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Re: CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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Post by andrewshadura »

bizzleDawg wrote: post #6
sker wrote: post #3

Isn't bike sharing huge in China? Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/22/bike-wars-doc... > the world’s 15 biggest public bike shares are ranked. Thirteen of them are in China.

My local city has just got a slightly different type of bike sharing scheme where there are no stations/docks for the bikes, but you're allowed to leave them anywhere sensible [1]. From other articles including the guardian one linked above, it seems that this a model that's been used in China and certainly seems to have proven very rapidly scalable. I guess in these cases it's quite difficult, since it's likely not…

There's a similar system in Prague and Brno, Rekola.

Re: CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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Post by Obi_Juan_Kenobi »

acover wrote: post #42
andrewshadura wrote: post #40

I think I have to mention this: http://opensourcebikeshare.com/

It's really tempting to buy a few $99 bikes from Walmart and setup a bike share.

Those bikes would become inoperable within days, and could present significant legal liability.

Citibikes and such are quite heavy because they must withstand a lot of abuse. The quality of 'department store' bikes are very low; they're often not even assembled correctly.

Re: CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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Post by acover »

Obi_Juan_Kenobi wrote: post #43
acover wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really tempting to buy a few $99 bikes from Walmart and setup a bike share.

Those bikes would become inoperable within days, and could present significant legal liability. Citibikes and such are quite heavy because they must withstand a lot of abuse. The quality of 'department store' bikes are very low; they're often not even assembled correctly.

Anecdote: I've logged hundreds of hours on mine.

An LLC, waiver and self inspection might avoid the liability. This is just too complicated though.

Re: CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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Post by andrewshadura »

Obi_Juan_Kenobi wrote: post #43
acover wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really tempting to buy a few $99 bikes from Walmart and setup a bike share.

Those bikes would become inoperable within days, and could present significant legal liability. Citibikes and such are quite heavy because they must withstand a lot of abuse. The quality of 'department store' bikes are very low; they're often not even assembled correctly.

Obviously, there needs to be a maintenance team.

Re: CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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Post by jpl56 »

ubikretail wrote: post #17

I built an app over it that attempts to predict the future state of any network. It later recommends addings/substractions in order to keep offer and demand balanced among stations. It could work in about 440 cities but none of the big companies that lead this wanted this. What would you do with it?

This is interesting, because when I'm in front of an empty station, the app would tell me when I get a chance to have someone park a bike. With an app telling me it should happen in less than 2mn, I can wait confidently. My network : Velib, Paris.
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