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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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well, I wanted to to be a goofy and unique project, so having the wheels be in the "normal" location would be a less interesting to me. Also, the trike had a "male" axle for a wheel to mount to, and the hoverboard wheels also had a "male" stub coming out of the motor hub, so mounting them together would have required something to offset and join the parts together. Since I wanted to do 2 wheels on each side, a triangle just kind of made sense. In retrospect, they should have been a bit shorter so the top of the cooler was level. I chose to not use cad, since i have been relying on it a lot for other projects, and sometimes its fun to just make something and kind of make it up as you go along, but if i had designed it in the computer first, then i would have realized that the rear wheel height was too high. :)
I'm not sure I was clear enough. I didn't mean to suggest that the wheels should all be mounted on the same axle somehow, I just meant that they could be in the same plane. So, you'd still have three wheels in line with each other on each side, but all on the same level so that your trike frame sits flat.