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Motorized wheel-on-a-pole sticks it to electric skateboards
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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 there's a way to attach a lacrosse stick to the other end, I think I have friends that would buy this. This could also propel -- pun intended -- a new sport into existence: power lacrosse, where everyone is on a skateboard. Think hockey, but with lacrosse, but with kick flips.
In all seriousness, I'm going to have to check how/if this is even regulated under local laws here. I'm not even sure the California Vehicle Code even handles a ~~one~~ zero? wheeled device that only periodically contacts the ground.
Sounds like a sport designed to injure people.
So it will be wildly popular in the US?
Yes. It's a good way to get into massive amounts of debt quickly, which Americans seem to love.
Nothing could be more American than injuries in an increasingly outlandish manner. 'MURICA!
I already have a jersey from my favorite blood-wheel hockey team
Let me update my health insurance and sign me up
But what about full contact tennis? The game is played as usual, but if the opponent gets close to the net and the other player is also near, they can reach over the net with a swing of their racket to try to sun their opponent. Fists are also permitted. Doubles is like tag-team... Only one can be violent at a time. Knock out is added as a method of victory.
At some point, we'll have just reinvented wrestling, but with more implements.