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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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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well breaking power is proportional to mass, and seeing as the vehicle weighs perhaps quarter at most of a motorcycle (~50kg, which is on the higher end, but would be along the lines of the weight of these faster scoots, against ~200kg), it would depend a lot more on your personal mass.

It's not going to be a problem to stop the scooter, but if you're on the heavier side and have to lean on the bars and put your own weight on it, it's going to affect the breaking power. A 50kg kid will have a much easier time stopping than a 120kg unit of a man.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's also mass distribution to consider, how much more likely is a scooter with a 2 or 3 foot wheelbase going to dump the rider on his nose than a motorcycle with a 6 foot wheelbase?

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That probably depends on how fast you ride it and how skilled the rider is and what ground you're riding it on.