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look around, the lot is for recycling
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On 2017-11-25 12:45, wrote:
look around, the lot is for recycling Yeah, right, into the crusher, sort, melt. The usual. If you take a look at the height of the pile it becomes obvious that the bicycles were likely literally thrown onto that pile without any care whether they'd be damaged. Many won't even have a straight frame anymore. This is how it's done right: http://www.keeploupbasinbeautiful.or...life-to-bikes/ -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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recycling en mass is industrial practice for costs. needs a buyer, short shipping.
what's the Chinese cost stripping one bicycle ? or is this necessary with a 'sorter' post crush ? |
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On 2017-11-25 16:16, wrote:
recycling en mass is industrial practice for costs. needs a buyer, short shipping. No, it needs a heart and unselfish service. what's the Chinese cost stripping one bicycle ? or is this necessary with a 'sorter' post crush ? No idea. Once bicycles are thrown into such a high pile using cranes the frames are no longer serviceable. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On 11/25/2017 12:57 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-11-25 12:45, wrote: look around, the lot is for recycling Yeah, right, into the crusher, sort, melt. The usual. If you take a look at the height of the pile it becomes obvious that the bicycles were likely literally thrown onto that pile without any care whether they'd be damaged. Many won't even have a straight frame anymore. This is how it's done right: http://www.keeploupbasinbeautiful.or...life-to-bikes/ Two companies want to set up dockless bike sharing in my city. They've come to City Council meetings with their bicycles to pitch their company. There's a Limebike in my city hall office. I have my doubts as to the success of such a venture and I have concerns about the liability of the City. The bicycles are so incredibly heavy that I doubt that they would be stolen. |
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On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 10:11:16 AM UTC-8, sms wrote:
On 11/25/2017 12:57 PM, Joerg wrote: On 2017-11-25 12:45, wrote: look around, the lot is for recycling Yeah, right, into the crusher, sort, melt. The usual. If you take a look at the height of the pile it becomes obvious that the bicycles were likely literally thrown onto that pile without any care whether they'd be damaged. Many won't even have a straight frame anymore. This is how it's done right: http://www.keeploupbasinbeautiful.or...life-to-bikes/ Two companies want to set up dockless bike sharing in my city. They've come to City Council meetings with their bicycles to pitch their company. There's a Limebike in my city hall office. I have my doubts as to the success of such a venture and I have concerns about the liability of the City. The bicycles are so incredibly heavy that I doubt that they would be stolen. Vandalism can be more widespread and as expensive as theft. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i...ands_bike.html Bike share programs also bite into private business. http://www.wweek.com/bikes/2017/04/2...nd-bike-shops/ Cities are inefficient business operators and already subject to enormous risk. In Cupertino, I think there would be a very low reward versus risk. It would be a novelty program. Is there any similarly diffuse area where bike share programs have really worked. Do they work anywhere? I think the jury is still out in Portland. -- Jay Beattie. |
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:11:09 -0800, sms
wrote: Two companies want to set up dockless bike sharing in my city. They've come to City Council meetings with their bicycles to pitch their company. There's a Limebike in my city hall office. I have my doubts as to the success of such a venture and I have concerns about the liability of the City. The bicycles are so incredibly heavy that I doubt that they would be stolen. We've had the "Nice Ride" public bikes with docks all over Minneapolis and St. Paul for several years. one or two "dockless" bike rental companies want to come into town. The response of the current company is interesting- they are basically going to fold up shop, go way and turn over the business to the new companies, stating "mission accomplished" (the mission having apparetnly been to prove the viablity of the concept. Almost literally not a day goes by that I don't see people riding those bikes around town (except in the winter when they pull the bikes in off the streets). The "Nice Ride" bikes have been astonishingly successful, to me at least, whereas prior programs failed miserably- including programs where there was no cost to the user at all. |
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