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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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[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bike gears are intriguingly analogous to genitalia. The derailleur type being male, the hub type being female.

Not sure where to go with this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, apparently the witticism was not appreciated. Must be hard to find a way to take offence at literally anything but whatever...

I was actually making a serious point. The standing joke goes that God was unkind to men when he put their delicate bits on the outside - and in fact it's true for bikes too. Hub gears make much more sense than derailleurs - the vulnerable parts are protected! But as I understand it there's a trade-off with the efficiency of power transmission. To be honest I've never quite understood this, nor why amazing 7-speed hubs are not a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think everyone got the joke, but comedy is hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fair enough. I Just see downvoting as so juvenile and petty. We don't jeer people at every turn in person, we have manners.

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