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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

While I love the use of acoustic to describe non-powered bicycles, does no-one but me just call them pushbikes?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Here in California, if you said pushbike, this is what many people might envision: a two-wheel craft with a floorboard like a scooter, and the handlebars and wheels of a bicycle, but with no gears or chains.

But pedalbike here would indeed refer to a bicycle, albeit maybe with a connotation of a child's bicycle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not in the US wr don't. Pushbike is weird to me anyway, it sounds like it should be used for a bike without pedals. And also we already have a word for a non-powered bicycle. It's bicycle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Except people will bend over backwards to put a word in front of bicycle to denote that it is not electric

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I never heard the term pushbike until I moved to the UK.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Crikey, you've discovered my Aussie identity