China's shared bikes are getting out of hand in a lot of ways
Okay, remember guys. I made a video about China's bike sharing revolution, and you know if you look around there
They're everywhere you can see them over here doesn't matter where you go in the city you see them
People still love them
I mean in fact the guys just unlocked one right behind me over here if we take a look at him
Probably going to head off in his little shared bike. There's no bike
right and
Off he goes
So China loves these things [if] I see people riding them every single day
Doesn't matter where you go?
There's somebody on one of these things doesn't matter where you go there are one of these things or plenty of them
and that's the problem you see it's
It's the nature of China
something comes along like
Mobike is there the first was mo bike and awful. I think is the other one something comes along it works out
[its] popular
People are using them and all of a sudden overnight you're going to have copycats
People who think they can do the same thing
and if you look around now there are tons of these companies and the [way] they are working is because
I was thinking about it how these companies making money? It's so cheap you can take one of these things in the courses
50 [cent's], you [know] boom [ow]. Will you do ride for like an hour or whatever?
It's incredibly cheap. How are they making money well it turns out a lot of these companies are making money by sort of
Putting down the fact that this is a fantastic idea
Making huge amounts of money through investments in these companies, and then just kind of like taking all that money
putting the bikes out
but they don't really care because they've made all the money from the investment and
So it's kind of like a little bubble thing at least that's what I've heard. [it] could be wrong so don't quote me on that
either way because of this phenomena
And these things are popping up all over the place you go green ones you get blue ones you go yellow ones you got?
You know you name it. They're everywhere, but it's causing a massive problem
Because these things are like I said everywhere, and they're starting to really make the city look kind of dirty
Because people neglect them now in my original video everyone was saying there's nothing revolutionary about this
Europe said these things forever or you know this city or that city in America has had them. It's nonsense
Nobody's had these before. Yes, shared bikes have [been] around forever
Yes, they have but they normally have a docking station
You have to use a card or you pay at the docking station with your credit card or a special car our membership card?
whatever And then you can unlock it then you have to park it at another docking station these ones you can park anywhere
You want they've got GPS chips in them, so through the app you can search [the] tif there's one [available] somewhere near you
you find a bike and
Plus you know to see down there. You find the bike there. They're literally everywhere
So the problem comes with the fact that people
I think it's probably [apparent] if you watch my videos
But here in China people don't really take care of things that aren't there in other words anything. That's public
So the outside of buildings are generally in bad disrepair that sort of thing same applies to
These bikes people don't care about them. So [they] ride them and they just kind of leave them wherever they
fall down they fall over no one picks them up parts get scavenged off of them and
You know it's starting to make the city look like a mess now the city has actually gone and painted like little
Bicycle areas where you're supposed to leave them, but of course you'll see like here. [there's] the place to park it
They don't park it in that little bicycle area little bill. Just leave it wherever it's convenient for the rider
So you know the last time I made a video about these bikes everybody was really in love with them
It was a new thing
It's fantastic convenient the city everybody seems to really like them
But then things really came to a head over the chingling [Jia] holiday
Which is the grave sweeping day holiday, but neat you know people are supposed to go sweet grapes
but actually a lot of people take this time to have a day off, so
Everybody and their dog decided that it would be a good idea
to just take one of these you know mow bikes or whatever these shared bikes and ride down to the [shin] Jin Bay and
there's this really beautiful sort of
cycling path next to the Bay
it's like a an estuary really and you can cycle there and look out at the mangrove and see the
Birds and things like that
But man, oh man, did it get?
Hectic I mean I'm going to show you the footage here people couldn't move it's just like a massive big two of these bikes and
And so it was just like a nightmare and people just abandon them there because they're like well, I can't move anymore
so they just lock them up and abandoned in there and
You can see the aftermath you it was just like a jungle of these bikes
It was absolutely ridiculous
so you know the City had to come in and
Get the companies to clean their bikes up and move them out [of] there
And they brought in trucks and move them all away
and they now banned those bicycles those shared bicycles from entering the Schengen Bay area and
Of course, they're starting to crack down more and more on them you see trucks picking them up
and if they're left in the wrong kind of areas
you'll see security guards kind of throwing them over the fences or putting them in piles and it's
Yeah
They're going to have to or they have already started to really put some serious controls on these things
Because if they [don't] you know they're just going to be everywhere, so we'll find out
I mean, I'll keep you guys up to date, but basically these bikes are becoming quite a menace in the city
they are still being used by everyone and everyone loves to use them but you know obviously city planning people and
management companies and so on
Absolutely hate it
Anyway [guys] just a quick update. Hope you guys enjoyed this video
Can't wait to see in the next one and until next time you know the drill
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