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The Most Useful Electric Bike Is a Pint-Size Prankster
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this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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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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If it can't carry any form of cargo, or even a basic repair kit and a water bottle, is it really "useful"? LOL
Call it anything else, but not useful.
Don't forget: It has no pedals, so if you lose power you're fucked.
The bigger issue IMO is the lack of pedals+gears and the price. Which means no activity and can't be ridden on trails (safer, shaded, more direct route) in the US.
The benefit they're saying is that you can put it in a vehicle (trunk, backseat etc) for 1-way or last-mile trips. And I've seen it said that the exact specs used allow you to travel with it (small enough batteries for air travel).
I have a somewhat similar small+weak+cheap ebike that does have gears (Fiido D4S) and the size is nice particularly for moving/storing it (folding). I have done 1-way trips using a trail. Storage would be nice (some options I've seen weren't compatible) but in the past I've just used a backpack and ziptied carabiners, and I've hauled water (a somewhat short distance) on the handlebars that way (12L a trip when my well pump went out, via 2 carabiners plus 2 flat bungee cords).
A lighter frame would be nice (maybe even smaller, not sure) but that's a premium even just for a frame (I don't think it'd be common sold in yardsales etc where I am) and 45Lbs is good enough for me (though the article points out the Jackrabbit XG is 32Lbs whereas the original was only 24Lbs, so it's even less of a difference).