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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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I see these every time a bicycle path intersects with any kind of car or train infrastructure. It just seems really patronizing, as if we're not capable of slowing down without getting off the bike; it also shifts responsibility onto the cyclists if there is a crash based on something arbitrary (mounted vs dismounted).

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, I am always happy to talk to a fellow angle-grinder enthusiast. I've had too many Dewalt bushings go bad--they're a false economy, enshittified to make line go up.

For me, Milwaukee is that sweet spot for value and quality.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope to be an enthusiast soon enough, it's one of the major tools missing from my workbench. Milwaukee -is- pretty good, and I already have the battery packs.

But after working with a shipwright who had all Bausch tools I've been spoiled.

Cut down many signs?

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, no, sir. That would be a crime.

I mostly use angle grinders for my sourdough. A bread can never be too hard is my personal opinion.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

You must have the jaw muscles of a mastiff and the palate of beaver.