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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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https://youtu.be/xDmBFYY5QEw Some people cycle for exercise, some do it for the commute, and some do it as a sport, exploring the toughest terrain on the planet. Common sense dictates that all those activities would require bicycles of different calibers and capabilities - the Heybike Hero wasn't designed for 'common sense'... it was designed to absolutely

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

As an aside, the Indigogo product page has the weirdest depiction of a bike's range I've ever seen: a map showing the 60 mile (97 km) route from east San Jose, CA to southwest San Francisco. Their best idea to showcase the distance was to go from a suburban, single-family home subdivision in the South Bay foothills to the area around the largest -- and only? -- freshwater lake and park in San Francisco?

The only way this makes sense to me is if they're routing onto the Bay Area Ridge Trail, which is a system of trails running high above the bay on the surrounding mountains. And unlike the SF Bay Trail along the shoreline, the Ridge Trail does connect those two destination. But it's longer than 60 miles.

60 miles from San Jose to San Francisco