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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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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is basically an electric motorcycle now...not a bicycle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is faster and probably more powerful as well than a moped. Atleast in the europe a moped has a 50cc engine and is limited to 45kph

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Moped is short for motor-pedal

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

That sounds terrifying.

I want one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is a terrible idea. This bike is far, far too light to be stable at that speed on all terrain without people with serious skills.

You need something with a bigger suspension, and more weight to handle the changes in terrain at those speeds without kicking you off the bike.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

So like... A motorcycle?

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 3 points 6 months ago

Presumably it'd be loaded down with gear, but it still seems sketchy as hell to ride anywhere near 80mph

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Setting aside how funny and ridiculous this is, fuck the defence industry

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why would you want to take something like this on the highway?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is what I think about every motorcycle

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Me, too, but this feels especially dangerous...I wouldn't even take a dirt bike on the highway.

I want an ebike for convenient local travel. If I wanted a vehicle requiring more protection than a helmet, I'd just get a motorcycle.

[–] kakes 5 points 6 months ago

Why would anyone in the military want to do anything?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Imagine stopping that thing from 80 with that teeny front brake

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Finally an ebike I'd be caught dead on!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

But just imagine hitting that board-on-a-2-by-4 ramp on the sidewalk in front of your house. The neighbors kids sitting on your lawn double daring you and you hit that thing clocking the full 80. You might be dead 18 seconds later when your body hits the ground, but you'll be a legend in your neighborhood forever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's just a motorcycle with extra parts.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fewer parts.

Faaar fewer parts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Compared to an ice motorcycle, probably. Compared to an electric motorcycle, I don't see how.

[–] Radium 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It won’t have anti lock brakes and that’s at least a few parts. A few extremely important parts when it comes to stopping in emergency or non ideal traction conditions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Now bosch released an abs for ebikes.

But for this kind of speed we will need more than an ebike brake!

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if extra or fewer...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Lesser parts! As in the express lane, 15 items or less! My grocery store wouldn't lie to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I get using a hardtail with a bbshd as a moped replacement or whatever, but who the fuck wants to go highway speed on a bike frame?

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 1 points 6 months ago

28mph is plenty fast on a bicycle for me, I'm fine with class 3. I usually ride closer to 15-20 anyways on the "fast" end, faster if I'm in a hurry and things are clear I guess.