The Shaper Image that sells unique and not-so-unique products has been selling their Razor Scooters like hot cakes. And this product has raised their bottom line dramatically--by 80%.

The razor scooter is sold at other stores, but Shaper Image has its own private brand that sells for $100-130.00. There is also a motorized version of these scooters that you will see on the streets of San Francisco and Oakland nowadays. San Francisco?

These scooters are starting to be computed into the automobile and non-auto accidents and injuries--the injuries are starting to mount. They were designed for children, but, of course, there are adults who ride them too. The adults usually have the motorized versions and get around in downtown Oakland. Whether adult purchasers can use them effectively in San Francisco is another issue since the hills are so severe. But elsewhere in the Bay Area--San Jose, etc., you see a number of adults on motorized scooters.

Of course, parents take their children to places, and the children take their scooters with them.[]