... that is creating "organ donor bikes":

The Green Bikes have survived their first semester, but not without repairs that have caused sponsors to question whether the program will be continued in the future.

Karen DeBonis, a member of GreenUR, said the success of the program depended on the students.

“Obviously we hope that students will respect the bikes as if they were their own,” DeBonis wrote in an e-mail. “I think that based on the number of damages we are seeing, students are not currently doing that to their best effort.”

Daniel Kinka, a University of Richmond graduate student and Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness employee, is responsible for repairing the Green Bikes.

“There was a little intentional abuse at first,” Kinka said. “It makes my life harder, but it’s almost to be expected. But the good news is we see less and less of that. Now the repairs are regular wear and tear.”

Doug Goad, the manager of equipment and facilities at the Weinstein Center, said he was trying to be optimistic about the program, but approximately 18 out of the original 35 bikes had been severly damaged.

“I wouldn’t say any of the bikes are ‘damaged beyond repair,’” Kinka said. “There are a couple off the road because we removed them. We use them as organ donor bikes, and rather than repair them we use them for parts.”

Kinka fixes four or five bikes a week on average. Out of the original 35 bikes, about nine are waiting for replacements of certain parts.

Source. HT Shawn Regan who has been watching the UR program expecting just this sort of news report.

UPDATE: The post on the UR program reminded me that a few months ago I received an email about a program in Annapolis, MD that apparently works reasonably well. Note that it operates like a library book checkout and requires both a photo ID and a credit card. (Thanks to the reader for the tip and sorry for the delay in posting it.)