I gues it's not just people going into the park. The companies are bringing their bikes and piling them on top. But the companies don't go there to dig out their bikes from the bottom and put them on top, no, they bring new ones. Let's say 20 people go to the park, 20 different bikes are there. Company A brings 20 more, puts them on top, so the people have to use theirs. Company B comes, puts another 20 on top after Company A is gone. Now you have 60 bikes but 20 people come out of the park and in the evening, 40 bikes are the foundation of a new pile.
I have been living in Shanghai for five years. When the bikes first started showing up they were great. Convenient and cheap. Eventually they hit a nice balance, you could find them most places and drop them off on sidewalk bile parking areas. And then every morning there seemed to be more delivered. First the locals were having trouble finding room to park their bikes. Then the bikes would be dropped off anywhere on the sidewalks. In some places the sidewalks were almost impassable. The city has impounded quite a few which has helped. The bikes are however incredibly cheap quality and are deteriorating quickly. It has been an interesting phenomenon to observe.
like someone else said above , the steel in these bikes would be so sub standard that they will just erode away after a couple of years.problem solved .
Actually the laws in China are incredibly lax and seldom enforced. People drive like complete maniacs and there are no consequences. Chinese people break all kinds of laws constantly. If they are enforced its usually against Foreigners.
@@Jordan-Ramses Yes. Absolutely right. The breaking of laws...small ones...is to be commended on most occasions. These 'laws' are there to be broken...it's a FALSE sense oof freedom. The laws broken also tie in with total disregard for any other person. People take out their frustrations on each other, not on their PUPPET-MASTERS.
Functional domestic policies would help plebs. We don't want to help plebs too much. Otherwise they won't do slave jobs for five cents per day to fund the corruption and the real estate bubble.
I think people who park the bicycle irresponsibly should be punished. You don't need a guideline for the industry for that. Then you should have guidelines for the industry to avoid drowning entire cities in a lake of bicycles These are two different things. Obviously you first need to implement the guidelines. If there is virtually no place to put your bike inside the city, it's hard to park the rented bicycle in a good place.
@@cnccarving the answer is easily available cheap resources and near slave wages labor. Don't think any of those bikes are quality. They're all made from crappy low quality chinesium pot metal that is all sorts of different metals all mixed together. You might have a certain hardness in one part of the item and a much lower hardness in another. Trust me you don't want those bikes.
Eddie Tong Well said... They just don't seem to care, unless it belongs to them.. Then they care..!! Thankfully, it's China and not some other country this time..
Not a problem. The Chinese government can park all these bikes in the ghost cities. At least it will make them look busy. Then they can keep the bike manufactures in business by ordering millions of new bikes, which can continue to be parked in the ghost cities.
Yeah the Chinese keep building cities like people will just move in them like there's no tomorrow. I'm surprise that the country don't go broke by building them cities as now. But that if it wasn't the fact that it is so cheap for them to keep building cities and they will just write it off.
Jerry G those ghost cities aren't as empty as people think. There are people moving into them. Sure they're not filling to capacity, but their population growth in those cities far exceed the national average for all other cities. It's not like you can expect a city to open up on a Tuesday and millions of people to move in on a Wednesday. the ghost cities reported on ten years ago are all full. Villages are becoming completely empty across the country as the permits you get living city vs rural can literally save someone's life. But it involves saying goodbye to your life.
Stephen Jay - Sorry, but your just a little off. Sure, "some" people are moving in, but not that many. They are no where near capacity. Your comment that, "you can't expect them to fill up in a day", is rather foolish. There are up to 50 of these "ghost cities" of various sizes in China. Not to mention there are plans for a Super City, the largest in the world. You might not want to be giving so much credit to the Chinese regarding their real estate boom, their economy is not doing that well
A pile of bikes is a nightmare on its own but messing about with it is like dealing with a pile of needles all of which can give you a dozen different diseases.
NutritiousPie in China at least in Shenzhen there aren’t any stand alone houses, they’re all apartment buildings usually skyscrapers in what’s called a 小区 which is like a group of these buildings in a certain area, usually these bikes aren’t allowed inside these areas and you can park them outside but usually one comes and 2 mins later someone else rides it away XD
Mobike opened in Manchester Uk, but then they then pulled out because the bikes either got stolen or thrown in the canal..... or over a street light. This is why we can't have nice things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You guys obviously don't know how business works. Make as much money as possible selling the bikes. When demand drops, trash that project, collect the bikes, and melt them down. Literally. Rubber plastic and metal will all be recycled and sold again
Dude - the bikes are owned by capitalist corporations in a war to drive each other out of business. This is the opposite of public ownership - its exploitation by private companies of a public resource - the streets, bike lanes, and open space - to store their product. The communist government was blindsided by this ruthless capitalism, and is trying to figure out how to get it under control for the public good. The bikes are treated like garbage because they belong to a faceless corporation they have to pay to unlock them, they are not free and do not belong to "everyone." This shows how unregulated capitalism can be a disaster for the public good.
Big difference, in China the bike is owned by a company. In germany (we also have docking stations) the bikesharing is provided by the government. So the bikes are realy owned by the citizen. Therefor you automaticly take care of the bike rather then wasting taxmoney you spent.
jcollins782 i agree. Raising people in a culture so they learn not to steal these bikes cause they’re there for everyone anyway. But really ”leave it wherever you want” needs to stop ahahah
I think China's Uncensored satirical approach fits the subject well... Some things China does are so ridiculous and over the top it really would be hard talking about them with straight face. Also, it's more entertaining this way.
Exactly right. If you spent all your time being stressed about China, you'd have nothing else to think or care about. Plus he's dry, witty, and really seems to keep the balance between humor and reporting. He's the more accurate version of Jon Oliver, Stephen Colbert, etc.. who all just talk about the same crap the same way. It's refreshing to have Chris Chapel.. we need more like him
Same thing I was thinking. The things China does is SOOOO over the top sometimes that it deserves to be told in this fashion. That place truly defies reasoning almost as much (or just as much) as the propaganda in North (North, right?) Korea.
One day I get a call from a recruiter telling me that my experience working with colleges in the US is a perfect fit for a bike sharing company based in China called ofo. Since I was working a commission-only job at the time, I jumped at the opportunity. The whole thing seemed far fetched but what did I care. Well I worked for them for six months, the Chinese managers were completely ignorant on how to do business in the US. They finally hired an American guy from Uber who knew what he was doing but it was too late. They pulled out of the US not long after I was let go. Oh well.
Let’s talk we’re creating C4A - cycling for africa - we send these used bikes to africa for upcycling. Let’s talk looking for talented entrepreneur people to develop this project.
@Christian Slater Subcultural references are an indelible part of mutual understanding, but if you want to go ahead and call me a sissy even though you were the one that took issue with a UA-cam comment, then by all means.
Modern China is Communist culture. Or more accurately, Socialism with Chinese Characteristic culture. What you are talking about is a different culture.
It's because they are civilized that the bikes are piling up. Most of the ones I see in London have had the locks sawn off and at least one company quit Manchester because their bikes ended up in canals
I witnessed this first hand while visiting Beijing. I was amazed. There was a particular area that we walked by every day that had dozens of bikes blocking the sidewalk. I decided to pick some up and create a neat line. While doing so others joined me and it created a mini movement of organized parking. For the rest of the week the sidewalk remained nice and neat with the bikes! Lol
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The Chinese Owners of this bike system have lost so much money,,they said the reason why is "because they underestimated the quality of the Chinese people"........
@@NY1020 I don't even need to watch whatever bullshit you linked to tell you that morals are extremely subjective making it impossible to compare "the quality of people" to anything but your own opinion
Stop fighting kids, or I'll floor this car and head into the other lane! Quality is subjective, I've never been to China, but have rented to a lot of Chinese students and can say this. If they say they are going to do something, they mean NOW! They try and negotiate everything, when they get you down to their price, they reward you by giving you a gift. Always paid rent on time. One gave me silver chop sticks, the other painted heads I'm afraid to throw away for fear of bad karma being imposed on me. One student applied for a high security US Gov't job, an investigator flew out to ask me some questions, my question for him was, "Why can't we find qualified US citizens for these high paying jobs?" When he showed up, he was Chinese, who knew? God bless what's left of America!
