Comments on: The many colours of Melbourne Bike Share https://wongm.com/2012/08/the-many-colours-of-melbourne-bike-share/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Thu, 03 Oct 2024 03:57:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Andrew https://wongm.com/2012/08/the-many-colours-of-melbourne-bike-share/#comment-40466 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:00:59 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=2770#comment-40466 Yes, for sure. Someone rotates the bikes so that racks don’t end up empty or overfull. I have seen the truck doing it. Downhill makes sense. I would do that. Get the tram uphill, and a bike downhill.

]]> By: Marcus https://wongm.com/2012/08/the-many-colours-of-melbourne-bike-share/#comment-40328 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:26:58 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=2770#comment-40328 In reply to Andrew.

I’ve got a feeling that the bikes doesn’t have a ‘home’ dock, with the Facebook post I linked to only listing the current location of each coloured bike on the day they wrote it.

I’ve got a feeling that the transfer of bikes between stations is to keep an even supply around the system – one story I heard is that stations at the top of hills run out of bikes, because people are happy to take them downhill, but too lazy to ride them back up!

Ute transferring Melbourne Bike Share bikes between stations

]]> By: Andrew https://wongm.com/2012/08/the-many-colours-of-melbourne-bike-share/#comment-40316 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:58:08 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=2770#comment-40316 I saw the polka dot bike last week in the rack outside St Pauls. I am surprised that the bikes have a home dock. I take that to mean they are always taken back to their home dock by whoever moves the bikes around in their truck. Pretty unlikely that all four coloured bikes would end up in the same rack without some intervention.

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