@@DroneBeeStrike This is too obvious to be realistic. I'm shure that there's one tiny chain-driven Robot with big eyes and a cube-like body at each graveyard who does all the work alone
I love the photography. This is so well done. The lingering pass overs and lack of dialogue lets you absorb the colours and the enormity of the bike piles. It's simple but fascinating. In the end, I wish the excess bikes could be exported. I hate waste.
They tried to introduce these kind of bikes in Germany. Full rubber tires, miserable bearings, bad paint job without base coat etc. Never seen a bicycle that bad when new. I don't understand why they were FABRICATED at all. What a waste of materials and effort!
FYI "Enormity" and "Enormous" don't mean "really big", they mean "any unusual size, big or small". Notice how the word "norm(ous)" aka 'normal' is in there?
This makes me sick, I am a bike mechanic that has decided to only fix bikes instead of selling new crap. When all those bike locks are beeping, it must sound like hell up close, like a pachinko parlour😮
@@ingulari3977 we had a startup with the same bikes from singapore in Germany some years back, thousand were tossed in to the cities, they are all the same single speed bikes with airless tyres and simple drum brakes. terrible to ride compared to a standard city bike but still had all the components a bike needs like bearings handlebars stem seat and pedals, so probably at least 150-300€ € of material, cheaper only because hundreds of thousand were built in Asia. The thing is, these companies were not interested in creating alternative bike mobility but were only after all the big data from the people using them. The bike component is just a side gig to gain data, same thing with these shite e-scooters. Or just a handful of tossers on the other side of the would making tons of money whilst low wage temps are reorganising and recharging the things on the streets everywhere. Ecology wise, its all a scam. And the amount of resources wasted is just mind boggling.
@@antichicmusicthat is sad to hear :c Is there a way to modify them? The frame, wheel and a seat look solid, so maybe changing wheels and some other details could make them more viable? (though wheels look really small :c)
@@liliyaversus4051here in Vienna the city took the bikes when that Chinese company fell over, repaired them and sold them for cheap. IIRC the repairs were done by some project that gives (partly state funded) jobs to disabled people, so labor costs were not an issue. I think these bikes here had a couple of gears, 3-speed gear hub (Nabenschaltung), they were sold for ~€100,- or so. Instead of these free floating bikes that just end up everywhere, the city has now expanded it's own bike rental scheme to also cover the outer districts. But that's of course a scheme with dedicated stations where bikes must be parked. They also limited the number of scooters in the inner districts and they now must all register with some server so the city can monitor all of them (and I guess fine those companies that don't take care of their scooters).
@@alexvanhorssen7914 Many German rivers don't even directly flow to any open sea - I think China is way worse when it comes to pollution of common waters.
@@whohan779 In some other countries, rivers filled with garbage flow directly into the sea, you cannot even see the water anymore in those rivers, just a moving stream of junk. And they punish us for supposedly throwing away plastic straws and make us use cardboard straws, who are still wrapped in a plastic foil, glued to the brick, figure that out. The straw may not be plastic but the wrapper is no issue?
@@LuciusKyrus Lol no it's capitalism, they're private companies creating a problem and dumping it on the country for others to solve because of greed. How does that sound like communism to you?
I was in Shanghai in 1989 and was impressed that the massive traffic jams on big wide streets were almost entirely bicycles. Maybe now, 34 years later, its different.
@@rockets4kids bicycles, scooters, and motorcycles are the norm in most areas, but auto manufacturing and the Chinese middle class have grown so there are areas that have urban sprawl and basically require cars to get from one place to another and people make enough to have one where the traffic is predominantly automobiles.
@@chuckdavinci9044 Now, everyone can literally ride a different bike every day, only using them each once. Maximum performance, at least until rain exposure eventually ruins them.
@@eldermillennial8330 nah the bike share bikes are not very well made or they wouldn't be abandoned all over the place. Plus, now the PRC is actually punishing people for bad parking, and fining the companies that make new bikes to replace the bikes people abandoned rather than finding them. Soon there will be a nationwide effort to collect and scrap all the abandoned bikes, but how soon is anyone's guess 🤷♂️
Just went to shanghai few days ago. Not a single bicycle on the street! Over dozen years ago when I went to Shanghai, there were still swarms of bicycles on the street on nearly every roads. China is moving in wrong direction.
Yeah like years ago I thought China is becoming the bicycle land of the world in their towns, the state sponsored it and anyone could buy it. But know the wealth is rising and raising from bicycles to motorcycle and now everybody can buy a very cheap car there. They made like a turbo Kapitalism in 10 years what the west went through the last 40 years.
@@mcmurdostation7134 Each bicycle here is now replaced by a stinky, loud dangerous car takes more parking space than ten cars and a lifestyle that doesn't have any exercise for the body and minds well-being. The young BMW-loving hipsters there truly believe that the car-centric lifestyle is progress . How sad .
In 2018 I saved a quite nice bicycle from a Danish scrapyard. Needed some care and new parts, but despite of scratches, it operates perfectly and the components quality is quite decent, too!
@@hightalenttraining7546they are not made to any quality standards you are thinking of. It becomes cheaper to replace them to repair them so that's what happens.
These are ride share bikes, built extremely cheaply and flooded the streets within the last maybe 10 years, then left without maintenance. They were pushed out by corporations wanting to cash in on rental income, cloghing aall avaiable bike parking space and then some before being banned by the government.
This is really crazy interesting to me I would love to see someone do a deep dive on the history of bikes in China and how those piles got there, wow. Reading the description helped some. Still mind is blown
From my understanding about China is there a similar situation going on with cars being manufactured in China which are being manufactured and then discarded by order of the government for the sole purpose of inflating production numbers to appear more economically lucrative.
I think SerpentZA did a video on them just before covid hit. Short version -- a few companies figured shared bikes was the future, took investors' money, did a half-assed job of putting out and maintaining the bikes. People liked the bikes, but they would get left in piles at popular destinations where. After a couple years of that, cities started grabbing them and throwing them away. And the guys who started the companies skipped town, while the investors lost their shirts. th-cam.com/video/kdsb2wwn-7g/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/1IYu4wzy9Lw/w-d-xo.html
It's not that bad. Piling these bikes up in separate "graveyards" mean they are accessible to a specialised recycling industry. It's like seeting up urban mines which will eventually get harvested.
Given each company has its own colour, but there were only 4-5 colours max in each photo, i would say that many of the companies operate in only 1-2 cities, so the 70th company would have only been competing with 3-4 other companies
how? who will pay? how much is it to ship them?do the people in those country's want them?can they afford to pay for them to get shipped over?what happens to the bicycle manufacturers in the importing country? Come on player, the world is not simple, think things all the way through...
@@muhlewethumaluleka2691 You put them into containers and ship them. Costs $2000-5000 to ship a container. In my experience working with NPOs that do that kind of thing, the recipients want them. There are no manufacturers to speak of in the recipient countries. This has already been thought through and there are a number of organizations here in the US that do it. Working Bikes in Chicago, USA has been doing it for quite some time.
Super surreal just seeing the seemingly endless amounts of mounds that are just entirely made up of bikes, the fact that they're so densely packed over such a large area makes you question how it even led to this kind of situation and how on earth are they going to manage to fix it?
