Patent ID: 7100729

Claim:
A motor powered scooter for supporting a standing rider includes a main structural tube disposed substantially horizontally along a longitudinal axis, a platform supported on a main structural tube disposed substantially horizontally along the longitudinal axis a front steered wheel supported from the forward end of the main structural tube, a rear driven wheel supported from the rear end of the main structural tube, the improvement comprising a torsion acting shock absorber for the cantilevered shock absorbing support of at least one of the scooter wheels from the main structural tube comprising: a torsion acting shock absorber attached at right angles to the main structural tube and protruding to one side of the main structural tube; a cantilevered wheel support mount offset from the main structural tube at the end of the shock absorber remote from the main structural tube; the cantilevered wheel support mounted for torsion acting shock absorber rotation through the shock absorber normal to the main structural tube to undertake shock absorbing movement between at least one of the wheels and the main structural tube, platform, and scooter rider.