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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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[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm a total reteogrouch and loves me my classic rim brake bikes.

That said, here are a few factors in favor of disc brakes: Superlative modulation, all-weather capability without resorting to highly abrasive pads (e.g. Kool Stop salmon), zero rim wear, no aluminum oxide dust getting everywhere (ridiculously destructive substance), reduced rotational mass, superlative fault tolerance, auto-adjusting for wear (in the case of hydraulics), able to use very different wheelsets without having to fiddle with brake adjustments, easier initial setup, dead simple pad replacement without any fiddling with pad toe-in.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there something better than Kool Stop? That's what I run on both my v-brakes.

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

What I like about Kool Stop is that they have a compound for every situation. https://koolstop.com/pages/brake-pad-compound-description

I think Kool Stop is the best possible rim brake pad option for most contexts. It's just super important to match the pad compound to the predominant conditions. The multi-compound pad always gives me warm fuzzies. If you need to swap pads often, consider getting cartridge pads ("holder" I'm Kool Stop parlance).

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

TIL: They have swappable pads, nice!