Where I live in a Guangzhou suburb of China - the solution has been simple - all of the Shared Bikes have been stolen by the people - had the tracking GPS systems forceably removed and use them for personal use now - you cannot find one shared bike now anywhere because the population has them at their homes - untrackable. And when You Find one - it has a personal Bike-Lock securing it so no one else steals it. Soon the government will be requiring the licensing Electric Bikes as another form of income as in large cities like Shenzhen / Guangzhou they have banned use of any Motorcycles. In One Day - Guangzhou City removed over 400,000 Motorcycles from it's cities roads a few years ago to create less congestion and cleaner air environment - now there are over 800,000 electric bikes with more clutter and congestion - what an income generating machine for the government to now license them.
yeah all they did was swap out old with new and then sit back and collect fees on all the new stuff coming in, ooh and in Guangzhou near the US embassy, if you know any US guys doing immigration for their Chinese wife and she happens to have a friend named Unice who is short chubby and has a broken I think it was her left elbow and likes to wear a carpet looking garment and seems to always want to show up at family meetings, and they are calling her a immigration lawyer this is a lie, she is a Chinese match maker, she is a scammer, the girl pays her 8,000 US dollars to find a US man for her, she will use the girls email account to chat and her photos, and never tell you, you are never talking to the girl you think because its all 100% unice and her little team of girls she hires to do the match making and once the girl is in the US, the girl suddenly demands you pay her family 8,000 dollars. and then the truth comes out.
@@ateam6486 well once you get her in the states you can just lock her in the pre-prepared "isolated room" the nice thing about illegal business is they don't usually report missing people.
I know you're just kidding and I don't want to be the smart-ass moron but no single material in this universe will never be "wasted". It's "wasted" for our perspective and who cares human perspective or our opinions? Look at all of these bullshit we are doing and tell me who cares fucking bicycles. Just burn this planet with all the shit in it and still there is no waste for universe, it's just an action.
Aw, look at that, I was auto-unsubscribed. How thoughtful UA-cam, filtering out channels I specifically told you I wanted you to see. Probably just an artifact of them scanning all of UA-cam in 1 second....
@@jonathantan2469 And if there's ever a shortage on fuel, rubber or bike parts...suddenly....wherever these stockpiles are will evaporate like snow in summer...
@@Graham-gt4gr the Russians in the 80's 90's would stockpile woollen sweaters from overseas secondhand suppliers in fields to make army uniforms if required. When it snowed it looked like large hills.
I'm an avid follower of Bernie Sanders of Vermont. I think we could have some great socialism in the United States, true communism has never been tried by the way. I'm pretty sure after Trump we will finally be able to get Bernie.
The problem is not the dockless Bike share system. It is -I admit- a very fragile and idealistic system, but it has proven to work. Look at cities in Switzerland, where people treat them with respect. Therefore they are always parked in good places, are in good condition and serve their purpose even better. It always comes down to how educated people are...
Education doesn't necessarily lead to respect for property; that's a moral issue. Switzerland has a high amount of public participation and a strong sense of citizenship.
I bet they have some kind of regulation that China doesn't though. They would not just stand by and watch as 1.5 million bikes flooded a single city, and their solution would not be to fine the general public for a problem caused by a single company.
Sigh. Your post actually gave me some hope for humanity. I don't see this as a political system or what type of economic system is in place. I saw it as a societal problem created by the people.
Well living in Switzerland. They do exist mostly in Zurich but they are mostly well respected and well you should always expect a bike in the station . And well they work well they are decently fast for what they are
@Jake Shattuck Not really the point I was trying to make. From the perspective of just one of those companies there would be many people using their bikes.
more like greed companies (i believe humans still controls them, but who knows), they build more bikes than need just to increase the chance of their bikes being chosen
Hong Kong shared bicycle company Gobee announced its withdrawal from the French market. The reason for the withdrawal was “60% of our bicycles were destroyed, stolen or taken as their own within 4 months, which made the entire European project unsustainable.” The specific data is that more than 1,000 GoBee bicycles have been Theft, nearly 3,400 vehicles were damaged, and the police received nearly 300 reports
I was was in Hangzhou when they started rolling out the Ofo bikes, then the myriad of other ones over the next two years. The quality of the bikes was so bad that within 6 months it was getting hard to find one, amongst the scores piling up outside the subway stations and the company I worked at, that was 100% operational. I had APPs for 3 of the companies. I don't recall the name of the blue bikes with the solid tyres now, but I tended to use those because even though they were a more uncomfortable ride, their seats were easy (ish) to adjust and I never ended up with "soggy" tires that made the bike hard to pedal. Within the first year, many of the housing estates in my district banned (and enforced, believe it or not!) people from riding the shared bikes into the estates. Of course all that did was create a forest of bikes at the 6 entranceways that the guards had to keep tidy (at least it got them off their lazy, card-playing asses for a few mins!). But very soon that got old, and the guards started shooing people away from anywhere NEAR the entrances. Similar problems cropped up at the place I worked. Since the bikes were such awful quality, I found in 2017 that I could go through up to 10 bikes before finding one that I felt safe enough to ride or that would unlock - it was common for the unlock mechanisms to refuse to unlock, and some bikes were just "locked" for no apparent reason (no visible damage). After a few days, all these "dud" bikes formed quite a little barrier for entry to workplaces and subway stations, but I left HZ before the "bike piles" really started to take off. I did sometimes see the bike companies come to collect duds or groups of unusable bikes, to replace them with a stack of new ones, so at least there was some effort made to keep things tidy. Despite all the problems with the bikes and the system, I really enjoyed the freedom they brought me. I was able to explore more of the area surrounding my apartment, and was even able to travel to see friends and do shopping I otherwise wouldn't have done since I couldn't speak much Chinese and certainly couldn't read it, meaning buses were out of the question unless I had a "guide" with me (so I knew which stop to get off: easy to do after one has been somewhere once or twice, but I only had a 2G phone at the time and the VPN was so slow that the Google Maps didn't work in fast enough realtime). Anyway, thanks for the piece about this - I was just talking to friends about this today (spooky that UA-cam recommended this video only a few hours after that conversation...), and I was wondering what the story was with the bikes now. I had no idea Shanghai had SO many bikes in bike graveyards!
1slandB0y77, so it's not the people using the product, it's about the LACK OF QUALITY of the product. And instead of improving their products to make them last, they simply churn out more of the same crappy stuff to replace the old crappy stuff. That's an awful waste of resources, space and money and it lacks intelligence on the part of the companies.
May be this is not a failure. Big money for the top few in management; also good for the bike manufacturers. Score well in making this into WORLD RECORD.
I feel you cyclist brother and also nice bike lanes,I am jealous.I cant even commute fast any more without going on the road because the side walks have a speed limit of 15kn/h if only my country implemented an on road bicycle lane like the Netherlands.
They introduce it in australia too... Absolutely disaster, with bike being hung on trees and deliberatly being thrown into the rivers, finally our goverment has woken up and started fining these companies who doesnt comply with our laws. Despite the fact that they have been fined constantly, apparently they are not worried about (perhaps the fines are not not being heavily enough) so the last thing they come up with is a kind of eletric push scooter, its stationless so you are allowed to just dump it wherever you find convinient, absolutely disaster as people just leave theses scooter in the middle of the footpath... I would say the only reason they are still here is bcz someone is behind this all, receiving a lot of money of course and perhaps bribing our goverment to let them say in. #takethisrubishoutofhere
In the netherlands every civilian own and rides a bike daily, and parks it wherever when going to the city, yet the problem doesn't seem as large as it is in china, even though our streets are WAY smaller... :think:
In the Netherlands Mobike and Ofo are bound by strict regulation, because a company just can't claim public space for themselves. www.parool.nl/amsterdam/de-deelfiets-krijgt-een-herkansing-in-amsterdam~a4547308/ How the hell can we more communist than a communistic country? How it works in the Netherlands: These bikes are forbidden to park in the inner city, but outside that area they can be parked everywhere in the designated spaces. Only 3 shared bike companies are allowed to run to get some competition and bicycles have to be ridden at least 4 times a day.
@flagschange111 Today I have learned something new and I have you to thank for it; so, Thank You! I had no idea. The president makes it sound as if the steel we have been importing for our military vehicles are all crap. It's confusing to an old fart like me. Thanks again!
People aren't grown up enough for free stuff. We got the same problem here, the city provided free bikes and people tossed them everywhere, from rivers to bushes and everything you can imagine. So they stopped the program. That's how people behave when you give them free stuff, embarrassing.
