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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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It's more than just the speed and power. The form factor of fat bike mopeds has created a vicious cycle of bikes being heavier, therefore needing more power, and being more powerful allowing them to be heavier, to the point where they essentially require throttles to operate.
My rule is that if you can't carry it up a flight if stairs or start from a stop on a hill with only the pedals, then it shouldn't qualify, regardless of power or speed. Really, just banning throttles would solves 90% of the issue.
buddy i'm not sure most people can start from stop on a hill on a normal bike, nor carry it up the stairs (due to size if nothing else).
Are you a sports cyclist?
I like your rule about starting on a hill or carrying up the stairs. That's a real bike.
Having said that, I do like a throttle on an ebike for getting off the line with a heavy load of groceries. ๐
It's really only an issue with cadence sensors. I've never had an issue starting with a load on a torque sensing bike because the assist is immediate. If we banned throttles, I think we'd just see a lot of the worst offender, shitty cadence sensing bikes become non viable and a lot more torque sensing options. It would eliminate the cheapest segment initially, but I think that's ok. Eventually the better tech would get cheaper.
The other big problem is that so many people use the throttle as a crutch because they don't have the basic skills to be in the right gear based on the situation. This is again just very basic safe operator fundamentals.