Mobike - Manchester's Bike Hire Scheme - First Look

[@virtualfitnesstv]

Amazing scene regarding mobike fist look. Awesome job.

[@nixonsmateruby1]

It's a metal bar that spins with cogs to turn the wheel, and a dynamo in the back wheel that charges a battery that powers the GPS and lights. I think people were going to Gregg's and buying a pie and putting the metal tray over the GPS to ride around all day.

[@JonnyPink65]

Awesome! Love the bag at the end.

[@TheAverageCyclist]

+John Knowles a Cyclist Thanks John!

[@cherrycoke8658]

best design ever in shared bicycle industry !

[@MrBassman91]

You can pick used ones up now for around £80-90 that have been discontinued. I thought about buying one to see If I could do an ebike conversion somehow to make it more of a commuter with it only being single gear. Not sure how I'd do it yet but I'd find a way! Plenty of space to mount a battery & controller be an interesting project, can't seem to find any that have been ebiked yet

[@TheAverageCyclist]

That would definitely be a good little project. I think I’m going to keep an eye out!

[@balasubs1]

www.clip.bike/ buy these!!

[@tinyoofman3361]

@@balasubs1 not available in the UK

[@balasubs1]

@@tinyoofman3361 ok

[@MobikeGlobal]

Fab video! Thanks for the feedback and welcome to the #MobikeMovement

[@zhaoxunyan4016]

I am glad Manchester have this most advanced Mobike among all shared bikes. The biggest advantage is its rubusty - it will not easily break due to usage or crime. Other bikes in China could have some 30% to 50% fallacy rate - the chain is broken, the pedal is broken, the seat cannot lift up, etc... It is frustrating to find a bad bike and walk again to find another one, and Mobike rarely has a bad one. Mobike is the real innovation - it takes into account the maintenance issue and therefore remains the most popular in China despite tens of cheap competitors. So congratulations people in Manchester! You enjoy the technology much more advanced than that in London :P

[@cd5minutes606]

What a shame sharing bikes are damaged and missing very badly in manchester and even GObee bike is retreating from paris bcz 60% of bikes are brokendown or missing, what happened to europe?

[@arcticgeneration]

"Were you laughing?"... "I wasn't - I was holding it in". Brilliant 😂

[@TheAverageCyclist]

+arcticgeneration Not sure why she finds me so hilarious 😂

[@owenchuarbx]

Singapore too has it but for nearly a year

[@JustSimpleFitness]

Brilliant video !!!

[@itsme7679]

I tried it today, is too hard to pedal very heavy it is not easy and smooth any idea how to change that??? there is no gear to change the speed or anything

[@TheAverageCyclist]

+Meys Wasan it should be pretty smooth to ride - maybe you got a damaged one? The gear is a little high as you start, but it doesn’t take long to exhaust it, on flat roads it should be fine.

[@夏虎-c5y]

is it really fast? I doubt it. because part of your work is designed to recharge the battery. Actually this version of Mobike in China is tiring to ride, so Mobike has launched Mobike Lite, which is lighter and faster and has solar battery, and normal chains. Mobike Lite is more comfortable.

[@TheAverageCyclist]

+夏虎 it's not really fast, but it's better than the Boris bikes in London. All round better than I thought.

[@yanghailun]

TheAverageCyclist it's be great if the seat could be higher.

[@夏虎-c5y]

it can not deal with long distance ride. but Mobike's another version, Mobike Lite, can.

[@TheAverageCyclist]

+Hailun Yang Yeah, I think they're probably playing to the fact that most non-cyclist people have their seat too low anyway.

[@夏虎-c5y]

that is the limitation of this version. the saddle of another version, Mobike Lite, can be adjusted to a very high position

[@SkunkGrinder]

They're now going! Mobike are scrapping the idea in Manchester due to vandalism.

[@brianmorrison9168]

The cost is 50p per half hour, would a 15 minute trip be priced at 25p or is the minimum 50p

[@TheAverageCyclist]

Minimum 50p.

[@FlyingHawlucha]

Fuc that I’m not paying 50p for 30mins I might aswell dig my bmx out of the shed

[@stephenreynolds6239]

Yeah thats pretty damn expensive i guess but if its just a commute to work its gotta be cheaper than the bus or your car,after insurance ,tax and all the other bloody crap

[@blakeseven6192]

Worked so well in London.

[@fbkensarhd5279]

nice video, thank you :)

[@soyhaji123]

What if you buy your own mobike ?? How does it work it out??

[@ThatGoth]

If you are going to use them you really need to carry a cushion around with you as a cyclist I once rented one and there is no suspension, the seat is just painful after more than 5 min.

[@liverpix]

Can you buy a bike like this and how much would it cost ?

[@derekdamsell6895]

Liverpix

[@MrBassman91]

You can pick up the discontinued used ones from private seller on eBay now for around £80-£90

[@telecomprofi]

fast forward 3 years and you can buy decommissioned mobikes in Kyiv, Ukraine for 114 quid. They have hundreds of them for sale...probably collected from that famous dumpster with thousands of them in Beijing for free and smuggled into here

[@jaykay7475]

I topped up 5 can I get it back

[@TheAverageCyclist]

+khalid ahmed I don't think so...can get the deposit back, but not the credit. Think I still have £4 on the account too.

[@timmyg37]

Music is the same as the meat spoiler in ark survival... yay...

[@Velorize]

Nice video

[@happytryfriend]

the worst mistake you can do is to downlowd their app and try.

[@stephenreynolds6239]

How right you were.mobike is leaving manchester.

[@nixonsmateruby1]

Total crap. Newcastle upon Tyne had them and they were in trees rivers and any other place a student could sling one. They were awful to ride and flat ground use only.

[@happytryfriend]

i try one and cost me 22 £ for 20 min torture

[@shaynelowther8893]

Thats Brad or just Ash will get you a free one, just pop down the canal

[@hth3949]

اكو عرب ممكن استفسار عن هذه الدراجه

[@htg4129]

تفضل

[@hth3949]

@@htg4129 زاد فضلك ياغالي

[@MrHardSausage]

get your phone robbed ,,,,,

[@MassDynamic]

someone is littering....

[@M3Conv]

No point, bikes are so cheap these days that you can almost just buy one use it and abandon it, then buy another when you need to.

[@DilipDas]

Shame it's been stopped because of too much vandalism

[@Sam-up8dv]

These bikes are a bloody nuisance. People use them and then abandon them anywhere. I live near a train station and people feel it's ok to leave these against my home and in my garden and get on the trains. I am forever taking them to the town centre. If you use these then please do not leave them just anywhere when you are finished with them

[@happytryfriend]

those bikes run like shit