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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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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Focus on that then, use the scooter as a goal to lose weight. I personally went from 235 down to 195 in the past 5 months by not eating carbs/sugar (essentially keto). Didn't change my actual activity levels, just stopped eating foods that pretty much do nothing for you and are very hard to process which results in excess body weight.

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm at that weight because of my job, I have to be able to push literal tons of weight on wheels for hours a day. I'm actually not that high in body fat

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

Apologies if I upset you in any way, still hope my success helps someone regardless. Didn't mean to assume you were overweight. more of a happy personal information sharing I was doing.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of my buddies is built huge too, he rides an ebike though.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Some of those have really low weight limits too though, my ebike is 250 pounds but I'm comfortably under that.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

There are, but mine are 330 and 355lbs(I'm around 200, but like room to haul stuff. Dedicated cargo bikes can do even more.

My e-bikes are nothing special either, just a Portola and EP2 Pro