@@HotCacahuete I am happy to hear that but a Metro entrance out of order that isn't for free and where other people near you and cameras would see your illegal actions and free to use bikes that you can just leave somewhere without much inhibition aren't really comparable.
I live in Milan, Italy, and we have those bike-sharing companies too, but here it actually works well, thanks to good regulations and punishments for people who don’t park the bikes properly.
MEGAmicroOM OMEGAmacroOMEN yes, it also depends on where you live, unfortunately some people are just stupid, and you can’t do anything about that, but when those bikes are used in the right way, they are very useful.
The only reason it's a bad idea in San Francisco is because the citizens there don't give a ship where they park the scooters. It's sad that the benefits of such a good idea have been lost for so many by the selfish inconsiderate actions of the few.
The sarcasm makes news about China bearable. The bike issue is hilarious! It encapsulates so many perceptions about modern mainland Chinese people. They're just as individualistic as any peoples anywhere in the world and don't give a rat's ass about creating messes if they're ultimately not their problem, civility be damned. Taiwan has both models of bike share, docking and I think a Singapore-based, app-based, non-dock bike share system. It's free competition to see which is more popular and although we might occasionally see a non-docking bike share bike in a curious place, it's not a societal problem as far as I can tell. Taiwan is simply just the hands-down more civil society, and I do think there's a difference because of the way the government treats its people. Freedom brings out the better in people whereas repression and constant threat brings out paranoia, resistance and non-compliance.
Chinese moved from farm to city creating the largest migration in human history. I think they’ve done well considering the social and geographic shift.
I live in South Bend Indiana we have the same thing... Fortunately there's only one bike sharing service. But you can never find one in the downtown... And there all over the bad neighborhoods
I'm from South bend too. I've even seen them stripped of their parts. Have none of you jack fucks never had autocorrect errors. I know I type a certain there, they're or their and my phone changes it to one I didn't type. if you're life is so miserable and empty you have to attack people because of a simple spelling mistake, why not just end it?
Billion of dollars in venture capital is the problem. In a free market the company only could spend what they had. You would have to make a profit to buy more bikes. You would also not buy any if you were not making a good return on your money. I am sure the bikes on the bottom of the pile and in the impound yard are making no money. So why would a venture capitalist loan any money on this mess? I would bet they get their money from a central bank which the Government controls. Which means this is a central planers idea managing the economy. (giving jobs to bike makers. Steel company can sell more steel etc...) Cut-throat competition and no regulation is a good thing with their own money at rick
@@bruticusmagnus I should have read it first. "Cut-throat competition and no regulation is a good thing with their own money and at their own risk" Thanks
Yes, it's easy to look at the problem and say regulation is needed to solve this problem. But building millions of bikes with no apparent concern for the disposition of the bikes is not a business plan. Where is the money coming from and why does it keep coming? I agree that central banks willing money into existence like a star trek replicator is the ultimate source of all problems like this.
Don't agree at all. 13 million bikes when there's 1.3 billion citizens doesn't seem too much. The times I've been in Beijing I didn't see that, and actually you won't see too many bikes if you're not next to a subway station. Months ago I had problems finding one of the yellow ones in the morning to go to work. The real problem is that some people is getting paid to break the yellow ones.
@Barry The only ones that are widely spread are ofo and mobike. In Tianjin, just to give an example, you can find 1 different one for every 100 mobikes and ofos out there. No joke, I would post a picture if I could.
Never had a problem finding a bike in Beijing. Also I'd say one in ten was forcibly unlocked thus providing a free ride. On the flip side, about five in ten were broken.
It's obvious that a free bike market isn't to blame but government subsidies of a market they want to survive. How could honest companies piles unused bikes along a park if they had to pay for it? They couldn't.
I just laugh at some people，You can't do anything，But our Chinese economy is still growing fast，You can only comment here，Make you laugh enough，But We're actually getting stronger
When I worked in China the shared bike thing was actually really convenient, then one day I left my office building and there was literally a hill of ofo bikes stacked on the sidewalk. The local residents call it the "little yellow bike flood" lol I think the bike situation is representative of Chinese Buisnesses as a whole, trying ideas that "seem" like good ideas, always wanting to be on the forefront of technology and entrepeneurship without considering the possible consequences.
Oh boy they did. And what a disaster as well. We had oBike in switzerland... they flooded the city with their trash bikes, but never cared to repair broken ones. So you can imagine where they landed... in gardens, rivers, in the lake, ... And we have limebike. They are still around...
Lime is putting dockless bikes in Golden Valley MN and since almost no one rides them, they send crews around to move bikes so it will appear they’re being used....
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I don't know why but when I was living in China, I would see these bikes being thrown around on the streets but I voluntarily arrange them when I happen to pass by them.
White Sugart Did you ever work in the retail or grocery industry? Compulsive "facing" everywhere you go when you have a spare moment is a side effect of working in those industries - the training shows through! LOL 😂
@@jodiponce3413 I have no experience working in retail or grocery store. I started arranging those bikes probably because when I was living there, most of the people I met and befriended were nice to me so I decided to return the favor by being nice to everybody, to my surroundings, to the community and to the country. Respect is really important
its pretty simple: if they put an IMU sensor in the bikes that it will understand if the user left the bike in upside position or not, it could say which user threw the bike or just parked it correctly. this way, government can punish the user instantly, or even those companies could do that.
It`s not exactly environmentally friendly. Think of how much pollution had to happen to produce millions of bikes that were only used a handful times before being dumped and left to rust away.
kyleaca those bikes are already in one of the poorest countries in the world. It wouldn't be hard to find a half billion people who would like to have one.
Please don't donate all that crap to the 3rd world countries. I'm from Uganda and we don't have the land mass or means to breckdown the rest of the world's throw a ways. Please don't pollute us.
ofo and mobike should merge to become mofobike.
This comment is underrated
give this guy an oscar
haha
This comment is a national treasure
The best idea YET!!!
They should just dump all the bikes in the ocean and claim the resulting island as Chinese territory.
Unfortunately the Chinese steel would dissolve like an Asprin before it got anywhere near the bottom. But I guess that's a solution too.
Lmao well done
Lmao legit hilarious
Ethan Downs lol
Tony Rule lmao
Is no one else concerned about all those people going into that park and never returning?
Something in there hiding, waiting... ow look a cute little white rabbit, GAAAAAH.
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Meh there's a lot more where they came from...
They go in but never come out. Yeah, that was my thought too.
I gues it's not just people going into the park. The companies are bringing their bikes and piling them on top. But the companies don't go there to dig out their bikes from the bottom and put them on top, no, they bring new ones.
Let's say 20 people go to the park, 20 different bikes are there. Company A brings 20 more, puts them on top, so the people have to use theirs. Company B comes, puts another 20 on top after Company A is gone. Now you have 60 bikes but 20 people come out of the park and in the evening, 40 bikes are the foundation of a new pile.
Proof that “free” just isn’t respected. People simply take advantage.
Yeah, but it's not free. 🙄
Interstellarsurfer Hence I used quotation marks on free.🙄
It's not free but there's no responsibility for the renter
I think if this was introduced in the Netherlands it would work quite well.
Chris E So what‘s your point? It’s not free, why use „free“??
I have been living in Shanghai for five years. When the bikes first started showing up they were great. Convenient and cheap. Eventually they hit a nice balance, you could find them most places and drop them off on sidewalk bile parking areas. And then every morning there seemed to be more delivered. First the locals were having trouble finding room to park their bikes. Then the bikes would be dropped off anywhere on the sidewalks. In some places the sidewalks were almost impassable. The city has impounded quite a few which has helped. The bikes are however incredibly cheap quality and are deteriorating quickly. It has been an interesting phenomenon to observe.
Remember Falun Gong
CCP would say that they are bio-degradable bikes to help not polute the city... LOL
@@zam023 what's ccp got to do with it?
like someone else said above , the steel in these bikes would be so sub standard that they will just erode away after a couple of years.problem solved .
No need to mention the quality , we already know
And the Chinese accuse Americans of being undisciplined.
No respect here. Only self-image and fear.
Actually the laws in China are incredibly lax and seldom enforced. People drive like complete maniacs and there are no consequences. Chinese people break all kinds of laws constantly. If they are enforced its usually against Foreigners.
@@Jordan-Ramses Yes. Absolutely right.
The breaking of laws...small ones...is to be commended on most occasions.
