[cuonic]

I used the Gobee.bike rental service in both Turin and Milan, and the only vandalism I encountered were two bikes that had been thrown into the Navigli canal, other than that it didn't appear to be much of a problem in Italy. For the French market maybe they need to look into attaching the device to a physical object (lamp post, docking station), other than just locking the rear wheel, to keep the oppurtunists at bay.

[boudin]

In this article (in french), they say that Gobee face the same issue in Italy (60% of destroyed or stolen bikes) and they're gonna stop their activity there too. They also say that Globee already had to stop their activity in Brussels for the same reasons. http://mobile.lemonde.fr/entreprises/article/2018/02/25/les-...

[cuonic]

Wow that's dissapointing, such a shame. The most surprising example is in Reims, France where they provided 400 bikes in November 2017, only 20 fully functional bikes remained in January this year. The rest were either vandalised, broken or stolen.

[boudin]

Indeed... After, it's hard to make any deduction. Public bikes are widespreaded in France, have been there for a long time, and seems to work quite well (most of those are dockable though). It seems to me that this company got something very wrong in their business model if they face this issue in a lot of places.