Picturing the bike-share oversupply in China. Last year, bike sharing took off in China, with dozens of bike-share companies quickly flooding city streets with millions of brightly colored rental bicycles.
From a worker who rides a shared bicycle past a huge pile of unused shared bikes in a vacant lot in Xiamen, Fujian province, China to a man who walks past piles of share bikes outside a repair shop in Beijing, all these photos will give you trills.
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A worker rides a shared bicycle past a huge pile of unused shared bikes in a vacant lot in Xiamen, Fujian province, China.
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Because of overcapacity at launch, over 10,000 bike-share service bicycles were abandoned at a bicycle graveyard in Xiamen, Fujian, China.
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Shared bikes stored and piled in Shanghai.
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A worker untangles a rope amid piled-up bicycles in a lot in Xiamen, Fujian province, China.
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A parking lot is seen packed with tens of thousands of shared bikes belonging to the Chinese bike-sharing firm Bluegogo in Beijing’s Chaoyang District. Bluegogo, once China’s third-largest bike-rental service, ceased operations last November having run out of money, leaving tens of thousands of its bicycles in limbo. Bluegogo was recently acquired by Didi, another bike-share company, which says it plans to replace some of the older Bluegogo bikes with its own.
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Confiscated sharing bicycles of different brands sit in a parking lot of the Huangpu District Vehicle Management Company in Shanghai, China.
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Thousands of illegally parked share bikes are temporary detained in a sports field in Hefei, Anhui, China.
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An overhead view of part of a group of thousands of unused share bikes in a field near Shanghai.
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This is not a field of tulips, but a drone’s-eye-view of tens of thousands of unused share bikes lined up in a field near Shanghai.
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A drone shot of part of a group of thousands of unused share bikes in a field near Shanghai.
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Bicycles from various bike-sharing services sit in a lot in an urban village in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.
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A man walks past piles of share bikes outside a repair shop in Beijing.
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