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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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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is a hook? Not a spoke hook like I thought.

The hook is a ridge that faces towards the tire at the edge of a wheel. It’s small but the hook catches the bead of the tire helping with tire retention. If a wheel is hookless then there’s no hook there and instead the top edge of the wheel is flat. Rather than the hook catching the tire bead, the tire presses against the side of a hookless wheel. This is the same way that car tires work.

huh, I thought car rims also had this ridge for the bead to sit in.

From the article description I think the car tire has a U shape, or maybe think of it as a J shape for the bead. The hooked tires have a G-ish shape, where the top of the outside of the bead wall has the 'hook.'

I just did a quick search, and I think that's exactly it: https://blog.flocycling.com/carbon-wheels/hooked-vs-hookless-rims/