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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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E-bikes could get faster, more powerful and not require pedaling, in a move announced today by UKGOV. Cycling organizations are opposed to the plans.

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[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (13 children)

25kph is too slow for road ebikes. I wish they would allow these to at least be 32kph/20mph.

[–] Linkhar@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As someone who bikes in Copenhagen i love that they are not faster. E bikes are allowing people to get to speeds that they cannot handle because it is a lot easier. So they go faster than their abilities and becomes very dangerous on the overfilled bike lanes

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

If people wanted to go faster even if the motor was limited, couldn't they just pedal faster anyways? 20mph on a regular bicycle is pretty achievable even by a novice.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yes you can. On an ebike the engine just stops providing assistance above 25kph. In the EU that is. It's more in north America

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