Those bikes allowed people to transport to nearest workplaces to pay his dependences and increase companies economies 24/7. There is no loss on their plans, every bicycle has generated people disponibility to an inmense amount of factories, the goal is accomplished so they dont care if a foundry has to burn a crazy amount of natural gas to transform into more consumable products (hc, co2, nox emissions). If they consider it appropriate, they also bury them underground without any problem or concern in his minds. They sell it like: "yeah, bicycles are green and doesnt emite pollution", but producing more bikes than people needs is very eco-friendly right? People are forced to work so options arent avalaible on a massive pollution plan
Dear taxpayer, you may be seeing your money at work here. Year after year, the German government continues to grant low-interest loans as development aid to China for projects in environmental protection, biodiversity and climate protection. 🙈 Greetings from Germany!🤯🇩🇪🤝
ok, so what you are mentioning seems to be old news,(at least i couldn't find anything more recent then 2005) but they ARE participating in joined environment protection programmes. The biggest problem i can see - hard to track, not very transparent, i do not understand what they actually do. The usual. But these are issues across politics in general, and definitely need to be addressed Vid is a clear symptom of a big problem, it's up to us to do something about it :3 One thing YOU can do, is take your environment concerns to local (controllable) level and/or spread (clear and truthful) information about misguided, thoughtless and wasteful spending. Thanks for sharing c:
Unfortunately the German people have been reduced to sheeple thru the influence of Anglo American politics & propaganda since WW2. Awaken peoples of Germany regain your full potential! The former soviet eastern block nation's offer more individual rights than most of Europe & england!!
@@liliyaversus4051 Actually thats true until 2017. I can give some examples for these spendings. Bicycle lanes in Peru, Supporting educational programs for what germany sees as Valuable (couple millions for feminism in africa Couple millions against toxic masculity) Mostly wasted in the eyes of the taxpayer Things that actually matter are the exception like Terramar Cleaning the coastlines. However Jeffrey Epsteins wife was the Leader of one of these "climate organisations" that get money from goverments namely terramar (different branch from the one germany supported). So ^^ you see tracking money isnt easy.
Who would pay for the shipping fees? Crating fees? Transportation Fees, import taxes and sales taxes. If we lived in a world with less governments it could work but not in today's world where every ones palm needs to be greased.
I read a one column inch Reuters report in the late 1980s that they'd hanged a bicycle thief. He'd been caught with a stolen bike and subsequently 'confessed' to stealing 76 bicycles. Probably thought he was helping the police with their enquiries.
I have fond memories of bike touring through China many years ago, being happily lost in a literal sea of other cyclists while in their cities and towns. It is sad to think that those days are mostly gone. This is heartbreaking to see as a cyclist, a globally unique cycling phenomenon reduced to snarls of car traffic, mass transit and the smiles gone.
Spent a year in Chengdu in the early 90s with a bike as my personal transportation. So sad that the rise of automobile consumerism destroyed bicycle culture. There are probably many poor rural Chinese who would still find a use for all those urban "share" bike.
@@RandomButtonPusher Exactly. There comes time hen we step back and think fondly of the simple times, that bicycles have always brought out in the best in all of us. "The Wheel... it turns and it can't slow down". Cheers
@@wintaaaaa lol nvm! :D i just wanted to check prices to give you an accurate answer for the range but instead i immediately found counltes news articles how bicycle prices are plummeting right now :D !! maybe they actually already started selling them to us? :D
@@tongpocalypse151it happen in china. They made more appartments than they need and for their huge population. And now no one want those appartment so they demolishing those buildings. If You want to know more search on you tube.
@@tongpocalypse151 China's GDP has dependend largely on the construction sector, especially in view of the fact that local/provicial governments cannot levy taxes. Land sale, re-zoning and development were essentially their only source of income, which is also why China poured more concrete in the years between 2015-2018 than the USA did in the enire 20th century. They built WAY more than there was a market for, which is why China today has 18% empty residential buildings. Around 100.000.000 apartments in China will never be lived in, and they are slowly rotting away and collapsing due to awful quality standards. If anyone should ever ask why there is Climate change, look no further than China. They single-handedly jackhammered the planet's atmosphere with complete, vengeful abandon, into the mess that we see now. They really effed us badly.
@@ravindupremathilaka1467 most of these are tofu dreg projects and apartments are unsafe to live in or unfinished, investors will pay for houses before they are built, companies will start the project for 3 or 4 years later, then companies will run off with the money and start another project.
@@alexanderwoolley1623actually, it was revealed that 95% of it does not. But if it makes you feel good to clean and sort everything and pretend that it all gets recycled, that's OK keep doing it. Everyone needs to feel purpose in life.
@@alexanderwoolley1623 less then 20% of so-called recycled trash gets recycled or even can be recycled which is why most of it ends up in landfills or shipped to China and other countries where every ton shipped count as one 1 of something that's been recycled and then it ends up in a landfill or taken out to sea and dumped. esp all the plastic that cant be recycled if it's been used for anything and dirty recycling is why there is so much plastic in the sea over the last 40 decades or so thats so-called recycling has become a thing and waist is encouraged. because people think its ok when they think it will all be recycled. and even in the case of the 20 of stuff that plastic that can be recycled it also ends up costing more and uses more fule to recycle it then it does to just make more new plastic
as a bicycle enthusiast it's really hearbreaking to see this :'( i was actually living in Guanghzhou china in 2018 and the shared bike programs were still active, and i used the bikes many times and it was a amazing! u could find bikes all over the city and then just leave them wherever you like. by that time many companies had already gone out of business, but ofo and the orange one were still active. i would photograph the massive piles of bikes i would see all over the place too. it was shocking and sad. i don't know if any of those bike sharing programs still exist, but they're definitely cool and should be a part of any city.
Hard to agree with 'definitely'. One issue with the bikes stems from people leaving them very literally wherever they like, as you say. This means they clog pathways and personal bike parking spaces around areas like malls where people ride a bike there but rarely ride the same bike away. This is a nightmare for the small surrounding businesses, residents, and pedestrians. Where I was living in Jinan the business owners surrounding the mall near me took it upon themselves to throw all these bikes into a couple of massive piles because they had become a permanent feature eating up the whole area.
excellent documentation of the bike rental implosion across china, I always wanted to make a compilation, you pulled it off, great drone footage 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Yeah, greedy people are starting a bike rental company then producing tons of bikes to make the investors happy, then run away with the extra cash, repeat
My father and I were just speaking.... In 1986, he visited China on business as a guest of the government. He said he was amazed at the amount of bicycles on the roads at the time. He said they were lined up along the streets of the market square for km after km! "How could anyone recognize which one was theirs when they come back out!?" He explained that each one appeared identical to the next. :-O
I guess they didn't have one like you intend. Back when your father was there, in China everything was owned by the State, including those bicycles, so it didn't quite matter which one you were going to take, as they were just intended for public use. Every bicycle was everyone else's bicycle, because all bicycles were State owned. Exclude from the view the concept of private property, because there wasn't one.
@@ringularitas I'm not 100% sure about China, but I come from Eastern Europe and can tell you that the so called communist countries weren't really communist in that sense of absolutely everything being owned by the state. While there was no private property in terms of enterpreneurship capital, especially nation-wide major industries and firms were really owned by the sate and the smaller ones were united in enforced nation-wide coops, there was always personal property, i.e. small owners owning stuff for their day-to-day personal use (and in some cases for small enterprises) and this kind of property was protected by law against stealing by other small-owners. And how you maintain your stuff can make it more quality and long-lived, so even if every bike looked alike (and so usually did clothes and other things), they were not the same. You know which one is yours by knowing the unique little scratches it has and stuff like that.
