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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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[–] bjornp_@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Living in the Netherlands I genuinely don't hate this. Fat bikes are kind of annoying here. The people riding them often go with ludicrous speeds as they have been altered, but without a plate like a speed pedelec should. They're quite dangerous.

They're also parked quite unhinged as they don't really fit into regular spots. Hopefully people get normal electric bikes now.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry to hear that, I live in the states and people ride them fairly normally for the most part (at least in my town). I ride an Engwe XP 2 Pro (a fatbike) and it seems to fit in the majority of racks I've encountered though sometimes I end up having to hitch my bike on one side of super skinny racks. Probably helps that I don't live in a big city though and our town is fairly bike friendly.