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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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Seb digs into the data to see if there's a correllation between helmet price vs. protection.

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[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/bicycle-helmet-ratings.html

Edit: Oh, haha, I posted that before following the article link. This is the source of their data

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

There are very few helmets with chin guards on that list. I struggled to find some for my kids. Bicycle safety culture is so weird, it’s obvious some face protection is needed but it’s not fashionable.

Dentists have to eat somehow I guess.

[–] Robomekk@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

In the PinkBike video, they mentioned that the full-face helmets didn’t perform as well in at least the rotational impact tests due to their higher mass and moment of angular momentum.

I think it always ends up being a bit of a trade-off, depending on the types of riding and impacts expected. In a low-speed impact to the side of the head a regular bicycle helmet will often do better than a big heavy motorcycle one. Obviously the opposite is true for a motorcycle crash at 80 km/h.

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