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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] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks excellent for stripping the hair and skin from the insides of your calves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It doubles as a hair removal system!

[–] RGB3x3 4 points 10 months ago

Pretty soon, you'll just straddle a semi-truck tire and ride it like a sideways horse.

[–] MBZzZzZzZz 3 points 10 months ago

Quite the comfy stance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The aspect ratio of that tire is quite substantial. I understand that's desirable for off-road automobiles, but does the same apply here? A lot of volume inside the wheel could potentially be repurposed and filled with something that could reduce the board's moment of intertia. I presume that's a useful parameter for a self balancing craft, but idk.

[–] BURN 2 points 10 months ago

Wide + Flat does seem like a recipe for the most grip. There’s a larger tyre contact patch that way.

Never ridden a one wheel though, and don’t really plan on it, so my intuition could completely be off

[–] czech 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They really built this on hard mode. There is a huge open source community making onewheels of various sizes using VESC software.

[–] mapleseedfall 1 points 9 months ago

Oooh! Can you point one out to me? I always wanted an onewheel but its pricy

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 3 points 10 months ago

Damn, and I thought the One Wheels were sketchy...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I've seen one with a slightly smaller wheel but it seemed great