How People Use Bike-Share Spaces vs. Parking Spots

Re:How People Use Bike-Share Spaces vs. Parking Spots by konschubert on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @03:06AM (#14694093)

We have a huge bike theft problem in Berlin too, but we also have the Chinese style bike share without docking stations.

It works because the bikes have very different frames compared to normal bikes, are easily recognised and therefore worth little to nothing on the black market.

Vandalism is a much bigger problem than theft. I haven't heard of theft of these bikes being a problem at all.

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Re:How People Use Bike-Share Spaces vs. Parking Spots by mhotchen on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @03:16AM (#14694142)

That's interesting. Maybe it's a perceived fear of them being stolen, rather than something based on evidence (well I mean they are a target of theft already and sent to other parts of the UK and central/eastern Europe, but docking them might not be much of a deterrent).

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