The Belt Parkway bike/run path is one of the longest in the city, and would be amazing to get around the area. It sucks that citibike service ends in Bay Ridge.

Usually it’s night time I’ll see them all locked up but today was after work, 21st and 6th ave.

App said there was >10 available ebikes. There were around 20 I walked by blinking red. I walked to the very end to find only 3 available ones: 2 had shitty brakes, one of them had a decent front brake, bad rear brake, only 7 miles left but I took it.

Same thing this morning in midtown — only 4 e-bikes were not blinking red. 1 just had a grinding sound as I walked by, 2 had good mileage but awful brakes, and 1 had great brakes with 7 miles left.

Are they all damaged? If we’re reporting one brake being shitty then yeah makes sense. But right after work (5:30pm) when everyone’s trying to get home feels suspicious.

I grabbed 4 different bikes today and realized very quickly they had no functioning brakes… idk why someone would drop the bike off without disabling it after when it’s completely unusable… or are the techs marking them usable without checking? Either way super dangerous and increasingly more common.

Cool new ebike decals out, nice seeing something different for once :)