自行车大战：中国共享单车巨头在英国展开扩张计划 [英国媒体]

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Dockless bike providers Mobike and Ofo will dramatically expand their operations in London and Manchester as the two Chinese companies continue their cut-throat multibillion-dollar battle for global domination.

无桩共享单车供应商Mobike（摩拜）和ofo（小黄车）将进军伦敦及曼彻斯特大幅扩张其共享单车业务，这两家中国公司目前仍继续打响这场有关数十亿美金的全球主导争夺战。

The expansion plans come despite the decision last week by one rival GoBee to abandon European operations after 60% of its bikes were vandalised or destroyed within four months of launch.

不顾其竞争对手之一，因投放市场的60%的单车均在运营仅四个月内被损坏，已于上周刚刚宣布放弃欧洲市场的Gobee，这两家中国公司仍然提出了扩张计划。

From Monday the bike-sharing schemes will expand into Southwark south London with Ofo confident most other boroughs in the capital will join by the end of 2018.

从周一起，Ofo共享单车运营区域将增加伦敦南部的萨瑟克区，并于2018年内扩展至伦敦的全部区域，ofo对此计划充满信心。

So far Ofo has introduced 1250 bikes into London but said it is ultimately targeting 150000 bikes across the city compared with the 12000 bikes currently available under the official Santander-sponsored “Boris Bike” scheme.

ofo目前在伦敦已投入进了1250辆共享单车，按其声明，最终将在伦敦运营高达15万辆的共享单车，与政府牵头的桑坦德银行出资的波利斯共享单车相比较，后者目前已投入运营单车1.2万俩。

Meanwhile Stockport will get the first of 1000 orange and silver Mobikes rolled out on Monday after the company said its initial scheme in Manchester city centre had been a success.

同时，摩拜单车将于周一起在斯托克波特市投入1000辆橘黄色和银色的共享单车，此举之前，摩拜刚刚宣布其在曼彻斯特市中心区域投放的共享单车业务大获成功。

The expansion represents a turnaround from the early days of the Mobike scheme in Manchester when damaged and stolen cycles soon littered canals bins and back gardens.

此次业务扩展说明，此前摩拜单车在曼彻斯特刚开展业务时出现的单车被损坏和偷盗，并随意丢弃在运河河道，垃圾箱或（被据为己有放在自家）后院的情况有所好转。



【A Chinese mechanic from Ofo among a pile of thousands of damaged bicycles in need of repair. 】

【ofo的一名中国技术工站在堆积在一起的数以千计待维修的单车中间。】

The company said 70 of its first 1000 bikes had disappeared but undaunted it is pressing ahead with expansion. Steve Pyer Mobike's UK general manager said: “There was a big spike in vandalism when we first launched which is sad but that tailed off at the back end of last year.”

摩拜公司称，初期投放的1000俩单车中有70辆丢失。尽管如此，其仍执意继续扩展业务。摩拜英国分公司总经理，史蒂夫.皮埃尔（Steve Pyer）称： ”我们刚开始运营时，确实有一波让人难过的、故意损坏单车的恶行。但是从去年年底开始，情况已经开始好转了。“

Riders use smartphone apps to unlock bikes on city streets paying 50p for 30 minutes' use.

骑者可利用智能手机上安装的APP解锁街道上的共享单车，每30分钟使用费为50便士。 

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Two Chinese internet firms-Tencent and Alibaba - have provided billions of dollars in financing to Mobike and Ofo respectively in a rare challenge to Silicon Valley's dominance in internet startups.

中国两家互联网公司——腾讯和阿里巴巴——在一场罕见的挑战硅谷在互联网初创公司的统治地位的争夺中，分别为摩拜和Ofo提供了数十亿美元的资金。

Since its launch in Shanghai in April 2016 Mobike has since expanded to more than 200 cities worldwide. Ofo founded by five Peking University students in 2014 said its bikes are used by 32 million cyclists in 250 cities. But there has been continued speculation that despite the intensity of competition investors may force the two firms to merge into one global player.

