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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!

"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.

micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"

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Weight limits for bicycles need to be higher and more transparent, especially if the majority of people want to use them.

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[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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I picked a random bike on their website and it had the exact same problem the article is about: it doesn't list a maximum weight for the rider.

I guess this is one situation of privilege I and a lot of lightweight people experience: Of course the bike will support my weight, I don't even have to check. Meanwhile people over 200 pounds are told to import bikes and 300+ people don't even get any certainty that an import will support them.