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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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Will electronic shifting transform this reader's bike?

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[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Call me old-fashioned but electronic stuff has more points of failure, and seems harder to service?

[–] Nottalottapies@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Should be easier to service. No adjusting cable tension, routing new cables through frames... Just calibrate through the app and go for a perfect shift everytime.

I have 105 mechanical and can't fault it really. I have ridden a SRAM electronic shift and it was very nice. But essential, no.

[–] jaek@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I guess I'm old fashioned too, but it's pretty funny when you're out on a ride and your mate has to stop because their derailleur ran out of batteries.

I've ever had a shifter cable fail on me in 20 years of riding, including stints as a bike courier and two continental circumnavigations.