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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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If you don't want a part of your body to get sore, then that part shouldn't be pushing against something that doesn't move along with it. That's the thinking behind the vabsRider bicycle saddle, the two sides of which pivot in time with your pedaling.

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[โ€“] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 73 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

I'd be afraid of getting my nuggets trapped in the confluence zone.

[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

๐ŸŽต Help! My ball have dropped into the confluence zone! ๐ŸŽต

[โ€“] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

๐ŸŽถ Highway tooo the CONFLUENCE ZOOOONE ๐ŸŽถ

[โ€“] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

A wild ZZ Top appears!

[โ€“] Railing5132@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] njordomir@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thought the same, sitting on this things looks about as risky as teabagging the moving parts in an elliptical machine.

[โ€“] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just tuck them into your inguinal canals when you go for a ride.

[โ€“] Railing5132@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago
[โ€“] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

They've had test subjects already. That contingency must have already been compensated for or it would never have made it to market.

That being said, the visuals are horrifying.

Still, I'd like to give it a try. I'm done having kids, regardless.

[โ€“] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Kids is one thing but I'm envisioning a balls version of the stick-in-the-spokes meme, with you writhing in agony in the road until an SUV comes along and puts you out of your misery.

[โ€“] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Might just sensually juggle them instead of chewing them like a Sami native.

[โ€“] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That might be an interesting ride. Maybe they'll release the "XS" model next year.

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

I can't really tell from the visuals but it looks like they don't really get that close together. The two sides seem like they say hello to each other, but they don't really get that close. So presumably but there's quite some gap in the mechanism.