most experience of what other scooters feel like, and so their muscle memory is most surprised at the change.
It has led to some fairly dramatic damascene conversions - generally when a scooter enthusiast first looks at the specification for Bo they are not wildly impressed by the speed or power. There are certainly cheap scooters that have better 'on-paper' specification for the dollar price.
However the second they ride it, all of that experience - all those thousands of miles - immediately tells them that this is something fundamentally different and special about how this vehicle handles.
There are certainly easier ways to make an electric scooter. The Bo team has been responsible for engineering and producing several scooters with tubular steel and aluminium frames working with companies like Pure Electric.
It would have been much, much easier to make a tubular frame
Combined with our prior experience in the automotive sector we like to feel that if we set out to create a scooter based on the same principles as every other scooter we would be able to create something very good and extremely low cost.
However, our pursuit with Bo was to create a vehicle with one key defining characteristic - a vehicle that would give a rider something that they simply couldn’t get anywhere else on the market.
That is what has been achieved with the model M. The Bo Monocurve chassis so solid and is so stable, its ride is better - we believe - than any other vehicle at any other price point in the Scooter category.
The best aspect of this is that it makes scooting incredibly easy and intuitive, even for brand-new riders who have never used a scooter before. In this way it enables behaviour change and unlocks an entirely new way of life and new opportunities for our buyers. 
Riding is believing with this one
One of the reasons we have built such a long (60 day) returns period into our policies is that we understand it is hard to believe that such a fundamental change can create such an extraordinary improvement. To the old saying: "if it was so clever, why wouldn’t everybody be doing it..?"
The answer there is the simplest of all: it is incredibly difficult. When the Bo team was formed we all came from motorsport and advanced vehicle engineering. We have built vehicles for Land Rover, Jaguar, Porsche, and a variety of race cars. Nonetheless, the Bo M Monocurve chassis is the most difficult metallic structure any of us have ever been involved with developing.
The Monocurve has proven itself on the 100mph Turbo
The simplicity achieved with the final product is testament to dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of prototypes, most of which exposed some gaping flaw in the concept that had to be analysed, engineered and resolved
Where is my obvious bias as a co-founder of the company I strongly urge you to lean on our policies and give Bo a go - experience this Monocurve for yourself.
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If you're interested in reading more - Link to Articles
If you'd like to look at Bo M more closely - Link to Model M
If you'd like to read about The Turbo Land-speed scooter - Link to Turbo
