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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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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28317266

I had to temporarily move out. It took a few trips to move all my belongings.

No electric, so rather slow speed, but thankfully very little traffic here.

In front of a stone house with a blue door. The trailers hold bin bags and green crates with another bicycle laid on top

The bike train on a road, carrying rather tall stacks of green crates, as well as other miscellaneous items

2 trailers connected to the bike. The front trailer has a stack of bicycles on it, and the rear trailer has green crates on top of which sits a cat. Another cat walks towards the camera

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't help but notice a distinct lack of hills in your vicinity...

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not mine, but yeah, I don't see OP pulling this off in a hilly area.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're not truly having fun until you get run over by your own trailer, your own trailer, and then your own trailer.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ghost ride your own train!

(rails not included)

[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Big hills demand bigger sprocket ratios. :)

In all seriousness, the limiting factor will be the rider's ability to keep balance while spinning on the cranks, in order to climb a hill at 0.5 km/h. I wouldn't normally recommend it, but this is one of the few scenarios to attach an outrigger to a bicycle.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

brakes on the last trailer is even more important. I can walk/push up a hill.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How do you get brakes on a bike trailer? Are they all/nothing or can you modulate?

[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I too would like to know, for when I one-day build myself a bike trailer suited for home improvement store hauling. I imagine there's isn't an established standard for how linking the brakes would work, but if RVs in the USA are any indication, there would be an electronic brake controller that uses an accelerometer to control the trailer brake. So the input from the lead bike could be a binary signal, and the brake controller figures out what makes sense.

I would guess.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

I've never seen it. however I still know that they are needed.

Thereeare several options, but what is good is an open question. I'd probably look at electronic brakes of some sort first

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Alternatively, ebike go brrrrr.

It gets tiny and I up a monster grade on the way home from daycare.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

Would love to have happened across that sight!

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Choo-choo!!!!