To maintain the self-service bicycles of the Friborg network, mechanics criss-cross the city
Rasti Baban says he loves his job in the city’s self-service bicycle repair shop. © Jean-Baptiste Morel
Published on 10.08.2022
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Mobility” “This bike has a broken kickstand, I will change it”. At the wheel of his yellow van, Rasti Baban has a keen eye and sharp reflexes. It will only take a few minutes for the mechanic to replace the defective part, before hitting the road once more. With 57 stations and more than 460 small queens, the soft mobility network of the Friborg conurbation, Publibike, requires constant maintenance. While some repairs are carried out in the field, the bulk of the maintenance and management work is carried out in the workshop of the ORS company in the city of Fribourg.
“We have been working as a social partner of the self-service bicycle network from the start,” explains Claude Gumy, director of ORS Fribourg. Mandated to welcome and