The Ding Dong Che 500

I do most of the coffee shop's business on my electric scooter. Signs of the times or perhaps a dead give-away that I am in Kunming. I currently drive a Shanghai Lima 2008 model. This is my fourth scooter since moving to China. Kicking the tires on my most recent purchase was different than most times as I have noticed many new improvements. For example, my Lima 2008 features a V-2 engine battery. Two batteries! It seems inconsequential but anyone looking under the hood floor mat would know that this little bike packs a punch.

No this is not my bike. But a very nice prototype in Thailand.

Maybe its been too long since days of driving real motored vehicles around but scooters have a bit of thrill in them. Perhaps its the smaller bike lane and the smaller vehicles that makes whisking around people on a scooter seem a little more fun than its suppose to be. But all this to say I would be the first company to sponsor a scooter at the Ding Dong Che 500. In fact I think that my four years of scooter driving experience would give me the inside shot at a spot as a driver of my Chicago Coffee sponsored scooter. Although I am sure that all those scooter-driving middle-age Chinese women with the detachable sleeves would apply in droves.