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Where Do Stolen Bikes Go?

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Re: Where Do Stolen Bikes Go?

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Post by runsonrum »

I cant seem to find the article now but over here e-scooters were being tossed in the rivers. I can imagine the same could easily go for stolen bikes. Any one have any related articles of such nature?

Re: Where Do Stolen Bikes Go?

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Post by sandworm101 »

Expensive bikes = chopped for parts, then ebay.

Medium-priced bikes = ebay.

Cheap bikes = the river.

The bikes in this article seem on the lower end of the market, which is normal for amsterdam imho. The area is small and very flat, almost exclusively on hard surfaces. I dont see many of the high-performance mountain/trail/road bikes that are the norm in western north america. This would impact the black market. I doubt there is much of any market for used bike parts, negating the entire chop shop concept.

Re: Where Do Stolen Bikes Go?

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Post by denton-scratch »

thoughtsbykean wrote: post #5

cool line visuals using mapbox. Will need to look into how that is done

I didn't like the presentation at all. I'm not on a mobile device; the amount of information on the screen at one time is tiny, like one sentence, and the UX is unpredictable.

I think it's the result of the "mobile first" dogma, when you don't follow through with "desktop second". IME, "mobile first" usually degenerates into "mobile mainly".

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Post by neogodless »

denton-scratch wrote: post #6
thoughtsbykean wrote: post #5

cool line visuals using mapbox. Will need to look into how that is done

I didn't like the presentation at all. I'm not on a mobile device; the amount of information on the screen at one time is tiny, like one sentence, and the UX is unpredictable. I think it's the result of the "mobile first" dogma, when you don't follow through with "desktop second". IME, "mobile first" usually degenerates into "mobile mainly".

I felt the same way and I am on mobile.
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