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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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[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What a load of bullshit. It's only hard if you want it super lightweight. You could 3D print in shell mode and then turn it into composite by glassing on it with carbon fiber (~50€/kg) or glass fiber or basalt. Or use wood as core. Or steel tubes and a little welding. But a non-suspended bike frame is so cheap and mass manufactured it's stupid to make it yourself. And who the fuck 3D prints wheels lol.

3D printing makes sense if you can print the whole frame in one go and in some good alloy.

It would be far more interesting to do this with a tadpole recumbent, combining 3D printing with fiber glassing.