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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: 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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[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

I own several bike trailers, built a few cargo trailers myself, and ride with them a few times a week, so I'm going to chime in with some thoughts after looking at their Vimeo page, which inexplicably has more information than their website.

The Convoy appears to be a standard bike rack built atop an electric unicycle. I say this to illustrate that it's offering maybe 30% more carrying space than you could reasonably get with a rack over the rear wheel of the bike.

Cargo layout image:

This is the best shot I could find in their videos.

The most striking thing to me is the use of a 14" wheel, yet the cargo area is the same height as a rack on the bike. If it was a bit longer, the centre of gravity could be lowered quite a bit. Though the compact nature could be useful to people with tight space limitations, I can't help thinking a long tail bike would be more versatile.

12kg weight for 50kg of cargo capacity isn't too bad, though my most used cargo trailer weighs 22.5kg with about ten fold the carrying capacity. It's much longer though, bit over five feet. Storing something this long isn't problematic for me though - my next one may be longer.

For a trailer that attaches to the axel, I like the connection design they've used (similar to the Burley Coho XC) and the tensioner being simple and effective for applying pressure on the powered wheel. It is also a stylish addition to a bike, which can be important.

The self steering aspect is quite interesting to me, though I'm not really sure it is needed for something with one wheel. The wheel does need to steer, given the trailer does not have any articulation from the bike, but why it has active steering is something I don't understand. It'd be interesting to know if they tried a passive steer solution that didn't work since the wheel is so close to the bike or something like that.

Unfortunately I have little confidence there is a niche for a product like this as I believe the dentists are buying Urban Arrows.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

Just reading how it works seems like an over complication of something as simple as a bike trailer. And for $2200 with a max payload weight of only 110lbs?

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you seen the price of electric cargo bikes?

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, some can be had for half the price of that trailer - the Fiido T2 is $1200 on prime sale right now.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Ebike conversion kit $159.99

Bike trailer 109.99

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now attach it to the trailer instead of your bike and enjoy the squirreliest ride of your life!

Seriously though, you left out the battery. I'd also recommend Bafang as kits go.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

sorry, just quickly searched for those thing, didn't realize that the battery wasn't included.

what do you mean attach it to the trailer?

like add hub engines to the trailer wheels?

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No, I said the squirreliest ride of your life: Just one of the trailer wheels 😆

Be sure to record it for posterity though.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

instead i replaced both trailer tires, and both bike tires, I have a 4X4 bicycle

You'll be unstoppable!

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How about a cargo bike that can extend and shorten?

It's an interesting idea, but it also sounds like it would pose a lot of engineering challenges.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd still rather have a Burley Travoy.

I settled for a shitty Schwinn but mostly because I can't afford Burley stuff.