These 'laws' are there to be broken...it's a FALSE sense oof freedom. The laws broken also tie in with total disregard for any other person.
People take out their frustrations on each other, not on their PUPPET-MASTERS.
they accuse everyone of being undisciplined
@@franzb69 Absolutely correct.
Because it's more profitable to fine people than issue guidelines for industry.
Functional domestic policies would help plebs. We don't want to help plebs too much. Otherwise they won't do slave jobs for five cents per day to fund the corruption and the real estate bubble.
GCNavigator dining big companies is very profitable.
I think people who park the bicycle irresponsibly should be punished. You don't need a guideline for the industry for that.
Then you should have guidelines for the industry to avoid drowning entire cities in a lake of bicycles These are two different things.
Obviously you first need to implement the guidelines. If there is virtually no place to put your bike inside the city, it's hard to park the rented bicycle in a good place.
Extreme Chinese parents
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We have ofo in London
We here in jamaica would do well with some of those bikes
Forget it, chinese don't donate or help. Rather throw away.
They have enough bikes to BUILD another Jamaica!
the question is why china has many and jamaica dont have
what makes china make hundreds of millions of bikes, and jamaica dont make them?
@@cnccarving the answer is easily available cheap resources and near slave wages labor. Don't think any of those bikes are quality. They're all made from crappy low quality chinesium pot metal that is all sorts of different metals all mixed together. You might have a certain hardness in one part of the item and a much lower hardness in another. Trust me you don't want those bikes.
@@sa-amirel-hayeed699
the question was
why jamaica dont make bikes
When you own something, you take care of it. When you use something that doesn't belong to you, you treat it like garbage.
Sadly true
and thus.. why liberals in the U.S. suck..
If you're a fucking savage, maybe.
it's a matter of education or lack of it, when it comes to sharing/access instead of ownership
Eddie Tong Well said... They just don't seem to care, unless it belongs to them.. Then they care..!! Thankfully, it's China and not some other country this time..
Not a problem. The Chinese government can park all these bikes in the ghost cities. At least it will make them look busy. Then they can keep the bike manufactures in business by ordering millions of new bikes, which can continue to be parked in the ghost cities.
Yeah the Chinese keep building cities like people will just move in them like there's no tomorrow. I'm surprise that the country don't go broke by building them cities as now. But that if it wasn't the fact that it is so cheap for them to keep building cities and they will just write it off.
Jerry G those ghost cities aren't as empty as people think. There are people moving into them. Sure they're not filling to capacity, but their population growth in those cities far exceed the national average for all other cities. It's not like you can expect a city to open up on a Tuesday and millions of people to move in on a Wednesday.
the ghost cities reported on ten years ago are all full. Villages are becoming completely empty across the country as the permits you get living city vs rural can literally save someone's life. But it involves saying goodbye to your life.
Stephen Jay - Sorry, but your just a little off. Sure, "some" people are moving in, but not that many. They are no where near capacity. Your comment that, "you can't expect them to fill up in a day", is rather foolish. There are up to 50 of these "ghost cities" of various sizes in China. Not to mention there are plans for a Super City, the largest in the world. You might not want to be giving so much credit to the Chinese regarding their real estate boom, their economy is not doing that well
"What would become of the glaziers if panes of glass were never broken?"
I am waiting for the driverless bike to appear on the market.
Bikes were part china according to ancient Chinese map
I was about to comment this 😂
LOL
Lol! Crack pot!!
@youcometome9 Actually the Japanese did
Well, could they donate some to me? :)
Wouldn't it be cheaper for them to just go pick up their bikes that are at the bottom of the pile and put them back on top verses making new bikes?
A pile of bikes is a nightmare on its own but messing about with it is like dealing with a pile of needles all of which can give you a dozen different diseases.
What is this nonsense you are proposing?
Logic rational thinking?
We will have none of that!
The answer is to have more bikes, so more bikes it is!
Lol just park one outside your house and use it daily
You're a god damn genius.
NutritiousPie in China at least in Shenzhen there aren’t any stand alone houses, they’re all apartment buildings usually skyscrapers in what’s called a 小区 which is like a group of these buildings in a certain area, usually these bikes aren’t allowed inside these areas and you can park them outside but usually one comes and 2 mins later someone else rides it away XD
Nutritious Pie. That would only work in a city with a population of .. I dunno.. maybe 100...lol These cities have pops of 1 to 20 mil.
@@deliman7203 matters where you live and stuff in that city, you could live in a unpopulated neighborhood.
@@B1SQ1T its your house, you can just take one inside your house, easy yoinkers
Mobike opened in Manchester Uk, but then they then pulled out because the bikes either got stolen or thrown in the canal..... or over a street light. This is why we can't have nice things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
oioi, I can't imagine who would do such a thing is such an English City...
I'm enjoying Mobike here in Italy, for now there aren't other competing bike sharing companies.
Same in Australia stupid ofo
Same in Vienna
Luke Schmidt the great grandsons of the lads that redeveloped Frankfurt town centre in 1944 I would expect.
*COLONIZE MARS*
_before bicycles overrun Earth_ .
Or better colonize Uranus!
I know right.
Umm.. Mars belongs to China according to ancient Chinese maps
@@leozero_ I think they have so much bikes we could use them to build a bridge between us and Mars
This is the problem when a country has TOO much resource and badly managed!
Thats the cool part of comunism
No. Not much resources, they just squeeze resources from other parts of the country
This is the problem when a country has TOO much people. I mean, seriously, 1.38 billion??
You guys obviously don't know how business works. Make as much money as possible selling the bikes. When demand drops, trash that project, collect the bikes, and melt them down. Literally. Rubber plastic and metal will all be recycled and sold again
Just look at their newly built mega cities all them are ghost town
That which is owned by everyone is cared for by no one.
That's why I prefer to own my own bike rather than share.
"That which is owned by everyone is cared for by no one. "
Man, that's deep.
just like plato said, shared goods are bad because no one is willing to take care of them
Dude - the bikes are owned by capitalist corporations in a war to drive each other out of business. This is the opposite of public ownership - its exploitation by private companies of a public resource - the streets, bike lanes, and open space - to store their product. The communist government was blindsided by this ruthless capitalism, and is trying to figure out how to get it under control for the public good.
The bikes are treated like garbage because they belong to a faceless corporation they have to pay to unlock them, they are not free and do not belong to "everyone." This shows how unregulated capitalism can be a disaster for the public good.
You just described communism
Big difference, in China the bike is owned by a company. In germany (we also have docking stations) the bikesharing is provided by the government. So the bikes are realy owned by the citizen. Therefor you automaticly take care of the bike rather then wasting taxmoney you spent.
Just another example of a good idea poorly executed.
jcollins782 no. It was never a good idea. Want a bike? Buy one, maintain it, store it in YOUR garage/apartment or walk or drive a car.🗳💰🐀🐀💥🔨
**hammer and sickle intensifies**
I was thinking it was a bad idea, badly executed.
More like a bad idea that just looked good on paper
jcollins782 i agree. Raising people in a culture so they learn not to steal these bikes cause they’re there for everyone anyway. But really ”leave it wherever you want” needs to stop ahahah
I think China's Uncensored satirical approach fits the subject well... Some things China does are so ridiculous and over the top it really would be hard talking about them with straight face. Also, it's more entertaining this way.
China is a joke of a country so it only makes sense to represent them as such.
Exactly right. If you spent all your time being stressed about China, you'd have nothing else to think or care about. Plus he's dry, witty, and really seems to keep the balance between humor and reporting. He's the more accurate version of Jon Oliver, Stephen Colbert, etc.. who all just talk about the same crap the same way. It's refreshing to have Chris Chapel.. we need more like him
Couldn't agree with you more.
I probably wouldn't watch if it didn't have this tone!
Same thing I was thinking. The things China does is SOOOO over the top sometimes that it deserves to be told in this fashion.
That place truly defies reasoning almost as much (or just as much) as the propaganda in North (North, right?) Korea.
One day I get a call from a recruiter telling me that my experience working with colleges in the US is a perfect fit for a bike sharing company based in China called ofo. Since I was working a commission-only job at the time, I jumped at the opportunity. The whole thing seemed far fetched but what did I care. Well I worked for them for six months, the Chinese managers were completely ignorant on how to do business in the US. They finally hired an American guy from Uber who knew what he was doing but it was too late. They pulled out of the US not long after I was let go. Oh well.
