14 Bikes, One Location

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In Drumcondra, Dublin 3.

The stationless bike-sharing scheme Bleeper Bike tweetz:

Neighbourhood watch request – Since 1 Aug we have had 14 bikes stolen from this single location. Citizens of Dub, keep an eye out for us, the thieves take 3-4 bikes at a time between 10pm – 12pm and use bolt cutters. We r working with 2 find out who is behind this.

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33 thoughts on “14 Bikes, One Location”

    1. Conski

      Well Bleeper yokey-magigs are locked, and only supposed to be locked to designated DCC parking spots, so I doubt your sandal-wearing, muesli-eating Armageddon will be true in this case

        1. Conski

          Bikes locked to objects dont tend to get collected by CC, and thrown away. DubBikes hasnt ended in tears. And neither has that London one you mentioned.

          1. George

            If the city council wants to remove a bike they will. Lock or not. The Chinese bikes were disposed of due to oversupply. They were not making a profit as there was excessive investment and low pricing for users which meant the companies lost money.

            The locks are irrelevant to the failure in China.

            The bikes in London was an aside but btw they aren’t locked to anything and it’s also a Chinese company.

    2. George

      There was a particular set of circumstances in China that don’t apply in Dublin. Multiple competing companies were pumping in huge amounts of money to try and achieve market dominance while operating huge losses.

      I tried using this kind of bike scheme in London though and gave up after the first two bikes I went looking for turned out to be inside people’s flats.

  3. max

    Cant they just use the GPS to track them? Must be some serious hi tech junkies working in the area if they would go to that much effect to steal such rubbish bikes.

  4. Spud

    I thought these bikes could be tracked and located?
    I doubt the gardai really care about a few knicked bikes. Not as if they can be resold easily?
    They’re probably chucking them into the Tolka.

    1. George

      They are probably sending them abroad. It is not up the gardaí to decide which crimes they care about.

      1. The One

        “It is not up the gardaí to decide which crimes they care about.”

        It’s not but they do.

  7. Andrew

    Yes this will not end well. another bike company pulled out of Manchester for similar reasons.

    Huge amount of this type of crime isn’t even investigated.

  8. Dhaughton99

    No sympathy. It’s harder and harder to find bike parking around the city and this crowd ain’t helping. I have probably seen 1 person use one of these bikes since they were dumped in Dublin. And don’t start me on the scooters. They are coming next.

      1. Increasing Displacement

        Why do these require insurance and a bicycle doesnt?
        Bikes go fast so they do on top of my head

    1. Clampers Outside!

      Just realised… I’ve less sympathy for a company than i do a regular bike user losing theirs… I’m more inclined to think it’s the business plan that’s crap on that scheme…

  10. Martin

    Great idea, but who in the hell would want one of the bikes to own…they are seriously heavy and clunky to cycle, slower then Dublin bikes because of this.

    still, they are useful to have and only a dickhead steals them!

  11. Mobi

    These bikes are not really worth stealing. Pretty flimsy and uncomfortable. Fine for a short pedal but not to keep. Pretty stupid. Must be sending them out foreign.

    1. Rob_G

      Are they electric? It wouldn’t be worth stealing them for export if not – more likely just ridden around and then lashed into the canal.

  15. small ads

    Drumcondra must be Thief Central. This from three years ago:

    https://www.herald.ie/news/drumcondra-bikes-are-target-for-thieves-31057359.html

    It always seems surprising that the Gardaí and other authorities don’t act to stop bicycle theft – it’s not as if bikes are very cheap any longer, and the thefts are done by organised criminals; a particularly mean crime against not-hugely-rich people.

    There’s a nice study to be done by some creative psychology postdoc about the attitudes in different countries to bike theft, and the basis of those attitudes. Why do people see having a €1,000 necklace stolen as a major crime, but having a €1,000 bike stolen as pfft, it’s what happens, like…? Do different police forces have different rates of success in stopping bicycle theft? Do police forces co-operate to stop theft being successful by exporting the stolen goods to another jurisdiction…? After all, police forces are doing this successfully with illegally bred puppies; why don’t they do it with stolen bicycles?

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