自2016年4月在上海上市以来，摩拜已经扩展到全球200多个城市。于2014年创立Ofo的五名北京大学学生称，其单车遍布250个城市，用户使用人数为3200万名。但业内一直有人猜测，尽管二者之间存在激烈的竞争，但投资方可能会迫使这两家公司合并成一个全球性参与者。

Leeds will become the next big city in line for the yellow Ofo bikes with a launch expected in spring. Ofo introduced 1000 bikes in Sheffield in January and said the uptake has exceeded expectations. More than 6000 city residents signed up during the first few weeks of the scheme with Ofo promising to introduce a further 300 bikes this month.

利兹将成为黄色Ofo进军列表的下一个大城市，预计春季上市。Ofo于今年一月在谢菲尔德推出了1000辆自行车，并称其使用人数超出预期。在计划的头几个星期里，有6000多名市民注册使用，Ofo承诺本月将再推出300辆自行车。

Sheffield councillor Jack Scott said: “I am delighted with the impact Ofo is having ... We have approved a new wave of bikes to be introduced to the city.”

谢菲尔德市议员杰克.斯科特（Jack Scott）表示：“我为Ofo目前带来的影响感到高兴.....我们已经批准允许新一批的自行车引入本市。”

Mobike and Ofo have overcome early hostility from some councils concerned about bikes clogging pathways and station entrances. Both providers said they will only introduce their bikes into an area once the local council has given permission.

摩拜和Ofo克服了一些委员会担心的对自行车堵塞道路和车站入口的早期敌意。同时这两家供应商都表示，他们只会将自行车引进地方议会批准允许的区域。

But in other European cities local authorities are clamping down on unregulated bike-sharing schemes. Last week Lisbon began removing all bicycles belonging the oBike share scheme which began appearing on streets in early February.

但在其他欧洲城市，地方当局正在取缔压制这些无管制的自行车共享计划。上周，里斯本开始清除自二月初出现在街上属于oBike共享计划的单车。

“Lisbon as a city is very open to these kinds of schemes but when we start seeing bikes left in the middle of squares or on top of benches in parks it shows that it's important this kind of activity is regulated” Miguel Gaspar the town councillor for mobility told Publico newspaper.

里斯本市流动议员米格尔·加斯帕尔（Miguel Gaspar）对《（葡萄牙）公众报》如是说，“作为一个城市，里斯本对这些计划是持着非常开放的态度的，但是当我们看到自行车被随意停放在广场中间或公园的长椅上时，我们意识到有必要要管制住这种活动。”

The manufacturing logistics behind the explosion in bike schemes is breathtaking. Mobike said its factories in China have already installed production lines to build 50000 bikes a day. Even when Raleigh was Britain's biggest maker of bicycles in the late 1940s and early 1950s its output was about 2000 bikes a day.

共享单车计划大幅扩张背后兴起的制造业物流是惊人的。摩拜称其在中国的工厂已经安装好生产线来每天生产5万辆共享单车。即使在20世纪40年代末和20世纪50年代初期，当时英国最大的自行车生产商罗利其一天的产量也不过约为2000辆自行车。


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NoahDeere 3h ago
These sort schemes come in cycles.

这类型的计划总是轮番上演。

TheGreatRonRafferty  NoahDeere 3h ago
There'll be another wheeled out shortly unless someone puts a brake on them - it could become a chain reaction.

除非有人制止他们，否则他们又会很快推出新品种的单车来——它可能会变成一场连锁反应。

Wiretrip 3h ago
"cycles soon littered canals bins and back gardens". No they didn't. That was a strangely negative and unsubstantiated report with a clear grudge for no apparent reason by someone who clearly spends more time at the Guardian mothership in London than she does here Manchester.Truth is，I see people on these bikes all the time and they do appear to have been a massive hit here.

“单车被随意丢弃在运河河道，垃圾箱或（被据为己有放在自家）后院里。”不，它们才没有。这是由一个显然花了更多时间在《伦敦卫报》而不是《曼彻斯特卫报》上的某人无端在怀有明显怨恨的情况下写的一篇异常负面、未经证实的报道文章。 事实上，我一直有看到人们骑着这些自行车，（这些单车）在这儿确实好像挺火挺受欢迎的。

TheGreatRonRafferty 2h ago
"Even when Raleigh was Britain’s biggest maker of bicycles in the late 1940s and early 1950s its output was about 2000 bikes a day."
But each one lasted years. I had a Raleigh Lenton Mk III bike for my 13th birthday. (I learned to ride a bike years earlier on one that had been used for the same purpose by my dad his brothers and sister and was then passed on to my cousins!) After I left home for college my dad had the handlebars changed and used it as his police bike for another seven years. It was probably given to someone else after he had a leg amputated.