@@ringularitas Wrong. The bikes were not "public property" and you didn't just take one. In my year in China ('92-93), riding a bike loaned by a friend, it wasn't hard to find your bike in the sea of those parked. It is quite easy to do something very subtle to personalize your bike and you get good at remembering your spot. There were attendants at the parking areas along the streets, and each bike also had an integrated caliper lock for the back wheel. Still have my key ring (not the key -- that went back to my friend), which has a metal municipal license medallion with a nice dragon on it.
The way the camera slowly pans across the endless fields of metal and rubber... The utter lack of sounds other than traffic and beeping... The bicycles carelessly thrown on top of monuments, temples, and other beautiful historical structures, burying them in trash as far as the eye can see... It's difficult to put into words, but something about this little montage is oddly haunting.
I visited Shanghai in '05. Hordes of electric bikes. Well made and probably (relatively) inexpensive. I remember thinking that I wished we had them in the States, but that they would charge us over $1K if they did. Shanghai had just finished building huge beautiful freeways but they were almost deserted because few people owned cars.
So much waste to promote industry and make money. To have as many people travel by car you'd have to turn it into a parking lot. Not an unbelievable future unfortunately.
@@DingoAteMeBaby no it isn't. That's just what we did. The car industry exists because it is a reliable way to extract profits and keep the population working and in debt. From car based infrastructure we have not only more debt products from cars themselves, but a shift to more expensive real estate solutions and infrastructure(12 lane roads constantly getting paved, gas stations etc.) and the debt that goes into paying for that. I agree manufacturing is important for the purpose or warfare, but not cars specifically. Especially when you consider cars are not even made in the U.S. a lot of the time, so even if it were true we don't have that benefit. If we had walkable/bikeable infrastructure and mass transit it would return trillions of dollars to the human population. It is grotesquely inefficient.
@@justcommenting4981 such a paradigm would require cramming everyone into cities, and the only thing cities are efficient at is spreading mental illness. So tired.
We also have this to a lesser extent in Europe. Governments give a bag of tax money to friends in the business world who promise golden green mountains in the form of environmentally friendly shared bicycles or something similar. Then that mess is rotting on the corner of the street.
Exactly what China did with electric vehicles. They needed to "sell" X amount to be the largest manufacturer. Nobody needed the cars, they're just all parked in huge lots, rotting away.
I watched a documentary on a few places in Africa where having a bike is a life changing device. You could change a lot of lives but I feel that would change the dynamics that make having one lucrative.
China takes from Africa, it doesn't give. Worst thing is those batteries were made from rare earth elements mined in African illegal mines by children. Just watched a documentary about it.
Yeah, I don't understand why they have to disassemble them and scrap them. Just ship it to Europe or Africa, or wherever. Someone will be happy to have a bicycle.
I hate those bicycles & scooters services. Now in Korea and they're nothing but a nuisance. People just leave them everywhere blocking sidewalks, walking the streets, and just in very random inconvenient places. And since it's not theirs, people just don't care where to leave them.
these are not for sale. If they start selling them, the bike manufacturers will be mad that the price of bikes fall down. They want you to pay full price for your bike.
@@DS-xg9kfits called state planning and is essentially ...exactedly the same as the US arms industry. Nobody needed the bikes\missiles tanks etc but the government- who knows best once the bribes are in - orders them....a lovely mixture of communism and capitalism. You should try Canada if you like this
@@Jamarkus_Delvonte What I see with these bicycle graveyards is indeed beautiful in form and color in the vast expanse of these graveyards. But I also see a tragedy because the Chinese people have replaced these bikes with cars that are infinitely more polluting to the environment. China is ramping up E-cars, but the vast use of raw materials is also a huge hazard to the environment. There are consequences for everything we do. Replacing all of these bicycles with cars is hideous imo!!
In the grand scheme of things the materials wasted here (assuming they dont get recycled eventually) is miniscule. Yes it is wasteful, but so is using a Ford F350 SuperDuty to commute to/from work...
I remember when I was a kid, a decent bike to get you to school was like less than a hundred bucks, and it would last you till either you broke it in a crash or it was stolen, all 6 years of school. Looked into buying one recently and the new prices started at about 500 bucks, and I couldn't find a second hand one for less than 100 that looked like was taken care of. So when I see this, I just think they would rather just dump the bikes than sell them at cost because if they sell them at cost the bottom will fall out of the bike share market worldwide and they have shares and are invested in all the bike share companies worldwide.
@@sj750 15 or 16 year ago, my dad brought me into the local bike shop and said I could have any bike I wanted with 2 siblings. I remember looking at a Kona for about 350, before realizing he was buying 3 and not rich so picked a Raleigh with Shimano gears. It was like 130 but my dad offered 120 or something... I just went on my local bikes website now, the cheapest bike on the whole site is 650 euro, and the cheapest road bike is 1900 euro. For that price I would have got a moped instead. I just checked I can get a decent moped for 250, a good one for 650 and a perfect one for 1900
@@geroutathat that doesn't mean cheap bikes don't exist any more. In Germany, where I live, super markets and especially our version of hardware stores (Baumarkt) put out acceptable quality at bargain prices. But specialised bike stores have stopped serving the low price market. For several reasons. Cheap bikes don't bring in much profit for the space they occupy, and for quality-conscious customers just seeing bikes under a certain standard of quality already devalues the whole store. Cheap bikes are still a thing when you know where to get them.
What could have resolved this at the start would be to require licensing by the sharing companies. Anyone who didn't get licensed would be fined. But obviously they just let things get out of hand from the get go. To be honest though, this has happened in the states too (although not anywhere near this scale) when the number of electric scooter companies was allowed to balloon out of control in certain cities with no regulation it got pretty chaotic. Regulation and control are always necessary to make these sorts of initiatives work. That is true in any country.
Regulators can't by their [bureaucratic] nature respond quickly enough in a legal manner to all new market movements. They wouldn't even know what rule to make, let alone how to implement it in time. Bubbles burst. It's in the nature of allowing people to freely prospect and invest. Really, though, it's in the nature of all rapid growth and expansion.
@@curlyfryactualChina has one of the largest per capita police forces in the world. so if they couldn't get that under control nobody could. Sure, things are hard to govern sometimes. But usually if you make some examples out of a few people things get under control a lot faster. But if you don't have any regulations to begin with where are you at? Chaos. It is kind of like with their poor building construction problem. Enforcement of regulations, site inspection etc. wasn't done. And now they have whole cities falling apart.
@@brianh9358 I think a good case study is the classification of ride share in the US. A lengthy legal battle had to be fought to determine whether ride sharing should be classified as and subject to the same regulations as taxis. We had taxis for a long time, and knew how to regulate them; but was that sufficient precedent to properly respond to ride sharing? It was not, and there was no simple obviously legal solution to the matter. The solution was a very complex legal battle that played out over several years. In the case of these bikes, I am not sure what exactly the regulators would be looking for in terms of approval. I think the bikes ended up tossed because many of the startups went under. So, would regulators have to insist on a good business strategy to prevent these pile-ups? What constitutes a "good" business strategy? What is cause for a rejection? And how do we avoid the government choosing the winners and this having insider advantages?
@@curlyfryactual I don't think it was a matter of failed regulation and control, it was more of a matter of didn't even try. Bike sharing requires space near the sidewalk and other public spaces. A city like New York is at least as densely populated as some of the major Chinese cities and you wouldn't see random food vendors just popping up on the sidewalk because somebody decided they wanted to sell food. Anybody who tries to do business like that would find their carts confiscated very shortly after their lack of license was checked. Hong Kong, before being returned to China, ran quite efficiently. Now that is partly because they followed the British legal system, but more than anything it was because the people living there cared. Sometimes that is at the core of the problem - the government and the people are too busy taking shortcuts to follow things like regulations. Take a look at the videos concerning the empty cities they constructed. They are falling apart. Things only get that way if there is something wrong in a major way with a governing system.
