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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, not just you.

Putting together a drivetrain is a fucking pain in the ass because even when shit is interoperable, there is no documentation confirming that.

Just as an example, I have a bike with shifters that attach to the brake levers. Neat, minimalist.

Except the brakes and brake levers are kinda shit, so I'd like to replace them. Except then I'd need a new shifter. Ok fine.

But wait, the derailleur uses an unusual cable-pull-interval that shimano used on literally just this one derailleur-shifter combo, so now I need a new derailleur that'll work with the new shifter.

It's fucking infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If it's a tiny bit of comfort, you probably don't need a new derailleur, just a new cassette with the right spacing. The mech itself will likely work with different cable-pull, as long as you're not drastically changing the number of sprockets on the cassette

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I know.

It's a Tiagra 4700 (works really fucking well, actually) which is 10-speed, but it for some ass-backwards reason uses 11-speed cable pull (but with the actuation for a 10-speed cassette), which isn't disclosed anywhere.

So it'll work as-is with any 11-speed shifter, as long as you make sure the mech stops are set so you can't shift off the cassette.