The first share bike announced broke

Nowadays people enjoy using share bike and explore the city.

Recently mobike is officially launched in Manchester which is the 100th cities and the first city outside Asia. The British media reported at once and even Londoners are eager to welcome it one day.

The market of share bike draws a lot of investigators’ attention and would like to join as well. Mobike have announced that it had finished a number of 600 million financing which was the highest record in the share bikes market. The rest are drawing customers’ attention by extraordinary appearance such as rainbow color or golden.

At the beginning you will be surprised by “oh there’s a new share bike’s brand maybe I can try it” and now you get to see numbers of brands of share bikes are everywhere.

Yesterday, after running for 5 months, Wukong Share Bike officially announced it’s broke. The company located in Chongqing Province and had devoted 1200 share bikes to the market; unfortunately, over 90% of the bikes were missing which already have millions of renminbi deficit.

The yellow one looks much alike ofo bike

The founder of Wukong Share Bike said that the reason why they got kicked out is they cannot get the best supplier for the business. Mobike and ofo bike hold the biggest supplier and the rest only can cooperate with the small one which leads that the bikes are with low quality. Also, the two big brands offer free rides frequently after they got the big potatoes position in the market which makes the rest are chasing behind but still lost the customers.

What’s more, the purpose of share bike is to bring people convince but still are some people use it as the private bike. If you search online with “ofo bike” the first one pop up will be “how to crack the code of ofo bike”. Indeed, compared with the rest by scan to unlock, ofo used the original padlock. You can see lots of kids are monkey around and press the lock of every ofo bike just to try their luck if bumped up with someone who didn’t lock it or keep pressing the button and turn the code to see which four numbers are more loose and shaky then you get to know the code. Even though the share bike companies have already given notice that children under 12 years old are not allowed to ride but due to the codes were this easy to crack or worse, the parents unlock for them, tragedies happened from times to time.

The following photo pretty sure is what you see every day. Share bike was built for people to use it at anytime and anywhere, but as more and more bikes hit the streets, they add to the urban chaos, as riders leave them basically anywhere.

Rush-hour users park them in bus lanes, leaving them for street attendants to pick up and move aside. Rows of bikes, some of them toppled, crowd the sidewalks, leaving pedestrians little space to walk. Vandalism has become common, and repairs can be costly.