Those images are extraordinary. The scale of some of these graveyards is astonishing. I hope they will all eventually be recycled. I read the description of how they were introduced, the politicians really took their eye off the ball on the bike share schemes.
This is the face of government intervention in the marketplace: subsidies, credits, and other policies that change what individuals freely interacting n the marketplace really want. To understand this phenomenon fully, I recommend the writings of Ludwig Mises.
I am struck by the man power needed to fill these vast bicycle graveyards. Some of the piles of bikes are a jumbled mess created by cranes dropping there in clumps, but probably some thrown into the piles individually by workers. But its the orderly curling rows of bikes literally in the many thousands that had to be placed there by workers each bike one at a time, that's what was something to see. In city after city. As others have noted this is an tragedy and I would say an EXISTENTIAL tragedy!! I can imagine in an apocalypse in which people are forced to return to using bikes and will come to these bicycle graveyards to find a bike. That apocalypse may come sooner then any of us imagine.
@@daviddavidsonn3578 that must be why americans love big pickup trucks so much, it stops the paranoid shaking from worrying about safety every single microsecond
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Glad to see they usually take the trouble to sort them by colour. Wouldn't want the situation to get chaotic.
Organised Chaos ..
it would be funny if it wasnt so sad.
I'm sure that's just how they come off the trucks, one load will be mostly all one color because it comes from one source.
its the jews, they want it like this. You dont want anything to get too efficient. ppl might have to relax
Each color represents a different company... I think they're separated so fines could be calculated?
@@DroneBeeStrike This is too obvious to be realistic. I'm shure that there's one tiny chain-driven Robot with big eyes and a cube-like body at each graveyard who does all the work alone
"Sorry, we are out of stock. Pandemic created supply chain problems. No bike anywhere. Not even used."
Sounds like something an Alibaba seller will say :(
This vaguely reminds me of a scene in Pixar's Wall-E
Wall-E is a prophecy.
@@robertroxxor That's why it bombed in the US. The typical american consumer avoids any form of self-reflection, like the plaque.
It's so cringe when someone references a movie for literal 5-year olds
@@Friendo111 Plague.
I love the photography. This is so well done. The lingering pass overs and lack of dialogue lets you absorb the colours and the enormity of the bike piles. It's simple but fascinating.
In the end, I wish the excess bikes could be exported. I hate waste.
They tried to introduce these kind of bikes in Germany. Full rubber tires, miserable bearings, bad paint job without base coat etc. Never seen a bicycle that bad when new. I don't understand why they were FABRICATED at all. What a waste of materials and effort!
FYI "Enormity" and "Enormous" don't mean "really big", they mean "any unusual size, big or small". Notice how the word "norm(ous)" aka 'normal' is in there?
@@martinemmerich3022 Well written.
I know, why can't someone send these bikes somewhere where they will be appreciated
@@Connection-Lost that's not really a normal amount of bikes, is it?
This makes me sick, I am a bike mechanic that has decided to only fix bikes instead of selling new crap. When all those bike locks are beeping, it must sound like hell up close, like a pachinko parlour😮
that beeping was the drone I think
@@ingulari3977 we had a startup with the same bikes from singapore in Germany some years back, thousand were tossed in to the cities, they are all the same single speed bikes with airless tyres and simple drum brakes. terrible to ride compared to a standard city bike but still had all the components a bike needs like bearings handlebars stem seat and pedals, so probably at least 150-300€ € of material, cheaper only because hundreds of thousand were built in Asia. The thing is, these companies were not interested in creating alternative bike mobility but were only after all the big data from the people using them. The bike component is just a side gig to gain data, same thing with these shite e-scooters. Or just a handful of tossers on the other side of the would making tons of money whilst low wage temps are reorganising and recharging the things on the streets everywhere. Ecology wise, its all a scam. And the amount of resources wasted is just mind boggling.
@@antichicmusicthat is sad to hear :c
Is there a way to modify them? The frame, wheel and a seat look solid, so maybe changing wheels and some other details could make them more viable? (though wheels look really small :c)
@@liliyaversus4051here in Vienna the city took the bikes when that Chinese company fell over, repaired them and sold them for cheap. IIRC the repairs were done by some project that gives (partly state funded) jobs to disabled people, so labor costs were not an issue. I think these bikes here had a couple of gears, 3-speed gear hub (Nabenschaltung), they were sold for ~€100,- or so.
Instead of these free floating bikes that just end up everywhere, the city has now expanded it's own bike rental scheme to also cover the outer districts. But that's of course a scheme with dedicated stations where bikes must be parked.
They also limited the number of scooters in the inner districts and they now must all register with some server so the city can monitor all of them (and I guess fine those companies that don't take care of their scooters).
And here in Germany people believe they could save the world by not using plastic straws 😂
maybe you need more laws..
These are not in the sea obviously, seems also pretty easy to recycle. So not to worry about these actually
@@alexvanhorssen7914 Many German rivers don't even directly flow to any open sea - I think China is way worse when it comes to pollution of common waters.
@@whohan779 In some other countries, rivers filled with garbage flow directly into the sea, you cannot even see the water anymore in those rivers, just a moving stream of junk. And they punish us for supposedly throwing away plastic straws and make us use cardboard straws, who are still wrapped in a plastic foil, glued to the brick, figure that out. The straw may not be plastic but the wrapper is no issue?
This video told so many things without actually saying a single word
It shows no one can do better than Great China with that kind of population! Well done China
This has to be the strangest dystopian nightmare ever.
That's Communism.
@@LuciusKyrus that can be the cause, but similar graveyards can be found all over the world, so it's not only Communism that is the cause of this.
@@LuciusKyrus Lol. If you think china is communist, then I'm the queen of England lad.
@@LuciusKyrus Lol no it's capitalism, they're private companies creating a problem and dumping it on the country for others to solve because of greed. How does that sound like communism to you?
I was in Shanghai in 1989 and was impressed that the massive traffic jams on big wide streets were almost entirely bicycles. Maybe now, 34 years later, its different.
From what I gather, each of those people is now driving a car.
@@rockets4kids bicycles, scooters, and motorcycles are the norm in most areas, but auto manufacturing and the Chinese middle class have grown so there are areas that have urban sprawl and basically require cars to get from one place to another and people make enough to have one where the traffic is predominantly automobiles.
@@chuckdavinci9044
Now, everyone can literally ride a different bike every day, only using them each once. Maximum performance, at least until rain exposure eventually ruins them.
@@eldermillennial8330 nah the bike share bikes are not very well made or they wouldn't be abandoned all over the place. Plus, now the PRC is actually punishing people for bad parking, and fining the companies that make new bikes to replace the bikes people abandoned rather than finding them. Soon there will be a nationwide effort to collect and scrap all the abandoned bikes, but how soon is anyone's guess 🤷♂️
now imagine each of those people is driving a car. Jams are a hell of a lot worse.
Imagine the environmental damage the industry did, by producing that garbage.
Archaeologists of the future will be very confused with this find.
archaeologists are not confused, they made up.
Do you know that a mumnie has never been found in a Pyramid in Egypt ?
