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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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[–] corm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I want more powerful ebikes to be allowed because there are a lot of roads here without bike lanes and I avoid them because I can't hit 35mph to keep up with traffic

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Probably a tilting recumbent of some kind, that sounds wonderful!

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want a lightweight folding ebike that doesn't have small tires

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If someone could figure out a folding bike with full size tires that is also light weight, that would be a pretty neat trick.

I have a folding fatbike with 20x4 tires: It weighs 75 lbs.

Personally, I'd like a cargo bike with full suspension, ridiculous range, and transportability. The Tern GSD S00 LX looks pretty great.

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I really want to design and build my own e-bike but too many other projects get in the way. An ideal ebike would have a reverse trike design, you'd sit low, but not too low (a lot of the trike designs you sit dangerously low to where cars can't see you). Having a digital drive so there is no chain and instead you are essentially just spinning a generator sounds very cool to me. Having a ton of power isn't that important to me since I have no interest in trying to explain to people that if the ebike is below 750 watts, then it technically is classified as a regular bike and can go anywhere a regular bike is allowed.

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