Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Tracking an abandoned Citi Bike on 6th Street

In the past month or so, a derelict Citi Bike (a hard-to-find pedal-assist ebike) has been seemingly abandoned over at the docking station on Sixth Street and Avenue B. 

EVG regular Salim started taking photos of it in its various states... 
Per Salim: 
It's chained to the station itself, which often has valet staff. It moved around over the weeks and gradually lost some parts (but not been stripped entirely). The bike fascinates me: why hasn't Citi Bike reclaimed it? Who chained it in the first place? 
All good questions!
For anyone else keeping tabs on this... as of today, the Citi Bike is no longer chained to anything...
Updated 5:30 p.m.

Someone had removed the Citi Bike carcass...    
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11 comments:

  1. Eden BeeOctober 13, 2021 at 12:53 PM

    It would fit nicely in a sinkhole.

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    1. Everyone reading thisOctober 13, 2021 at 1:08 PM

      Hahahaha, perfection

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  2. AnonymousOctober 13, 2021 at 2:19 PM

    Probably stolen and dumped there

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  3. AnonymousOctober 13, 2021 at 4:18 PM

    In the 80’s this would have been a car on cinder blocks.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 13, 2021 at 5:38 PM

    Somehow that fucking citibike station grew to take up half of e 6th st too, wtf?

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  5. AnonymousOctober 13, 2021 at 8:23 PM

    @5:38 it’s called corporate gentrification, the EV will no longer be a neighborhood of small mom and pop shops that gave the EV it’s pulse but will become a corporate district. All you will see will be big glass buildings.

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  6. AnonymousOctober 14, 2021 at 8:35 AM

    @8:23 but CitiBikes allow me to visit my favorite small shops

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  7. AnonymousOctober 14, 2021 at 9:19 AM

    we need bike shares on every block, every corner,everywhere.

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  8. AnonymousOctober 14, 2021 at 10:00 AM

    Anon. 5:38PM - And yet the posters who are always screaming about the horrors of free car parking on streets which car owners pay taxes to help maintain, have no problem with a giant corporate entity taking up block after block of street or sidewalk space for the damn bikes. Somehow, THAT'S okay with them.

    Anon. 9:19AM - No. No, we don't.

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  9. AnonymousOctober 14, 2021 at 11:37 AM

    There's been an ebike with a missing battery docked at 10th & C since at least July. Over the months, some of the Citibike branding has been stripped/fallen off to reveal a Bixi bike from Montreal. Wondering what the fee was to ride that down here...

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  10. AnonymousOctober 14, 2021 at 12:56 PM

    I have no problem with the so-called "free car parking", a ridiculous campaign if you ask me, and Citibike. Why can't there be room for both?

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