Let’s talk we’re creating C4A - cycling for africa - we send these used bikes to africa for upcycling. Let’s talk looking for talented entrepreneur people to develop this project.
Cyclist: You can never have too many bicycles.
China: Hold my beer.
@Christian Slater I bet your the soul at every party you attend...if you ever got invited to any, i mean. (
I don't know why, but your comment just cracked me up. it's funny, you're funny.
@Christian Slater Subcultural references are an indelible part of mutual understanding, but if you want to go ahead and call me a sissy even though you were the one that took issue with a UA-cam comment, then by all means.
@@541raymond which comment?
😂😂😂😂
It’s all about society maturity and responsibility. So much for a 4500 years of civilisation
All those millennium long worth of cultural advancement had been destroyed by communist revolution though.
As a critical thinker why don’t you questioning this channel? haha
There is nothing you can do when there is too many bikes and not enough space.
Modern China is Communist culture. Or more accurately, Socialism with Chinese Characteristic culture. What you are talking about is a different culture.
It's because they are civilized that the bikes are piling up. Most of the ones I see in London have had the locks sawn off and at least one company quit Manchester because their bikes ended up in canals
weren't you chasing neo in matrix ?
Lmao....Mr. Anderson... Haha good one
IM DEAD
Lmfao
😂😂😂dying 😂😂😂
🤣🤣
This guy look like agent in matrix.
You're right! lol
only a pair of sunglasses is missing
"Mister Anderson......."
My mum always said, if you can't say anything nice, I'll wash your mouth out with soap...
@@seanacameron8940 after that you started saying right right??
Thanks for the news agent Smith,by the way where's your sunglasses?
Not funny, Mr. Anderson.
Why would you care, if you're unable to see?
hail hydra
Edgar Zemite ...😂🤣😀😗
Say what now Anderson?
Mr.Anderson, I've been expecting you...
😎He is the ☝️
The 'Agent' spotted
Haha thats what im sayin'! 😀😉😂
It's Smith
@@leinaddf I was quoting what he says, maybe a little off but still.
Please reduce the „image swiping sound“...
Only slightly imo. I don't mind the current swipe volume
Literally every photo swipe!
*swoosh*
Agree! Annoying.
Did not notice it until I read this.
Is this a Dutch nightmare or the Dutch wet dream.
Bikes bikes every where
Jelte Elgersma wet dream
Check out Copenhagen, freaking crazy bikes all over the place
@@sagi7838 i love the fact that there are more bikes then people in the Netherlands
Found the Drooling Dutchman
Hmmmmm bikes! :)
Something unearned is not appreciated.
And that covers the advanced theories of communism. The exam is on Monday. j/k :D
Is that a Chinese proverb?
yeah, it's part of human behavior, I wonder if China got similar thing in one their ancient proverbs
Ok but how do I trust an Aperture employee?
When you don't have ownership in something, you don't take care of it
Exactly.
It's the Chinese culture...they live in the moment..dont care about consequences. just look at there way of life. its unsustainable.
I do. But then again, can't even have freaking toilet paper in China.
Not true at all, it's the opposite. When you don't own something but have the use of it, you take extra care of it. Backwards people.
OFO and MOBIKE could merge and become (wait for it...) MOFO!!!
see my cartoons at instagram.com/MockEverything
Comment of the month
oh F off. bikes. Lol!
lolololol
FOKE !!
MOFOBIKES
So Cal is gonna look like that soon.... shared scooters everywhere!
Looks like an episode of South Park...
I'm just going to scoot that comment aside and ignore it
So thaaaaats what the episode of south park was about
Now i see it.
Mmkay
I witnessed this first hand while visiting Beijing. I was amazed. There was a particular area that we walked by every day that had dozens of bikes blocking the sidewalk. I decided to pick some up and create a neat line. While doing so others joined me and it created a mini movement of organized parking. For the rest of the week the sidewalk remained nice and neat with the bikes! Lol
The remaining hope of humanity rests on the shoulders of people like you. Please don’t let dark times or insurmountable odds change that spirit to keep trying to make a difference. We will need people like you in future. Badly. ✌️
Please stay satirical!
This! One of the reason this channel is awesome.
Always from the negative side ~
"The cure is worse.than the disease..." . Wow...that phrase.hasn't aged.well....
Lol
Donate the bikes to African countries where kids have to walk far to schools. Imaging those happy faces getting their own bikes
Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes. absolutely tragic.
First they need schools
roving child warrior gangs, hell's dark angels? you sir have no shame
Good humanitarian idea.
Do you live in a fairytale?
The Chinese Owners of this bike system have lost so much money,,they said the reason why is "because they underestimated the quality of the Chinese people"........
actually, the quality of western people is much lower than Chinese, see ua-cam.com/video/McMWQBt39Y8/v-deo.html
@@NY1020 I don't even need to watch whatever bullshit you linked to tell you that morals are extremely subjective making it impossible to compare "the quality of people" to anything but your own opinion
@@Mipamyanmiro Really good use of racism ....
@@Jasoslty Oh really? I thought it was terrible. Not even humourous.
Stop fighting kids, or I'll floor this car and head into the other lane!
Quality is subjective, I've never been to China, but have rented to a lot of Chinese students and can say this. If they say they are going to do something, they mean NOW! They try and negotiate everything, when they get you down to their price, they reward you by giving you a gift. Always paid rent on time. One gave me silver chop sticks, the other painted heads I'm afraid to throw away for fear of bad karma being imposed on me. One student applied for a high security US Gov't job, an investigator flew out to ask me some questions, my question for him was, "Why can't we find qualified US citizens for these high paying jobs?" When he showed up, he was Chinese, who knew? God bless what's left of America!
Where I live in a Guangzhou suburb of China - the solution has been simple - all of the Shared Bikes have been stolen by the people - had the tracking GPS systems forceably removed and use them for personal use now - you cannot find one shared bike now anywhere because the population has them at their homes - untrackable. And when You Find one - it has a personal Bike-Lock securing it so no one else steals it. Soon the government will be requiring the licensing Electric Bikes as another form of income as in large cities like Shenzhen / Guangzhou they have banned use of any Motorcycles. In One Day - Guangzhou City removed over 400,000 Motorcycles from it's cities roads a few years ago to create less congestion and cleaner air environment - now there are over 800,000 electric bikes with more clutter and congestion - what an income generating machine for the government to now license them.
yeah all they did was swap out old with new and then sit back and collect fees on all the new stuff coming in, ooh and in Guangzhou near the US embassy, if you know any US guys doing immigration for their Chinese wife and she happens to have a friend named Unice who is short chubby and has a broken I think it was her left elbow and likes to wear a carpet looking garment and seems to always want to show up at family meetings, and they are calling her a immigration lawyer this is a lie, she is a Chinese match maker, she is a scammer, the girl pays her 8,000 US dollars to find a US man for her, she will use the girls email account to chat and her photos, and never tell you, you are never talking to the girl you think because its all 100% unice and her little team of girls she hires to do the match making and once the girl is in the US, the girl suddenly demands you pay her family 8,000 dollars. and then the truth comes out.
@@ateam6486 ...well that took a dark turn.
We went from bike sharing to marriage scam in a paragraph >_
Same thing happened here in New Zealand!!
@@ateam6486 well once you get her in the states you can just lock her in the pre-prepared "isolated room" the nice thing about illegal business is they don't usually report missing people.
I love this channel. This guy’s delivery is hilarious.
Imagine the resources that've been wasted
I know you're just kidding and I don't want to be the smart-ass moron but no single material in this universe will never be "wasted". It's "wasted" for our perspective and who cares human perspective or our opinions? Look at all of these bullshit we are doing and tell me who cares fucking bicycles. Just burn this planet with all the shit in it and still there is no waste for universe, it's just an action.
Yea man... those bikes could of been used instead of rotting and sitting there..
what point are you even trying to make lol
Yeah, the Chinese are known for being really anti-wasteful...
@@aaronrodriguez110 the people not the big corporations
Aw, look at that, I was auto-unsubscribed. How thoughtful UA-cam, filtering out channels I specifically told you I wanted you to see. Probably just an artifact of them scanning all of UA-cam in 1 second....
because youtube wants to punish some channels. UA-cam is stupid
Yeah YT actually started to doing this...
I have just had that. I blocked the young Turks and then all my new feeds are you guessed it..... TYT. Get fucked YT
Yeah and typing in this channel's name in the search bar does not make the channel show up as a search suggestion. I wonder why. I really do.