The great bicycle massacre of 2018. The green bikes together with the white bikes waged a massive war against the blue bikes. No one survived.
Dang it! there goes my dreams of moving to China and starting a bicycle manufacturing empire.
Why would you care what happens to them after they are Sold?
@@jungleno. Why shouldnt he?
🤣👍 been there, you’re not missing a thing.
There is plenty of place to put more still.
🤣
Just went to shanghai few days ago. Not a single bicycle on the street! Over dozen years ago when I went to Shanghai, there were still swarms of bicycles on the street on nearly every roads. China is moving in wrong direction.
Yeah like years ago I thought China is becoming the bicycle land of the world in their towns, the state sponsored it and anyone could buy it. But know the wealth is rising and raising from bicycles to motorcycle and now everybody can buy a very cheap car there. They made like a turbo Kapitalism in 10 years what the west went through the last 40 years.
@@mcmurdostation7134 Each bicycle here is now replaced by a stinky, loud dangerous car takes more parking space than ten cars and a lifestyle that doesn't have any exercise for the body and minds well-being. The young BMW-loving hipsters there truly believe that the car-centric lifestyle is progress . How sad .
They built american style roads and cities and metro trains for those who don't/can't use the roads.
@@mcmurdostation7134 thanks to your comment I was able to make sense of what I was looking at lol.
the video and its description explained nothing.
Yes ... That makes this video so compelling... I hadn't given it another thought where all those bikes would have gone to...
Just imagine how much labour did it took to manufacture, how much resources and time did it took.. ..and all for nothing
What wonderful fields of differently colored crops they have. Oh...
China Show sent me.
I remember you!
It's the china version of keukenhof.
@@krux02 Ha, ha, yes! The lovely colored fields of Holland 🙂
Same 👍🏻😀🇬🇧
It's West Taiwan!!!!
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
In 2018 I saved a quite nice bicycle from a Danish scrapyard. Needed some care and new parts, but despite of scratches, it operates perfectly and the components quality is quite decent, too!
That's exactly what I took from this. How can you not reuse any of them??? Sort of lazy lol
@@hightalenttraining7546they are not made to any quality standards you are thinking of. It becomes cheaper to replace them to repair them so that's what happens.
These are ride share bikes, built extremely cheaply and flooded the streets within the last maybe 10 years, then left without maintenance. They were pushed out by corporations wanting to cash in on rental income, cloghing aall avaiable bike parking space and then some before being banned by the government.
classical chinese green initiative
Here from The China Show?
@@stardustandflames126 whats the china show
@@stardustandflames126 Yepp!
This situation appears to be like complete distopia and mostly insane.
It's insanely green, at least... Or not. Check out the dumpyards for electric cars. Absolute madness of over-manufacturing.
China in a nutshell.
This is really crazy interesting to me I would love to see someone do a deep dive on the history of bikes in China and how those piles got there, wow. Reading the description helped some. Still mind is blown
From my understanding about China is there a similar situation going on with cars being manufactured in China which are being manufactured and then discarded by order of the government for the sole purpose of inflating production numbers to appear more economically lucrative.
Shared bycicles. Companies flooded the street with these, and didn't take care of them, so they were banned.
I think SerpentZA did a video on them just before covid hit. Short version -- a few companies figured shared bikes was the future, took investors' money, did a half-assed job of putting out and maintaining the bikes. People liked the bikes, but they would get left in piles at popular destinations where. After a couple years of that, cities started grabbing them and throwing them away.
And the guys who started the companies skipped town, while the investors lost their shirts.
th-cam.com/video/kdsb2wwn-7g/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/1IYu4wzy9Lw/w-d-xo.html
Over production and consumerism.
Greed is a hell of a thing
great footage and thanks for sharing. This is absolutely shocking and sad. The greed & power of a few have really F'd this Earth for everyone
it's fake footage bro. it's cgi.
@@kalidilerious Hello wumao
@@kalidilerious No, it's not.
@@kalidilerious It's not !
It's not that bad. Piling these bikes up in separate "graveyards" mean they are accessible to a specialised recycling industry. It's like seeting up urban mines which will eventually get harvested.
This is the Promise Land for my cousin back when he was a teenager/young man.
Guy loved Bicycles, taking them apart, putting them together.
I don't even own a bike. God I would love one of these. Many look like good designs!
When the government funds everything through corruption. These bikes were never ment to be ridden.
The Chinese economy is so incredibly inefficient. The waste is staggering.
Better than funding for wars overseas.
How the 70th company thought this was a good idea with 69 companies already on the market is definitely beyond human comprehension.
Government incentives, I would suspect.
@@Yora21 Could very well be.
Given each company has its own colour, but there were only 4-5 colours max in each photo, i would say that many of the companies operate in only 1-2 cities, so the 70th company would have only been competing with 3-4 other companies
The government starts companies so people will have jobs.. They are communist and they don't care if the companies are profitable..
China. No explanation needed.
These bikes could be exported to so many countries and put to use.
how? who will pay? how much is it to ship them?do the people in those country's want them?can they afford to pay for them to get shipped over?what happens to the bicycle manufacturers in the importing country? Come on player, the world is not simple, think things all the way through...
@@muhlewethumaluleka2691 You put them into containers and ship them. Costs $2000-5000 to ship a container. In my experience working with NPOs that do that kind of thing, the recipients want them. There are no manufacturers to speak of in the recipient countries. This has already been thought through and there are a number of organizations here in the US that do it. Working Bikes in Chicago, USA has been doing it for quite some time.
@@themeatpopsicle These bikes suck
Another stupid comment. How are you going to do this? Do you think that there is a operational drive train in that pile of garbage!
@@testststs they're good enough.
With all their technology, they’ve only got two guys with pneumatic wrenches to recycle a billion scrap bicycles?
I would like one bike from the bottom of the pile, please.
Super surreal just seeing the seemingly endless amounts of mounds that are just entirely made up of bikes, the fact that they're so densely packed over such a large area makes you question how it even led to this kind of situation and how on earth are they going to manage to fix it?
They are disassembling them and recycling ♻️
I’m sure they are being recycled along with the slaves picking them apart.
Those bikes allowed people to transport to nearest workplaces to pay his dependences and increase companies economies 24/7.
There is no loss on their plans, every bicycle has generated people disponibility to an inmense amount of factories, the goal is accomplished so they dont care if a foundry has to burn a crazy amount of natural gas to transform into more consumable products (hc, co2, nox emissions). If they consider it appropriate, they also bury them underground without any problem or concern in his minds.
They sell it like: "yeah, bicycles are green and doesnt emite pollution", but producing more bikes than people needs is very eco-friendly right? People are forced to work so options arent avalaible on a massive pollution plan
@@XLostGamer they are not.
Thats the neat part, they dont
"Excuse me sir, I'd like to buy a bike. Do you have any in stock?"
"Why yes, I think we have a few out the back!" 😆😂
We have this overflowing storage site called 'China' - may have heard of it. ☠
Dear taxpayer, you may be seeing your money at work here. Year after year, the German government continues to grant low-interest loans as development aid to China for projects in environmental protection, biodiversity and climate protection. 🙈
Greetings from Germany!🤯🇩🇪🤝
really? that's interesting
*went off to googling*
ok, so what you are mentioning seems to be old news,(at least i couldn't find anything more recent then 2005) but they ARE participating in joined environment protection programmes. The biggest problem i can see - hard to track, not very transparent, i do not understand what they actually do. The usual. But these are issues across politics in general, and definitely need to be addressed
Vid is a clear symptom of a big problem, it's up to us to do something about it :3 One thing YOU can do, is take your environment concerns to local (controllable) level and/or spread (clear and truthful) information about misguided, thoughtless and wasteful spending. Thanks for sharing c:
Unfortunately the German people have been reduced to sheeple thru the influence of Anglo American politics & propaganda since WW2. Awaken peoples of Germany regain your full potential! The former soviet eastern block nation's offer more individual rights than most of Europe & england!!
