What I don't get about bicycles and Sinophone countries is this: in countries that usually price space a premium in cities, bicycles congregate in large clusters, fall into disrepair, and the supply in these clusters always outstrips demand, but the clusters form nonetheless, and are utilized ( they're not refuse ), but always under capacity. The only explanation I can offer is maybe there's something very Chinese about huge clusters of bicycles that is reassuring so long as they are there, even if they are mostly not under active use.
Some strange equilibrium point between inconvenient and useful. I don't know why the bicycle is subject to this "natural law" but is nothing else I've observed.
It might not just be a Chinese thing. I haven't travelled to Russia, South America or Africa...maybe it happens there too.