Any updates on getting your deposit back?
Is this for real?
1000 NT bike?
Even crappy Carrefour bike cost like 3000 minimum.
I never rode O-bike, but at a glance they look no worse than old age Youbike.
Probably meant wholesale prices paid by the company.
oBikes bicycles are inferior in all aspects to Youbike bikes, but for me they are a lil more convenient.
I also canât give you a first hand experience since I havenât signed up, but a general consensus from the above posts all state that itâs really a piece of crap.
Well, company probably paid 800-1000NT, but the retail mark up is higher.
Youbike is BMW.
O-bike is Fred Flintstone.
They probably buy them on credit or small upfront payment in China and then when they get deposits they pay off the older POs and order more on credit.
I really them or another company saying they factor in 4 deposits per bike at minimum, something like that.
Itâs basically a classic pyramid scheme but with bikes as the biz proposition as I donât believe they will maintain the bikes overtime and will end up pissing off folks . Whatâs worse is they may trash the bikes instead of maintaining them as it would be cheaper perhaps! We shall see.
I admit I also had a negative reaction when the stuff I placed in the âbasketâ just fell through the big gaps lol.
Iâm not against them I want more bike sharing just think their bikes are really poor quality.
And no I donât think I got my deposit back yet. I see the payment went through an account in HK on my credit card so it looks like another ride sharing company trying to avoid taxes!!!
They are ok. Have a ride. They are fine, not amazing, but fine. The service is inexpensive and pretty decent.
For me, anything that replaces Scooter rides is a social good.
Exactly - just donât say it too loud around the locals. I honestly donât get it, Taiwanese know they are dying like flies to lung cancer and yet they still hop on their scooters and happily breathe the fumes every day.
Meanwhile in Sydney⌠Reddy Go launchesâŚ
This is also another problem. We already had a problem with those wet market bikes getting parked everywhere and rusting. Now we have oBikes âpollutingâ the city.
So⌠is that the last rider just throwing the bike there or did the last rider or obike corporation park it somewhere, pissing off someone and this someone threw it there?
I would definitely go with your first assumption.
I would go with the second assumption. Who goes through lifting those bikes over the barrier if not being pissed off by them. Third option. Random juvenile idiots finding it amusing to throw around bicycles. Back in college some aâhole did exactly that to my own bike. Landed down near the tracks of a commuter train near where I lived.
Thereâs a promotion on right now for free rides on the OBike! Jumped on for a quick trip yesterday.
Also, has anyone see the v2 bikes? They have a yellow plastic flap thing right under the seat, I assume itâs to adjust the seat itself but havenât played with it yet, only seen two of them around.
I saw lots of them along the coast. I think that there should be a limit of bicycles they can dump in Taiwan⌠otherwise itâs going to be crazy (well, it is crazy already).
People complain about OBike but did you ever see the amount of rotting away bicycles at the designated bicycle racks near MRT stations and other places?
oBikes do not help that issueâŚat all.
They only increase the volume.
I guess 95% of the bikes is recyclable.
What I want to say is, trash the rotten bikes and hey, suddenly youâve places to put OBikes.
Thatâs actually not a bad point. I feel that cleaning up obviously dead bicycles and scooters takes way too long in Taiwanâs cities.
You can report it to 1999.
We had this old construction truck outside my grandmaâs place about 3-4 years ago that had been sitting there for a good 10 years. It was in an unmarked spot, so it couldnât accumulate tickets, but the neighbors got fed up and reported it. I assume itâs the same process with scooters.
Now with bikes, itâs pretty much impossible to identify the owner since no one is registered to it. Unless you own a x0,000NT+ bike, you normally donât register it.
You can assume it hasnât been ridden if itâs rusted or the tires are flat, butâŚyou never know.