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

If the ultimate goal is to regulate speed and size, power output as a multiple of rider input is an interesting wag to measure that for "normal" ebikes. Not necessarily good, but interesting. Specialized advertises their bikes like this: "2x You" or "4x You". Part of what makes it interesting is that I don't know how manufacturers could figure out your power output on a bike that doesn't have a torque sensor. My Specialized has a power/torque sensor, but many of the bikes I test rode only had cadence sensors.

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

I know Ride1up uses some sort of voltage trickery to simulate it. It's not perfect, but it's surprisingly good IMO.

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

Huh, I wouldn't have thought of that. Mildly brilliant on their part.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

I've only had my Portola for a little while, but so far I am impressed especially for a budget bike.