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You think the bruise is from the impact travelling up the arm? Is that even possible? If that's true, the Flexmeters might have prevented a big catastrophe. Maybe your head (helmet) hit there? It would make spatial sense. Funny you should have a bruise on the upper inside of your upper arm. Well, as long as it gets better...

I prefer the way it is. It's not unsafe, as the power button is ineffective when the wheel is moving. Placing a small padding above the button prevented accidental pushes for me.

@travsformation a topic I am well familiar with, riding daily here in NYC! (wow, Barcelona riding sounds a lot like NYC, hopefully I'll get a chance to ride there some day!) Seems you've discovered what most us diehard NYC EUC & esk8 guys have found out: riding with car traffic at car traffic pace is much more predictable and 'safer' than riding the poorly maintained bike lanes, which is the case in NYC as well (see Casey Neistat's NYC Bike Lane Video)   First, I don't know what your car city speed limits are, but that V8 is a bit too slow, thus unsafe to ride amongst car traffic, at least here in NYC where cars travel 25-30mph / 40-50kph. Some tips out of the obvious I've learned from 3 years of NYC EUC-ing: a forward-moving car in regular city traffic will never move backwards, so the safest position is to travel with or behind their rear wheel plane. I will 'jump' / accelerate from car to car so I am always back in that same relative position aside the next car. at turn-able intersections, I will never pass a car on the same side as their potential turn direction, opting to cross behind said car, then pass them carefully on the other side, where I am 90% sure they are not going to turn into. I never ride directly behind cars, always to the side, because cars can stop suddenly.  NYC Bicycle 'Technique' for Running Red Lights: while I technically don't condone this for other cities, here in NYC, most bicycles and similar run red lights (mainly when riding main streets at intersections with a one-way street). The way they typically do this is to briefly turn 90º in the same oncoming traffic direction, then turn back again to return to their original course of direction. I will say, having this mentality helps for when a driver unexpectedly cuts you off, as you can instinctively turn with them, avoiding collision. This saved me one time when a big SUV on a two-way street, briefly parked, then without any turn signals, initiated a quick K-turn, which caught me turning with it... felt like I was in the matrix *smh. Be extra cautious of all service-type cars, as they tend to be the worst at obeying traffic law (taxis, limos, delivery trucks, etc.) The best time to make more aggressive passing maneuvers is when traveling on multi-lane street traffic that is either gridlocked (bumper-to-bumper) or cars have just stopped at a red light. Smaller, one-lane / one-way streets are trickier, especially when traffic is stopped, because rampant jaywalking is a thing here in NYC.   For NYC, our roads are like 80% one-way streets unfortunately. Dunno about Barcelona.   Unless it's like here in NYC, where we have a ton of stupid pedestrians (majority are tourists from all over) who have been known to erratically leap into you, primarily into active bike paths.

Nice  As an aside, I always carry one of these when I'm riding (and actually when not riding too). I've used it many times when my ride goes a bit longer than I anticipated. Thrunite 120 lumen light

It was actually only about 10-miles 

What kills me is that after that wipeout, you then proceeded to ride 15 miles home. I think I'd have phoned a friend.

Hey..You are copycating my buttock colour. 🤕😏 😁 Another week it will look almost as normal.  I know it sound lame now. But still try to photo your arm/shoulder in same spot and light. You might be able to make a cool timeshift clip video. I didn't come up with this until it was too late of my injure.

When I was riding the wheel, usually it's my hands that got cold because of the wind and cold weather, so I instinctively hid them behind my back holding each arm by another alternatively. @RockyTop, I emailed to Marcglider a few hours earlier (than you posted on the forum  ) about my intention to buy the wheel.

A detailed look at the benefits of adapting cities to e-scooters... https://www.wired.com/story/e-scooter-micromobility-infographics-cost-emissions/amp