New e-bike rules have triggered a rush for modified secondhand bikes that evade speed caps and registration requirements.
Tens of thousands of people gathered to ride bikes between Zhengzhou and Kaifeng in central China after a social media post suggested a cheap night-time bike ride to get dumplings went viral. The ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Start of a 2012 Hangzhou Heroes Alleycat ride in Hangzhou, China. Photo courtesy Tiger Yan, Mute Vision When brainstorming ideas for China program ...
Inside a 50,000-square-foot factory with walls lined by racks of metal and rubber, workers are machining steel tubes and welding them into the frames of sleek new electric bicycles. But unlike almost ...
For all the buzz that the bike-sharing concept gets, the ill-treatment of these bikes gets just as much attention. Because people are terrible. China's Ofo, which has become the first bike-sharing ...
This video shows the shocking moment an electric bike crashed into a glass door and slammed into a man sitting at a shop entrance in Henan. On December 3, 2025, in Nanyang, the bike suddenly sped into ...
In recent years, China’s bike-sharing services have exploded in popularity, attracting tens of millions of daily rides with their dockless, easy-to-use bicycles. But going into the future, their ...
In recent years, several dockless-bike startups have popped up in Chinese cities. Often billed as "Uber for bikes," the companies allow users to unlock GPS-enabled bikes with their smartphones, and ...
One of China’s top bike-rental apps is entering a new phase. Mobike, which neighborhood services giant Meituan-Dianping gobbled up last April, is changing its name to Meituan Bike as part of an ...
There are dozens of bike-sharing companies offering peddled rides in China, most of them with dockless bikes that the rider can park anywhere. But fears of a bike-share bubble are mounting as the ...