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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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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

0 labour cost here. I buy the tools and do any work myself...its part of the enjoyment of cycling for me, since autos went so electronic/computerized that the old shade tree wrenching has all but died.

I ran into a biker one weekend morning as I walked my flat tired bike into our apartment building. He was heading out, and said "oh know bummer, and the bike shop is closed till Monday". I said it was no problem I was just coming back to change the tube/tire myself. He looked at me like this was some new mystical revelation to his brain.

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Yeah I do all the labor myself. If I don’t know how, there’s someone on YouTube that’ll teach me.

[–] alteredEnvoy@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

I do a lot of work myself too, but there are things I go to the LBS for help. Either it requires a very specialized tool or I am too weak to remove/install some parts