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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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[–] Chapelgentry@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie - it looks great. Just wondering what the price point for this will be. I feel like it might be in a weird spot - you can get ebikes from Honda for under $1k and if you flirt with anything higher than $5k you start to compete with gas bikes. Hopefully it's priced in a good range there to be competitive.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC Honda has an air cooled IC bike for about $3500, but what sub 1k ebike do they sell?

[–] Chapelgentry@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a super compact ebike - basically a suitcase with wheels but it's just at $1,000. Personally I'd love to get one and know full well this suitcase bike isn't anything like the Super73 but it's really to showcase the floor for these types of bikes:

Honda Suitcase Bike

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not an ebike, that's a scooter. I got excited that Honda made an affordable ebike there for a second...

[–] Chapelgentry@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry about that - not well versed on the difference between the classes. I originally thought an ebike was a bike with an electric motor attached, but I've seen quite a few articles about wheeled conveyances that I wouldnt classify as a bike being called one. My bad

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No worries, the term ebike gets thrown around pretty loosely in the media and even by manufacturers sometimes.

Doesn't help that it's kind of complicated too: Classifications of different types of ebikes vary from country to country, but basically as a rough guide, if you can pedal it, it would probably be regarded as an ebike. If it's something where you don't pedal, it's probably some sort of scooter.

[–] Chapelgentry@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks bud, I appreciate the clarification! Hope you have a good rest of your week!

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, me too lol.

Also, you as well.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nothing about the article to add, but the gulf colors on an electric vehicle always makes me laugh

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not bad. I'd ride either of those. I wonder about speed, range and charge times, but all in all am looking forward to quiet bikes. Are any of the e-bikes using generative brakes? How's the acceleration? There's a lot of potential, but it's not going to be an easy sell to motorcyclists that are very performance minded and ate up the ' loud pipes save lives ' horseshit that boomers on Harleys spewed as absolute truth for so long that the squids adopted it.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Squids?

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

"Squid" refers to people who blast down the highway on sportbikes while wearing their favorite protective gear: shorts, sandals, sunglasses. Maybe a t shirt if they are feeling fancy.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I used to hang out with some guys who rode dual sports, and every one of them had some kind of loud exhaust on them. I remember also them finding out I had a harely, and them being confused when it was neither loud, or covered in chrome.