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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.

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.