At least they got a stockpile of steel and rubber if a war should occur..
I think China still retains bicycle infantry units, so they'll never have a shortage in their transport pool.
@@jonathantan2469 good trivia info! I did not know this:)
@@jonathantan2469 And if there's ever a shortage on fuel, rubber or bike parts...suddenly....wherever these stockpiles are will evaporate like snow in summer...
Most bikes don't have steel frames. I can't be sure about those ones though.
@@Graham-gt4gr the Russians in the 80's 90's would stockpile woollen sweaters from overseas secondhand suppliers in fields to make army uniforms if required. When it snowed it looked like large hills.
In all honesty, I went to a medium-sized city in the south, and became acquainted with the bike sharing system, and never saw anything like this.
Because this channel is a China smearing channel.
Socialism and communism solve the problem of inequality with a lazy solution: make everyone suffer equally (except the people's "servants").
While I agree with this, it's not too terribly different in the US.
@@4343b1 it's definitely terribly different, go learn something please geez.
Except the fat commie leaders. Look at North Korean, Chinese, Venezuela leaders.
I'm an avid follower of Bernie Sanders of Vermont. I think we could have some great socialism in the United States, true communism has never been tried by the way. I'm pretty sure after Trump we will finally be able to get Bernie.
@@wkdravenna A thief or robber detected.
The problem is not the dockless Bike share system. It is -I admit- a very fragile and idealistic system, but it has proven to work. Look at cities in Switzerland, where people treat them with respect. Therefore they are always parked in good places, are in good condition and serve their purpose even better. It always comes down to how educated people are...
Education doesn't necessarily lead to respect for property; that's a moral issue. Switzerland has a high amount of public participation and a strong sense of citizenship.
I bet they have some kind of regulation that China doesn't though. They would not just stand by and watch as 1.5 million bikes flooded a single city, and their solution would not be to fine the general public for a problem caused by a single company.
Sigh. Your post actually gave me some hope for humanity. I don't see this as a political system or what type of economic system is in place. I saw it as a societal problem created by the people.
Well living in Switzerland. They do exist mostly in Zurich but they are mostly well respected and well you should always expect a bike in the station . And well they work well they are decently fast for what they are
@Jake Shattuck Not really the point I was trying to make. From the perspective of just one of those companies there would be many people using their bikes.
Bikes piled on public property? Impound them and charge the companies who own them.
doesn't change it....just get a fucking dumtruck and pile them outside their office. then again its china. it might not work that way.
Jord Williams ...um...the video is mostly fake...and bs propaganda.
Julia Milford ...do you believe every single thing you see...?
@@dannynicastro3207 what are you? Some fucking communist?
Probably cheaper to build a new one and throw them on the street than paying to get it back
a Free Bike for everyone in China , that'll clean that mess up fast
Or you can melt the metal plastic and rubber into new objects and sell it again.
Remember the good old days when Chris used to like our comments
I do 😭
I think that was actually shelley doing that, she is sneaky like that you know
@@ateam6486 oh i bet.. 😮😌
Good idea. But have to take into account human stupidity
more like greed companies (i believe humans still controls them, but who knows), they build more bikes than need just to increase the chance of their bikes being chosen
There are different types of stupidity, but China is pretty high up there right now.
You can only do "Bike Share" in civilized countries. France and the Netherlands have it down nice.
France should colonize asia and Africa again.
@@husaindaud5569 Why France? They actively islamised the local population!
@@supportervandeeuropeseunie1625 i thought whole of Europe is Islamised.
Allah had fucked Europe.
Hong Kong shared bicycle company Gobee announced its withdrawal from the French market. The reason for the withdrawal was “60% of our bicycles were destroyed, stolen or taken as their own within 4 months, which made the entire European project unsustainable.” The specific data is that more than 1,000 GoBee bicycles have been Theft, nearly 3,400 vehicles were damaged, and the police received nearly 300 reports
As someone who lives in Netherlands i must say this looks like the worst nightmare to me.
I was was in Hangzhou when they started rolling out the Ofo bikes, then the myriad of other ones over the next two years. The quality of the bikes was so bad that within 6 months it was getting hard to find one, amongst the scores piling up outside the subway stations and the company I worked at, that was 100% operational. I had APPs for 3 of the companies. I don't recall the name of the blue bikes with the solid tyres now, but I tended to use those because even though they were a more uncomfortable ride, their seats were easy (ish) to adjust and I never ended up with "soggy" tires that made the bike hard to pedal. Within the first year, many of the housing estates in my district banned (and enforced, believe it or not!) people from riding the shared bikes into the estates. Of course all that did was create a forest of bikes at the 6 entranceways that the guards had to keep tidy (at least it got them off their lazy, card-playing asses for a few mins!). But very soon that got old, and the guards started shooing people away from anywhere NEAR the entrances. Similar problems cropped up at the place I worked. Since the bikes were such awful quality, I found in 2017 that I could go through up to 10 bikes before finding one that I felt safe enough to ride or that would unlock - it was common for the unlock mechanisms to refuse to unlock, and some bikes were just "locked" for no apparent reason (no visible damage). After a few days, all these "dud" bikes formed quite a little barrier for entry to workplaces and subway stations, but I left HZ before the "bike piles" really started to take off. I did sometimes see the bike companies come to collect duds or groups of unusable bikes, to replace them with a stack of new ones, so at least there was some effort made to keep things tidy. Despite all the problems with the bikes and the system, I really enjoyed the freedom they brought me. I was able to explore more of the area surrounding my apartment, and was even able to travel to see friends and do shopping I otherwise wouldn't have done since I couldn't speak much Chinese and certainly couldn't read it, meaning buses were out of the question unless I had a "guide" with me (so I knew which stop to get off: easy to do after one has been somewhere once or twice, but I only had a 2G phone at the time and the VPN was so slow that the Google Maps didn't work in fast enough realtime). Anyway, thanks for the piece about this - I was just talking to friends about this today (spooky that UA-cam recommended this video only a few hours after that conversation...), and I was wondering what the story was with the bikes now. I had no idea Shanghai had SO many bikes in bike graveyards!
1slandB0y77, so it's not the people using the product, it's about the LACK OF QUALITY of the product. And instead of improving their products to make them last, they simply churn out more of the same crappy stuff to replace the old crappy stuff. That's an awful waste of resources, space and money and it lacks intelligence on the part of the companies.
@@katpoohtoo If they had produced good quality bikes that were far fewer in number, I'm curious as to what would have been the outcome myself.
i like genial e bike
OHHHHH NOOOOO YOUR POOOOOOOOR THING
May be this is not a failure.
Big money for the top few in management;
also good for the bike manufacturers.
Score well in making this into WORLD RECORD.
As a Dutchman, I'm offended
Not difficult....
I feel you cyclist brother and also nice bike lanes,I am jealous.I cant even commute fast any more without going on the road because the side walks have a speed limit of 15kn/h if only my country implemented an on road bicycle lane like the Netherlands.
@@aerojetrocketdyners-2538 I feel you brother
@@aerojetrocketdyners-2538 stay strong
Ik voel je
They introduce it in australia too... Absolutely disaster, with bike being hung on trees and deliberatly being thrown into the rivers, finally our goverment has woken up and started fining these companies who doesnt comply with our laws. Despite the fact that they have been fined constantly, apparently they are not worried about (perhaps the fines are not not being heavily enough) so the last thing they come up with is a kind of eletric push scooter, its stationless so you are allowed to just dump it wherever you find convinient, absolutely disaster as people just leave theses scooter in the middle of the footpath... I would say the only reason they are still here is bcz someone is behind this all, receiving a lot of money of course and perhaps bribing our goverment to let them say in.
#takethisrubishoutofhere
Well, oBike's leaving Melbourne at least
BlueScope819 they will get to that, sooner or later. Probably sooner.
That's more bikes parked on the street than in Amsterdam... quite a feat :-)
What will happen in future If there is car sharing in China .
There already are in China.
The same.
Buckle up for a fun ride!
Cars stacked ontop of each other.
*Good to see Agent Smith😢*
So I´m not the only -NEO- ONE thinking it.
Mr Anderson...
YES!!! I was hoping someone would say it!
