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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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[–] spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The holy grail is the mid drive assist with integrated sealed transmission, coupled with belt drive. There's one company doing this now and hopefully it takes off. Throttle people can fight me (but also no reason that couldn't be integrated since the chainring is now decoupled from the cranks).

[–] venoft@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Sorry, I was thinking of the pinion edrive. https://pinion.eu/en/e-drive/

[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not OP, but the cero one is one I found that seems to check the boxes. It's a cargo bike that was inspired by japanese mamachari bikes - very utilitarian bikes that are analogs to the dutch commuter bikes.

I just purchased a used, older version that still uses a chain instead of a belt, but it handles nicely. Built in frame lock is incredibly convenient!