What’s on the back?
The battery is ulocked to a 30lb rack?
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it has the normal rack type receiver, which has a lock, but the people figured out how to defeat that, so there is a u lock now
That battery placement is pretty weird atmo.
The second gen eDivvys are pretty slick looking machines. I’ve yet to ride one, but a lot of people on them pass me every day lol
The first gen ones aren’t quite as nice but the battery is in a less perplexing location.
Will the rack on the Indego carry a pannier on the other side?
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those are the same as the ecitibikes but with a lock added. we just leave them in front of the store for a minute. I don’t like the saddles, they dig the back of my legs
Rode one of the gray ones 7mi into the loop on Saturday. It cost an arm and a leg but it was fast! Seemed to be speed-limited at ≈19mph, which is I think 3mph faster than the black ones. No gear shifter! Rattly as hell!
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Does it auto shift or is it…single speed?
I think it has one of those infinite gears. I never spun out
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do yours limit your coast? they always pass me just as we hit the top of the bridge and then I have to pass them all again because they go slow downhill.
but they are the absolute fastest easiest way to get around NYC
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Got to aero tuck behind the bars on the way down the bridge. Can get hauling pretty good. I used to get a little creative and put my feet on the motor in the middle of the frame to really get tucked in there.
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Some of the newer model bike shares here in boston have (what appears to be) a CVT which is kind of wild, much wider gear range than the older 3 speed models. Fun!
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Same ones for capital bikeshare in DC too.
becycle locked into the bosch rack type battery for… reasons? popular in europe- nonexistent in the states. i do understand not wanting to integrate into the frame because how it is now, people steal the battery or the battery and rack, but they don’t cut/pry the frame open to do it. but at the end of the day none of it makes sense without significant subsidy (government or corporate sponsors) just like anything else that resembles public transit. running bike share is fucking expensive
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for the rest of y’all- you live in motivate/lyft models. some of the bikes are pbsc, some are pure lyft. the history of motivate and pbsc goes way back, but lyft’s entry has changed the landscape in their cities. essentially vertically integrated at this point. fun fact(s)- devinci used to make the bikes for citibike (at least when they first launched and had to overhaul every single bike after katrina, and a good friend of mine gave me a mini seashell that came from inside of one of those bikes) AND ben serotta had a major hand in the second generation of bikes citibike used.
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i’m not getting a bikeshare membership until PVD designs all the bikes
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I did my first bike overnight in a long while with a friend. felt good. butt hurts. it was fun. ill write something up about it on the blog later.
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What this is
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I was just wondering that. Wasn’t someone making a stem mounted stabilizer like that?
literal tailhook
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Toilet paper holder and saddle bag standoff. I hate when transverse saddle bags touch my thighs. Just about ready to go into production. You dig?
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