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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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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

the fact that it went in the pannier rather than on the rack, despite being one of the exact shapes racks are specifically designed for, hurts

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

You are 100% right. However, I had forgotten my cargo net / straps at home in my other pannier bag. So I had to improvise. What would you have me do, not get the cargo?

[–] maya@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I've heard other people refer to this as the "Carry Shit Olympics" lol.

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

If you liked this for the Olympics, what do you think of this?

I have very big shoes, and this box had two pairs (each in their own box). I picked it up at my local PO box.

[–] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

perfect job for a smart secure simp

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

The text on the box 🤣

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

may have you quads of steel (not being sarcastic, just wishing you good physique for your efforts)

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 4 points 5 hours ago

I appreciate you! I'm working on it. I've been working in losing weight and strengthening, and biking 8km each way to work every day is definitely helping that.

However, recently I saw someone who I'm sure has quads of, I don't even know what. There's a local ice cream stand in my area I've seen before, that I assumed was towed by a car. Nope, saw the person towing it behind a bike the other day. It was an analog bike too.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I saw a guy on a bike carrying a large fan once. Kinda like yours. I wrote a little song about it and never forgot it. (This was like thirty years ago lol)

He's riding down the road on his bicycle
He's got a big white stand up fan
He's trying to cool off
But it ain't plugged in
He's riding down the road on his bike

~fin~

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Pannier bag is awesome. I usually went grocery shopping and haul stuff back with it on both bag.

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I love my pannier bags. However I have a fold out basket on the other side of the rack that I generally use for groceries if I am stopping after work for just a single bags worth. Its grant. It's the ideal size for a standard paper grocery bag, which is the same size as our reusable bags.