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Ride1Up Roadster V3 e-bike review: A truly excellent bike
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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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"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 all/tend to have much higher torque that compensates for bad rolling/air resistance.
That's true, but skinnier tires would also let you get more range out of an equivalent battery on top of better acceleration.
It's all a trade-off though, fat tires offer better vibration dampening/pseudo-suspension, and they are unmatched riding on sand.
More range yes. For torque, human assist has more input for a lighter wheel and motor, but fat tire motors have 50%+ more torque. Smaller diameter wheels further help torque, and the motor alone accelerating the wheel faster makes any human input just extra.
Yeah but that would also hold true for a skinnier wheel (part of why cargo bikes don't use superfat tires),