Old 07-06-17, 09:35 PM
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I am just on my way back from China and there are some big changes here and I wonder how these affect markets elsewhere. Namely, the market has completely moved to the share model for the bikes. Everybody and his brother now rides share bikes while not riding privately owned. Apparently bike companies are in trouble if they don't make bikes for one of the share companies. Folding bikes certainly lose their advantage under the circumstances where you can find a share bike behind ever corner, identifying location on your phone. I will write a more detailed report later.
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