11-15-18 Update - Large Percentage of Divvy Fleet Missing! Serious Loss Problems for Chicago's Bike Share 7-12-18

Divvy should consider adding an easily identifiable bike numbering system in order to assist authorities in determining the status of their fleet. 

The News Corner:

Serious Loss Problems for Divvy

"Locking systems easily compromised by thieves."

For the full article:

http://www.cwbchicago.com/2018/07/compromised-lock-system-has-divvy...

I have been seeing a lot more 'free range' Divvy bikes lately. 

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Permalink Reply by Ernesto Lube on July 19, 2018 at 12:38am

And then this, https://jumpbikes.com/ dumped on Wabash and Roosevelt last night. 

Permalink Reply by V W on July 19, 2018 at 5:24am

I've certainly been seeing some shady activity with Divvys that suggests to me that whoever has the bike isn't in any rush to make it to the next docking station.

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on July 19, 2018 at 12:43pm

Last night I was walking through the Loop and spotted this far-from-home Pace bike. I reported it and got a response saying that someone from Pace picked it up today.

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on July 24, 2018 at 2:54am

I've got a feeling that might be how this Pace bike got to Clark St.

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on July 20, 2018 at 8:30am
Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on July 20, 2018 at 9:32pm

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Divvy bikes are free on Saturday 7-21-18 courtesy of Noosa Finest Yoghurt. Get the Divvy app, then press explorer pass, then free code: Noosa 18.

Just make sure you return the Divvy to a station somewhere when you're done. 

https://chicago.curbed.com/platform/amp/2018/7/20/17591556/divvy-bi...

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on July 23, 2018 at 2:45pm

CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) Tweeted:
THEY'RE DOING IT AGAIN, @DivvyBikes
#NearNorth

(Pic from a follower....) https://t.co/Q1OOVwMv57 https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1021539905812475904?s=17

Permalink Reply by Jim Reho on July 24, 2018 at 1:27pm

If people are stealing substantial numbers of Divvy bikes, what would happen with truly dockless bikes (without locks)?  I'm highly skeptical that such a system would ever work in Chicago.  A few unscrupulous scrapyards taking them would mean the end.   

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on July 24, 2018 at 2:10pm

They are emptying the docks before the locking mechanisms are changed. A witness saw them remove all Divvy's from North and Wells. Word is now widespread now exactly how this is done. Even I know now.

CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) Tweeted:
North & Wells: "They're trying to steal the @DivvyBikes , rocking the docking station back and forth."
#ThatsNotHowItsDone #ChicagoScanner #Chicago https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1021625960230264832?s=17

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on July 25, 2018 at 10:00pm

NBC5 Chicago has 'let the cat out of the bag'.

http://www.cwbchicago.com/2018/07/divvy-theft-crisis-video-of-theft...

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on July 30, 2018 at 5:58pm

How to possibly identify if a Divvy bike you see someone riding is stolen. 

“What’s noticeable about the current Divvy thefts is typically they have a spoke on the front wheel that is bent,” said Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Police Department." 

Comment from today's (7-30-18) Tribune article about stolen Divvy bikes. 

I saw two probable stolen Divvy's today.

Reminder: any stolen Divvy bike that is not recovered is charged to the Chicago taxpayers, not the  corporation that owns the bike-share. 

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on August 1, 2018 at 3:53am

Still, as a taxpayer and a citizen, I am far more outraged by the cost of police misconduct -- $662 million from 2004-2016 and $45 million so far in 2018.

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