Portland will donate 650 original Biketown bikes to Hamilton (Ontario) Bike Share
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bikeportland.orgPosted Jul 12, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC
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bikeportland.orgOh sure, the bikes get to cross the border, but we still can't.
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Not only are the old bikes very heavy and specifically engineered for use in bike share systems, they also had proprietary software on-board.
The thought of "proprietary software" on a bicycle makes me shudder, at least they didn't become e-waste.
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I dreamed of riding those bikes again. Now I know where to go! Honestly, though, I really wish they just kept these as a budget option. I loved them and miss them. I'm obviously an outlier for preferring the old clunkers.
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The electrics are nice, but the pricing model is fucked. A run across the river and back was $10.
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This is hilarious. I live in Hamilton and grew up in Portland. Small world.
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Why don’t we use these for Gresham, Beaverton, Forest grove, Gladstone, Newberg, milwaukie, Oregon city, Vancouver, hood river, sandy, scappose, St. Helens, Newport, Astoria, Seaside, wilsonville, Vancouver, Camas,….oh yeah give it to Canada that seems like that’s cheaper????
Wtf??
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It is covered in the article. They spent the better part of a year looking for a local/regional option. Hamilton is running the same system so they are one of the few places that were interested. 100 are going to Bend and a few more are going to local groups that asked for them.
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Hurry, someone complain about this.
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Alternate headline: International Nike Tax Evasion Ring Uncovered in Ontario!
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Are we at least going to get any of their homeless people?
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They're going to ride the bikes back here
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Anyone who is capable of riding one of these heavy, slow bikes all the way from Lake Ontario should be welcomed.
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How great. We’re donating something during the same news cycle that we don’t have enough money to repair the streets. Hmmm…
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Uh, cool? The bikes were worth $1.6mil new. Nowhere near that used. That won’t get anything done to repair streets.
I’d rather have these bikes used than gathering dust.
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$1.6 would go a long way with repairing streets, just sayin’.
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No. It wouldn’t. Look at the budgets for most paving projects.
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Does this mean they actually don’t work just as a normal bike? I mean, i would have bought one on the cheap if it could work just as an around town bike.
Yeah for $15 it wouldn't be a bad deal ($10,000/650 bikes)
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That's interesting, didnt know that.
The locking mechanism wouldn't work but yeah you could ride it around. They also have security bits on them so changing a flat would be challenging.