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

Bicycles not only take up a lot of space in garages, they also tend to get buried behind all the other stuff that's crammed in there. The Kradl is designed to help, by hoisting bikes up to the ceiling. And what's more, it doesn't use any electricity.

It’s better off road, but to what end when it’s worse as a folding bike?

This month, electric motorcycle companies Fuell and Energica went out of business. They join a list of companies that died after poor sales

Segway’s latest drop in its robust e-scooter lineup is the ZT3 Pro, designed for both adventure, and the more urban situations commuters find themselves in.

The 2025 Pivot Shuttle LT is a full-powered eMTB that rolls on MX wheels and offers a competitively low weight.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21139836

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21139835

The Ford government is promising to pay the cost of removing bike lanes from major city streets that fail to meet its unannounced criteria as it ploughs ahead with a plan to limit biking infrastructure and rip out some routes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21667133

I'm a country boy all my life. I can't cycle or take the metro anywhere. Walkable cities are great but they're a hundred miles away.

Everyone goes on about how they hate cars, but what else are you supposed to do?

https://electrek.co/2023/12/04/livaq-equad-unveiled-as-most-capable-electric-atv-ever/ – this article talks about something with a 108km/h and a range of 273 km. It's mad expensive unfortunately, but that is normally to do with adoption rates and scale.

(It says "claims a range of 170 miles (273 km) from its 15.4 kWh battery pack", which implies consumption of about 55 watt-hours per km travelled, though that'd be variable depending on speed and conditions)

If I had one of these, I could get to town, get to a train station, without a car. I could carry one child, which is worse than a car, but the energy consumption is a 3-4× lower than a car. If train stations had swappable batteries, that would be ideal, but I don't see that coming any time soon.

Edit: Micromobility does not have to be urban, any misinformed reports to that effect will be disregarded. Micromobility is something that everyone can use.

Used bikes and other powersports equipment can be awesome, but you need to take a few minutes and check things over before you trust your life to your new ride.

KTM's decade-old Freeride E was an oddity. An improved new model will arrive in 2025. It's not a motocross-equivalent racer, but for a certain audience, there could be a home.

New research suggests riders and city planners need to make changes to keep people safe.

So... That was quite a surprise, here's the link to the statistics: Link

188 fatalities out of nearly 24k accidents don't qualify as 'most cases end deadly'. I don't want to speculate as to how someone can misread a statistic that significantly while writing an article for a public service news site. But the damage of such false narratives is considerable.

Everything must go as the Pro's Closet's entire inventory is now officially Up for public auction until October 23rd

Specialized launches its Reduce, Reuse, ReSpecialized on October 26th, offering free repairs, tune-ups, and bike discounts for all bikes.

By no means is this exhaustive and it's from 2017, but I found it really interesting.

And this site says that the cheapo helmet from a few years ago is still just as effective as a new expensive one.