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To: Avid Coug

This program is privately financed.

I doubt that bike theft is going to be a big issue with this program, either. The bikes themselves are big, heavy, ugly, pretty distinctive, and have built-in GPS trackers. Bike theft rings in NYC (and often elsewhere) are often pretty sophisticated, and in terms of risk-reward, stealing these bikes probably isn’t worth it.


16 posted on 05/28/2013 12:32:03 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

If the bike theft rings don’t want them, I was thinking that the people who rent them just won’t bother to bring them back. They will end up being the equivalent of urban shopping carts.


17 posted on 05/28/2013 1:30:36 PM PDT by Avid Coug
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