@@liliyaversus4051 Actually thats true until 2017.
I can give some examples for these spendings.
Bicycle lanes in Peru, Supporting educational programs for what germany sees as Valuable (couple millions for feminism in africa Couple millions against toxic masculity)
Mostly wasted in the eyes of the taxpayer
Things that actually matter are the exception like Terramar Cleaning the coastlines. However Jeffrey Epsteins wife was the Leader of one of these "climate organisations" that get money from goverments namely terramar (different branch from the one germany supported).
So ^^ you see tracking money isnt easy.
the strangest thing is to see someone walking with soo many bicycle around
Every video i see of China reminds me of a bad dream
The reality is even worse than a bad dream 🤣
This video is a masterpiece. The beeping sounds are so spooky. Bravo
Pretty much sums up every "Green" initiative ever.
Just donate the bikes to the 3rd world countries that would be a great help...
what a capital destruction
Your use of language shows how American you are.
Who would pay for the shipping fees? Crating fees? Transportation Fees, import taxes and sales taxes.
If we lived in a world with less governments it could work but not in today's world where every ones palm needs to be greased.
Keep the garbage and the pollution in you country
That’s exactly what I was gonna say. It seems like the logical thing to do right?? What a WASTE!
I read a one column inch Reuters report in the late 1980s that they'd hanged a bicycle thief. He'd been caught with a stolen bike and subsequently 'confessed' to stealing 76 bicycles. Probably thought he was helping the police with their enquiries.
In the future, this civilization, and around the world, will be condemned for its horrible practices. 🙏
So sad, so very sad, so very, very, sad......😥
Don't blame the rest of us for the CCP and its insanity
This is one of the most depressing things I have ever seen.
I have fond memories of bike touring through China many years ago, being happily lost in a literal sea of other cyclists while in their cities and towns. It is sad to think that those days are mostly gone. This is heartbreaking to see as a cyclist, a globally unique cycling phenomenon reduced to snarls of car traffic, mass transit and the smiles gone.
China is a façade. What looks shiny outside is truly dark inside - and the state will use all its powers to ensure we never see what's inside.
Too sad to watch
Spent a year in Chengdu in the early 90s with a bike as my personal transportation. So sad that the rise of automobile consumerism destroyed bicycle culture. There are probably many poor rural Chinese who would still find a use for all those urban "share" bike.
@@RandomButtonPusher Exactly. There comes time hen we step back and think fondly of the simple times, that bicycles have always brought out in the best in all of us. "The Wheel... it turns and it can't slow down". Cheers
@@brianwarshow129 Here's a link to video from my time there, showing cycling: th-cam.com/video/n0SMCQd9wes/w-d-xo.html
we'de love to buy them!!!
right now bicycle prices are outrageous in germany. a nice million bikes would do nice over here.
How expensive is the bicycle
@@wintaaaaa lol nvm! :D
i just wanted to check prices to give you an accurate answer for the range but instead i immediately found counltes news articles how bicycle prices are plummeting right now :D !!
maybe they actually already started selling them to us? :D
They are all child sized bikes though.
You don't want China crap in Germany. You would be contaminating your country
now imagine exactly the same, but with apartment blocks.
Can you please explain your comment? Like where is this happening and why and what are the implications? Thanks!
@@tongpocalypse151it happen in china. They made more appartments than they need and for their huge population. And now no one want those appartment so they demolishing those buildings. If You want to know more search on you tube.
@@tongpocalypse151 China's GDP has dependend largely on the construction sector, especially in view of the fact that local/provicial governments cannot levy taxes. Land sale, re-zoning and development were essentially their only source of income, which is also why China poured more concrete in the years between 2015-2018 than the USA did in the enire 20th century. They built WAY more than there was a market for, which is why China today has 18% empty residential buildings. Around 100.000.000 apartments in China will never be lived in, and they are slowly rotting away and collapsing due to awful quality standards. If anyone should ever ask why there is Climate change, look no further than China. They single-handedly jackhammered the planet's atmosphere with complete, vengeful abandon, into the mess that we see now. They really effed us badly.
@@ravindupremathilaka1467 most of these are tofu dreg projects and apartments are unsafe to live in or unfinished, investors will pay for houses before they are built, companies will start the project for 3 or 4 years later, then companies will run off with the money and start another project.
Or electric vehicles...
incredible documentary work. Thank you.
Were you ever told as a kid by your parents "you're lucky some kids don't even have a bike to ride"? Now we know where they all were.
And yet some people actually think all the rubbish they put in the recycle bin actually gets recycled.
it does, but it will not make a difference in the end.
@@alexanderwoolley1623actually, it was revealed that 95% of it does not. But if it makes you feel good to clean and sort everything and pretend that it all gets recycled, that's OK keep doing it. Everyone needs to feel purpose in life.
@@alexanderwoolley1623 less then 20% of so-called recycled trash gets recycled or even can be recycled which is why most of it ends up in landfills or shipped to China and other countries where every ton shipped count as one 1 of something that's been recycled and then it ends up in a landfill or taken out to sea and dumped. esp all the plastic that cant be recycled if it's been used for anything and dirty recycling is why there is so much plastic in the sea over the last 40 decades or so thats so-called recycling has become a thing and waist is encouraged. because people think its ok when they think it will all be recycled. and even in the case of the 20 of stuff that plastic that can be recycled it also ends up costing more and uses more fule to recycle it then it does to just make more new plastic
This looks so unrealistic that you might think these are fake pictures.
as a bicycle enthusiast it's really hearbreaking to see this :'( i was actually living in Guanghzhou china in 2018 and the shared bike programs were still active, and i used the bikes many times and it was a amazing! u could find bikes all over the city and then just leave them wherever you like. by that time many companies had already gone out of business, but ofo and the orange one were still active. i would photograph the massive piles of bikes i would see all over the place too. it was shocking and sad. i don't know if any of those bike sharing programs still exist, but they're definitely cool and should be a part of any city.
Hard to agree with 'definitely'. One issue with the bikes stems from people leaving them very literally wherever they like, as you say. This means they clog pathways and personal bike parking spaces around areas like malls where people ride a bike there but rarely ride the same bike away. This is a nightmare for the small surrounding businesses, residents, and pedestrians. Where I was living in Jinan the business owners surrounding the mall near me took it upon themselves to throw all these bikes into a couple of massive piles because they had become a permanent feature eating up the whole area.
...so I mean, I'd be the first to campaign against an unfettered introduction of the same kinda bikes into any city I lived in.
What a waste of resources. It seems that not many countries are ready for shared economy model.
excellent documentation of the bike rental implosion across china, I always wanted to make a compilation, you pulled it off, great drone footage 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Yeah, greedy people are starting a bike rental company then producing tons of bikes to make the investors happy, then run away with the extra cash, repeat
Just remove the sound if it is just going to be that beeping.
