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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

No one is analyzing your lock for what brand it is and carefully attempting to pick it. They're just going to whip out an angle grinder and be done with it. I'm not really in the market for $350 locks either, but it's nice that there are new advancements in lock technology and this seems like it'd be worth it for someone with an expensive ebike.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago

When these locks were popular thieves would literally go out looking for them because you could unlock them right in front of people without looking sketchy. It wasn't a careful tedious thing, just stick the barrel of the pen into the lock as if it were the key and turn.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Lock picking is very rarely done, but fyi grinders are very rarely used too

https://www.bikelockwiki.com/how-do-bike-thieves-work/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Makes sense, really. I'd have to imagine an angle grinder would be pretty loud.