The flaw in the concept, says Wang, is when cities severely restrict where these personal mobility devices can travel or park, noting, “I do think that, generally speaking, a lot of the restrictions are a little heavy handed. It's hard to deliver on the promise of free urban mobility, like the ease of access within your city, when you don't have the ability to park in destinations that you know, are actually where you're trying to go.
Admitting a unicycle isn't for everyone, INMOTION also produces four different electric scooters—the latest of which is the INMOTION Climber which sells for about $1,000. Equipped with dual motors, it's for people who live in hilly areas. We were provided a kit to evaluate and it's remarkably both simple to install and surprisingly powerful.Installation required only swapping out the front wheel of this reporter's Trek FX 1 bike for the Swytch wheel that contained the electric motor in its hub. A pedal motion sensor was then snapped on and secured by cable ties, the battery holder was quickly attached to the handlbar and all the cables easily attached by snapping into their color-coded connectors.