micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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"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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Not likely - this will absolutely have uses for high performance applications.
But at the risk of sounding like "you'll never need more than 10mb of RAM", the average bike user will continue to squeeze tires to evaluate pressure.
As someone who loves bike tech I recently toyed with tyrewiz - but came to the conclusion it was one step too far (both in terms of installation and also surpassing any real world use case - as I have none).
I’m not saying people shouldn’t be into whatever they’re into but I think your sentiment is correct - there’s simply no need to have yet another piece of information fed to the average rider constantly.
Over the years I’ve slowly divested myself of most devices on my main bikes. No more head unit, no more cadence or speed sensors. I don’t and have never had a power meter fitted to any of my bikes (though my indoor winter trainers all them).
I do love me some electronic shifting but I don’t have it connected in realtime to anything. I just want to ride.
I check my pressures before every ride whether it’s road, gravel, bike packing or mountain biking (or almost every ride) - but that’s enough and more than most riders do.
One other thing a lot of these gadgets do, is make the setup to go ride often a little more annoying. “Oh today my front wheel tire pressure sensor is acting up.”
That said; if anyone wants this stuff go for it - I just think the market is small (albeit very very well off - and the fact this is Zipp wheels supports that.)
I’m often reminded of this satire piece: https://www.lavelocita.cc/opinion-page/data-disconnection
It reinforces, at least for me, that I love riding and everything else is just noise.