AHahahaha it's a fucking clone xD
Lmao
In the netherlands every civilian own and rides a bike daily, and parks it wherever when going to the city, yet the problem doesn't seem as large as it is in china, even though our streets are WAY smaller... :think:
Just wait til you're overrun by foreigners who dont give a damn about your country or culture
In the Netherlands Mobike and Ofo are bound by strict regulation, because a company just can't claim public space for themselves. www.parool.nl/amsterdam/de-deelfiets-krijgt-een-herkansing-in-amsterdam~a4547308/
How the hell can we more communist than a communistic country?
How it works in the Netherlands: These bikes are forbidden to park in the inner city, but outside that area they can be parked everywhere in the designated spaces. Only 3 shared bike companies are allowed to run to get some competition and bicycles have to be ridden at least 4 times a day.
Bararo We have had Bike Sharing Issues in Dallas. We have had bikes end up in garbage cans, fountains and in random places on medians and what not.
in the netherlands you have no go zones, so mountains of bikes are the least of your problems.
You have like half a percent of their population. China has more bikes than you have people. Your problems are easier to manage bmes on that scale
The flip side is everyone is tripping over those in the dark.
Mark Myjak way to see the silver lining
Look at all that scrap steel just waiting to be melted down.
That would only reduce the already plummeting china steel prices.
China uses real steel to make their bikes? Everything they make that the USA imports is crap!!
Barney Fife more like what American companies tell them to
@@Blue_Azure101 That could be the case as well.
@flagschange111 Today I have learned something new and I have you to thank for it; so, Thank You! I had no idea. The president makes it sound as if the steel we have been importing for our military vehicles are all crap. It's confusing to an old fart like me. Thanks again!
People aren't grown up enough for free stuff.
We got the same problem here, the city provided free bikes and people tossed them everywhere, from rivers to bushes and everything you can imagine.
So they stopped the program.
That's how people behave when you give them free stuff, embarrassing.
@@HotCacahuete I am happy to hear that but a Metro entrance out of order that isn't for free and where other people near you and cameras would see your illegal actions and free to use bikes that you can just leave somewhere without much inhibition aren't really comparable.
@@HotCacahuete I see what you mean.
Can't wait till college is free, so diplomas turn useless and the survivors are the ones with trade jobs 🤗
Its become a wheelie big problem!
I see what you did there.
Thank God. I thought I’d be scrolling all day b
Oh I'm really getting tyred of these terrible puns! Can't stop it though...someone makes a video, then someone makes a pun... it's an endless cycle...
... leave
I'm so tyred of that joke.
Man, I can’t believe that I almost invested in a bike production company in China. It’s unbelievable
I live in Milan, Italy, and we have those bike-sharing companies too, but here it actually works well, thanks to good regulations and punishments for people who don’t park the bikes properly.
I live in Milan too and i see those bikes scattered around every weekend. Italian people seems not much smart to me anyway.
MEGAmicroOM OMEGAmacroOMEN yes, it also depends on where you live, unfortunately some people are just stupid, and you can’t do anything about that, but when those bikes are used in the right way, they are very useful.
Population difference
MEGAmicroOM OMEGAmacroOMEN I live in Milan for one year bikes 🚲 there are cool but they dump it too lol 😂
Google San Francisco and these new electric scooters and how well this idea turned out
Shit on sidewalks keeps coming up....
south park did a episode recently on the scooters hehe..
The only reason it's a bad idea in San Francisco is because the citizens there don't give a ship where they park the scooters.
It's sad that the benefits of such a good idea have been lost for so many by the selfish inconsiderate actions of the few.
@@GSpotter63 no the scooters are cancer everywhere. every single city they are deployed is a complete shit show. Bird is by far the worst.
It's all over san antonio now
The sarcasm makes news about China bearable. The bike issue is hilarious! It encapsulates so many perceptions about modern mainland Chinese people. They're just as individualistic as any peoples anywhere in the world and don't give a rat's ass about creating messes if they're ultimately not their problem, civility be damned. Taiwan has both models of bike share, docking and I think a Singapore-based, app-based, non-dock bike share system. It's free competition to see which is more popular and although we might occasionally see a non-docking bike share bike in a curious place, it's not a societal problem as far as I can tell. Taiwan is simply just the hands-down more civil society, and I do think there's a difference because of the way the government treats its people. Freedom brings out the better in people whereas repression and constant threat brings out paranoia, resistance and non-compliance.
It's the other way around, better people bring freedom.
That happens because comunism destroyed their culture ,people that got out of China before that would never act in that manner
Yes, thanks from Taiwan!
Chinese moved from farm to city creating the largest migration in human history. I think they’ve done well considering the social and geographic shift.
Me : *throws bike on pile*
Officer writes a ticket for 8.537 bikes.
That's ugly. We just got a taste of this with e scooters with no dock. Got 3 scooters dumped on the front of my house as we speak
take them and sell them on CL
Are they still there?
So that's why they are in one of the new South Park episodes
Dan K download the app, and charge them at night and leave em right outside... Easy money...
China’s new attraction. The Great Bike Wall of China or TGBWC for short.
Not all can be as easy to say as others.
I live in South Bend Indiana we have the same thing... Fortunately there's only one bike sharing service. But you can never find one in the downtown... And there all over the bad neighborhoods
JackReace360 Right... Who wants to share a nike with some dirty minority.
"They're" (= they are) NOT 'there'. Learn your fucking language.
@@cjay2 oh my the grammar police are out tonight.....relax dude.
How about you learn the language you speak instead?
I'm from South bend too. I've even seen them stripped of their parts. Have none of you jack fucks never had autocorrect errors. I know I type a certain there, they're or their and my phone changes it to one I didn't type. if you're life is so miserable and empty you have to attack people because of a simple spelling mistake, why not just end it?
Bikes are not for me, they are for *us*
**COMMUNISM INTENSIFIES**
*Breaking News Alert*
China uses old bikes to create artificial moon.
^_^
ya'know what Badass Motha-Ofos say: Mobikes, mo problems
Mo medabots mo power
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
1:47 😂 cure worse than the disease. I like the news with humor.
*The Negus, stole my bike.*
At least they are not producing polution
It would see the inevitable has finally happened...Agent Smith has stopped chasing The One and found a desk job.
But can you do a wheelie
@@silentghost82 UR AN IDIOT xd
go look at chinese pollution
China should have just one state-owned bike rental company - problems solved.
Billion of dollars in venture capital is the problem. In a free market the company only could spend what they had. You would have to make a profit to buy more bikes. You would also not buy any if you were not making a good return on your money. I am sure the bikes on the bottom of the pile and in the impound yard are making no money. So why would a venture capitalist loan any money on this mess? I would bet they get their money from a central bank which the Government controls. Which means this is a central planers idea managing the economy. (giving jobs to bike makers. Steel company can sell more steel etc...) Cut-throat competition and no regulation is a good thing with their own money at rick
Who is rick and why does rick have their money?
@@bruticusmagnus I should have read it first. "Cut-throat competition and no regulation is a good thing with their own money and at their own risk" Thanks
Yes, it's easy to look at the problem and say regulation is needed to solve this problem. But building millions of bikes with no apparent concern for the disposition of the bikes is not a business plan. Where is the money coming from and why does it keep coming? I agree that central banks willing money into existence like a star trek replicator is the ultimate source of all problems like this.
Clearly the reporter doesn't understand Basic Economics. I hear there's a good book to help with that by Thomas Sowell, what was it called again...
@@CarrollLiddell ;-) ... www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Common-Sense-Economy/dp/0465002609
Don't agree at all. 13 million bikes when there's 1.3 billion citizens doesn't seem too much. The times I've been in Beijing I didn't see that, and actually you won't see too many bikes if you're not next to a subway station. Months ago I had problems finding one of the yellow ones in the morning to go to work.
The real problem is that some people is getting paid to break the yellow ones.
@Barry The only ones that are widely spread are ofo and mobike. In Tianjin, just to give an example, you can find 1 different one for every 100 mobikes and ofos out there. No joke, I would post a picture if I could.
There are several bikes out there dude! Just yesterday some more bikes were offloaded in Haidian district in Beijing. Way too many bikes!
Never had a problem finding a bike in Beijing. Also I'd say one in ten was forcibly unlocked thus providing a free ride. On the flip side, about five in ten were broken.
@@chizachirwa3537 Far from the special cases shown on the video.
Dani, there are way too many bikes. And no, it's not so far off, honestly.
