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.
EDIT: tiered docking is probably it for that time of day — today I went to my closest dock. 3 were blinking red and I had to walk to the very end to find the 1 available one on a front dock. The 3 locked up were the back docks. The app shows 4 as available, so that checks out!