LA leader says people are leaving their dockless bikes ‘strewn about’ in the city. (Los Angeles: moving, electric bill)

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by Spikett

Santa Monica has a helmet law - $190 fine for riding a scooter without one. Some idiot on one hit a kid and knocked out the kid's front teeth. SM is not bird friendly.

I can understand why some people are destroying these things out of frustration with they way people are using them and putting public safety at risk. I believe in the past year there were thirty scooter related accidents in SM alone and two of them left pedestrians seriously injured.

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Beverly Hills City Council approves six-month ban on electric scooters

[Dunbar42]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

I can understand why some people are destroying these things

There’s a shocker.

[sean1the1]

Santa Monica made the perfect resolution, i have faith in my city once more. https://la.curbed.com/2018/8/30/1780...lime-lyft-uber

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I'm sick of these stupid things and the dorks that ride them

[Exitus Acta Probat]

I could have easily hit somebody a few days ago if I had been a little less careful when making a right turn and having this guy blazing down the sidewalk where I had my visibility to the right obfuscated by the corner of a building. Idiot...

[Surf_Norway]

If you don't mind me asking, what's your net?



Yes Bird offers "up to" $10 per scooter for a full charge, allowing max 10 scooters per charger. Meaning potentially $100/day for 10 birds charged from empty to full. They don't tell you how much for charging less than 100%...



What I wonder is how many kWh does the charging require, i.e. what are your electricity expenses? It doesn't help to make $10 to charge a Bird if it costs you $10 (or less, up to a point). Plus you have to factor in your time in wandering around after 9pm to collect them, transport them to where you plan on charging them, then placing them outside on the curb at 7am.


It rather reminds me of all these people planning on getting rich mining Bitcoin, until they realized how much electricity each coin cost, and in most cases cost more than the coins mined. At least up until the whole thing took off.


I'd be surprised if it was anything other than break even, but I've been surprised before.


A rare moment of pessimism for me.

Originally Posted by sean1the1

I recently became a charger last month, and every week I've been making and more money up to $200 a week. I think the most ill be able to do by myself is $350 a day, and in a month I should be there.

I enjoy riding the scooters so now I just get paid to go to the beach.

I know many chargers who have quit their day time jobs to become power chargers, and many make over $500 a day, and employ other people to help.

It's insane how much potential there is to make money, when I go down to the beach people are trying to take my dead scooters.

Bird is soon to valued at one billion after not even a year, that's California right there!!

[sean1the1]

Originally Posted by Surf_Norway

If you don't mind me asking, what's your net?



Yes Bird offers "up to" $10 per scooter for a full charge, allowing max 10 scooters per charger. Meaning potentially $100/day for 10 birds charged from empty to full. They don't tell you how much for charging less than 100%...



What I wonder is how many kWh does the charging require, i.e. what are your electricity expenses? It doesn't help to make $10 to charge a Bird if it costs you $10 (or less, up to a point). Plus you have to factor in your time in wandering around after 9pm to collect them, transport them to where you plan on charging them, then placing them outside on the curb at 7am.


It rather reminds me of all these people planning on getting rich mining Bitcoin, until they realized how much electricity each coin cost, and in most cases cost more than the coins mined. At least up until the whole thing took off.


I'd be surprised if it was anything other than break even, but I've been surprised before.


A rare moment of pessimism for me.

I charge 40 a night, most of the birds I get are not dead when I capture them, I don't leave my neighborhood, or drive my car so My net is normally at least $200 a day sometimes way more. They still pay you at least $5 even if you get birds that are 96% I get many of those lol just get paid to put them out. I also don't pay the electric bill at my house so I lucked out, but they say three cents for a full charge.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by sean1the1

I charge 40 a night, most of the birds I get are not dead when I capture them, I don't leave my neighborhood, or drive my car so My net is normally at least $200 a day sometimes way more. They still pay you at least $5 even if you get birds that are 96% I get many of those lol just get paid to put them out. I also don't pay the electric bill at my house so I lucked out, but they say three cents for a full charge.

But I'll bet your parents aren't happy about their electricity bill.

[sean1the1]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

But I'll bet your parents aren't happy about their electricity bill.

I am not sure if they are or not they live in Florida, and Illinois haven't lived with them since I basically turned 18, and haven't gotten anything from them and don't plan to. lol My roommate is responsible for the light bill, and he hasn't complained, and it's been months. We don't have ac since we're by the beach so I'm assuming it probably makes up for not having AC. Nice try though!!