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"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 I ran the bike industry for a day, here's everything I'd change (www.cyclingnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some of those points are so bizarrely odd.

Like: Bikes should ship with bottles and cages.

Um, no. Too many variations in personal preferences to make this an industry-wide change. Material choices for the cage, weight, size of the bottle, colour of the bottle, bottle material, bottle entry direction on the cage, etc. You'll never make someone happy, and it's a waste of cages and bottles to give them away like that. Just like those shitty lights and reflectors that come with bikes. Only good for the garbage.

But I do agree that torque specs should be listed next to the bolt. Always.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

agreed. Some really nice points here (I'm kinda digging the T25 for every screw/bolt idea), but a default tubeless setup?! I don't necessarily disagree that tubeless has many advantages, but if I'm going on an extended adventure through parts devoid of bike shops or at least pressure air pumps, I'm sticking to repairable tubes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Most of his points are excellent. I'll add: crank length selection. Why are we still dealing with only 170 and 175mm crankarms most of the time? Given how frequently 165mm cranks get sold out, there's clearly demand there. But now with the trade war, I won't be able to get another Sugino XD600 triple until this insanity ends.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I agree with pretty much all of these. I also want a universal bike loader on chairlifts, so there's no clearance issues with downhill mountain bikes. Some bikes can get damaged shocks or snapped fenders from Whistler's systems, but Big Sky's systems have universal compatibility.