Are they done with? maybe electric bikes taking over. Made me think of this song.

"Yes, president Jinping? Oh, you said we need 9 MILLION bicycles? I thought you said 9 BILLION. Ooops, sorry. Maybe we can off-load them to Sydney, and litter their streets instead?"

The Chinese 'Buy a bicycle, get a high rise apartment for free' promo didn't go as well as they first thought.

Junking their Flying Pigeons? They'll regret it.
All those little princes have grown up into fat narcissists driving Beamers.
They are all going croak from heart disease at 50 unless they stick to their bikes. Then they'll get run over.

Bike sharing is unhygienic.

I'm in China at the moment and there is still loads of them scattered everywhere (bicycles, but Chinese also)

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Shifu said..
Bike sharing is unhygienic.

ahhh that explains why I caught something from the "town bicycle"

Random street scenes...

it has started on the gold coast too. random orange bikes left standing around, and in odd places

i think it'll take a while for most people to realise, and get used to, the point that taking one is not stealing. I haven't seen anyone actually riding one yet

there might be a market for thongs and toddler hat/shoe sharing when you see how many get left at the beach and park

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Mark _australia said..

Shifu said..
Bike sharing is unhygienic.

ahhh that explains why I caught something from the "town bicycle"

Saddle sores?