GIO 500W Electric Scooter

Recently, while siting at a coffee shop, I saw a guy and a girl riding on a black stylish electric scooter. I went out and talked with them and they kindly told me about this GIO electric scooter.

I did some research online and find the following photos and specs:

Included:

• 500w brushless electric engine
• 4 batteries that last approx. 500 charges
• Charger providing 60km on single charge
• Front, rear and turn lights
• Mirrors each side
• Large seat for 2 riders
• Large trunk box
• Key start and storage
• Under the seat storage
• Dual shocks
• Hub motor
• Front wheel and brake
• Pedals

Product Details

COMMON GIO ELECTRIC SCOOTER TECHNICAL ISSUES:

1. Theft Alarm

The signal flasher lights, horn, turn beeper and theft alarm are all one little black integrated unit inside the upper fairing attached to the handlebar underneath the meter readout assembly. You have to take the upper fairing off (the one with the two signal lights) in order to get at it.
The unit looks like a little horn! It has one integrated electronic circuit board inside it that controls all those functions. The horn speaker is attached to that circuit board.
If malfunctioning, it would be odd but not impossible that only one of those functions (turn lights/beeper, horn, alarm) was not working correctly.
If all other functions are working, also check the wires to the key switch—are they loose?

It is important that the red kill switch is in the on position; then turns the
ignition switch to the on position, which cancels the alarm.
In order to activate, turn the ignition switch to the off position then
press and hold the horn button for about 3 seconds then release and
it will arm itself. It will give you an audible 3 beep sound once it is armed.
The GIO 500 watt instruction manual covers several different types of
bikes and is useless when it comes to explaining the alarm system.

Your GIO alarm system has a random set and reset time delay (differential). After arming the alarm system, its first bump or touch will activate it.
That means that just after fooling or deliberately activating the alarm, it goes into a random time select mode that changes every time it is first bumped.
If you were to go back to your bike, let’s say 5 minutes after it has already did its song and dance, it will have reset and will activate again.

2. 350W or 550W?

Under Canadian consumer law, I am told you can list the “peak” wattage as the “wattage.” So anything with a 500w peak is a 500w product. However, the GIO motors are 350w average (I think that’s the term) with 500w peak. But as I was told by the Feds, “500w” is a perfectly legal description.

3. Assembly hints

http://web.me.com/thebandmobile/TBM/Assembly_Hints.html

4. How do rear brakes work?

The back brake has a long pad about the entire circumference of the black cylinder. When you squeeze the brake handle, it wraps the pad around the rotor, like in a letter “c” pattern the “c” shape gets slightly smaller.

Check out the GIO electric scooter on YouTube:

Feedback:

• Nice ride, some drawbacks (as to be expected), good price point – a worthy purchase
• Looks great, right price, runs well, fun!
• Love this bike!
• Great ride, great buy
• Price, suspension travel, Packaging from factory use of shrinkwrap in high risk scratch areas
• It’s an expensive kick-@ss ride.
• GIO bikes are the best
• Nice E-Scooter
• Beautiful Piece of Equipment
• Very nice sleek looking e-bike, lots of storage, great value
• Looks great, great buy for the price
• We are very happy with this scooter
• Cost, appearance, fun factor
• Economical to operate as transit to and from work
• Affordable price, can’t be beat!
• Killer deal
• This scooter is great!!!
• Money saver on gas
• Excellent price, “EABS” is awesome
• Great value for $$$ and really nice design and looks
• The value built into this little machine is incredible.
• Quite the head turner.
• NO GAS, NO INSURANCE, NO LICENCE, NO PROBLEM!
• Just got my 500w scooter arrived fast works well easy to assemble even if it comes with wrong manual lol. Thx
• Great company! Fast shipping! Clear communications! Quality product! Buy here now!
• Awesome bike, Way nicer then I had expected….Just simply Awesome….my only regret is not finding this site sooner….
• Nice bike, fun and inexpensive transportation. This is my third Gio product, never been disappointed
• WOW, I’m 100% HAPPY WITH THIS PRODUCT
• Awesome little e-scooter! looks good, runs smoothly, all the feature of a real scooter + pedals! .. environ friendly

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1. GIO 500w Scooter Overview
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3. The Canadian Law and 500W Electric Scooters