Reminds me of how Mainlanders go to the bathroom 😉
Your Favourite Candy Man. Chinese women take a dump in the elevator and on benches.
but ur parents come from mainland I am pretty sure because u r hongkonger or taiwanese，and ur parents r homeless 。
@Enola Gay fuck u asshole，be a gentleman，ok？
They should donate those bikes to developing countries instead of impounding them.
Really how can China expect its citizens to park their bikes properly when they can't even park their cars properly??
why was this in my suggestions?
@@potato_x69 well, it make sense.
Subscribed, cuz I like your Moxy kid...lol
South Park
@@potato_x69 POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTA-
because this content is paid to be in your suggestions
Less bikes, more condoms
No . More sex. Condoms are not effective if they're never gonna use em .
Oh wait this isn't virgin Japan
looooooooooooooooooooooooool
So... shareable bluetooth condoms?
@@mildsoup8978 condom share program! Brilliant
It's obvious that a free bike market isn't to blame but government subsidies of a market they want to survive. How could honest companies piles unused bikes along a park if they had to pay for it? They couldn't.
Chinese have the most creative problems xD
Good one.
China = nothing but problems.
I just laugh at some people，You can't do anything，But our Chinese economy is still growing fast，You can only comment here，Make you laugh enough，But We're actually getting stronger
@@冒顿虎
Yah.. Made in China laugh. Lol.
...like escalators that eat people
When I worked in China the shared bike thing was actually really convenient, then one day I left my office building and there was literally a hill of ofo bikes stacked on the sidewalk. The local residents call it the "little yellow bike flood" lol
I think the bike situation is representative of Chinese Buisnesses as a whole, trying ideas that "seem" like good ideas, always wanting to be on the forefront of technology and entrepeneurship without considering the possible consequences.
Bring them to Europe, bicicles are waaaaay too expensive here
you can buy 199€ bycicles in europe (same quality as obike etc).
Oh boy they did. And what a disaster as well.
We had oBike in switzerland... they flooded the city with their trash bikes, but never cared to repair broken ones. So you can imagine where they landed... in gardens, rivers, in the lake, ...
And we have limebike. They are still around...
@@macrozone The limebikes are drinkable?
Ofo and Mobike are in the UK already.
and then easteuropens steal them
Lime is putting dockless bikes in Golden Valley MN and since almost no one rides them, they send crews around to move bikes so it will appear they’re being used....
No dock in Germany and they work fine....
@Norris Jinglewilly why spread hate everywhere 🙄
@wilson hill Not better but different.
@@husaindaud5569 And assholes are important, didn't you know?
I only found the german original (at the end) and created a (bad) english translation of the poem :-)
Dispute of the organs
A body was bored
a dispute of the body parts
heavily and much yelling started
who of them should the boss of them all.
I'm the Boss the brain said
I'm sitting on highest place behind the forehead
must always thinking and lead you
I'm the Boss who will deny?
The legs said half joking
"Don't boast so much, you soft guck!
we let the human walk,
a female leg a man provoke,
the human looks only through us so big,
without doubt - we are the boss."
The eyes glares and sparkle:
"Who should you protect in front of danger,
if we wouldn'T always observant?
we should be declared to be the boss"
The hearth, the kidneys and the lung,
the ears, arms and the tongue
all of them coherently argue;
"The Boss Am I - thats clear"
Even the Penis struggled sassy
and called strongeg-willed
Humans can newer miss me,
I'm not only there to piss
Before the dispute was closed,
the asshole fart "I'm the Boss"
Hey, what the other competitors scream with laughter
and starting bitter sweet jokes.
The asshole now very querulous
closed himself purposeful
thinking consequent
"The time will work for me.
When I refuse to shit,
I will assume the power"
Limply gets Penis, Arms, and Legs,
the gall produced stones,
the heart stagnated dangerous,
also the brain feels sick
The asshole was not to be soften,
striked out here and there a fart,
at the end all realized
"The boss can only be the asshole"
German original
Streit der Körperteile
Ein Körper hatte Langeweile
da stritten sich die Körperteile
gar heftig und mit viel Geschrei,
wer wohl der Boss von ihnen sei.
Ich bin der Boss - sprach das Gehirn,
ich sitz' ganz hoch hinter der Stirn,
muß stets denken und euch leiten.
Ich bin der Boss, wer will's bestreiten?
Die Beine sagten halb im Spaße,
"Gib nicht so an, du weiche Masse!
Durch uns der Mensch sich fortbewegt,
ein Mädchenbein den Mann erregt,
der Mensch wirkt doch durch uns erst groß,
ganz ohne Zweifel, wir sind der Boss!"
Die Augen funkelten und sprühten:
"Wer soll euch vor Gefahr behüten,
wenn wir nicht ständig wachsam wären?
Uns sollte man zum Boss erklären."
Das Herz, die Nieren und die Lunge,
die Ohren, Arme und die Zunge,
ein jeder legte schlüssig dar:
"Der Boss bin ich - das ist doch klar!"
Selbst Penis strampelte keck sich bloß
und rief entschlossen: "Ich bin der Boss!"
Die Menschheit kann mich niemals missen,
denn ich bin nicht nur da zum Pissen."
Bevor man die Debatte schloß,
da furzt das Arschloch: "Ich bin Boss!"
Hei, wie die Konkurrenten lachten
und bitterböse Späße machten.
Das Arschloch darauf sehr verdrossen
hat zielbewußt sich fest verschlossen -
es dachte konsequent bei sich:
"Die Zeit, sie arbeitet für mich.
Wenn ich mich weigere zu scheißen,
werd` ich die Macht schon an mich reißen."
Schlaff wurden Penis, Arme, Beine,
die Galle produzierte Steine,
das Herz, es stockte schon bedenklich,
auch das Gehirn fühlte sich kränklich.
Das Arschloch war nicht zu erweichen,
ließ hier und da ein Fürzchen streichen.
Zum Schluß, da sahen's alle ein:
"Der Boss kann nur das Arschloch sein!"
@@DSP16569 👍
They tried this in Victoria BC and was a joke. Bikes everywhere and cost tax payers $$$$$$$
“Sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease” -Chris Chappel, predicting the US response to the CCP Coronavirus
When Communism wants its Capitalism too...this happens.
In my country, it's illegal to litter these shared bikes all over the place, some dude once threw a bike off an apartment, he got arrested
Yeah I think you can get arrested pretty much anywhere doing that.
In the 90s you could throw a bike off a roof and.no one gave a fuck
@@msdadsfsx No, I'm from an asian country
y tho
Is it Singapore haha
I don't know why but when I was living in China, I would see these bikes being thrown around on the streets but I voluntarily arrange them when I happen to pass by them.
Me in a department store picking up clothes off the floor.
It seemed fine in Beijing. Probably because there's more money pouring into that city.
White Sugart Did you ever work in the retail or grocery industry? Compulsive "facing" everywhere you go when you have a spare moment is a side effect of working in those industries - the training shows through! LOL 😂
@@jodiponce3413 I have no experience working in retail or grocery store. I started arranging those bikes probably because when I was living there, most of the people I met and befriended were nice to me so I decided to return the favor by being nice to everybody, to my surroundings, to the community and to the country. Respect is really important
@whitesugart you got pwned by china
its pretty simple:
if they put an IMU sensor in the bikes that it will understand if the user left the bike in upside position or not, it could say which user threw the bike or just parked it correctly.
this way, government can punish the user instantly, or even those companies could do that.
You're right.
Maybe they could incentivize riders to take bikes to a specific location?
example: "Ride half-off if you take it to a drop off zone."
They're already basically free, and the companies don't care about littering because they aren't punished in any way for it
awkwardcultism you're absulutely right. basically the burden of cleanup falls to the city (that foolishly didnt require the company to do it)
It`s not exactly environmentally friendly. Think of how much pollution had to happen to produce millions of bikes that were only used a handful times before being dumped and left to rust away.
This reminds me of that South Park season 22 Halloween episode!
I just think people should drive, I don’t think people should scoot.
Yes 😂😂 the bikes wont stop
Oh man Everytime I feel bored or depressed I rewatch this video...thousands upon thousands upon thousands 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Geez and I thought a few lime bikes left on the sidewalk was bad. They could sell them or donate them to poorer countries.
kyleaca those bikes are already in one of the poorest countries in the world. It wouldn't be hard to find a half billion people who would like to have one.
Please don't donate all that crap to the 3rd world countries. I'm from Uganda and we don't have the land mass or means to breckdown the rest of the world's throw a ways. Please don't pollute us.