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Now the true radical bikesharing scheme is to leave your bike unlocked.
by tokai 5y ago
Now the true radical bikesharing scheme is to leave your bike unlocked.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoI have owned bikes that were so crap that I never bothered locking them.
- lorenzfx 5y agoWhich is what the article describes.
- tokai 5y agoNo it isn't. It's describing a bikesharing system with no payment system. I mean leaving your personal bike unlocked, and taking another when its missing.
- asoneth 5y agoIf you are purchasing a bicycle with the expectation that others will use it and you will in turn use theirs, then I'm not sure the term "personal bike" applies. It's more like your personal contribution or donation to a collective scheme. This seems like what this article describes.
- consp 5y agoThat's basically what some student have been doing here for decades now, though not out of idealism. The disadvantage is that sometimes a local entrepreneur comes by to sell you your own bike back for 20 euros cash.
- uoaei 5y agoBlindly fumbling through the night, you bump into something foreign. Feeling it, brushing your palms and fingertips across it, you realize what it is: the fundamental contradiction of private property.
- xtiansimon 5y agoThe Burning Man event has a problem with people taking those unlocked bicycles. Unless you’re prepared to steal someone else’s bicycle, you’re walking back to camp.
- tokai 5y ago>Unless you’re prepared to steal someone else’s bicycle, you’re walking back to camp Thats the whole point.
- 0xbadcafebee 5y agoPeople forget that stealing is a form of radical self-reliance