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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: 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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TL;DR: help me, Micromobility, you're my only hope

Long story short, I am fed up with the state of public transit in my city and feeling envious of the e-riders whooshing past. However, while trying to pick an actual model, I've ran into being unable to find a model that fits my needs:

  • being able to drive 30+ km, with ~100 meter elevation difference between start and finish
  • being able to handle 100+ kg of load (I am, unfortunately, fat)
  • being able to handle rain and possibly light snow
  • being foldable or otherwise transportable, because I'll have to keep it in the apartment

The Ebike store I've been to suggested picrelated, Yokamura Apache, which seems to fit the requirements, but is expensive enough to give me pause. Are there better options? Am I dreaming the impossible? Please help!

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[–] FunnySalt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

I use a thick bike chain lock. Kryptonite 1016 Evolution specifically. It's also fairly long at 5.25ft/1.6m, which allows me to chain it around small trees. After reading some other replies I think I'll be adding a u-lock too. I also always lock it up in a visible area.

It's about sufficient deterrence, I think. Which is situational. The longest I ever need to leave my bike unattended is an hour. But usually less. I feel my security is sufficient as it's difficult enough to defeat that a potential thief couldn't do so without drawing unwanted attention. But I wouldn't be comfortable with that as a solution for say an 8 hour stretch of time.