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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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The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)
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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Better for the environment, better use of urban spaces, cheaper to maintain the infrastructure, lowered healthcare costs, far fewer people being killed going to work, less dependency on oil, more affordable for families...

Wouldn't it just be cheaper overall for the governments of the world to gift every household an e-bike? Surely, it would be more sustainable than having more and more and more large vehicles with one occupant doing less than <10km of driving all day long, no?

[–] silencioso@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The biggest hurdle is the lack of bike infrastructure (manly bike paths and parking)

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

There's tons of bike infrastructure everywhere. We've just collectively decided that it should exclusively belong to cars.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

And if the reason we don't have more bike infrastructure is because money is being put into other things, this would solve that problem, too :)

[–] teft@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hate electric bikes as they pass me on a hill as I sweat my butt off going up it, but I love this headline. More people on electric and more people on bikes please.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you're sweating that much, why not just downshift? It's slower, but it's also easier!

[–] teft@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I go uphill to go downhill. Enduro is my jam. The hills I go up are in the lowest gear already, they're just steep.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just get robot legs

[–] teft@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know just the man for the job.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"'Zone 2?' More like danger zone!"

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a youngin, I used to bike to school often. For some reason I made it a point of pride to never downshift from the highest gears front and back. Took some getting used to when you had to push it when going around tight corners very slowly. Ended up with melon cracking thighs

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

"You're nuts junior!"

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

The first comment makes more sense now lol, if you're doing a big climb like that and someone zips past on an ebike, I'd be kinda peeved off too 😂