341o2
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Yes, we now have Beryl Bikes in Bournemouth, the theory is that you collect your bike from a designated parking bay and return it to another at the end of the rental period. The bikes are "secured" by a lock on the back wheel. It was not long before the local lads managed to learn how to break the lock and bikes started being dumped all over the place including being thrown into the local river.That isn't an issue with e-scooters, it's an issue with rental schemes. It isn't a reason to discourage privately owned scooters, but rather a reason to discourage dockless rental schemes (of both scooters and bikes).
Beryl offered an amnesty to try and recover some of the bikes, but it seems doomed to go the way of other similar schemes where theft and vandalism have made them unviable