User:Oldwinty

Lime Bikes are Bad

Hate Lime bikes and I don't think anyone likes them.

In Aus E-bikes are the chariots of 8-year-old gangsters, so they're already pretty fucking annoying. Lime Bikes are another level of shit. They've hit all the big cities in Singapore, Canada and France as well as all their pedestrians. They clog up walkways like nothing else. Not trying to sound like a pisshead European hipster with that walkable cities shit but these things get dumped everywhere. They cover footpaths like roaches, and they even get dumped in lakes and rivers. Littering a city with 20 kilo bikes is pretty fucked but it's not the only problem they cause. Because Lime's number one customer is tourists and tourists like cities, they love to dump them in cities, but crowded streets aren't the best place for regular bikes, let alone hefty electric ones. You have all these tourists wizzing around on bikes in the densest most narrow parts of urban society. I bet there are numerous records of e-bike crashes.

They also have 0 quality control. People like to mess with them which causes faulty bikes in circulation. These blokes in London did some tests on Lime bikes with a mechanic, and founds that 14% of the bikes had brake issues while 18% had missing parts. The tourist doesn't own the bike but they still get the risks of riding a non-roadsafe piece of shit around. The bike specialist named Holloway said that "48% had some sort of mechanical issue".

Trip adviser gives them a 1.2 star rating, users call it a scam, expensive and either unintentionally buggy or maliciously to make a failed trip seem like a design flaw. Obviously, you're not going to get a refund if the bike stops halfway through or just doesn't work at all. You have to download apps and get subscriptions, the whole thing is teeming with malicious confusing monetary practices.

They do not provide affordable, convenient or safe transport.

They barely function at anything but blocking paths and doorways

I see 0 societal benefits but a lot of issues.