People throwing electric scooters into lakes and rivers ???

[AHicks]

I think I'm going to go into business doing studies. Like a head hunter, if you want a study done, just holler. I'll find somebody (like a friend/family member) that can do it for you. Sound like a winner?

Our local govt. just paid some no-name 60K to do a study on where to put the new city hall. Results pretty much matched what recent editorials in the local paper said, and provided nothing definitive. Local govt. now 60k poorer, with no more info than it had previous. Well, maybe we should do another study!

 

[Pegasus]

Not electric bikes, but people behaving badly with hire bikes in Melbourne.

 

[Ken M]

Sadly I think human nature will be the downfall of the "dockless" business model. For some reason few people really care about anything so they'll just toss the scooters aside when done riding and others will vandalize them because they don't want any company to make a profit when they are pissed at the world because they dropped out of school and can't find a job. At least when someone owns a bike or scooter they tend to care enough to take care of it.

I truly love riding an ebike and I do believe the human scale transportation value will eventually ensure their increased use in our cities. It's just hard to get lazy fat Americans out of cars. I decided I just hated traffic and wanted to loose some weight and I bought an ebike just to see if I could make a lifestyle change. In about a month I just found I loved riding the ebike to work and everywhere else for that matter. I was 57 and lost almost 40 lbs in a year. It's not magic people....just put down the remote and get out and start riding and it will change your life for the better.

 

[AHicks]

I ride my bike regularly, I walk my dogs twice a day 7/365, I do all of my own maintenance on every thing I own, including 2 houses and multiple vehicles, I'm an active radio control flyer (I have hobbies), and I'm STILL lazy and fat. Lazy just means you seek the easy way of doing everything - kinda like working smart.

Fat now, that's a special case. I have a lot of money wrapped up in that fat, so I'm kinda protective of it. Been that way for a very long time, and I am just taking one pill a day. A minor dosage for my blood pressure.

AND, although I hate seeing anything disorganized, I would never consider throwing a bike or a scooter into even a trash can, let alone a lake.

THAT takes a special kind of stupidity. The kind you can't fix...... -Al