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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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I mean, for serious - let's have a discussion here.
Where is the line at which allowing motocross bikes ride in public parks is problematic, but letting ebikes on them isn't?
noise/fumes from one and the ability to go faster than 40? there's a line in there somewhere that feels reasonable.
How about weight and destructiveness in power terms? Ebikes have a lot of low end torque that is capable of destroying nature. They shouldn't be on nature trails. Just the bike itself is about 3x heavier than a normal bike, and even the capability of going 25mph - they shouldn't be allowed.
Horses are allowed on a lot of trails and are far heavier than any e-bike.
It's a great thing they don't have rotating wheels then eh?
Hoofs absolutely wreck the trails. They literally carve ditches on the forest floor.