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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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[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Even a non-electric full suspension MTB can easily cost well over 5k. What people don't often realize is that these are extremely high quality top of the line products. There's not a huge difference in the quality of components between a 5k "consumer" level mtb and one that a professional rides in a competition. Cheap mountain bike from walmart simply just can't handle the beating that a more expensive one can. The cheap bike literally falls into pieces during the first downhill ride.