Just got back from my sisters college...

[laxstar]

I just got back from my sisters college she goes to depaw university in indiana it was alot of fun partying and whatever... but they do this thing with all the students they just started like a month ago. They have 75 public bikes to use, they are like the old school looking bikes with the big handle bars but not banna seats or the ghetto ones... Every frat and sorority and other clubs got to decorate them and now they are open for all students. So if you have to go to class and while you are walking you find one then you can use it to go to class and you just park it outside of the building but then people take it while you park it.. it is like finders keepers untill your done with them. it was amazing and a ton of fun... i was just wondering if other colleges do this, or if any one has heard of this.

 

[Ski311]

Only in France.

 

[proZach]

thats a really sick idea. i wish it would work at my school

 

[jimmychung]

that's awesome! what a good idea. i'd love to have my bike here at my school but i have no place to keep it, so having a bike i could just use if i found would be awesome. but then the school would have to worry about keeping all the bikes in good condition so no one gets hurt and sues, and they'd have to worry about people hoarding them. if it worked out, that idea would be amazing.

 

[Nicholas.]

someone should load up a truck with bikes all day and sell them.

 

[Billek]

It only takes just a few assholes to ruin something as cool as that, sadly.

 

[fappy]

yea they tried that at my friends college and when i viisited him we found one of em and just shredded the fucking shit out of it bent the handlebars in, cut slits in the tires and after a fuckload of twisting we made it into an s-shape and threw it into a tree in old main for people to see LMAO AHAHAAHAAHAH

 

[Download-My-Apps]

I beleive they did this at UBC way back when

 

[laxstar]

i believe this is that one assehole that ruins it for every one... they have numbers on the bikes that you can call if you need help fixing them or like putting the chain on...

 

[doublexl]

thats a pretty cool idea.

 

[R-Bertsch]

hahha at my school (OSU) that shit would get stolen so quick, not to mention theres 60000 students, but thats a brilliant idea for a smaller campus

 

[skithebert]

they tried that in boulder I remember a long ways back. All the bikes were painted bright green. guess it didn't work out. cool idea though.

 

[anna*]

happened in a city in germany somewhere a while ago.

they were all painted yellow, but then people just started taking them home and painting them instead of leaving them for other people to use. bit too large scale to work effectively.

 

[=FLO=]

They used to have this in Crested Butte, they were "cow bikes" painted like a cow, it was ruined by stupid tourists who thought all townie bikes were public property, and everyone was getting thier own bike jacked

 

[ax_murderer]

my high school tried that but the bikes just got trashed

 

[g-punit*steezer]

they have that at my school but no one really does it cos the hills are too obnoxious, might as well walk

 

[0ptions]

Good call.

 

[dmc12380]

at uvm that basically what people do but with stolen bikes.

 

[-+Siver+-]

if it works it is a good idea

 

[Raoul_Duke]

A perfect example of why socialism doesn't work...tragedy of the commons.

 

[beer.]

the world would be great without people like you

 

[pns513]

that is a great idea. i don't know of any schools that do it

 

[pdubs113]

They have something like that at UC Boulder too.