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At $4,000 a bike cost, in bulk, for the present behemoths, more efficient, better handling, more widely desirable models will actually cost *less*.
The bikes themselves may cost less, but the labour required to switch from one system to another will cost more.
lol...and in Toronto, or any northern city where ice-melt is used, they will corrode. What I initially stated is the claim that "they don't rust" was semantics. They corrode, and Al corrosion is much harder to check than steel rusting, as galvanic action of the attached steel parts (bearings, shells, bolts, stems, etc, etc) accelerates that.
https://www.cnet.com/news/i-broke-up-with-bike-sharing-after-one-horrible-crash/[...]
Bad romance
Riding the oBike for the first time made me feel like Hercules wrestling the Nemean Lion. Forget going after Pokemon, this was about survival.
Unfortunately, the oBike eventually won. I crashed while trying to save my S7 Edge from slipping through the huge gaps in the bike basket. Thankfully the phone survived, though I couldn't say the same for my knee.
It was clear by then that the oBike was not for everyone. At 20 kilograms (about 44 pounds) and almost half my weight, the oBike is much heavier than what I've been used to. And as it turns out, I wasn't alone:
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Some oBike users have taken to Google's Play store to reflect that the bikes are heavy.
Screengrab by Zoey Chong/CNET
But what may seem detrimental to user experience is actually a deliberate choice on oBike's end. oBike's general manager Elgin Ee told me that the weight is one measure the company has taken to deter theft.[...]
This bike isn't even the same bike as the Bike Share Toronto bikes, so I'm not sure how this is relevant.
Perhaps until you get your Science right. And it's far from just bikes, it's all vehicles and objects exposed to road and other salts. It's the basis of type of battery and ignition devices for God's sakes. Perhaps you don't understand what "galvanic action" means. I posted it prior.
Perhaps it's a bit too complicated for some. The post is about *weight*, the very point I've been making all along, and Amnesia's claim that "it's only me". Note all of the Tweets about the bike (44 pounds) weighing too much.
http://betterbikeshare.org/2017/10/19/qa-techs-take-bike-sharing-hits-street-seattle/
The usual condescending tone from steveintoronto. Anyway, my point was that it's a different bike, and the weight may be distributed differently resulting in inferior ride quality. It also weighs 4lb more than the Bike Share Toronto bike.
https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/201...ter-bike-forbes-says-limebike-valued-at-200m/[...]
The cool thing about these bike share services is that you don’t have to bike in heavy rain if you don’t want to. Let’s say you take the bus to work because it is raining, but weather clears up by the time you are off work. Bike share is waiting there for you. I bet we’ll start seeing a lot of mixed travel based on weather conditions. That’s why having many transportation options is so great.
In a city where traffic only gets worse, bike share is taking real and immediate action to do something about it. And it appears to be working.
Spin releases new, vastly-improved bikes
Until now, LimeBike’s very low gearing and general sturdiness gave that company’s bikes an advantage over Spin when climbing Seattle’s hills. But that may have changed in the past week or so, because Spin has launched a new and vastly-improved bike. It is lighter, has a lower low gear, a better shifter, stronger brakes, a better kickstand, a locked seat post that does not swivel and is harder to steal, and a much better headlight.
In fact, the new Spin bike passed an informal test I have used to gauge each company’s bikes: I was able to climb up Pine Street from downtown to Cal Anderson Park without standing up to pedal. Before now, only LimeBike had passed this test.
Right now, Spin’s fleet is a mix of the old and new bikes, but the company is gradually phasing these bikes into the Seattle market. The easiest way to tell if it’s the new bike is that the kickstand is a double-stand style and the front basket moves with the handlebars instead of being attached to the frame. Give it a try and let us know what you think in the comments below.
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For the record, the OBike referenced earlier is 44 lbs. The Bixi model is 42 lbs.
They're the older model. If you access the links I provided they describe the differences.
Bike share pilot’s daily ridership blows past Pronto’s lifetime totals, rivals both streetcars combined
They're comparing a system that only had 500 bikes to a system that has 4000 bikes...it's a shitty comparison. Of course more bikes is going to result in an increase in ridership.