“即使在20世纪40年代末和20世纪50年代初期，当时英国最大的自行车生产商罗利其一天的产量也不过约为2000辆自行车。”
但每一辆能用好多年。13岁那年生日我得到了一辆罗利·兰登MoultonIII自行车（如下图）。（我在几年前学会了骑自行车，这辆车我爸爸和他的兄弟姐妹们都用过，后来又转手给我的表兄弟们用了！）我离家上大学后，我父亲改了自行车把手将其作为他的警用自行车又用了七年。在他一条腿被截肢后那车他可能又送给了别人。

No wonder there's bloody climate change when things are manufactured with a life expectancy of days weeks or at best months.

当人们制造东西期望其寿命只有几天、几周或者至多几个月的时候，难怪会出现这该死的气候变化。

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Arthur Brooke  TheGreatRonRafferty 1h ago
"No wonder there's bloody climate change when things are manufactured with a life expectancy of days weeks or at best months."
And basic products we used to manufacture being transported half way across the world.
At least they manufacture the bike in just one country then export unlike the recent news story about a crankshaft being produced in France shaped in The UK fitted into the engine is Austria and finally returned to the UK to be fitted into a car.

“当人们制造东西期望其寿命只有几天、几周或者至多几个月的时候，难怪会出现这该死的气候变化。”
过去由我们生产的基本产品运输至世界各地。至少他们自行车的生产国只有一个，然后再出口，不像最近新闻报道的那样，一个曲轴生产于法国，塑形于英国，于奥地利被安装到发动机上，最后零件再回到英国被安装在汽车上。

I wonder how many miles the components of a car has done before it is sold?
Another component of climate change we accept?

我想知道一辆汽车的零部件在售出前是走了多少英里啊？这难不成是我们出现气候变化的另一个因素？

75drayton 3h ago
The freedom to leave the bikes where ever you want results in people leaving them in some pretty dumb places. You frequently see pedestrians in Ealing having to walk around the Mobikes left in the middle of the pavement.

可随意停放自行车的结果是人们常把车停放在一些很愚蠢的地方。在伊令（英国一个南部城市）你能常看到行人因随意停放在人行道中间的摩拜单车而不得不绕道走。

They are pretty much the most visible form of street litter in Ealing.

它们几乎是伊令街头垃圾中最显眼的一种。

rumblestrips 3h ago 
I once hired a Chinese-made bike in Malaysia it was brand new. The pedal arms broke inside the hour. Too bad the Tories sold them the Hinkley Point nuclear power station plus the next four on the drawing board. Here's an example of the Communist Party's approach to health and safety. But Tories don't care they'd flog their mothers for a groat and Russian oligarchs' money is welcome no matter how many people get liquidated on our streets.

我曾在马来西亚租过一辆全新的中国产自行车。脚踏板在1小时内就断了。保守党把欣克利角核电站和接下来的4个项目计划都出售给他们真是太糟糕了。这就是共产党处理健康和安全的好例子。但保守党不在乎，他们为一点小钱就能鞭打自己的妈妈，以及不管有多少人在我们的街道上被清算，他们仍然欢迎俄罗斯寡头们的钱。

bambam75 2h ago
One of the reasons it works here in Shanghai is the sheer number of them. There are millions (1 for every 16 residents I read). I incorporate a MoBike into my daily commute because I know that once I step off the subway there will be 20 waiting for me. If I lived in a city where the chance of me finding one within 5 minutes was low I wouldn't bother. You have to have a glut to make them useable day to day. I can't see many European cities allowing the streets to become so cluttered.

它在上海得以运行的原因之一是绝对数量。那儿有几百万辆单车（我读到的文章说每16个居民中就有1个）。我将摩拜纳入我的日常通勤是因为我知道一旦我走出地铁站将有20辆摩拜在等着被我骑走。如果我住在一个在5分钟内找不到一辆摩拜机会渺茫的城市的话，我是不会使用摩拜的。你单车的供应量要够多，才能让人们天天使用。我不认为欧洲的许多城市会允许街道（因过多的单车而）变得如此凌乱。