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We work for the safe and comfortable movement of the city by the most environmentally friendly mode of transport
Several years ago, during a trip to China, we became very interested in the local bike sharing service Mobike, OFO.
We offered them cooperation, but they all replied that they had no development plans in Ukraine.
Returning to Ukraine, we found bicycle activist Oleksiy Kushka, who was also passionate about this idea. We agreed to try to launch the project with the German company Nextbike. Having agreed with the city authorities, we received permission to launch a pilot project of bike sharing in Kyiv for 200 bicycles.
A year later, the authorities announced a competition for the launch of bike sharing and scooters for 2,000 bicycles.
Counting on reliable German partners Nextbike GmbH, we planned to implement it together with them. After a long time working out a million details and conditions of the competition, photographing each of the 320 permitted bicycle parking spaces, agreeing them with the authorities, then changing the spaces that the city did not confirm, we reached the finish line. The cost of participating in the competition was large, but a little more than 100,000 euros, which were transferred to the budget of Kyiv for the development of bicycle infrastructure.
And here, as a thunderbolt out of the blue, the German partners announced that the price of bicycles had increased by 50%. We were shocked!
Oleksiy Kladov, co-founder of the Budprokat company, offered to buy bicycles in China, prepared a road map of bicycle manufacturers, and we set off.
Having chosen good-quality bicycles, we did not give up hope of negotiating with our German partners to return to the previous prices. But the Germans, as expected, constantly postponed the meetings, postponed them, and this lasted for almost 4 months. The final offer was 40% more expensive than the price included in our business plan. As a result, the main goal of the German company was to delay the time so that we would have no way out and no time to order bikes in China.
In parallel, we dealt with the issue of software and considered it from Chinese, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Latvian companies.
After ordering the bikes from China, we were looking forward to them. But here the coronavirus, about which we, like everyone, thought: “What are we here for?” – delayed the supply of bicycles for 3 months, due to the shutdown of all production enterprises in China.
The long-awaited 1,000 bicycles arrived at the Budprokat warehouse on June 1.
Компанія БУДПРОКАТ виступила в ролі партнера проекту та надала компанії (Байк-НАУ) « bikeNOW » 1000 велосипедів. Весь колектив компанії Будпрокат брав активну участь у тестуванні сервісу та збиранні велосипедів у Києві.
We always advocate a healthy lifestyle. We love Kyiv and want the city to always develop and become only better, we believe that the bicycle rental service will contribute to the development of a healthy lifestyle culture and bring variety to the lives of Kyiv residents.
Now bicycles are actively traveling around Kyiv, delighting the residents of Kyiv, guests of the city and us.
We are proud that we were able to implement this in Ukraine!
