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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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Both rear cassettes and internal gear hubs these days can come with a ridiculous fuck-ton of gears (they literally go up to eleven!*). And that's before you add a front derailleur and multiply by three! How many more ratios in between those do you need?!
(*Or more, now. The ridiculousness has surpassed Spinal Tap!)
I bike a lot and the traditional gear systems, while they're pretty rock solid, easy enough to service, etc., definitely leave a little room for improvement. When you're exerting a ton of force uphill and have to shift, for example, it can be a total disaster (especially if your derailleur stops are bad and your chain slips, which I'm dealing with this moment after a rebuild).