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Re:France offers each cyclist €50 for bike repairs once lock... by loeg on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:17PM (#23044938)
In my experience they mostly don't get maintenance; they're just built extremely cheaply and treated as disposable. Various parts that are easy to break (derailleurs) are elided by using Internally-Geared Hubs (IGH). The wheels are non-pneumatic and just a solid piece of rubber, so they never go flat.
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Re:France offers each cyclist €50 for bike repairs once lock... by lostlogin on Friday May 01, 2020 @03:12PM (#23045486)
> Internally-Geared Hubs (IGH)

Just so good. I wish they had more gears. My older one has 8, and I see more on newer ones but not a lot.

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Re:France offers each cyclist €50 for bike repairs once lock... by akgerber on Friday May 01, 2020 @03:50PM (#23045842)
Dockless bikeshare bikes are often built as you describe.

Docked bikeshare (as mostly operated by Lyft in the US, formerly Motivate/Alta) generally uses bikes built similarly to high-quality Dutch city bikes and maintains them.

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Re:France offers each cyclist €50 for bike repairs once lock... by loeg on Friday May 01, 2020 @06:00PM (#23046979)
Docked bikeshare is pretty useless in my experience, so despite the lower quality bikes I prefer the dockless model.
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