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The rise of the bike wrangler

Updated : 2017-03-10
(chinadaily.com.cn)

One of the greatest assets of station-less bike sharing is there is no need for a specific place for the bike to be parked in order complete payment. Instead, riders can park the bikes anywhere they please, which can cause a bit of a headache for bike technicians when tracking down one that's gone rogue.

"I deal with nearly 100 bikes every day, but on particularly busy days that number can double."

As well as ensuring the fleets are moving smoothly, the bike technicians need also distribute more bicycles throughout the city as take-up of public bike-share schemes increases, As a result, Xiao Ming's posse of ten need to be out and about placing bikes around the city until the early hours of the morning.

Dozens of Xiao Ming Bikes unloaded from a truck and rolled out across Wuxi in the dead of night. [Photo/wxrb.com]

With such an expansive system and extensive roll-out over the city in the past couple of weeks, these bike wranglers are going to become more and more important in ensuring the bicycles are in place, in the right place, and working properly to cope with the growing market.

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