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Cycling – Paris bike sharing program getting trashed

   Posted by: admin   in BMX, Cycling, Mt. Bike, New Bike Products & Testing, Road Bike

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Eighteen months ago Paris announced that they were going to be initiating a bike-sharing program that would see 15,000 specially designed bikes made available on the streets of the city for people to use freely. Since that time the bikes have been used 42 million times, but almost all of the original vandal proof bikes have had to be replaced.

It appears that a lot of the people using the bikes like to abuse or destroy them as some of the bikes have been found hanging from lampposts, dumped in the Seine River, smashed and burned. Apparently there are even videos online of people treating them as BMX bikes as they ride them down stairs.

The thing that makes me just shake my head is …  More info

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