My father and I were just speaking.... In 1986, he visited China on business as a guest of the government. He said he was amazed at the amount of bicycles on the roads at the time. He said they were lined up along the streets of the market square for km after km! "How could anyone recognize which one was theirs when they come back out!?" He explained that each one appeared identical to the next. :-O
I guess they didn't have one like you intend. Back when your father was there, in China everything was owned by the State, including those bicycles, so it didn't quite matter which one you were going to take, as they were just intended for public use. Every bicycle was everyone else's bicycle, because all bicycles were State owned. Exclude from the view the concept of private property, because there wasn't one.
@@ringularitas I'm not 100% sure about China, but I come from Eastern Europe and can tell you that the so called communist countries weren't really communist in that sense of absolutely everything being owned by the state. While there was no private property in terms of enterpreneurship capital, especially nation-wide major industries and firms were really owned by the sate and the smaller ones were united in enforced nation-wide coops, there was always personal property, i.e. small owners owning stuff for their day-to-day personal use (and in some cases for small enterprises) and this kind of property was protected by law against stealing by other small-owners. And how you maintain your stuff can make it more quality and long-lived, so even if every bike looked alike (and so usually did clothes and other things), they were not the same. You know which one is yours by knowing the unique little scratches it has and stuff like that.
They looked the same because they were all the same design. "The pigeon" I think.
@@ringularitas Wrong. The bikes were not "public property" and you didn't just take one. In my year in China ('92-93), riding a bike loaned by a friend, it wasn't hard to find your bike in the sea of those parked. It is quite easy to do something very subtle to personalize your bike and you get good at remembering your spot. There were attendants at the parking areas along the streets, and each bike also had an integrated caliper lock for the back wheel. Still have my key ring (not the key -- that went back to my friend), which has a metal municipal license medallion with a nice dragon on it.
@@popularmisconception1 Absolutely. You are spot on. I was in Sichuan for a year (92-93) and really missed bicycle culture when I came home.
There should never be another bicycle made in the world ever...we have plenty here
Drones can’t easily record audio as their props are loud. The way this video integrates live video from the source is impressively well done!
BIP BEEEEEEP!!!1
thats common practice
The way the camera slowly pans across the endless fields of metal and rubber... The utter lack of sounds other than traffic and beeping... The bicycles carelessly thrown on top of monuments, temples, and other beautiful historical structures, burying them in trash as far as the eye can see... It's difficult to put into words, but something about this little montage is oddly haunting.
That is insane!
@4:10: Address the problem of bicycle traffic cluttering the streets by...dumping them along the streets.
The drone beeps are like mother earths vitals slowing down. 😞
wow.. what are we doing.. thanks for sharing
I visited Shanghai in '05. Hordes of electric bikes. Well made and probably (relatively) inexpensive. I remember thinking that I wished we had them in the States, but that they would charge us over $1K if they did.
Shanghai had just finished building huge beautiful freeways but they were almost deserted because few people owned cars.
So much waste to promote industry and make money. To have as many people travel by car you'd have to turn it into a parking lot. Not an unbelievable future unfortunately.
@@justcommenting4981 having a domestic carindustry is of strategic importance when building up your industrial base for a war
@@DingoAteMeBaby no it isn't. That's just what we did. The car industry exists because it is a reliable way to extract profits and keep the population working and in debt. From car based infrastructure we have not only more debt products from cars themselves, but a shift to more expensive real estate solutions and infrastructure(12 lane roads constantly getting paved, gas stations etc.) and the debt that goes into paying for that. I agree manufacturing is important for the purpose or warfare, but not cars specifically. Especially when you consider cars are not even made in the U.S. a lot of the time, so even if it were true we don't have that benefit. If we had walkable/bikeable infrastructure and mass transit it would return trillions of dollars to the human population. It is grotesquely inefficient.
Well-made. In '05 China. Yeah right. You are clearly delusional. Or just a commie bot
@@justcommenting4981 such a paradigm would require cramming everyone into cities, and the only thing cities are efficient at is spreading mental illness. So tired.
When photography/videography makes a difference. Good work.
We also have this to a lesser extent in Europe. Governments give a bag of tax money to friends in the business world who promise golden green mountains in the form of environmentally friendly shared bicycles or something similar. Then that mess is rotting on the corner of the street.
Exactly what China did with electric vehicles. They needed to "sell" X amount to be the largest manufacturer. Nobody needed the cars, they're just all parked in huge lots, rotting away.
tell us good people where, so that we could take care of the problem ;)
This video is a beautiful work of art.
The white bike with the red rims is a cool looking bike ! I love the frame 1:37
yes, and there are 80 billion more just like it.
This has to be from inefficient govt agencies. Zombie cities zombie bikes......
This looks more like an intended art project than a disaster
meanwhile a decent bike costs 500$ in my country
I watched a documentary on a few places in Africa where having a bike is a life changing device. You could change a lot of lives but I feel that would change the dynamics that make having one lucrative.
Spot on. Good transportation is the difference between a good work life balance and literal endless misery
China help people? Good one.
China takes from Africa, it doesn't give. Worst thing is those batteries were made from rare earth elements mined in African illegal mines by children. Just watched a documentary about it.
Has the same energy as saying having free healthcare would ruin the "balance" of life.
Maybe they should make their own bikes then. Constantly handing them everything isn't going to help them.
Thanks. Now I finally know that when Katie Melua said "That's a fact" she wasn't lying.
serpentZA sent me here. What a travesty this is to see!
How much of the Chinese story do you think he actually gives you?
Amazing and impressive footage.
This is surreal!
The elites want public to ride bicycle in all season and conditions but themselves want the luxury of Cars and vtols .... 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Could have packed hundreds each in containers and shipped them to Europe for a massive profit.
But it's not about profit. It's about planned loss.
that makes sense if this was real. but this is CGI
Yeah, I don't understand why they have to disassemble them and scrap them. Just ship it to Europe or Africa, or wherever. Someone will be happy to have a bicycle.
@@ChronoGN因为成本太低了 不够运费 每一辆自行车成本大概80元
@@ChronoGN Could sell them for £100/€100 and they'd sell like proverbial hot cakes!
@@Respected_Gentlemanyou can buy such bike for 100£/€ in Europe but you don't really want it ,trust me.
Exceptional, simply unbelievable. Thank goodness they're not making military equipment and weapons on this scale.
Absolute madness.
I hate those bicycles & scooters services. Now in Korea and they're nothing but a nuisance. People just leave them everywhere blocking sidewalks, walking the streets, and just in very random inconvenient places. And since it's not theirs, people just don't care where to leave them.
I think that poor countries like Iraq will buy large quantities of it
If you can't make a bomb-vest from it they have no use for it.
these are not for sale. If they start selling them, the bike manufacturers will be mad that the price of bikes fall down. They want you to pay full price for your bike.
Scarcity is an illusion.
So this is what the fight against climate change looks like. This is so beautiful. Keep it up China!
What about the resources and pollution caused to make them?!
@@DS-xg9kf you don't find this inspiring? This is art on a grand scale and I love it.
@@DS-xg9kfits called state planning and is essentially ...exactedly the same as the US arms industry. Nobody needed the bikes\missiles tanks etc but the government- who knows best once the bribes are in - orders them....a lovely mixture of communism and capitalism. You should try Canada if you like this
@@Jamarkus_Delvonte What I see with these bicycle graveyards is indeed beautiful in form and color in the vast expanse of these graveyards. But I also see a tragedy because the Chinese people have replaced these bikes with cars that are infinitely more polluting to the environment. China is ramping up E-cars, but the vast use of raw materials is also a huge hazard to the environment. There are consequences for everything we do. Replacing all of these bicycles with cars is hideous imo!!
