#obike #freebike aktuell am maschsee / ibishotel / zufahrt stadion. Nur so als tip. #librebike #hannover

https://chaos.social/media/1J6pN2QOpgtvGnsMV88

Ofo und Obike: Das Ende des #Leihfahrrad-Booms?

#Leihfahrräder haben in Deutschland anscheinend einen schweren Stand: Nach der Insolvenz des in Singapur beheimateten Konkurrenten #Obike will sich auch der chinesische Anbieter #Ofo nach nur drei Monaten vom Markt zurückziehen – nachdem er in diesen drei Monaten Berlin mit billigen, quietschegelben Leihrädern nahezu überschwemmt hatte. http://blog.schockwellenreiter.de/2018/07/2018071602.html #Librebike

"Lately, a wave of yellow bikes from China has been crashing over the cities of this planet, bringing shitty steel constructions into every corner of the world. But what do these bikes do? Are they here to improve the mobility of urban populations or to track their every move? Will they be used for a long time and regularly repaired, or will they be thrown away once they start crumbling? Do we actually need privatized bike-sharing in our cities?

As reports are starting to pile up, that oBike – one of these bike-sharing startups – is shutting down (and taking millions in deposits paid by their users with them), it is important to think about a new way to use these bikes.

LibreBike is here exactly for this reason – to change the whole thinking behind bike-sharing. What if you wouldn't have to pay for the bikes? What if bikes where simply public goods, to be used by everyone? Turns out, in just five easy steps, every oBike can be made into a LibreBike – a bike for everyone!"

https://librebike.info/en/ #obike #recycling #whitebikeplan