Re:Uber is destroying thousands of electric bikes and scoote...
by toss1 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:11PM
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That is true for your value of time.
For others, they may think it is fun to take three beat-up old bikes and turn them into one good one and a pile of recyclable parts.
One man's trash is another's treasure...
(& Yes, Uber has no excuse for this kind of nonsense. That is exactly what As-Is-Where-Is-Not-Fit-For-Any-Specific-Purpose warranty & law is all about. Repurpose before recycle...)
Jump switched over to a new model within the last year or two. Their older bikes - while yes, built like tanks - also aged like tanks (after battle). They were BEAT UP. The frames were mangled & scratched, the drivetrains were barely functional, and the brakes barely worked.
My general strategy for riding a Jump was to find the closest bike with the highest serial # (assuming it would be a newer one), because getting an old one was just not fun.
Anyway, this is all to say: While yes, almost everything can technically be repurposed, I wouldn't want to spend much time on an older Jump bike either first or second hand.