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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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Head- and tail lights definitely help make bicycles visible from the front and back, but what about from the sides? The handlebar-plug-replacing SideLights are designed to address that shortcoming, plus they serve as headlights, tail lights and turn indicators.

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[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

These look cool. I purchased the Cycl Winglights some years ago and thought they're pretty slick.

https://cycl.bike/collections/winglights/products/winglights360-mag

To people pointing out how not-bright these ones are, the Winglights are apparently only 48 lumens and I never thought that wasn't bright enough. The point was to add some visibility to automobile drivers at night, not to blind them.

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I like the idea of bicycle turn indicators because I often can't safely take my hands off my handlebars to do hand signals, but 300lm isn't bright enough. That's $9.99 Home Depot flashlight levels of brightness.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The thing is pretty nice, the price, not so much. Also the lumen is pretty low, at 300lumen highest setting per lamp you still need a high lumen for riding in darkness if you plan to see anything ahead.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 50 minutes ago

I'm guessing they're supposed to be in addition to a headlight...

I think they're neat, make 'em cheap enough, brighter, rotatable so bar geometry is irrelevant, and move the controls somewhere ergonomic, and you're heading towards a no-brainer. Although some 3d printer person might eat your lunch...