fucking tired of these garbage machines littering the sidewalks.
Lime are not Xtreme enough for their customers.
I don’t understand why this is a shitpost
Is it a post? ✅ Is it shit? ✅
It is a shitpost.
I live in Europe. I once completely crashed one, along with myself, due to a huge pothole. Even though it’s totally obvious what happened based on speed data alone, they never reached out to me about it.
Should be noted it was fully functional, just probably scratched, maybe the handlebar slightly misaligned.
I’m in Finland. We have pedestrian/bike paths that sometimes go under roads. Over here the underpass tunnels sometimes get flooded in the heavy rains.
In the Plague Years, I was on an app scoot when it was raining, noticed the underpass had water up to my ankles, so I said “YOLOoooo” out loud and pushed through. Even though the official app scoot company policy at the time was Will You Please Not Do That.
Hey, the scoot was completely fine! Received no complaints! You see, fleet vehicles like these are pretty sturdy compared to retail models. A little bit of water? No problem. I assume the scoots they have to fish out of the river, or find from under the snow banks when they melt in the spring, may have some mechanical problems, yeah.
True, they are quite durable. And it makes perfect sense. Otherwise the companies would have to spend considerably more on repairs or replacements, and potentially go out of business. Though sometimes people overestimate this sturdiness (or more likely just don’t care). In Romania, or at least in Bucharest, it’s quite common to find rental scooters thrown in the river. Not sure if they’re able to survive it.
Those scooters exist in Romania? I would’ve thought they’d get stolen on Day 1, scrapped for parts and sold online lol.
Should be noted it was fully functional, just probably scratched, maybe the handlebar slightly misaligned.
Impressive stuff no doubt, well done mate. And how did the scooter fare?
It disappeared into the pothole
Oof, a cryin shame, no one down there is even goin to find it useful.
That’s actually fair, they don’t want people trashing their equipment.
So make sure to just smash up all the abandoned ones littering the streets.
I wonder what kind of message they zap to people’s phones when the lime bikes are dumped into rivers & lakes & dumpsters?
It would be kinda stupid to rent it to do that. I think most people who do that just pick it up when its standing around somewhere
Yeah I was being facetious. Those things annoy me so much all I want to do is throw them into a dumpster.
Why? They’re like so useful
I live in a city where they are scattered everywhere constantly blocking traffic & pedestrian walkways. Furthermore I’ve tried to rent one before but it didn’t work, made me go through the whole app & sign up process & payment before it told me the bike wasn’t charged & didn’t work, but the app sure was happy to take my money! I give these things the stink eye every time I see one.
Probably they prefer a manly, gas or diesel powered taxi.
While we’re here … how do you go about removing the batteries from these things? (For academic purposes only, of course.)
You can remove them with the following:
1 part gasoline
1 part motor oil, ATF, diesel or whatever you have
A wine bottle
A rag soaked in gasoline
A lighter.
It won’t remove them in the original condition they were in while still inside the scooter but it will remove them.
Now that’s just wasteful.
You must not waste the batteries in scooters, the gold in flock cameras or the ram in data centers. I believe Jesus said this. Now pray with me
It won’t remove them in the original condition they were in while still inside the scooter
Yeah…
Again, only for academic purposes, I’d like to remove them in good condition so the battery cells inside could function in home-made ebike batteries. 2 or 3 scooters worth of batteries should be able to make a very nice ebike battery pack.
would be fun to build home electric storage off these…
I’m not certain, but some galium would work pretty well if the bikes and scooters are made of aluminum. Assuming the batteries aren’t of course.
this is a nonstarter for multiple reasons:
gallium will only react with exposed, raw aluminum, these scooters and bikes have paint or plastic coatings, or an oxide layer on any exposed aluminum.
gallium isn’t exactly cheap - ten grams on amazon is $40+ usd…
gallium attacks on aluminum aren’t exactly fast either - and you need to concentrate the puddle in one spot to keep it working, with some light agitation to remove the slag that will develop. also, it’s a liquid, so keeping it in one place is hard
while aluminum is a good choice for these devices, I also wonder how many are steel because the lime scooters in my area are heavy as fuuuuuck lol. and I’d worry about aluminum frames bending with the fat bastards I see riding 'em.
And wear dark tinted goggles and cover your lower face. Wear gloves.
For safety. Of course.
Never thought I’d live to see the day where they outlawed tricks smh
I mean, to be fair, at least they give you a warning. And honestly, I think it’s pretty fair to not allow things that wear down the scooter quickly.
You give a hand, they take the arm.
Stop using their service then?
It’s not that deep. They just don’t want you to break their shit.
Check the community
Check yourself
Fuck I’ve never gotten this deep before. Do you wanna go in on some cronuts or dune buggies something? Like gumpappy, the grandfather I totally didn’t just make up used to say, confusion without fried food is worse than confusion with fried food.
Go home, you’re drunk
i’m already home
…God dammit.
You rent something, they expect that you use it responsively
I mean within season
Maybe don’t ride like a dick
Community policy violation detected!
