Comments on: Scooter Contraption https://kk.org/streetuse/scooter-contraption/ This site features the ways in which people modify and re-create technology. Herein a collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity. In short -- stuff as it is actually used, and not how its creators planned on it being used. As William Gibson said, "The street finds its own uses for things." I welcome suggestions of links, and contributions from others to include in this compendium. -- KK Thu, 11 May 2017 22:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.12 By: Robin Hodson https://kk.org/streetuse/scooter-contraption/#comment-78369 Thu, 11 May 2017 22:15:00 +0000 #comment-78369 South Korea is a high-tech developed country, so this is more likely to be thailand etc.

]]> By: Tim https://kk.org/streetuse/scooter-contraption/#comment-64030 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-64030 LOL – I love that the front wheel on the ‘cart’ is flat, but he’s still going.

]]> By: cajunfj40 https://kk.org/streetuse/scooter-contraption/#comment-64049 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-64049 Don’t have the reference handy, but this came up a while ago elsewhere in a larger format – this is at least heavily enhanced via PhotoShop or similar. I think you can see the kickstand on the scooter is down in this one…

heh, “scenes exaggera” for the captcha, how apt.

]]> By: Mike https://kk.org/streetuse/scooter-contraption/#comment-64073 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-64073 I was in Korea a year or so ago and pretty sure I’ve seen this for real or something very similar.

]]> By: Travis https://kk.org/streetuse/scooter-contraption/#comment-64093 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-64093 If this is real, which I doubt, I have to wonder why bother? Why would someone want to sit up high like that when it would be so much easier to sit on the scooter and drive it directly.

]]> By: Tom G https://kk.org/streetuse/scooter-contraption/#comment-64152 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-64152 That’s a motor home – and an adaptation to urban homelessness. Bunk bed upper with rain shelter. TV lower level with water and gasoline. The high seating position is this guy’s way of saying, I’m somebody smart, fun and ingenious, not a lowlife drunk. Note the fancy sunscreen hat & sun shirt, he might be a perpetual tourist.

]]> By: busby https://kk.org/streetuse/scooter-contraption/#comment-64310 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-64310 Nice SUV. After seeing some of the driving in India this doesn’t seem too extrime to be real.

]]> By: @busby https://kk.org/streetuse/scooter-contraption/#comment-64660 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-64660 that is in korea, madam… not India..

]]> By: NorthCountryLiberal https://kk.org/streetuse/scooter-contraption/#comment-67282 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-67282 It is Korea.

Real or not, it speaks to Korean engenuity and their ability to do much with very little. That is why tiny South Korea is one of the four economic leaders in Asia.

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