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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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[โ€“] yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not really a bike person (yet, anyways)

Have a look at cargo bikes, they've diversified greatly over the last ~5 years. For example, there's models now that are smaller than a regular bike, way more nimble than a regular cargo bike, but still quite versatile if you don't need to carry three children and the kitchen sink, eg yoonit (they're a German company, not sure about availability elsewhere).

[โ€“] Knusper@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, I appreciate the thought, but splurging several thousand bucks on something I don't even know if I'll want to use, that just ain't happening... ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Sure, I understand. It's still much cheaper than a car in the long run.

And prices will eventually drop with more competition and there's not a really functional second hand market for these things since they are too new.

But yeah it really was just an FYI in case at some point you realize "I can't do this by foot alone" you know there's a variety of options that's not a clunky "bakfiets".

[โ€“] caesaravgvstvs@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Depending on the size of your household, you could just get regular saddle bags for the bike and use those to transport your groceries. You'd be surprised how much fits.

But also if you wanna continue walking you could get one of those shopping carts that grannies use, I think they're very useful and save you a lot of effort