micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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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For anything less than 10miles in one go, do you really need electric assistance? 4-5miles that's like 20min of fairly low intensity biking on a regular roadbike, hardly worth spending money on an electric bike/scooter for that.
So where I live it’s SUPER hilly, and I mean steep hills. You mix that with no bike lanes, and super heavy traffic. Like, my apartment parking lot dumps you straight out on to a 4 lane road right in the city.
So, all of that mixed with the fact that we aren’t trying to do this to lose weight. We don’t cycle cause it’s fun to us. It’s literally because I have the only drivers license, and the only car. But they need their own local transportation.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the weather! Down here starting in may the weather goes into death mode. The summers here stay in the 90’s, and very often break 100. With an average humidity of around 80%
So, we don’t cycle as a hobby. I mean riding 10 miles maybe nothing to you, but the hills alone. I’d rather take a severe beating than ride 10 miles. In the summer it gets deadly hot. They are riding this thing to work to be less than 2 feet from clients. So, don’t need to be sweaty. There are just sooooo many reasons that this thing really needs to get them there and really not be pedaled at all preferably.
Which that is one advantage of the cheap scooter. Scooters aren’t allowed on the road. So they can ride it on the sidewalk avoiding crazy drivers.
Reasonable trip time is 30 minutes. 4 miles is about the edge of that for most people on a regular bike. 7 miles is in that range on an ebike. Sure I have ridden by regular bike 12 miles before, but the trip took over an hour.
12 miles should definitely not take you more than an hour, thats definitely a leisurely average pace. A reasonable and realistic pace for a complete beginner biking for transport is around 15mph on a regular road bike in relatively flat terrain (less than 600 feet of total elevation)
The terrain was not entirely flat, I had several stops for traffic lights. It wasn't much over 1 hour, but it was a few minutes over. Sure downhill I went faster, but uphill I went slower. By the end I was getting tired as well and so slowed down even more.