Our cracked bike seat post got a lot of ink

Cracked Citi Bike Seats Leave Riders' Pants Soaked After Storms, Users Say

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BikeshareNYC, a blog about Citi Bike, recently surveyed 24 bike stations in the Financial District and Battery Park City and found that the majority of the docked bikes they checked — 68 percent — had cracked seats.

CHECK YOUR CITI BIKE SEAT

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by DNAinfo’s Irene Plagianos: “Cracks on the seats of the shared blue bikes are becoming more prevalent, regular riders say — which creates a nuisance when rain seeps into the fissures and the seats stay soggy for days after a storm. … BikeshareNYC, a blog about Citi Bike, recently surveyed 24 bike stations in the Financial District and Battery Park City and found that [68%] of the docked bikes they checked … had cracked seats.”

Citi Bike struggling to keep up with huge repair backlog

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BikeshareNYC, a blog about the system, inspected docked bikes at 24 stations  around the Financial District earlier this month — and found that a whopping 68 percent of them had cracked seats.