Karting tour with safety vest

Posted by Coco on August 15th, 2018

Unusual Boards offers walk on the banks of the Seine in Hover kart, a Hover board with a seat. A fun mini-kart tour, cool, unusual. To test urgently. We tell you our experience.

Have you always dreamed of crossing Paris by car, at any time, a bit like Ramzy Bedia and his formula 1 in "Only Two"? Unusual Board will almost realize your dream with its Hover kart towers in Paris, on the banks of the Seine.

Hover kart, you do not know? It's a board Hover board on which was added a structure to sit in order to turn the board into an electric karting car... and that makes its effect. On this racing car, we do not go unnoticed, and that's the least we can say.

Ibrahim first sold electronic cigarettes since 2013, before taking a closer look at new technologies and new methods of mobility. He very quickly,. 2014, proposed Hover board rental and lively walks in Paris.

Since two years, he has added the Hover kart to his panel of activities (tours in Hover board, VR animation, drone animation, 3D pen...) for businesses and individuals. At the beginning, he will propose walking in electric scooters.

The rendezvous is given in front of its Collection, rue days Archives. His staff prepares the equipment. Seats installed on the Hover boards are made to measure, with improvements straight out of the imagination, and therefore exclusively in France.

We put on a fluorescent yellow reflective vest and a helmet (provided) and walk to the Place on foot, rolling the machine for an initiation. It will be very fast because the grip of the car is really very simple: no steering wheel but handles on the sides that push to move forward, pulls back and directs to go. Nothing complicated. We take the food very quickly.

When everyone is ready, we settle on his Hover kart and go, towards the banks of the Seine, in single file, one behind the other.

As for a car, pay attention to the start and the advance in hill, we had some small difficulties at the beginning.

While driving this racing car, it feels like Toad or Yoshi in Mario Kart. We miss more than a horn and the music of the video game to believe in the middle.

We walk along the banks of the Seine, in the middle of onlookers who enjoy Paris Beaches. If in Mario Kart we must avoid banana skins, there are pedestrians we avoid and zigzagging among them is rather nice and very easy.

We begin with the quay Henri IV ending the tunnel that goes back to the high platform. By this time, to ride in the shade is very pleasant. But when we go back in the other direction, the tunnel is downhill and that's where the organizers have chosen to organize a race. It's really great, and we must admit that our years of practice Mario Kart have certainly helped us win the race.

This walk on the docks overlooking the Parisian monuments of the left bank, the Conciergerie, the Orsay Museum in the distance etc, is really nice, as is the passage next to the foggers.

And, it's really not risk: the Hover karts go at 12 kilometers per hour maximum, it's not that fast since some cyclists and skaters are doubling us. But, close to the ground, it does its little effect. We feel all the defects of the road, but the boards have the merit of driving everywhere, on wet ground, in the holes... no difficulty.

Children from 9 years old can come with confidence.

The tour lasts a good hour. It passes quickly, but impossible to do more: this use consumes the battery of the Hover board much faster.

Just down the Hover kart, we want to redo it so it's cool. So if you are looking for a fun and unusual activity to do in Paris with friends or family, look no further, test the Hover kart! Do not hesitate to visit Collection to book your tour, the team is very nice.