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The Moped King
A Streetsblog investigation into a key player behind the city's wild, sometimes dangerous e-bike and moped boom.
Twenty years ago, e-bikes and mopeds were rare in the city, but now they are everywhere — buzzing around midtown office towers during the lunch rush, parked in long rows outside takeout spots, and, occasionally, barreling down bike lanes and sidewalks. Once he arrived, Ou washed dishes, ran a motorcycle-repair business, opened a short-lived ice cream shop in Sunset Park, and delivered food for Chinese-owned restaurants in Manhattan, according to interviews and public records. This side of the business might surprise anyone who heard Ou’s pitch at Nasdaq about “riding to a sustainable future” or who chose to buy shares based on Fly’s investor prospectus, which didn’t mention the gas-moped sales.
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