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.
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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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I don't like the title. Super light ebikes are great.
The article makes some good points about super light e-mountain-bikes but the title appears to address ebikes as a whole. I ride a non-MTB SL ebike but when I bought an MTB it was a muscle bike.
The extra weight of making something an ebike definitely isn't negligible. My skinny tire SL ebike still weighs more than my MTB and the weight distribution is different.