VIDEO - Dozens of Lime rental sharing bikes discovered at Glendale scrapyard - ABC15 Arizona

GLENDALE, AZ - It’s a bike mound mystery. 

ABC15 spotted dozens — if not, hundreds — of Lime rental sharing bikes dumped in a Glendale scrapyard after a viewer tip.  

“It was half the size of my house,” Tom Hicks said, describing the pile. Hicks was stopping by Southwest Metals near 55th Avenue and Bethany Home Road when he saw the pile and sensed something was off. 

“They still had their brakes, their seats, their baskets,” he said. 

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Lime recently launched its dockless bike service in Scottsdale, Mesa and Tempe. On it’s website, the company claims to be a “sustainable solution” with the goal of “eliminating the carbon footprint.” 

“It wasn’t a matter of just a guy in a truck coming and dumping a few of these things off that may’ve been damaged,” Hicks said, adding what he saw left a sour taste in his mouth. 

“Those bikes easily could’ve been given to the needy, dismantled, painted a different color and given to the kids or something,” Hicks said. “Just to throw them away like that was just ridiculous.” 

ABC15 reached out to Lime several times Friday but never heard back. 

Southwest Metals was closed and a phone call went unanswered.

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