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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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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Gravel suspension is different than the traditional forks you see, and it's usually only on higher end gravel bikes. Most entry level to mid range gravel bikes don't have any suspension.

Hybrid front suspensions are usually just traditional MTB fork type designs, gravel bikes tend to have stuff like suspension stems, I probably should've specified that.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ahh right, yeah mine looks similar to a mountain bike front suspension. I think it's a bit different in that it's not expecting impacts from jumps and stuff like that but I presume that means it's the same general designed but tuned for smaller impacts.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, they sometimes use suspension seatposts too, which typically have less travel than the equivalent MTB would have.