I really like sound design on this. Thanks for the video
The sheer wastefulness is both shameful and mind-blowing.
In the grand scheme of things the materials wasted here (assuming they dont get recycled eventually) is miniscule.
Yes it is wasteful, but so is using a Ford F350 SuperDuty to commute to/from work...
@@lolsovs the only problem is, car graveyards are a thing, and they're even worse since a car has much more materuals than a bike
This whole thing is eerie, but can’t wait to see more!
That is just heartbreaking to see.
没啥大不了，共享单车公司竞争的结果，这些废弃的车是倒闭的公司的车，现在主要剩下美团和hello单车
I remember when I was a kid, a decent bike to get you to school was like less than a hundred bucks, and it would last you till either you broke it in a crash or it was stolen, all 6 years of school. Looked into buying one recently and the new prices started at about 500 bucks, and I couldn't find a second hand one for less than 100 that looked like was taken care of. So when I see this, I just think they would rather just dump the bikes than sell them at cost because if they sell them at cost the bottom will fall out of the bike share market worldwide and they have shares and are invested in all the bike share companies worldwide.
I guess it depends on location. I can get 2nd hand for 25 to 100. Not available year round but wait 1 month and ill find one.
I find this incredibly difficult to believe. And a hundred bucks how many years ago?
@@sj750 15 or 16 year ago, my dad brought me into the local bike shop and said I could have any bike I wanted with 2 siblings. I remember looking at a Kona for about 350, before realizing he was buying 3 and not rich so picked a Raleigh with Shimano gears. It was like 130 but my dad offered 120 or something... I just went on my local bikes website now, the cheapest bike on the whole site is 650 euro, and the cheapest road bike is 1900 euro. For that price I would have got a moped instead. I just checked I can get a decent moped for 250, a good one for 650 and a perfect one for 1900
This is the point. This is the best comment and the real truth
@@geroutathat that doesn't mean cheap bikes don't exist any more. In Germany, where I live, super markets and especially our version of hardware stores (Baumarkt) put out acceptable quality at bargain prices. But specialised bike stores have stopped serving the low price market. For several reasons. Cheap bikes don't bring in much profit for the space they occupy, and for quality-conscious customers just seeing bikes under a certain standard of quality already devalues the whole store.
Cheap bikes are still a thing when you know where to get them.
This is SO cool. I wish I had been able to get access to these places when I made my bike share videos
ABSOLUTELY DISTGUSTING...THE MADNESS. That will be us here in the UK soon
Only if the Marxists take over ...
When they say China is the future, this is what they mean. Total dystopia.
What could have resolved this at the start would be to require licensing by the sharing companies. Anyone who didn't get licensed would be fined. But obviously they just let things get out of hand from the get go. To be honest though, this has happened in the states too (although not anywhere near this scale) when the number of electric scooter companies was allowed to balloon out of control in certain cities with no regulation it got pretty chaotic. Regulation and control are always necessary to make these sorts of initiatives work. That is true in any country.
Regulators can't by their [bureaucratic] nature respond quickly enough in a legal manner to all new market movements. They wouldn't even know what rule to make, let alone how to implement it in time.
Bubbles burst. It's in the nature of allowing people to freely prospect and invest. Really, though, it's in the nature of all rapid growth and expansion.
@@curlyfryactualChina has one of the largest per capita police forces in the world. so if they couldn't get that under control nobody could. Sure, things are hard to govern sometimes. But usually if you make some examples out of a few people things get under control a lot faster. But if you don't have any regulations to begin with where are you at? Chaos.
It is kind of like with their poor building construction problem. Enforcement of regulations, site inspection etc. wasn't done. And now they have whole cities falling apart.
@@brianh9358 I think a good case study is the classification of ride share in the US. A lengthy legal battle had to be fought to determine whether ride sharing should be classified as and subject to the same regulations as taxis. We had taxis for a long time, and knew how to regulate them; but was that sufficient precedent to properly respond to ride sharing?
It was not, and there was no simple obviously legal solution to the matter. The solution was a very complex legal battle that played out over several years.
In the case of these bikes, I am not sure what exactly the regulators would be looking for in terms of approval. I think the bikes ended up tossed because many of the startups went under. So, would regulators have to insist on a good business strategy to prevent these pile-ups? What constitutes a "good" business strategy? What is cause for a rejection? And how do we avoid the government choosing the winners and this having insider advantages?
@@curlyfryactual I don't think it was a matter of failed regulation and control, it was more of a matter of didn't even try. Bike sharing requires space near the sidewalk and other public spaces. A city like New York is at least as densely populated as some of the major Chinese cities and you wouldn't see random food vendors just popping up on the sidewalk because somebody decided they wanted to sell food. Anybody who tries to do business like that would find their carts confiscated very shortly after their lack of license was checked. Hong Kong, before being returned to China, ran quite efficiently. Now that is partly because they followed the British legal system, but more than anything it was because the people living there cared. Sometimes that is at the core of the problem - the government and the people are too busy taking shortcuts to follow things like regulations. Take a look at the videos concerning the empty cities they constructed. They are falling apart. Things only get that way if there is something wrong in a major way with a governing system.
@@curlyfryactual nope, it communism.
Crazy ,wow, im speechless
What a shame, ive got 3 bikes n i treat them like my baby who i never had
The way bikes should be treated.
I know, I've been riding and maintaining most of my bikes for almost two decades.
The utter volume is incomprehensible!
Those images are extraordinary. The scale of some of these graveyards is astonishing. I hope they will all eventually be recycled. I read the description of how they were introduced, the politicians really took their eye off the ball on the bike share schemes.
oh you sweet summer child, nothing ever gets recycled in china, if it can't be burned it goes straight into the ocean
Shocking
Such clear sunny skies in this lovely place!
I really hope you're being sarcastic, not a wumao.
This is the face of government intervention in the marketplace: subsidies, credits, and other policies that change what individuals freely interacting n the marketplace really want. To understand this phenomenon fully, I recommend the writings of Ludwig Mises.
I am struck by the man power needed to fill these vast bicycle graveyards. Some of the piles of bikes are a jumbled mess created by cranes dropping there in clumps, but probably some thrown into the piles individually by workers.
But its the orderly curling rows of bikes literally in the many thousands that had to be placed there by workers each bike one at a time, that's what was something to see. In city after city.
As others have noted this is an tragedy and I would say an EXISTENTIAL tragedy!! I can imagine in an apocalypse in which people are forced to return to using bikes and will come to these bicycle graveyards to find a bike. That apocalypse may come sooner then any of us imagine.
The priorities of the society (shaped by government mandates) are baffling in general.
And yet you all want to continue to build cities
@@d.i.m.eproductions6925 Well, I sure don't care to support big cities and won't live in a big city anymore either.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 well at least you’re doing the right thing
This might be the closest thing to the concept of "infinity" many people may be capable of grasping.
I think this can be donated to such countries as they can reuse it ... The area also cleared and helped also done
or at least sold at a much cheaper price.... so much value just laying around!!
Fires will cleanse the earth
man how I want one of those to ride here in Brazil :(
you ride a bicycle in brazil? you know they are not bulletproof!
@@daviddavidsonn3578 lol same here in america my clown.
@@daviddavidsonn3578 But I don't live in São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, so I'm good
@@daviddavidsonn3578 that must be why americans love big pickup trucks so much, it stops the paranoid shaking from worrying about safety every single microsecond
@@daviddavidsonn3578of course you silly, who would expect an uncased vehicle to be bulletproof
Amazing video!!! Thank you...