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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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Its the new name for dual sport bikes
I'd say that adventure bikes are more like 70/30 road/dirt, and with greater cargo capacity, where dual sport is more 50/50. A fine distinction, but a distinction nonetheless.
And adventure bikes are usually comfortable enough to ride all day. A lot of dual sports are really road legal dirt bikes with a banana shaped seat. A light adventure bike and a heavy dual sport have a lot of overlap.
I move that we retain the old name. Who’s with me?
I second the motion.
There's physical differences though. If there's a continuum in recreational motorcycle design, at one end are offroad only dirt bikes and at the other super sport MotoGP style crotch rockets, a dual sport is one step from a dirt bike, and an adventure bike is one more step. A dual sport is a dirt bike you can drive to the gas station, an adventure bike is basically a touring bike that won't immediately fall over if you hit a patch of sand.