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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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They should be free to do that up to a point. A moped needs a licence to drive and it needs to be registered and insured and you need to wear a motorbike helmet while riding one and you're not allowed to ride it on the sidewalks or on forest trails. If your ebike is effectively a moped then the same rules should apply.
Where I live a pedal-assist ebike with 250 watt motor that's limited to 25kph is considered a bicycle and you're allowed to ride it where ever you're allowed to ride a bicycle aswell. However if it goes faster than that or is a more powerful then I think it's only reasonable that there's a different set of regulations for a bike like that. I'm not allowed to drive a car on the sidewalk either even if I go slow so I don't see how electric motorbike is that much different.