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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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Are manufacturers' efforts to create lightweight eMTBs only making them worse?

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[–] TheFeatureCreature 2 points 6 months ago

A downhill bike with compromised safety equipment is such a recipe for disaster. A KG saved isn't going to mean much when you wrap your neck around a tree trunk because your brakes were undersized and you couldn't slow down in time.