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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: 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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The bulbous dynamo hub is dead. Long live this new sleek SON 29 S hub dynamo that you won’t even see hidden behind your disc brake rotor…

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[–] odious 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What's the point of smaller hubs? What kind of benefits do they provide?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Less weight primarily: Dynamo hubs are fairly heavy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Sleeker look i think, and probably lighter