We detected you saying words like “dick”. On future offenses you’ll be billed.
I thought the complaint here was that you got this warning for no reason. Now it looks like you’re saying you do ride unsafely, you just object to this being detected and warned.
On future offenses you’ll be killed
“Don’t be a dick, Dick.”
Huh. The chinese rideshare mopeds have a little speaker that begs you to stop violating traffic law and ride safely, but the literally only dock your score for trying to destroy the bike or abandoning it blocking traffic. You can steal 1 moped for every 100 rides and still maintain a perfect score.
Surely 100 rides would cost more than just getting your own scooter that didn’t have all the spyware built into it
100 20 minute rides is 31USD. They also sell the mopeds, 250-500 USD. The rental ones are limited to 16 mph tho. The real convenience is that you can grab one almost anywhere and leave it nearly anywhere so it integrates really well with other modes of transit.
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Steal to keep?
“Steal to keep”: It’s the new “rent to own”.
This one cool trick rideshare companies don’t want you to know.
spoiler
Its a joke, the penalty for destroying or stealing one is -100, but you get +1 for every ride, and your score can go over 100. In reality the company probably calls the cops if you lock it in your garage and won’t give it back or something.
there was a story about someone kidnapping all the scooters and piling them up in one parking lot, cops were called
i think it was in the Seattle area. In my town, we have a river running through the central space and so many of these scooters end up in the river
when I was a trouble making boy, we’d steal bikes and build ramps to jump into the river on the bikes, they lower the river for a few months every year and it was always a good laugh to see how many bikes were piled up in our favorite spots
my hometown is full of deviants, so I’m never surprised about seeing that kind of behavior
my cameras are always catching some young person looking for trouble, taking one to know one I make sure to keep everything valuable out of sight and behind locks
Everyone hates those fucking things. Always blocking the sidewalk and nearly getting run over every fucking block. It is everyone’s civic duty to throw them in the fucking river if presented the opportunity.
Part of that is anti-social behavior as a response to living in America, but also if people aren’t parking them correctly, there’s not enough parking room. If people are riding on sidewalks, there’s not enough divided bike lane.
Here in Nanning, during rush hour, theres places where 2-lane wide bike paths are completely packed with hundreds of mopeds per minute, much more than the 5 lane car road next to it can transport.
Oh absolutely. Though it has been a point of frustration how often they get put in bike corrals. Cyclists who own our bikes need those to lock our bikes up.
I meant it the other way; the city not building enough room for parking 2-wheeled vehicles leads to people throwing them wherever. In the picture, they’re just past the limit and people have started to resort to not giving a shit. Spending a hundred bucks adding an extra bike rack is so trivial next to reallocating RoW from cars to more efficient modes of transportation.
This is also supported by cops coming along and stealing anything illegally parked during the night.
I’d be against it, but our river is already a massive PCB wasteland from the papermill and other industry dumping.
all jokes aside, don’t throw shit in the waterways
No it does not take one to know one, you can also just know about vandalist boys anyway
abandoning it blocking traffic
lol
Is this a rental thing or do you “own” the vehicle?
(Own is in quotations becsuse what you and I would consider to be ownership isn’t necessarily what the LAW says is ownership)
Sir, this is 2026.
You’re not even allowed to ride your own in the UK. At least not in public areas.
Lime is one of those scooter share companies that dumped a bunch of electric scooters in city centers overnight with QR codes to use an app to pay to unlock and begin riding them
Which you’d think would need some sort of permit or approval process? But it looks like you can just do whatever you want if you have the $$$
I’m absolutely sick of them. I get home from work at dick o’clock and always have to make sure there’s not one lying down in the middle of my parking spot.
“Removal of shoes is not allowed on a PaveCorp sidewalk. A $20 surcharge has been added to your walk today.”
To the Faraday cages with you!
The trick is to ride away smoothly.
I have definitely jumped a curb with them and did not know they tracked this, thanks for the heads up… damn
Use virtual CCs and proxy emails and start learning some tricks
They most likely track your IMEI and other such fun stuff, just so you’re aware.
I started digging into this but it seems that the OS protects hardware identifiers from apps.
what’s an IMEI?
It’s a unique number assigned to every cellular device.
Is this at a SIM level or hardware based?
Depends on if you’re using an esim or physical SIM. The IMEI is the serial number of the cellular modem, so one cell phone service per IMEI except eSIMs can theoretically support multiple eSIM profiles, so each profile gets it’s own IMEI to prevent conflicts. eSIM modems instead have a different unique hardware identifier. Ultimately it gets…complicated fast with eSIMs and some of it seems to just be down to how it’s implemented in the real world rather than theory
But in short, IMEI is a hardware serial number to identify the cellular modem, and all of the phone manufacturers have collaborated on non-conflicting IMEI numbers so you can identify the make, model, region and sku of a device based entirely off of its IMEI
Hardware AFAIK.
Damn, that IMEI shits fucked up
That’s the plan! I was avoiding them, because fuck lime. Now I might try them for the same reason.
i know what you did
