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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

IMO It's completely ridiculous that derailleurs have dominated bicycle shifting for so long.
They're just really not a good solution at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago
  • cheap to manufacture
  • has high efficacy
  • gears wear out relatively fast (debatable)
    • ... so they can sell you spare parts
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Because it's significantly lighter than gearhub, and there's no better solution available to shifting that's also light in weight. The sort of gearhub mentioned in the article are mainly for ebike.