Ubers Jump bikes get a second life in Mexico City

Uber wanted to get out of the bike business, so a Mexico City cyclist group took 1,600 bikes off the company’s hands. It’s a good thing they did — elsewhere in the world, Uber just sent them to the scrap heap.

When it isn’t rescuing hundreds of bicycles from destruction, Bicitekas advocates for bikeable cities, which it has done for the last 22 years. The group’s hope in rescuing the bikes to give people who usually don’t have access to bike-sharing programs another means of transportation. To do that, Bicitekas paid Uber a symbolic peso for each bike.

By coincidence, a few weeks earlier, Bicitekas was working on a similar project called “Recicletas” where they received old bicycles or spare parts to repair and donate the almost-new...

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