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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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While wireless derailleurs may offer fast and precise electronic shifting, the things ain't cheap. That's where the NXS system comes in, as it's promised to make existing cable-actuated mountain bike derailleurs wireless for less than eighty dollars.

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[–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was assuming a box that would mount on the rear triangle, but no. Threads straight into the derailuer in a perfect position to rip it and the derailuer off in one go making everything useless.

Oh, and its more ewaste. Cable shifters work perfectly fine, I don't understand the general obsession with adding more electronics and batteries to charge to a bike.

[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm with you; cables all the way. My experience with electronic shifting is that it is objectively superlative to cables when it comes to more than 11 cogs in the cassette. As long as your derailleur and hanger are straight, the shifting will always work flawlessly.

Hell, even my 10-speed go-fast bike sometimes gets touchy, and that's with Jagwire Link housing. But I stop for 30 seconds, tweak the barrel adjuster, and I'm good for another 500+ miles. More electronics in bikes gives me the heebie-jeebies, even when it's a proven technology.

[–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I've had to touch the derailuer on either of my MTB a grand total of once a year when I give them a once over for maintenance, or when I eat dirt and rip them off the frame - not the drivetrains issue there though, purely rider skill issue.

It rather tweak a cable once a year, or heck even a few times a year than charge a battery every few weeks.