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Uber Jump ends Melbourne bike share after three weeks of operation

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Melbourne has had a troubled relationship with bike share schemes in recent years. The ill-fated oBike dockless scheme was pulled from city streets in June 2018, less than a year after it began, and the Melbourne Bike Share scheme was shuttered in August 2019 due to a lack of use. Now, the city’s latest bike …

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Third time lucky? Why Uber Jump’s e-bike scheme might just work in Melbourne

Earlier this morning, roughly 400 bright red e-bikes were deployed around inner city Melbourne. The bikes belong to a company called Jump — the e-bike and e-scooter wing of ride-share giant Uber — which, as of today, is now in 33 cities around the world. Jump’s arrival has been the subject of much media attention …

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The birth and death of a bike company: What happened to SpeedX?

From a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign to 800,000 bikes dumped across China, this is the strange, sad story of SpeedX's monumental rise and fall.

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