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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cleaning a chain every time it gets wet is kinda impractical isn't it? That would be pretty much a daily task.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Again, every chain, no matter the lube should be cleaned after a wet ride.

Whether you choose to ignore that or not, totally depends on your goals.

I use wipperman links, which allows me to remove my chain without tools. So it's quite literally a 10-second swap, and only if the chain is too "dirty" (again, it really doesn't get dirt when it's waxed) to cleaned with a cloth.

For context, I my first winter ate through chains, and all of my components were rusted by the spring no matter how obsessive I was about keeping things clean.

This year, not a single bit of rust. No chain wear at all over thousands of KM. No wasted rags or solvents. And very little of my time went to chain maintenance.

When I waxed my chain the first time, the experience was so positive, I immediately switched two other bikes over to waxed chains that same week.

I ride a lot (min 500km a month over the winter), so if you are an occasional cyclist, then it may not be as profound of an experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Looking into the stuff needed for it, what product names should I look for? Almost everything is a liquid you put on the chain rather than a heat melted was which in comparison barely seems to exist.