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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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Nobody likes getting a sore bum when cycling. The Air Seat is made with that fact in mind, as it adds what is described as a "full-floating" coil suspension system to existing saddles.

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

https://canecreek.com/product/thudbuster-lt/

Save your spine: get a parallelogram-hinge shock-seatpost.

The other brand that was making them ( the "tricky dick" ) was using a spring, instead of elastomers, & I'd read that the spring would be wrecked whenever the thing was bottom'd out.

They're gone, now, so those reviews apparently were indicative of a fundamental engineering problem with that alternative.

Definitely, though, save your spine, & get one of those parallelogram-hinge things.

When you hit a bump, your arms don't magically-shorten, they act as pivots, right?

Your butt needs to go both back & down, in relation to the normal-seat-location.

It's a basic geometric fact.

And with you being kinder to your spine, your years-being-able-to-ride can be extended, noticeably.

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